Past Residents
Jonas Nobel
Jonas Nobel is an artist and the co-founder of the artist/design/architect group Uglycute. Nobel works with sculpture and drawing based on historic texts and/or events. With texts as a starting point, he creates representations of historical events influenced by his ideas, personal associations, and reflections. Nobel’s body of work stems from an interest in material culture, both contemporary and historic.
Jonas Nobel graduated in 1998 from the Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå, Sweden. Uglycute works toward expanding the concept of design by integrating professionals from other fields in the various undertaken projects. Uglycute has been featured in numerous international shows including 50th Venice Biennial, 2003, and Emscherkunst, Germany, 2013. Nobel has exhibited and created public commissions mainly in Scandinavia. He is represented by Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm.
Jonas Nobel, Health and Care, 2014, Mixed media.
Jonas Nobel, Geological Gistory of Haninge Municipality, 2016, Photo wrapped furniture.
Jonas Nobel, Display of Loss This Play We Lost, 2010, Mixed media.
Residents from Sweden
Past Resident2017: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Damir Avdagic
Damir Avdagic is an interdisciplinary artist who uses performance, video and text to address issues of historical memory and identity. By collecting and performing dialogues that are circumscribed by a single historical event, Avdagic reflects on how history is passed, consciously or unconsciously, to the next generation, and its effects on cultural identity, nationality and the self. The historical background for Avdagic’s body of work is the civil war in former Yugoslavia (1991-1995) from which his family fled in 1993 to Norway.
Damir Avdagic (born 1987, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina) obtained a degree from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and holds an MFA from The University of California in Los Angeles. Avdagic has exhibited internationally at Another Space, Copenhagen; KALA Art Institute, Berkeley; Fotogalleriet, Oslo; and Entree Galleri, Bergen, Norway, amongst others. He is the recipient of several grants and prizes, including The Fulbright Scholarship, the NORAM scholarship from Norway-America Association, and BKH’s Photo Art Prize.
Damir Avdagic, Prevodenje(Translation), 2014, SD-video and sound, 16:13 min.
Damir Avdagic, Reenactment/Process, 2016, Video installation, Dimensions variable.
Damir Avdagic, Reenactment/Process, 2016, Video installation, Dimensions variable.
Past Resident2016: Kim? Contemporary Art Centre
Ieva Epnere
Ieva Epnere works with photography, video, and film. Personal and intimate stories are the starting points for her artistic reflections on identity, tradition, and ritual.
Ieva Epnere lives and works in Riga, Latvia. Recent solo shows include Pyramiden and other stories, Zachęta Project Room, Warsaw, 2015; A No-Man’s Land, An Everyman’s Land, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, 2015; Waiting Room, Contretype, Brussels, 2015; and Ieva Epnere, Galerie des Hospices, Canet-en-Roussillon, France, 2014. Group exhibitions include Identity. Behind the Curtain of Uncertainty, National Art Museum of Ukraine, 2016; Something eerie, Signal – Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden, 2015; Ritualia, Oudenaarde-Ename, Belgium; Le fragole del Baltico, Careof, Milan, 2015; Ornamentalism. The Purvītis Prize, Arsenale, Venice, 2015; and 62nd International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany, 2015.
Ieva Epnere, Four Edges of Pyramiden, 2015, HD video, 20 min.
Ieva Epnere, Extreme Fugue for One Voice. Laima, 2013, HD video, 5 min.
Ieva Epnere, A No-man's Land, An Everyman's Land, 2015, Photograph, Dimensions variable.
Ieva Epnere, Renunciation, 2014, HD video, 20 min.
