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Estonia

Past Resident
2023: Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center

Artist

Helena Keskküla

Helena Keskküla works with a variety of mediums including video, performance, and installation. She uses comedy, self-consciousness, and failures to address universal topics. Her artistic practice has recently centered on mythology and stone carving, which she combines with performance and contemporary materials. She graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2015 and received her master’s degree from the Sandberg Institute, Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2021.

Helena Keskküla has exhibited work at Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, The Netherlands; Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Estonia; and Avangard Galerii, Estonia, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2023 Fall Open Studios
November 10–November 11, 2023
“Moss Doesn’t Grow…” is a series of works about a not-so-mythological woman’s journey to become a stone carver. The works draw inspiration from Estonian mythology and revolve around Linda, the mother of the Estonian hero Kalevipoeg. Linda has found a new life and voice in contemporary Amsterdam, while struggling with a big boulder in the middle of her bedroom.
Helena Keskküla, Moss Doesn't Grow..., 2021, performance
“Moss Doesn’t Grow…” is a series of works about a not-so-mythological woman’s journey to become a stone carver. The works draw inspiration from Estonian mythology and revolve around Linda, the mother of the Estonian hero Kalevipoeg. Linda has found a new life and voice in contemporary Amsterdam, while struggling with a big boulder in the middle of her bedroom.
Helena Keskküla, Moss Doesn't Grow..., 2021, performance
Alabaster, steatite, metal
Helena Keskküla, Birdbaths III, 2022, alabaster, steatite and metal
Helena Keskküla, Birdbaths I, 2022, petit granite, steatite and metal
3 performers, concrete, stone, from sunset to sunrise
Helena Keskküla, "Cries in Concrete, Curses Curbstones, Dreams in Drywall, Rests in Rainfall", 2023, performance

Residents from Estonia

Taavi Suisalu

Part of the show 'Attention figures' at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia
Estonia
Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center, Cultural Endowment of Estonia
2022

Mia Raadik

Estonia
Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center
2021

Ede Raadik

Estonia
Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center
2020
United States

Past Resident
2023: Vision Fund

Artist

Alicia Grullón

Alicia Grullón is a Bronx-based artist and organizer. Grullon’s social practice work extends to exploring how people relate to land in order to rally a transformation of our living by using performance and self-portraiture as a critique on the politics of presence, an argument for the inclusion of underinvested communities in political and social spheres. She is a Moore College of Art and Design Walentas Fellow for 2020-2022, and teaches at Queens College.

Alicia Grullón has exhibited work at Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University; Bronx Museum of the Arts; and BRIC Arts Media House, all in New York, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Miatta Kawinzi and Alicia Grullón
November 28, 2023, 6–8pm
2023 Fall Open Studios
November 10–November 11, 2023
Grullón’s self-portrait series, “From March to June: At Home with Essential Workers” is a continuation of her process using visual and embodied performative practices to create alternatives in archiving history. These self-portraits were created in her home in New York City during the Covid-19 quarantine. In this body of work, she simultaneously documents her time at home and current affairs affecting the nation.The titles refer to dates the images were taken and news articles from that time regarding the treatment of essential workers and incarcerated people during the pandemic.
Alicia Grullón, March 31, 2020: Rikers Island Prisoners Are Being Offered PPE and $6 an Hour to Dig Mass Graves, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 60 × 30 in. (152.4 × 76.2 cm)
Grullón’s self-portrait series, “From March to June: At Home with Essential Workers” is a continuation of her process using visual and embodied performative practices to create alternatives in archiving history. These self-portraits were created in her home in New York City during the Covid-19 quarantine. In this body of work, she simultaneously documents her time at home and current affairs affecting the nation.The titles refer to dates the images were taken and news articles from that time regarding the treatment of essential workers and incarcerated people during the pandemic.
April 13, 2020: NYC death toll jumps by 3,700 after uncounted fatalities are added, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 60 × 36 in. (152.4 × 91.44 cm)
Grullón’s self-portrait series, “From March to June: At Home with Essential Workers” is a continuation of her process using visual and embodied performative practices to create alternatives in archiving history. These self-portraits were created in her home in New York City during the Covid-19 quarantine. In this body of work, she simultaneously documents her time at home and current affairs affecting the nation.The titles refer to dates the images were taken and news articles from that time regarding the treatment of essential workers and incarcerated people during the pandemic.
Alicia Grullón, May 4th, 2020: We call workers ‘essential’ – but is that just referring to the work, not the people?, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 60 × 36 in. (152.4 × 91.44 cm)
Grullón’s self-portrait series, “From March to June: At Home with Essential Workers” is a continuation of her process using visual and embodied performative practices to create alternatives in archiving history. These self-portraits were created in her home in New York City during the Covid-19 quarantine. In this body of work, she simultaneously documents her time at home and current affairs affecting the nation.The titles refer to dates the images were taken and news articles from that time regarding the treatment of essential workers and incarcerated people during the pandemic.
Alicia Grullón, May 8th, 2020: US Postal Service warns coronavirus pandemic threatens its survival, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 60 × 36 in. (152.4 × 91.44 cm)
Breaking News is a short video looking at the migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border. Through the point of view of Jaquin Caal Maquin, the first child reported to have died while in ICE custody, I re-imagined her as the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees proposing new resolutions calling for no ICE presence, open borders and control of the UN by indigenous people of the global south and Western Hemisphere.
Alicia Grullón, Breaking News, 2019, single channel video, 4 min

Residents from United States

Nikita Shokhov

DOK Leipzig film festival, Extended Reality: DOK Neuland. THX 4 Nothing, AR show at Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany
United States
ipureland
2023

Miatta Kawinzi

Four black-and-white photographic prints on fabric are hung from the ceiling; they show a Black figure in various poses of reaching.
United States
Vision Fund
2023

Elias Wessel

Installation view of exhibition, including sonic compositions by Natalia Kiës; in situ at the exhibition “Pulsar;” Internationale Photoszene Festival Cologne, 2023
Germany, United States
SpallArt Collection, Brigitte Vosse
Studio #208