Current Resident: Sep 1, 2020–Dec 31, 2021
IASPIS - The Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual Artists
Studio #215
Artist
Conny Karlsson Lundgren
Conny Karlsson Lundgren is a visual artist based in Stockholm and Hoby Mosse. He works with film, text, image, and archival documents, to explores themes around social, political, and individual identities. In his practice, the artist employs interdisciplinary methods to present alternative realities and social agreements reimagined through experiences, contrapositions, desires, and secret codes. Karlsson Lundgren is interested in the archive as both carrier of information and a mechanism of control. He holds an MFA from Valand Academy of Fine Arts in Gothenburg, Sweden, and participated in the Studio Research Program at Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands in 2014–15.
Conny Karlsson Lundgren has exhibited work at Moderna Museet Malmö; Gothenburg Art Museum; and Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, among others. He was recently awarded the 2020 Erna & Victor Hasselblad Foundation Research Fellowship.
Conny Karlsson Lundgren, The Teenage Runner (Ali), 2018/2019, performance and installation, 20 min.
Conny Karlsson Lundgren, (Dissident) Dance Actions, 2017, HD-video and installation, 17:10 min.
Conny Karlsson Lundgren, Residues (Kanazawa), 2000/2018, performance documentation, installation with slides, diary notes and two slide projectors.
Conny Karlsson Lundgren, The Spheres, 2015, HD-video and installation, 6:50 min.
Conny Karlsson Lundgren, Koncert Në Vitin 2014 (Lepurushja), 2014, HD-video and installation, 5:10 min.
Residents from Sweden
Current Resident: Jan 1, 2020–Dec 31, 2021
Mondriaan Fund
Studio #216
Artist
James Beckett
James Beckett’s practice explores overlooked histories concerned with industrial development and the built environment. With a focus on the physicality of historically-laden objects, his works deal with cultural signs that shape our experience in the modern era. The approach considers proximity in the experience of subjects through tertiary bodies, and the implications of their given traces. Beckett activates objects in order to unpack their abstract and metaphysical potential, often employing the absurd and uncanny to form new perspectives on formative events.
James Beckett has exhibited at the 56th Venice Biennale, Venice; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, amongst others. His work is in collections of Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. He is the winner of Prix de Rome Art & Public Space.
James Beckett, A Seedless Grape, 2020-21, installation at the International Studio & Curatorial Program of backlit plexiglass, condenser coils, various objects, wood, and UV print on glass , 144 × 144 × 300 in. (365.76 × 365.76 × 762 cm).
James Beckett, The Skeptical Structures of Max, 2019, installation, dimensions variable.
James Beckett, Negative Space: A Scenario Generator for Clandestine Building in Africa, 2015, robotics istallation, dimensions variable.
James Beckett, Palace Ruin, 2018, installation for public space, dimensions variable.
James Beckett, Pairings, 2018, installation, dimensions variable.
Residents from South Africa
Current Resident: Sep 1, 2021–Aug 31, 2022
Bunkacho - Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Studio #217
Artist
Kenji Yamada
Kenji Yamada is an artist who carries out social practice and activities to share conflicts and paradoxes within international society. These conflicts and paradoxes emerge from application and misuse of ethnographical wisdoms, remains and modern heritages, including war ruins in a particular cultural area. He complexly questions undifferentiated historical views and public interest by cooperating with citizens to publicize and reveal historical artifacts that have been buried by the construction of public spaces to society.
Kenji Yamada has exhibited at 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo; Yang Art Museum, Beijing; and Morgue Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London, among others.
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Kenji Yamada, MITA Intercept, 2020, video installation, 5:28 min.
Kenji Yamada, Intercepted self-portrait, 2017, 3 channel video installation, 5:00 min.
Kenji Yamada, Cao Gang River meeting practice, 2016, 10 channel video installation, 67:00 min.
Kenji Yamada, Smurfed remain, 2016, 2 channel video installation, 90:00 min.
Kenji Yamada, BSIM (, 2011, Interactive video installation.
