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Norway, Slovakia, Spain

Past Resident
2022: Oslo Kommune Internasjonalt

Artist

Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen

Martinka Bobrikova and Oscar de Carmen have been an artist duo since 2005. Throughout their artistic careers, they have taken on a wide range of roles, including those of artists, cultural operators, curators, and educators. Art and creativity are used by the duo to activate cultural dynamics that facilitate and/or combine education, communication, and urban and social transformation processes, both inside and outside of galleries, and beyond the framework of institutional dialogue.

Martinka Bobrikova and Oscar de Carmen have exhibited work at ‘Refuge’ Lagos Biennial, Nigeria; ‘Envisioning the Future!’ Saitama Triennale, Japan; and ‘The Will’ Tbilisi International Triennial, Georgia, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2022 Fall Open Studios
November 18–November 19, 2022
Gathering in front of parlament of Oslo, as protest, assembly, practicing collective nap.
Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen, The Migrant Assembly, 2021, public gathering in front of the parlament of Oslo, dimensions variable. Photo by Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo.
people dining, and having conversation at an imperial table
Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen, Kitchen Dialogues, 2014, performance, dimensions variable. Photo by Magnus Trevisan.
wooden construction tight with red Ratchet Straps with S-Hooks
Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen, dysfunctional deconstructions, 2020, installation, dimensions variable. Photo by Erik Sæter Jørgensen.
5m long concrete columns broken in pieces displayed felling apart in the space
Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen, LIVING IN THE BEGINNING OF TIMES, 2017, installation, dimensions variable.
wall drawing, white choke on blackboard, football as metafora of art world
Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen, In the midst of worlds, 2022, wall drawing, 13 × 88 in. (33.02 × 223.52 cm).

Residents from Slovakia

Adrián Kriška

Slovakia, Czech Republic
International Visegrad Fund
2024

Gregor Petrikovic

United Kingdom, Slovakia
International Visegrad Fund
2023

Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen

Norway, Slovakia, Spain
Oslo Kommune Internasjonalt
2022
South Korea

Past Resident
2023: DOOSAN Art Center

Artist

Ji Hye Yeom

Ji Hye Yeom’s practice is based on multidisciplinary research; her work investigates the unseen force that causes events in the present to occur and emphasizes the sense of experience. Yeom proposes an alternative worldview and new modes of communication through moving images by exploring the connecting links and blurred boundaries between the past, present, experience and memory.

Ji Hye Yeom has exhibited work at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea; Leeum Museum of Art, South Korea; and Al Mureijah Art Spaces, United Arab Emirates, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2022 Fall Open Studios
November 18–November 19, 2022
Cyborg, Post Human, Olfactory Sense, Material Turn, Body, Substance
Ji Hye Yeom, CyborgHandstanderus's Nose, 2021, moving image, 19:10 min. .
Symbiosis, Co-evolution, Environmental Disaster, Indigestion
Ji Hye Yeom, Symbioplot, 2020, moving image, 20 min. .
Solidarity, Tentacle Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, Cosmic Dance
Ji Hye Yeom, AI Octopus, 2020, moving image, 16:35 min. .
Future Scenario, Post Human, Fascism, Futurism, High Technology, 4th Revolution
Ji Hye Yeom, Future Fever, 2018, moving image, 17:10 min. .
Amazonian Myth, Post Colonialism, Neo Liberalism, Affection
Ji Hye Yeom, A Night with a Pink Dolphin, 2015, moving image, 21:37 min. .

Residents from South Korea

Ailyn Lee

United States, South Korea
Anonymous
Studio #210

Sungsil Ryu

South Korea
DOOSAN Art Center
2024

Heemin Chung

South Korea
DOOSAN Art Center
2024
Greece

Past Resident
2022: ARTWORKS

Artist

Iria Vrettou

Iria Vrettou’s practice focuses on concepts and modes of hybridity as research and practice methods, while also addressing aspects of hand-drawn animation in relation to larger cinematic and performative practices. Her research focuses on environmental and social issues, as well as the function of the ‘screen’ in the context of cultural production and political processes. She also investigates the creation of art works that can function as disquieting, complete spatiotemporal experiences.

Iria Vrettou has exhibited work at Onassis Stegi, Athens; CYLINDER gallery, Seoul; ERGO Collective, Athens; and Space 52, Athens, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2022 Fall Open Studios
November 18–November 19, 2022
‘Daemonic Ecran Vivant’ is a moving portrait based on the concept of Tableau Vivant. The piece operates on specific hand drawn animated loops. The emphasis is placed on the movement of bodies, human, non-human, and more-than-human. It investigates how such movements can be perceived as dance for various concepts & species and the atmospheres that these create. If we consider life cycles as an expression of symbiosis then we can easily discern a ritual of perpetual transformation: the choreography of life. Image #2
Iria Vrettou, Daemonic Ecran Vinant, 2020, moving image, 1:33 min..
“Necropsy of a Void (9 and a half Serenades for the exorcism of Ghosts)” is an animated film created by Adrianos Efthymiadis and Iria Vrettou, commissioned for the exhibition “Is Everybody In? The Ceremony is about to begin.” The work responded to the concept of the exhibition which explored the meaning and emerging forms of ‘the ritual’. Necropsy of a Void, is an elegy, a song about an impossible ritual: these nine and a half serenades ritualize this process of necropsy of the void, to sing the impossible process of conceptualizing the void and cutting into it, to conjure ghosts past and ghosts’ future, invite them in a dance, much like the dances that are lost to us because of the pandemic, in the break that we experience.
Iria Vrettou, Necropsy of a Void (9 and a half Serenades for the Exorcism of Ghosts), 2021, moving image, 8:47 min..
In 1612 Galileo wrote to his friend, the painter Lodovico Cardi, known as Cigoli: “The statue does not have its relief by virtue of being wide, long and deep but by virtue of being light in some places and dark in others. And one should note as proof of this that only two of its three dimensions are actually exposed to the eye: length and width (which is the superficies . . . that is to say, periphery or circumference). For, of the objects appearing and seen, we see nothing but their superficies; their depth cannot be perceived by the eye because our vision does not penetrate opaque bodies. The eye then sees only length and width and nev- er thickness. Thus, since thickness is never exposed to view, nothing but length and width can be perceived by us in a statue. We know of depth, not as a visual experience per se and absolutely but only be accident and in relation to light and darkness. And all this is present in painting no less than sculpture... But sculpture receives lightness and darkness from nature herself whereas painting receives it from art.”
Iria Vrettou, Galileo's Relief, 2016, moving image, 1:15 min..
his bush is a feeling “ is a performative piece that, animates a discussion and queers space in order to conjure unexpected identities. Identities arising from within the Volcano and materialising out into in the botanical garden”
Iria Vrettou, This bush is a feeling, 2022, performance, 20:00 min..
Homer Dreamt Before He Slept”, is a video-installation performance by Iria Vrettou which was done as part of Ios Festival 2021 and took place at the square of a small church. The performance conjures Iria (female primordial god-messenger) who blurs the Homeric myth with Hesiod’s cosmology. This performance is part of an ongoing research on myth and ritual vis a vis body politics and queer ecologies. The music is composed by artist Anto Lopez.
Iria Vrettou, This bush is a feeling, 2021, performance video, 12:00 min..

Residents from Greece

Antonis Pittas

Greece, The Netherlands
Mondriaan Fund
2025

Raffaela Naldi Rossano

Italy, Greece
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
2024

Sofia Stevi

Greece
ARTWORKS
2023