Past Residents
Past Resident2019: Danish Arts Foundation
Jens Settergren
Jens Settergren is concerned with the production of collective imaginaries, contemporary mythologies, desire, and visual culture. His works reflect how these subjects are expressed in images, objects, and language. Working individually and collectively, he explores correlations between technology, nature, escapism, and power. Lately his work has taken the form of immersive installations synthesizing different means of expression revolving around the notions of simulation and synesthesia – incorporating smell, temperature, sound, and color as a strategy to evoke various mental imagery.
Jens Settergren has exhibited work at die raum, Berlin; INCA Institute, Portland; and Kunsthal Aarhus, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2019
March 29–March 30, 2019
Jens Settergren, In Aestu Solis, 2018, electrical heaters, neon spray paint, steel, polycarbonate, surface transducers, and surround sound system, dimensions variable.
Jens Settergren, Ascent of the Mighty Trident, 2018, Earth and stainless steel, 492 × 170 in. (1249.68 × 431.8 cm).
Jens Settergren, Be a Pattern for the World, 2018, video collaboration with Piscine and Bergman & Salinas, 5:48 min.
Jens Settergren, PLEASURE MACHINE, or Nose, 2018, Light box with printed foil on acrylic sheet; collaboration with Piscine, 28 × 20 × 3 in. (71.12 × 50.8 × 7.62 cm).
Jens Settergren, Portal, 2017, neon lights, dimensions variable.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2019: Uniarts Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts and Saastamoinen Foundation
Jonna Kina
Jonna Kina’s works often lies at the junction of sound, language and image. She exhibits her findings with a poetic yet objective visual language that activates the viewer, challenging them to think critically about what they are being presented with.
Jonna Kina’s works has most recently been shown at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum; Espoo Museum of Modern Art; and Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2019
March 29–March 30, 2019
Jonna Kina, Arr. for a Scene, 2017, 35mm film transferred to 4K/HD, color, and sound, 5:18 min.
Jonna Kina, Arr. for a Scene, 2017, 35mm film transferred to 4K/HD, color, and sound, 5:18 min.
Jonna Kina, Somnivm, 2017-18, 35mm film transferred to 4K/HD, color, and sound, 12:39 min.
Jonna Kina, Somnivm, 2017-18, 35mm film transferred to 4K/HD, color, and sound, 12:39 min.
Jonna Kina, Retractor Hydrobag, 2017-18, Carrara white marble, 373/8 × 353/8 × 103/16 in. (95 × 89.92 × 25.91 cm).
Residents from Finland
Past Resident2019: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Maja Vukoje
In her large format paintings, Maja Vukoje addresses discursive issues such as post colonialism, gender, and popular culture. Due to her own migration experience, she is particularly interested in syncretic cultural phenomena. Her work exploits all the possibilities of painting. She creates various pictorial forms of expression through the use of combs, putty knives, stencils, flowing paint, sprayed elements, and applications of real objects. The result is a somewhat undecipherable contextual meaning of the images.
Maja Vukoje has exhibited work at Künstlerhaus- Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz; Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; and Secession, Vienna, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2019
March 29–March 30, 2019
Maja Vukoje, fuels 'n' frumps, 2017, exhibition view. Photo by Markus Krottendorfer.
Maja Vukoje, fuels 'n' frumps, 2017, exhibition view. Photo by Markus Krottendorfer.
Maja Vukoje, fuels 'n' frumps, 2017, exhibition view. Photo by Markus Krottendorfer.
Maja Vukoje, fuels 'n' frumps, 2017, exhibition view. Photo by Markus Krottendorfer.
Maja Vukoje, fuels 'n' frumps, 2017, exhibition view. Photo by Markus Krottendorfer.
