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Estonia

Past Resident
2024: Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center

Artist

Karel Koplimets

Karel Koplimets is a photo, video, and installation artist who explores themes such as urban space, fear, prejudice, and climate change. His work is driven by a desire to understand patterns in human behavior and sociopolitical processes. Koplimets often incorporates stories, cases, or phenomena into his pieces, offering the viewer a narrative experience. His recent projects focus on emerging technologies, the fears associated with them, and their impact on climate change.

Karel Koplimets has exhibited work at Videobrasil, Brazil; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Finland; and Manifesta 9 Genk, Belgium, among others.

Karel Koplimets, 2074, 2024, site-specific installation, jesmonite, styrofoam, respirators, office furniture, cable tubes, air ducts, LED lights, electronics, videos, and sound, dimensions variable
Karel Koplimets, Driven, 2023, two-channel video installation with custom speakers, 18 min
Karel Koplimets, Case No. 18. James Tilly Matthews, 2023, installation, pigment prints, transparency in custom light box, ventilation and cable tubes, aluminium, plastic barrels, plasterboard, furniture, smoke machine, electronics, cables, dimensions variable
Karel Koplimets, Your Order Is on Its Way, 2021, 4K video, colour, and sound, 7:28 min
Karel Koplimets, Case No 13. Waiting for the Ship of Empties, 2017, performance installation and documentation , dimensions variable

Residents from Estonia

Helena Keskküla

“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.
Estonia
Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center
2023

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
Canada

Past Resident
2024: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Artist

Antonietta Grassi

Antonietta Grassi’s paintings recontextualize the history of abstract art, emphasizing the vital role of female labor in technological advancements. By referencing textiles, technology, and women’s contributions to early computer systems, her work draws a parallel between the loom and the origins of computer programming. Though rooted in modernist painting traditions, Grassi’s art reflects the contemporary condition of living in an overly digitized, dematerialized world, while seeking to reconnect with a more embodied and spiritual experience.

Antonietta Grassi has exhibited work at Canadian Pavilion, Expo Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada; and Katonah Museum, New York, among others.

Antonietta Grassi, Compiler 3.0, 2022, oil and ink on linen, 60 × 61 in. (152.4 × 154.94 cm)
Antonietta Grassi, Pink Power Push, 2023, oil and ink on linen, 55 × 55 in. (139.7 × 139.7 cm)
Antonietta Grassi, Zip no.2, 2022, acrylic oil and ink on linen, 55
Antonietta Grassi, Chromatopia, 2023, oil and ink on linen, 84 × 82 in. (213.36 × 208.28 cm)
Antonietta Grassi, Zip Stack Flow, exhibition view , 2022, mixed media

Residents from Canada

Alice Wang

United States, Canada
Canada Council for the Arts, Capsule Shanghai
Studio #213

Stanley Wany

Ase (pronounced “ah-sheh”; also spelled ashe) Yoruba words often have multiple meanings: Ase is generally defined as “the power to make things happen” and also refers to the spiritual life force that flows through things, much like the Chinese concept of chi. Deepening the exploration of my relationship with my ancestors, Ase, a drawing that measures almost two meters high by three meters long. For this piece, charcoal, a medium with archaic roots, is used to evoke powerful waves crowned by troubled sky. Towards the bottom of the drawings, the waves melt into abstraction, dripping onto the white surface of the paper. The title Ase, referring to Yoruba culture, embodies my ongoing relationship with my ancestors, those who perished in the sea as well as those with whom known ties have been cut by the transatlantic slavetrade. When creating this work, I also reflected on what it meant to be Black in the Americas and how my identity had been defined by the dominant society. I turned to the writings of Stuart Hall, Franz Fanon as well as of Edouard Glissant, whose concept of “creolisation” serves as a focal point in my practice going forward.
Canada
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Studio #222

Kara Springer

A hanging wall work consisting of deep purple prints of high resolutions scans of clay hanging over a poplar wood rod mounted on the wall.
Canada, Barbados
Canada Council for the Arts
Studio #305