Past Residents
Past Resident2024: Danish Arts Foundation, Knud Højgaards Fond
Stine Deja
Stine Deja works across a variety of media, including total installation, sculpture, soundscapes, and 3D animation, to explore the effects of technological development on our psychology, living conditions, and behavior patterns. Combining extensive conceptual research with an otherworldly aesthetic and satirical wit, Deja’s work provides an absurd and critical perspective on the future of human culture.
Stine Deja has exhibited work at Tranen, Denmark; Beijing Times Art Museum, China; and MUDAM, Luxembourg, among others.
Stine Deja, Divine Desires, 2022, curtains, electro galvanised steel, aluminium, vinyl print, tv, video, polystyren, motor, and polyeruthan rubber, dimensions variable
Stine Deja, Cold Sleep, 2020-21, stainless steel construction, Ipads, terracotta sand, animation, sleepingbag suit, sound, and motors, dimensions variable
Stine Deja, Dawn Chorus, 2021, elefant grates, water, strollers, tv’s, animation, sound, and light filter, dimensions variable
Stine Deja, ASSEMBLY, 2021, steel, speakers, AMP, cables, jackets, and sound, dimensions variable. Photo courtesy by Stine Deja
Stine Deja, Last Resort, 2019-20, sand, aluminium structures, Sleeping bags, Ipads, animation, and rachet straps, dimensions variable
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2024: Toby Devan Lewis
Laura Bernstein
Laura Bernstein creates layered worlds that explore human and animal behavior, as well as mythologies of metamorphose. Her work reflects on the climate through video, performance, installation, and painting, drawing inspiration from medieval illuminated manuscripts and theatrical spectacle traditions.
Laura Bernstein has exhibited at Essex Flowers Gallery; BRIC; and Children’s Museum of the Arts, all in New York, among others.
Laura Bernstein, Hell Mouth, 2022, installation with three-channel stop-motion video, 3:00 min loop (color, sound), hand-stitched appliqué textiles, 18 puppets made from aluminum armature wire and repurposed fabrics, hoops, plaster, dowels, wood, papier-mâché and imitation gold leaf, 42 × 36 × 36 in. (106.68 × 91.44 × 91.44 cm)
Laura Bernstein, Miracle Tapestries Processional, January I--December XII, 2020, 2021, assortment of recycled organic and synthetic fabrics, hand stitched, thread and 10 PVC pipes, 12 × 100 in. (30.48 × 254 cm)
Laura Bernstein, Murder Hornets Sun Spike, 2022, watercolor and ink on watercolor paper, 42 × 60 in. (106.68 × 152.4 cm)
Laura Bernstein, Illuminator, 2019, plaster, burlap, steel plumbing pipes, wax, candles, glass, sand, imitation gold leaf, matchbox, brass, candle snuff, and acrylic on canvas and watercolor and ink on paper, dimensions variable
Laura Bernstein, A Speculative Performance Presented by The Institute of Super-Species Research and Experimentation, (ISSRE), 2019, performance, 60 min.
Residents from United States
Past Resident2024: Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton Arts Council
Alma Visscher
Alma Louise Visscher creates fabric-based installations, jewelry and drawings that consider resources and material culture and the poetic possibilities and problems within these. Through process and materials, she explores the intersection of materiality and the unknowable, the ecology of places, and the things that hold us, care for us, and comfort us. These motivations have led her to explore materials such as working with natural dyes and inks sourced from her immediate environments and repurposed textiles and materials.
Alma Louise Visscher has exhibited work at Art Gallery of Alberta, Alberta; Idea Exchange. Ontario; Kimura Gallery, Alaska, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
Alma Visscher, Odradek, 2021, handmade ink on paper, 14 × 10 in. (35.56 × 25.4 cm)
Alma Visscher, Hedge Study, 2023, cedar ink, handmade paper and fabric on paper, 12 × 17 in. (30.48 × 43.18 cm)
Alma Visscher, holding it together, 2021, machine pleated and dyed and airbrushed found fabric, 36 × 24 in. (91.44 × 60.96 cm)
Alma Visscher, The waiting, 2019, hand painted and airbrushed cotton and linen fabric, grommets and draping, 108 × 35 in. (274.32 × 88.9 cm)
Alma Visscher, Portable Paintings, 2018, hand dyed and sewnfabric, dimensions variable
