Past Residents
Anna Estarriola
Anna Estarriola is interested in the exchanges and interactions between visual and media arts with other disciplines, including performing arts and technology. The themes of her work revolve around perception of reality, individual and communal behavior, and communication. She uses cross-disciplinary narrative structures that explore and question the union of content, medium and context. Over the last years, she has created media installation works combining sculptures and moving image with dramaturgy, mechanics and electronics.
Anna Estarriola has exhibited work at Galerie Anhava, Helsinki; Pori Art Museum, Finland; and Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2021 Spring Open Studios
April 27–April 28, 2021
Anna Estarriola, Emerging Toughts, 2015, sound installation.
Anna Estarriola, The system, 2017, media installation.
Anna Estarriola, Resonance, 2019, sound installation.
Anna Estarriola, Guided, 2019, sound installation.
Anna Estarriola, Transition / Assisted Breathing, 2019, media installation.
Past Resident2021: Mondriaan Fund
Maja Bekan
Maja Bekan’s work explores and questions mediation and delegation of artwork production. She is interested in a collaborative and social approach to explore personal histories, truths, economies and social relations. Bekan works on long-term research-based projects that involve different levels of collaboration, presented to the public in the form of performances, site-specific environments, and video/audio/text-based installations.
Maja Bekan has exhibited work at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Kunsthaus, Graz; and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, among others.
Maja Bekan, Performance Class, 2017, site specific installation with light, floor intervention, paint, objects, construction elements, costumes, text and performance.
Maja Bekan, Social Room, 2017, constructed situation within the site-specific installation with custom-made furniture and text. Photo by Bartosz Górka.
Maja Bekan, A series of unexpected incidents, 2016, theatrical event.
Maja Bekan, Troublemakers And Other Wayward Subjects?, 2018, constructed situation. Photo by Tim Bowditch.
Maja Bekan, At some point we all have to dance, 2018, HD video, 57 min.
Residents from Serbia
Yuki Higashino
Yuki Higashino explores a variety of topics through his work, including the influence of digital technology on our visual culture, immigrant identity, and the conflict between language and picture. Higashino combines several aesthetic standards, such as those of photography, calligraphy, and film, to create his own distinctive pictorial lexicon.
Yuki Higashino has exhibited work at Mumok, Vienna; Last Tango, Zurich; Contemporary Art Factory, Kyoto; Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna; and The Brno House of Arts, among others.
Yuki Higashino, Notebook 5, 2020, acrylic paint on plexiglass, 151/8 × 111/4 in. (38.42 × 28.57 cm).
Yuki Higashino, After Josef Sudek 1, 2020, acrylic on acetate, 57/8 × 101/4 in. (14.92 × 26.03 cm).
Yuki Higashino, Notebook 6, 2021, acrylic on plexiglass, 151/8 × 111/4 in. (38.42 × 28.57 cm).
Yuki Higashino, Sundborn, Summer 1, 2021, acrylic on plexiglass, 131/4 × 235/16 in. (33.65 × 59.26 cm).
Yuki Higashino, The Poundbury Horror, 2020, HD video with sound, 18 min. .
