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Iceland

Current Resident: Jun 1, 2024–Aug 31, 2024

Icelandic Art Center

Studio #205

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Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir

Interdisciplinary artist Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir works with staged photography, sculptures, tapestry paintings, video, and audio. By blending phenomena and familiar imagery, she explores the hyperreality of her everyday environment. Ríkharðsdóttir is interested in the contrast between the natural, the man-made, and the staged and work is influenced by personal experiences and visual surroundings, as well as by math, sci-fi, cult movies, advertisements, memes, and stock images.

Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir has exhibited work at Hafnarborg Museum, Iceland; The Living Art Museum, Iceland; and 80WSE Gallery, New York, among others.

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Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir, Game of Chess with the Lottery Lady, 2023, video installation, 8 min
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir, Volcano Painting #5, 2022, stretched digital image on woven tapestry, 27 × 20 in. (68.58 × 50.8 cm)
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir, Final Countdown, 2021, video installation, 7 min
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir, The Golden Ratio, 2021, 12 pencil and color pencil drawing on 220g paper, 0 × 9 × 12 in. (0 × 22.86 × 30.48 cm)
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir, Please Wait, 2021, video installation, 11 min

Residents from Iceland

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir

Part of a series of 5 photographs teased from an archive of research photographs for the SILICA art practice as research project that traces the manufacturing of semiconductors for solar cells. Oceanic transport is large part of that process.
Germany, Iceland
Icelandic Art Fund, The Icelandic Visual Artists Copyright Association, Gallery Gudmundsdottir, The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists (SÍM)
2023

Bjargey Ólafsdóttir

Iceland
Icelandic Art Center, Myndstef, Penninn, City of Reykjavik
2009

Hildur Bjarnadóttir

Iceland
Ingunn Wernersdóttir
2008
Denmark

Current Resident: May 1, 2024–Jul 31, 2024

Danish Arts Foundation

Studio #207

Artist

Maja Malou Lyse

Maja Malou Lyse is a multidisciplinary artist exploring themes that address the complexities of image and pleasure politics through an immersive practice. Using mediated, image-based platforms, which are deeply embedded in our daily lives—such as magazines, television shows and digital medias—Lyse’s works highlight the ways in which our desires are deeply connected to the cultural and political realities of our time.

Maja Malou Lyse has exhibited work at Kunstmuseum Brandts; ARoS Aarhus Art Museum; and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, all in Denmark, among others.

Maja Malou Lyse, Antibodies, 2022, video, 10 min. Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Denmark
Maja Malou Lyse, Antibodies, 2022, video, 10 min. Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Denmark
Maja Malou Lyse, WAP, 2023, video, 17 min
Maja Malou Lyse, Pressure Picture, 2023, video billboard, 2 min. Commision for Roskilde Festival 2023 in collaboration with Esben Weile Kjær
Maja Malou Lyse, Untitled, 2019, sculpture. Courtesy of Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Denmark

Residents from Denmark

Stine Deja

Divine Desires by Stine Deja & Marie Munk at Alba Gallery, Vienna. Install shot by Kunstdokumentation.com
Denmark
Danish Arts Foundation, Knud Højgaards Fond
Studio #306

Jeppe Ugelvig

A wallpaper depicting a living room is pasted on a board produces a mis-en-abyme.
Denmark
Danish Arts Foundation
2024

Tora Schultz

Denmark, Sweden
IASPIS - The Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual Artists
Studio #215
Taiwan

Current Resident: Mar 1, 2024–Jul 31, 2024

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Studio #210

Artist

Huang I-Hsiang

Huang I-Hsiang works with video, documentary, and spatial installations, using “site-specificity” as a core notion. For I-Hsiang, this mode of thinking is deeply rooted in the concept of the “body,” wherein site-specificity embodies a distinct form of “specific corporeality,” manifesting in space and serving as the foundation of his artistic work. As a result, his creations feature a mutually reflected chain of relationships between the body, space, and institution.

Huang I-Hsiang has exhibited work at Absolute Space for the Arts, Tainan City; Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei; El Instante Fundación, Madrid, among others.

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Events & Exhibitions

2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
A Practice of Silence begins with a vague visual impression, the administrative figure of the Absolute Space, a silent presence always sitting in the corner of the exhibition venue. Her work is a series of interpretations, empathy, and understanding. She is always there, yet hard to notice. She is the caretaker of the venue, and I want to depict such a character. My curiosity lies in her physical and psychological relationship with the venue; my curiosity wonders why she is here and whether she has ever thought about leaving. In short, everything related to this job, including emotions and circumstances. During the exhibition, I invited theater practitioner Tseng Jing-Wen, who is dedicated to promoting People's Theatre, along with former administrative staff from Absolute Space who worked here at different times, to conduct a body workshop. My basic idea is, the arrival of newcomers marks the departure of the old, and the interchange between new and old forms the life of a character. These participants, through shared memories, will engage in a self- dialogue belonging to this character during the workshop. Finally, on the last day of the exhibition, we held a screening event showcasing the workshop's video documentation at the venue.
Huang I-Hsiang, A Practice of Silence, 2023, single channel video
A Practice of Silence begins with a vague visual impression, the administrative figure of the Absolute Space, a silent presence always sitting in the corner of the exhibition venue. Her work is a series of interpretations, empathy, and understanding. She is always there, yet hard to notice. She is the caretaker of the venue, and I want to depict such a character. My curiosity lies in her physical and psychological relationship with the venue; my curiosity wonders why she is here and whether she has ever thought about leaving. In short, everything related to this job, including emotions and circumstances. During the exhibition, I invited theater practitioner Tseng Jing-Wen, who is dedicated to promoting People's Theatre, along with former administrative staff from Absolute Space who worked here at different times, to conduct a body workshop. My basic idea is, the arrival of newcomers marks the departure of the old, and the interchange between new and old forms the life of a character. These participants, through shared memories, will engage in a self- dialogue belonging to this character during the workshop. Finally, on the last day of the exhibition, we held a screening event showcasing the workshop's video documentation at the venue.
Huang I-Hsiang, A Practice of Silence, 2023, book, dimensions variable
The Outsiders is a narrative short film shot with a focus on site-specificity. The story revolves around three main characters: a part-time worker, a street artist, and an artist from abroad. Despite each of them being involved in somewhat art-related jobs within and around the museum, their work is loosely related, and they have no communication with each other. In this piece, I attempt to depict an urban lifestyle, using the Taipei Contemporary Art Museum as a backdrop, showcasing the lack of interaction among people in the city.
Huang I-Hsiang, The Outsiders, 2020, single channel video, 10 min
Untitled is a single-channel video installation based on site-specificity, located in a passage near the entrance of the exhibition venue. During the daytime, sunlight filters in through the door crack, naturally casting shadows on the exterior walls of the venue. I captured a segment of these shadows during the exhibition setup and projected the footage back to its original location in proportion. Most of these shadows come from the
Huang I-Hsiang, Untitled, 2019, single channel video, 6 min
The Maiden’s Prayer is a video installation based on the concept of site-specificity. The artwork consists of four sets of synchronized audio-visual playback. I selected four different locations within the exhibition space and captured the events from various angles. Subsequently, I projected these recorded images back to their original positions in a proportional manner. Visitors at the exhibition will witness different spatial dimensions of past moments, while the figures in the artwork resemble ghosts, continuously traversing and returning within different interfaces of imagery.
Huang I-Hsiang, The Maiden's Prayer, 2018, 4 channel video, 2 min

Residents from Taiwan

Feng-Yi Chu

Taiwan
Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Studio #302

Hung-Yen Chang

Taiwan
Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
2023

Yen-Yi Lee

Taiwan
Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
2023

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