Past Residents
Past Resident2022: Bunka-cho - Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Kenji Yamada
Kenji Yamada is an artist who carries out social practice and activities to share conflicts and paradoxes within international society. These conflicts and paradoxes emerge from application and misuse of ethnographical wisdoms, remains and modern heritages, including war ruins in a particular cultural area. He complexly questions undifferentiated historical views and public interest by cooperating with citizens to publicize and reveal historical artifacts that have been buried by the construction of public spaces to society.
Kenji Yamada has exhibited at 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo; Yang Art Museum, Beijing; and Morgue Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London, among others.
Kenji Yamada, MITA Intercept, 2020, video installation, 5:28 min.
Kenji Yamada, Intercepted self-portrait, 2017, 3 channel video installation, 5:00 min.
Kenji Yamada, Cao Gang River meeting practice, 2016, 10 channel video installation, 67:00 min.
Kenji Yamada, Smurfed remain, 2016, 2 channel video installation, 90:00 min.
Kenji Yamada, BSIM (, 2011, Interactive video installation.
Past Resident2021: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Marie Nerland
Marie Nerland’s independent curatorial practice involves writing, making, lecturing and performing. She is the founder of Volt, a long-term curatorial initiative that commissions and presents new projects by contemporary artists. Past projects have taken the form of exhibitions, sound art, performances, as well as publications, lectures, seminars, workshops and reading circles, all taking place in a wide variety of different locations and in public realm.
Marie Nerland has curated work at Volt, Bergen, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2021 Fall Open Studios
November 13, 2021
Every Ocean Hughes, Help the Dead , 2019, live art project at Volt 2019. Photo by Thor Brødreskift.
Erick Beltrán, The Image of Power: A Bergen Parade, 2019, performance at Volt 2019. Photo by Thor Brødreskift.
Rabih Mroué, Chalk Outlines, 2019, exhibition at Volt 2019. Photo by Kobie Nel.
Cecilia Jonsson, Mareograph, 2018, installation at Volt 2018. Photo by Cecilia Jonsson.
Marie Nerland, The Imaginary Reader, 2016, Edited by Marie Nerland, published by Volt. Photo by Thor Brødreskift.
Past Resident2021: ARTWORKS
Ιris Touliatou
Ιris Touliatou (born 1981, Athens, Greece) engages in a conceptual practice, which transposes the political, environmental and affective, and employs various mediums necessary for each intervention. Manifesting in sculpture, photography, sound, scent and text, her work often draws on found objects and creates open forms and shared experiences, to comment on time, intimacy, transience, mortality, economies and states of being.
Ιris Touliatou has exhibited work at The 7th Athens Biennale, Greece; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Greece; and Palais de Tokyo, France, among others.
Ιris Touliatou, UNTITLED (STILL NOT OVER YOU), 2021, ceiling light fixtures foraged from defunct offices in Athens, aluminium frame, fluorescents, wires, and cable, 60 × 33 × 3 in. (152.4 × 83.82 × 7.62 cm).
Ιris Touliatou, EMOTIONAL INFINITY (THE SOUND OF THEM COMING BACK AMPLIFIED AND LOOPED), 2020, Oscillating fans, replicated sets of keys, dimensions variable.
Ιris Touliatou, UNREHEARSED PORTRAIT (WITH THE BEST POSSIBLE BACKGROUND) SERIES, 2019, Portrait taken at commercial photography studios (ongoing series) digital chromogenic print, glass, wallet size.
Ιris Touliatou, SONG, 2007-2021(ongoing), Attempts to forge Ana Mendieta’s signature, ink on various media, dimensions variable.
Ιris Touliatou, TO LAURIE, 2021, Website, laurieparsons94@gmail.com Unread email inbox, newsletter subscriptions, endless thread of thoughts and count / sound of email, dimensions variable.
Residents from Greece
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
2024
