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Czech Republic

Past Resident
2021: Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA, International Visegrad Fund

Artist

Valentýna Janů

Valentýna Janů’s suggestive installations often combine video work and immersive environments made from fabrics and other objects. They playfully address contemporary existential questions around technology, patriarchal systems and climate change. She is interested in exploring the relationships between the individuals’ daily struggle and the condition of a globalized world.

Valentýna Janů has exhibited work at National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic; Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic; and EXILE Gallery, Wien, Austria, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2021 Fall Open Studios
November 13, 2021
Video performance News is based on true stories from daily news, translated by the author into evocative short poems. The scene resembles a newsroom now covered in animal pattern: a recurring fashion trend that today, at the time of the sixth mass extinction of wildlife, could seem like a bad joke.
Valentýna Janů, NEWS, 2020, HD video, 6:15 min. Courtesy of the artist
I’m sry is Valentýna Janů’s per-version of a domestic phantasmagoria of delusional world surrendered to a terrorism of apology and regret. The artist brings the viewer into a space which forces you to slow down and apologize for all what you’ve done wrong. Intimate situation is a commentary and an antidote to a never-ending list of daily remorses, both conscious and unconscious. Objects and images are in dialogue with a soothing soundtrack by Czech musician dné.
Valentýna Janů, I'm Sry, 2018, installation view at the National Gallery Prague. Courtesy of the artist
A girl keeps you company from the screen in an otherwise almost empty space; at the same time, her presence is accompanied by a tale of decisions, solitude, and love. The unreliable narrator offers a chance to identify with the story that is just as confusing and variable as the girl’s changing role in the story.
Valentýna Janů, Is Your Blue the Same as Mine?, 2018, HD video, 12:00 min. Courtesy of the artist
The movie Hair Flip is a dreamlike collage of scenes loaded with pop culture references, evoking a choreographed TV show, a musical, a music video, or inviting us into a cabaret, a burlesque show, a club or a ballroom. The environments and subcultures that resonate in the film carry with them not only the flavor of mass entertainment, but also an ethos of emancipation, body positivism and the breaking down of gender stereotypes. The theme of ambivalence between performance and authenticity permeates the entire film, which demonstrates, in an exaggerated way, the idea that this supposed dualism is an illusion.
Valentýna Janů, Hair Flip, 2021, 4K video, 12:00min. Courtesy of the artist
Thinking flowers? A table became a pet. Subversive rainbows in shower. Flowers thinking of gardens as shelters against domestic abuse. Vases as vassals of domesticity. Or as vessels of imagination, like windows. Who does not like windows? Everyone looks out of the window.
Valentýna Janů, Who Looks Out of the Window, 2021, installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist

Residents from Czech Republic

Adrián Kriška

Stream of consciousness leather piece inspired by the wall in my favourite club Ankali in Prague.
Slovakia, Czech Republic
International Visegrad Fund
2024

Nikola Ivanov

A man sitting in the gallery in front of an ellipse-shaped projection on a marble floor surrounded by a black ellipse-shaped carpet.
Czech Republic
International Visegrad Fund
2024

Ezra Šimek

Overhead shot of a trans* non-binary cowboy wearing a black binder, underwear and brown cowboy boots, lying on red satin and looking into the camera
Czech Republic
International Visegrad Fund
2023
Estonia

Past Resident
2021: Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center

Artist

Mia Raadik

Mia Raadik is a conceptual feminist artist whose work challenges social norms and highlights their underlying causes.

Mia Raadik has exhibited work at The Naked Island Project Space, Tallinn; Tallinn Art Hall; Kogo Gallery, Tartu, all Estonia, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Water Works
September 15, 2022–February 17, 2023
2021 Fall Open Studios
November 13, 2021
Mia Raadik, I Share Myself With Pleasure, 2021, video installation, dimensions variable
Mia Raadik, I Share Myself With Pleasure, 2021, installation, dimensions variable
Mia Raadik, The Best You Can Ever Be, 2020, installation
Mia Raadik, Menopause Club NB! Exclusive, 2019, installation , dimensions variable
Mia Raadik, Sailin On The Red Sea, 2019, installation, dimensions variable

Residents from Estonia

Karel Koplimets

Estonia
Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center
Studio #211

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
Germany

Past Resident
2021: Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin

Artist

Alona Rodeh

Alona Rodeh’s cross-disciplinary practice includes creating immersive environments that combine movement through light and sound, public art projects, sculpture, video works, publishing, and more. Fueled by an interest in the material cultures that shape the built environment, her work focuses on the omnipresence of artificial illumination in the public sphere and its influence on humans and non-humans alike.

Alona Rodeh has exhibited work at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; Salzburg Art Association, Austria; and Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2021 Fall Open Studios
November 13, 2021
Alona Rodeh, The Old Moon in the New Moon's Arms, 2021, prints on Latex mounted on existing windows of la Chaufferie of Fondation Fiminco, Paris, 350 × 900 in. (889 × 2286 cm). Photo by Martin Argyroglo
Alona Rodeh, The Long Stretch, 2020, MDF, metal, polycarbonate, dibond, anti-slip tape, bollard, cigarettes, tire, and LED lights, dimensions variable. Photo by Philipp Friedrich
Alona Rodeh, Architecture of the Nights, 2019, video installation at Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany, dimensions variable. Photo by Ludger Paffrath
Alona Rodeh, Rachid (from the Safe and Sound Poster Series), 2015, video installation, 47 × 27 in. (119.38 × 68.58 cm). Photo by Vlad Margulis
Alona Rodeh, Above and Beyond, 2013, sound and light installation at CCA Tel Aviv, dimensions variable. Photo by Elad Sarig

Residents from Germany

Bob Kil

United Kingdom, Germany
Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
Studio #205

Charlie Stein

Germany
Telos Foundation, Holtmann Collection
2024

Navot Miller

Germany, United States
Artis, Norbert Janssen Stiftung
2024