Past Residents
Past Resident2024: Uniarts Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts and Saastamoinen Foundation
Hans Rosenström
Hans Rosenström creates work in response to situations or locations and views the artwork as an unfolding event. He employs a variety of mediums, including sound, light and architectural structures to create temporary or permanent installations. Rosenström aspires to cultivate nuanced environments that invite the observer to become a part of, to feel their presence and reciprocal interconnectedness with the world around us.
Hans Rosenström has exhibited work at Frieze Sculpture, London; KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
Hans Rosenström, Unfolding Silence, 2023, 19th century stone birdbath, bronze, water, soundscape, 32 × 11 in. (81.28 × 27.94 cm).
Hans Rosenström, Evanesce, 2022, multi-channel sound installation, 24 min. Photo by Jussi Tiainen.
Hans Rosenström, In Dependent Structures, 2019, sound installation. Photo by Ella Tommila.
Hans Rosenström, Jökulsárlón I (image 5/16), 2017, photogram, 123/8 × 163/8 in. (31.39 × 41.58 cm).
Hans Rosenström, Shoreline, 2017, 3ch sound installation, concrete structure, view, 16 × 10 in. (40.64 × 25.4 cm). Photo by Anders Sune Berg.
Past Resident2024: Fire Station - Qatar Museums
Saeeda Albadr
Saida Albadr is a multidisciplinary artist working with mixed media paintings and digital artworks. She specializes in using modern and contemporary art approaches to highlight and enrich Qatari identity, culture, environment, and legacy.
Saida Albadr has exhibited work at International Action Art, Greece; ZeeArts, Dubai; and International Meeting of Kasbah Artists, Spain, among others.
Saeeda Albadr, Six Mountains of Doha, 2022, mixed media on canvas, 311/2 × 311/2 in. (80.01 × 80.01 cm).
Saeeda Albadr, Mother land, 2021, mixed media on canvas, 357/16 × 471/4 in. (89.99 × 119.99 cm).
Saeeda Albadr, Diversity-patterns1, 2022, digital painting printed on canvas, 393/8 × 291/2 in. (100 × 75.01 cm).
Saeeda Albadr, incenses, 2023, mixed media on canvas, 1911/16 × 357/16 in. (50.01 × 89.99 cm).
Saeeda Albadr, Life 2, 2021, acrylic colors on canvas, 311/2 × 311/2 in. (80.01 × 80.01 cm).
Residents from Qatar
Past Resident2024: Celebrate the Studio
Vincent Chong
Vincent Chong is a queer gender-nonconforming Chinese American artist working in performance, painting, drawing, Chinese calligraphy, and seal carving. Their work explores the intersection of traditional culture with contemporary queer and trans Black, Indigenous, People of Color community in Brooklyn, New York.
Vincent Chong has exhibited work at Skanes Konstforening, Sweden; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and La MaMa Galleria, New York, among others.
Vincent Chong, 花好月圓 Flowers Bloom & Full Moon, 2023, performance in Columbus Park, New York, 16:40 min. Photo by Marion Aguas.
Vincent Chong, 花好月圓 Flowers Bloom & Full Moon, 2023, performance in Columbus Park, New York, 16:40 min. Photo by Marion Aguas.
Vincent Chong, Hay Fever, 2023, oil on canvas, 24 × 30 in. (60.96 × 76.2 cm).
Vincent Chong, lungs filled with liquid breeze, 2023, oil in linen.
Vincent Chong, Psychic Simon, 2023, oil on linen, 68 × 48 in. (172.72 × 121.92 cm).
Residents from United States
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Angel Lartigue
Studio #217