Current Resident: Jun 1, 2024–Aug 31, 2024
Icelandic Art Center
Studio #205
Artist
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.
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
Bjargey Ólafsdóttir
Hildur Bjarnadóttir
Current Resident: Aug 1, 2024–Oct 31, 2024
Danish Arts Foundation
Studio #207
Artist
Sara Sjölin
Sara Sjölin’s practice encompasses film, speech, performance, and installation. Her work delves into comedy rooted from tragedy, transforming feelings of anxiety and discomfort into moments of affection and laughter through art. Shaped by the serendipitous events within her conceptual frameworks, her pieces develop in an inherent way, often diverging from her initial intentions and interpretations.
Sara Sjölin has exhibited work at Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland; SALTS, Switzerland; and CPH:DOX, Denmark, among others.
Sara Sjölin, Jettes Dinerskole, 2024, video 5.1 installation, 30 min
Sara Sjölin, Min Englefisse, 2024, video, 27:12 min
Sara Sjölin, THE FLOOD, 2023, video/performance, 18:57 min
Sara Sjölin, Sportcast 2, 2022, video, 01:51:07 min
Sara Sjölin, SPORTSCAST, 2019, video, 01:53:32 min
Residents from Sweden
Current Resident: Jul 1, 2024–Sep 30, 2024
DOOSAN Art Center
Studio #208
Artist
Heemin Chung
Seoul-based artist Heemin Chung explores the material potential of digital images by translating them into painting and sculpture. Her work examines how technology has shaped contemporary art and its role in society. She reimagines traditional painting genres, such as landscape and still life, through poetic visual metaphors, employing experimental techniques to investigate the functions of texture and volume.
Heemin Chung has exhibited work at Doosan Art Center; Busan Biennale; and Nam Seoul Museum of Art, all in South Korea, among others.
Heemin Chung, Receivers, installation view, l2023, mixed media
Heemin Chung, Distant Calling, installation view, 2023, acrylic, oil and inket transferred gel medium
Heemin Chung, Siren Anemone and Her Reflected Self, installation view, 2022, mixed media
Heemin Chung, When Our Palmline Meets, installation view, 2021, acrylic and inkjet transferred gel medium
Heemin Chung, The Opening of the Night, 2023, oil, acryl, injet transferred gel medium
