OPEN STUDIOS OEPN STUDIOS OEPN STUDIOS OEPN SUMMER 2019 OPEN STUDIOS SUMMER 2019 Current residents: 1 Lisa Hilli 2 Loren Kronemyer 3 Karoliina Hellberg 4 Robin Everett & Michaela Casková 5 Antti Salminen & Saara Hannula 6 Andrey Bogush 7 Marie-Andrée Godin 8 Nora Olearius 9 Rosalía Banet Saddam Jumaily & Kholod Hawash Spartak Khachanov 2 OPEN STUDIOS SUMMER 2019 HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) SUPPORTING CURATOR is an international artist residency organisation which was established in 1998. The supporting curator for HIAP summer season in year 2019 is Saara Karhunen. The supporting curator The HIAP residency programme offers time and visits HIAP approximately once per month to meet up space for developing new work in dialogue with the with residents to have a dialogue about their work. local art scene. The goal is to support experimental, cross-disciplinary art practices and to actively SAARA KARHUNEN is a Helsinki-based art histo- contribute to topical debates within and around the rian working versatilely in the art field. From 2013 context of art. to 2017 she worked as a coordinator at Checkpoint Helsinki, now PUBLICS, developing the organisation The residency durations at HIAP are between 1-11 and delivering a wide range of commissioned proj- months and there are three main residency seasons: ects and events. She has also worked at the Finnish spring (March-May), summer (June-August) and Academy of Fine Arts, Galerie Anhava, HIAP, Museum autumn (September-November). The open studio of Contemporary Art Kiasma and as a freelance events are arranged towards the end of each season producer. She is a contributor to Mustekala, an online - in late May, August and November. The open studios magazine publishing art criticism and essays on are an opportunity to see the work-in-progress by contemporary culture, and is currently Mustekala’s the current residents. There is no obligation for the chair of board. Saara holds a Master of Arts degree residents to produce finalised pieces of work during from the University of Helsinki. their residency. HIAP CREW HIAP crew in summer 2019 consists of Juha Huuskonen (Director), Eleni Tsitsirikou (Residency Manager), Stephanie Roiko (Administration & Partnerships), Paul Flanders (Technician) and interns Helena Aleksandrova, Danai Anagnostou, Eveliina Tuulonen, Emma Clear and Dana Neilson. For this season’s HIAP Open Studios, Stephen Stamper has assisted as additional technician. FUNDERS The main funders of HIAP are Taike Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Ministry of Education and Culture, City of Helsinki and Kone Foundation (Post-Fossil Transition Project). CONTACT STAFF Stephanie Roiko HIAP – Helsinki International Juha Huuskonen Administration & Partnerships Artist Programme Director [email protected] Suomenlinna B 28/2 [email protected] +358 45 263 1502 00190 Helsinki +358 40 570 9617 FINLAND Paul Flanders www.hiap.fi Eleni Tsitsirikou Technician Residency Manager [email protected] [email protected] +358 45 859 7811 +358 45 859 7818 3 OPEN STUDIOS SUMMER 2019 HIAP STUDIO BUILDING 3 4 UPSTAIRS 2 1 4 OPEN STUDIOS SUMMER 2019 HIAP GALLERY AUGUSTA & PROJECT SPACE 9 8 7 6 5 5 OPEN STUDIOS SUMMER 2019 04.06. – 29.08.2019 1 LISA HILLI LISA HILLI completed a Masters of Fine DURING THE RESIDENCY Art by Research from the Royal Melbourne Building relationships is integral to my prac- Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in tice. I value reciprocity and am seeking to learn 2017. She works with photography, video, Finnish & Saami craft practices in exchange for textiles, installation and body adornment. weaving techniques that I will share from the Her practice explores the politics of gender Pacific region. As a first time visitor to Finland, and identity, colonial history in the Pacific I am interested in understanding Finnish region and ethnographic collections relating people, culture and their relationship to the to Papua New Guinea through contemporary land. I anticipate that these exchanges through art. Lisa has exhibited in Australia, America, conversations, craft and environmental explo- Europe and Asia-Pacific. She has given public ration will help me inform how the intersection lectures at Melbourne Museum, National of my Papua New Guinean and Finnish heritage Gallery of Australia and College Art Association can be revealed through the body, textiles and Conference, New York City. photography. Lisa Hilli’s residency is realised with support from the Australia Council for the Arts. IVANA MOMCILOVIC 6 OPEN STUDIOS SUMMER 2019 Lisa Hilli & Julia Mage’au Gray, Identify Me (HD video still) 2015. Image by Julia Mage’au Gray. Lisa Hilli, Value Systems 2018 and Material Histories 2015 (installation view) 2018. 7 Image by Lisa Hilli. OPEN STUDIOS SUMMER 2019 02.06. – 29.08.2019 2 LOREN KRONEMYER LOREN KRONEMYER is an artist living and DURING THE RESIDENCY working in remote lutruwita (Tasmania), At HIAP I have been researching the project Australia. Her works span interactive and Epoch Wars. An epoch is a large-scale period of live performance, experimental media art, geological time that lasts for years and years. and large-scale worldbuilding projects aimed Our present epoch is in the midst of a conten- at exploring ecological futures and survival tious naming debate. Some people think our skills. In 2016, her collaboration Pony Express epoch should be named the Anthropocene, created Ecosexual Bathhouse, a touring queer to reflect the impact of humans on the planet, sex club for the entire ecosystem. In 2017, but other people think that this name is a lie Kronemyer was the first artist in residence at because most humans have had little or no say the International Centre for Radio Astronomy in the events that have impacted earth’s strata. Research, creating the project Receiver at the world’s largest radio telescope. She collabo- The list of alternative names is growing, rates frequently with laboratories, and received and hopefully will continue to grow until the first Masters of Biological Arts Degree from we are forced to recon with the existential SymbioticA Lab at the University of Western consequences of the very recent practice of Australia. describing and labelling geological time. I am trying to create work that promotes account- Her work has been hosted by Santarcangelo ability, especially among artists and thinkers, Festival (Italy), Forum of the Future (Portugal), for what epoch name they choose to identify Interformat Symposium (Lithuania), Dark Mofo with. I am researching this project through my (Australia), Liveworks Festival (Australia), immersive practice, which includes scientific Next Wave Festival (Australia), The Perth and social research, tool design, performance, Institute for Contemporary Art, The Perth and other forms of world-building. International Arts Festival, The Australian Centre for Photography, The School of Loren Kronemyer’s residency is realised with Visual Art (New York), and the International support from the Australia Council for the Arts Symposium of Electronic Arts. She is a mentor for the Icelandic Academy of Arts Masters of Performing Arts Program, and a PhD Candidate at the University of Tasmania. JONATHAN MAYHEW 8 OPEN STUDIOS SUMMER 2019 Loren Kronemyer, Feather Spear Trap, 2017. Image by Guy Louden. Pony Express, Still from Epoch Wars, 2019. Image by Tom Cramond. 9 OPEN STUDIOS SUMMER 2019 04.10.2018 – 26.09.2019 3 KAROLIINA HELLBERG KAROLIINA HELLBERG graduated from the DURING THE RESIDENCY Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2015 and has The time in a multidisciplinary residency such been working at HIAP since October 2018 as as HIAP has made me think more about the a part of the residency programme offered for various attitudes and sometimes even preju- Finnish artists. Karoliina works mainly with dices towards the medium of painting in the painting and drawing, in addition to other mate- Finnish and international art scene today. As a rials such as glass, textiles and ceramics. In her painter and an artist I believe that taking in part practice, everything goes back to painting as an in this discussion is vital and for this Summer action, form of research and gesture. Open Studios I will share the first extract of an on-going writing project related to this theme During the one-year residency at HIAP and discussion. Suomenlinna she has created new works for a solo show in Didrichsen Art Museum 25.1.- The one-year residency and studio space for 5.5.2019 and for a solo show titled ‘Knot’ at Karoliina Hellberg was granted by The Academy Galerie Anhava 31.5.-28.6.2019. of Fine Arts Foundation in collaboration with HIAP. KAROLIINA HELLBERG 10 OPEN STUDIOS SUMMER 2019 Karoliina Hellberg, Blown Candle, Glass, 2019. From the exhibition “Knot”, Galerie Anhava. Image by Jussi Tiainen. 11 OPEN STUDIOS SUMMER 2019 05.06. – 29.08.2019 4 ROBIN EVERETT & MICHAELA CASKOVÁ ROBIN EVERETT is a Bergen-based artist Michaela has worked as an active member in working in several constellations both individ- the Mustarinda Association since 2013, mostly ually and collaboratively. Outside of his own as a residency coordinator, housekeeper, practice he is also a founding member of the gardener, and art educator, to name a few. Bergen text-based art collective TEXST. His practice employs video, text, and sculpture as DURING THE RESIDENCY equal extensions of time-based media to focus After series of public events organised under on non-human structures and scales of tempo- the Post-Fossil Transition project, we would like rality. The work addresses this situation as a to turn our focus “in”. The networks exploring cartography of multiple levels, processes, and and sharing the Transition and ways of doing conceptualisations of time overlapping, where must also be built on sustainable founda- a geologic slowness is intricately entangled tions. To facilitate this we wish to organise with micro-temporalities. His recent work plays informal and responsive sessions together with collective knowledge-building in probing a with friends and co-workers from both HIAP posthuman ontology of time.