Highlights of the Open Studios in April 2019
- Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2019 11:51

| On the 27th of April artists in residence at Nida Art Colony Christine Cheung (CA), Marion Blume (DE), Viktoria Schmid (AT), Sara Evelyn (GB/NO), and Christina Smiros (US) presented their artworks developed during the residency at Nida. |
| Open Studios event started at Nida Art Colony temporary project space Kioskas. Marion Blume, Christine Cheung, and Christina Smiros reflected on their experience using Kioskas as a studio for a month (Art Work). They worked there every single day, the process was made open for the locals, tourists and other passers-by to come in and initiate a small chit-chat or a solid discussion.
One of the projects developed at this project space was an installation by Christine Cheung. Artist was inspired by Hiroshi Teshigahara’s movie Women in the Dunes and created the optical illusionthat Kioskas is filled with sand. Event continued at Christine’s studio in NAC, where she presented photographs and drawings made using a laser cut. During the residency Marion Blume was working on a jewellery pieces. She used natural elements, for example, rocks, branches, or grass that she found in the surroundings of Nida. Artist converted such elements into wearable pieces and tried to reshape people’s understanding of the living nature. Viktoria Schmid presented sketches and plans of her ongoing project Proposals to Project and the series of prints on paper and textile. In the latter artist was seeking to capture the abstract shadow fragments of the architecture and nature. Christina Smiros at NAC was working on the piece combined of three separate video screens. She was writing and creating a zine as well. Artists uses autobiographical elements and questions the history of her family. Sara Evelyn presented the drawings and field recordings from her ongoing project. Together with Christine Cheung she invited Open Studios attendants to listen to their improvisation piece. Artists explored the modes of drawing and acoustic sound using found objects and a violin. |














Photos by Vytautas Michelkevičius

