Artists Dovilė Aleksandravičiūtė and Justina Vilčinskaitė, Bergur Thomas Anderson, Femke Dekkers, Ania Mokrzycka, and Liza Prins will occupy the five duplex residency studios of NAC in December.
 
Liza Prins is an artist, researcher and writer based in Amsterdam. Her work focuses on the reinterpretation and revaluing of material practices that are often coded as feminine. Such topics have brought Prins – in both her tangible and written work – to the concept of the “messy girl”, which she deploys to embody the post-humanist subject.
Prins’ works have been shown, among others, in Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam (2017), Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam (2016), Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn (2016), and Roger Brown Study Collection, Chicago (2012).
 
Bergur Thomas Anderson is an artist and musician from Iceland currently based in Rotterdam. His performative, research-based practice utilises music, gesture and mythological storytelling to invoke affective and humorous processes of disappearance and retrieval. Anderson’s current research focuses on the narrative agency of polyphonic vocal composition.
His recent projects have been presented at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (2019), Harbinger (2018) and Mengi (2017) in Reykjaví­k. Anderson’s stay in Nida is generously supported by CBK Rotterdam.
 
Femke Dekkers lives and works in Breda. Through painting, sculpture and photography she investigates different architectural spaces. In her work Dekkers applies a photographic flattening technique in which architectural installations are flattened through their inscription in two-dimensional mediums. 
Dekker was recently awarded a Stipendium for Established Artists from the Mondriaan Fund. Among other places, her works were shown at the Sunday Art Fair, London (2019), Bart gallery, Amsterdam (2018), and Artists Unlimited Gallery, Bielefeld (2018).
 
Dovilė Aleksandravičiūtė and Justina Vilčinskaitė live and work in Amsterdam. Aleksandravičiūtė works within the lines of visual art, literature and academic research. Vilčinskaitė works primarily with sculptural installation and is interested in natural elements, such as rocks, and their cultural and mythical associations. They share a common interest in the subjects of in-betweenness and greyness.
Among other places, Aleksandravičiūtė’s works have been exhibited at Nieuw Dakota (2018), at7 (2018), and De Punt (2017) in Amsterdam. Vilčinskaitė’s works were recently shown at at7, Amsterdam (2018), Tiny Library in various locations (2017), and Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (2016).
 
Ania Mokrzycka lives and works in London. She works with myths, literature and science and uses image, sound, text, ceramics and performance as formats of her practice. She co-runs an experimental curatorial project IRRUPTIVE CHORA. 
Her works have been exhibited at Chalton Gallery, London (2019), Henryk Gallery, Krakow (2018), WI-MA, Lodz (2018), and European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck (2017).

Image: Bergur Thomas Anderson, Can you hear The Hum tonight?, 2019. Performance with music, shaker, spoken word & group chant. Keyboards and tape machine played by Albert Finnbogason. Costume and backdrop curtain by Karen Huang. Performance as part of the solo exhibition The one & only body of The Hum & Lego Flamb at project space Harbinger, Reykjavík. Photo by Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir