In residency at NAC for the months of April and May artists Andrea Acosta, Rosie Heinrich, Christin Wahlström Eriksson and Michał Siarek (residency in May) staying and working in Nida.

Individual Residency Programme

Andrea Acosta (Colombian-born, Berlin-based) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines the notions of nature and landscape and their interaction with the built environment. Exploring the tensions between organic and industrial materialities and processes, she reflects on the constant transformation of matter, gaze, and territories as well as the ecology of our everyday and its relation to broader narratives. Acosta holds an MA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies from the Bauhaus University in Weimar and has participated in the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT postgraduate programme in Berlin.

Her work has been shown in Europe, Latin America and Asia, in institutions such as Ifa Gallery in Berlin, Gropius Haus in Dessau, Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, Institut national d'histoire de l'art in Paris, Museum of Modern Art in Medellín, Les Rencontres D'Arles in France and Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in Seoul. The artist has received the Uniandino Art Prize (Bogotá), a public art commission from Les Nouevaux Commaditaires (Bilbao) and has been an artist-in-residence at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Bauhaus Foundation in Dessau and Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, among others.

Rosie Heinrich (UK-born, Amsterdam-based) is an artist-researcher exploring the constructs of self-storytelling and spoken, written, and wordless language. Her practice is multidisciplinary, with an emphasis on film and book making. Working in collaboration with a porous interdisciplinary collective,An_assembling_“I”, they probe into language and grammar to engage in a vital (un)learning in ways of relating with and within the world, and with language itself. Co-conspirator of An_assembling_“I”, composer, visual and sonic artist Katrin Hahner will join development of Rosie’s project in Nida in May. Rosie is the initiator of An_assembling_“I”; an alumni of THIRD, DAS Graduate School Amsterdam; and an active participant in several (decolonial) study groups. Her artist book we always need heroes  (2018), published with Fw:Books, was nominated for several awards.

Her works have recently been presented at Asolo Art Film Festival (IT), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), Rencontres d’Arles (FR), Cycle Music and Art Festival (Gerðarsafn—Kópavogur Art Museum, IS), and SYB Triennial (NL).

Rosie Heinrich with An_assembling_“I” recent work Ancient conversations (work-in-progress, 2023).

Weavers’ Residency Programme

Christin Wahlström Eriksson lives and works in Göteborg, Sweden. She works conceptually in long processes and makes connections between time, place, history and materials, sometimes through performative actions.

Currently Christin is at the end—or beginning—of the process of making linen canvases, involving sowing flax seeds, preparing fibers, spinning thread, weaving, writing and teaching.

Her work has been shown in Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö, Montreal and Düsseldorf. Recently she also had a solo show at Halmstads Konsthall. Her texts have been published in VÄV Scandinavian Weaving Magazin #2 (2021) and AIO Journal #10, Disruptions in Utopia, Land Left Behind (2021).

Weavers’ Residency focus on the practice of weaving and the analogue loom as a ground material to open up other ways of reading the unique landscape of Nida – its colour palette, the embodied knowledge, and the socio-political context, which highlights the necessity of skills, some lost and forgotten, some newly discovered.

Weavers’ residency is funded by Nordic Culture Point. 

Collaborative Residency Programme

As part of collaboration between NAC and International Photograhy Symposium NIDA. Meeting photography for the month of May photographer Michał Siarek is in residency at NAC.

Michał Siarek (Poland - born, based in Finnmark) is a photographer by trade, visual storyteller by profession and journalist by inclination. He graduated from the Polish National Filmschool in Lodz with his seminal book that traced the modern myth of Alexander the Great. Alexander, initially meant as a documentary editorial, evolved towards a microhistory, defined by historian Charles Joyner as an act of “[asking] large questions in small places”. He currently works and lives in Northern Norway. He was the winner of The New East Prize 2016 and FIDAL Youth Photography Award, and was nominated for the Luma Dummy Book Award 2018, La Fabrica / Photo London Dummy Award 2018, and the MACK First Book Award 2019.