Artists in residence

Anna Tomaszewski develops her sculptural work in a variety of media, including installation, sound, video and performance.

Her work evokes eco-fiction. It is characterized by the presence of the non-human, the other-than-human, and the non-obvious, unrecognized connections of primordial interactions, through stories, narratives and fictions. In a certain sense, it is akin to animist ontology, a way of seeing the world in which every element, every living thing, every object is endowed with a vital force. Anna Tomaszewski is inspired by natural entropy, its productive and transformative activity, on the same level as the forms it generates. By observing its energy in such a way as to understand the internal movement of forms, and integrating them into “embodied”, “incorporated” narratives, she unveils microscopic elements that have become what she calls “golden trash”.

The result is a collection of fragments extracted from different places, containing a specific landscape attribute that she unveil in the form of amplified realities: these become catalysts for spaces and fictions.

The landscapes contained are not just a backdrop, but a material that cannot be disentangled from the networks in which they emerge, in which the body is no longer a spectator or an outsider to the material, but is intertwined with it and enables the emergence of new environments, alternative ecosystems. Reality becomes fossilized, a space of reincarnation in which survival, intercorporality and care come into play.

Yan Tomaszewski is a Franco-Polish visual artist and filmmaker trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris and at Le Fresnoy Studio national des arts contemporains. His often narrative projects combine research-based methodologies with formal experiments revolving around sculpture and film.

He has had solo exhibitions at the CAC Passages (FR), Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace in Paris (FR), CCA Kronika (PL) or the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp (BE). He has taken part in numerous group shows, notably at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles (USA), at Artience Daejeon (KR), at the Fondation Hippocrène in Paris (FR), at Centre Pompidou (FR), and at Manifesta 9 in Genk (BE).

His films were screened in such festivals as IDFA International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (NL), FIFA Montreal (CA), Queer Lisboa (PT), FID Marseille (FR), Kasseler Dokfest (DE), Doclisboa (PT), and recently in a solo presentation for Prospectif Cinéma at Centre Pompidou in Paris (FR).

In 2019 he was nominated for Sciences Po Prize for Contemporary Art and in 2020 he was a finalist for the Studio Collector Prize and laureate of the Allegro Prize.

Born in 1986, Bratislava, Slovakia, Dana Tomečková works primarily with object and installation. At the heart of her practice is the fascination with the unstable nature of reality and its elusiveness. Her reaction to it is perseverance and slowness. She intentionally gives up an absolute control over the material and over the creation process of the work. 

In her ongoing project since 2020, Temporary Matter, her artistic research revolves around the behaviour and evolution of ‘matter’, including the body. Do things around us disappear or do they always change? Looking for answers, she connects small actions and big events, inspired both from cosmology, her family and observations of everyday life. 

The Nonument Group is a research and art collective that deals with processes of remembering and oblivion in space through the notion of nonuments – architecture, monuments, public spaces, infrastructure – whose meaning has transformed as a result of social or political change. In the process, the group has established a register of nonuments, organized field events, and explored diverse strategies to create artistic interventions that interrogate the meaning of heritage in space through the experience of the present.

The Nonument Group is formed by Neja Tomšič, Martin Bricelj Baraga, Nika Grabar and Miloš Kosec. In their projects, they collaborate internationally with a number of co-creators, researchers and artists. In 2019, they received the Plečnik medal, the highest national award in the field of architecture, for their contribution to enrichment of architectural culture.