The artists-in-residence will come from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. During their residencies, the artists’ work will span analogue and interdisciplinary methods with photography and film, to creative processes that take into account ecological processes and the surrounding nature in Suomenlinna.
“Among the artists granted residencies, there are several who want to experiment with more ecological development methods for analogue photography and narrow film, and many want to explore Suomenlinna’s history and architecture in their artistic work,” says Anki Hellberg-Sågfors, co-ordinator for Residency B28.
This round of applications had an emphasis on artistic work in the west of the region and the production of photos and films in darkrooms. The residency facilities are located on Suomenlinna, in military barracks B28 where Nordic Culture Point operates out of. The darkrooms that were used extensively during the 1980s and 1990s have been brought back into use to meet the needs and interests of many artists in analogue production methods.
Nordic Culture Point offers residencies of between one and six weeks for artists from across the Nordic Region. The next round of applications will open in spring 2026.
The artists granted residencies:
- Ívar Ölmu (Iceland): Recordings of Time
- Klara Sofie Ludvigsen (Norway): Finnish Darkroom
- Fredrik Rysjedal (Norway): The Red Stone / Den raude steinen
- Sakib Khalid Saboor (Norway): Fortress of Shadows
- Agnes Saaby Thomsen (Denmark): Light and Thread
- Charlotte Clermont (Finland): forever, whatever
- Þórhildur Tinna Sigurðardóttir (Iceland): Kindred Islands: curatorial research and highlighting the west Nordic art world
- Ida Therén (Sweden): Working on new novel and networking
