Embassy of Foreign Artists     
Raluca Popa
*1979 in Faragas, Romania, lives and works in Bucharest
Residency period : January to June 2017
Artist, illustrator

She studied at Byam Shaw School of Art / Central Saint Martins (London) and The University of Art and Design (Cluj). 

Since 2009 she has been involved also in animation films, as a background artist. Thus, at the moment she positions herself in-between…

Wu Yandan / nunu kong

*1982, WuXi, lives and works in Shanghai
Residency period: July until September 2016
Choregrapher, Dancer

In collaboration with Pro Helvetia Shanghai

Wu Yandan (artistic name nunu kong) is an independent choreographer, performance artist and producer who graduated from a unique 4-year program (the only comprehensive contemporary dance program

Chen Hangfeng

*1974, Shanghai, lives and works in Shanghai, China
Residency period: April until June 2016
Artist

In collaboration with Pro Helvetia Shanghai

Trained as a painter, Chen obtained his BA from the Fine Arts College of Shanghai University. He works in all media, his works deal with issues of surrounding commercialization, environmentalism, globalization…

Oliver Musovik

*1971, Skopje, Macedonia, lives and works in Skopje
Residency period: July to September 2016
Artist

Oliver Musovik is conceptual visual artist from Skopje, Macedonia.
Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje in 1997, MFA in 2004.

He had participated at numerous international exhibitions, among others AFTERMATH – Changing Cultural Landscape,

Michaela Schwentner

*1978, Linz, Austria, lives and works in Vienna
Residency period: April until June 2016
Artist

My most recent artistic practice consists of reenactments, performative interventions in public space and performances and tableaux vivants for film and stage settings. In my works I examine and usecinematic and theatrical elements. The act of staging …

Kerstin Schroedinger

*1978, Trier, Germany, lives and works in Zurich
Residency period: October until December 2016
Artist and musician

She works with video, sound and text, engaging with the politics of the moving image and with the examination of inherited ideologies of media. Her practice is research-led on elements of the moving image, where the image itself becomes …

Andrea Bellu

*1980, Germany, lives and works in Munich
Residency period: October until December 2016
Artist

Andrea Bellu développe son travail en recourant à une multiplicité de médias, souvent sous forme d’installations et en collaboration avec d’autres personnes travaillant dans la science, l’art ou la théorie. En ce moment elle s’intéresse à la lecture de paysages,…

Luis Arnaldo

*1985, Campinas, Brazil, lives and works in Belo Horizonte
Residency period: April until June 2016
Artist

I perceive Art as a discursive platform, in which it’s possible to produce a critical reading about the world. This form of critique is grounded in strategies of acting, historically created by the specific discipline of Art. These strategies are efficient…

Mathieu Léger

*1975, Moncton, Canada, lives and works in Moncton
Residency period: October until December 2015
Artist

“Curiosity. My job is to be curious. I investigate everything. I play. I read. I construct. I interrelate science, art, and everything in between. I explore notions of causality, emptiness, cynicism-belonging, pathology, identity, memory and

Simon Ripoll-Hurier

*1985, Rouen, France, lives and works in Paris
Residency period: January until March 2016
Visual artist, musician

Son travail a été montré dans de nombreuses institutions (Le Magasin, Palais de Tokyo, Fondation des Galeries Lafayette, Centre Pompidou-Metz, MAC VAL…), diffusé à la radio (France Culture, WGXC…), intégré dans des collections publiques…

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