Residencies

Our Residency program offers an opportunity for Artists to invite Scientists to their studios. Very often the opposite is the truth, Scientists welcome creatives in their labs. Our program is using a reversal model, inviting scientist to discover the universe of the Artists.

STUDIOTOPIA is a creative journey addressing sustainable development across Europe through the converging views of art and science. This initiative aims to increase collaborations between cultural and research institutions, academia, innovation centres, creatives and European citizens. 

In the course of almost two years, STUDIOTOPIA will offer 13 artists and 13 scientists a unique opportunity to collaborate together for a duration of seventeen months. Our residency programme aims to encourage scientists to exchange ideas, knowledge and methodologies with International visual artists while visiting their studios.

Results, developed concepts, research material or artworks generated during STUDIOTOPIA residencies will be exhibited in partnering venues across Europe between 2021-2022. Residency aims to create opportunities for artists and scientists to share their expertise with wide international audiences, curators, art specialists and researchers. 

Meet the Teams

Artists

Scientists

Scientific Commitee

Blog

MEET THE TEAMS

Residency hosted by BOZAR in collaboration with VIB Grand Challenge Program

Artist Sandra LORENZI with Roosmarijn VANDENBROUCKE, Jean-Christophe MARINE, Maarten DeWILDE and Simon TAVERNIER

Sandra Lorenzi

Jean-Christophe Marine

Residency hosted by Onassis Stegi

Artist collective Hypercomf with Markos DIGENIS (GR)

Hypercompf

Markos K. Digenis

Residency hosted by Onassis Stegi

Artist collective 3 137 with Dr. Audrey-Flore NGOMSIK (FR)

3137

Audrey-Flore Ngomsik

Residency hosted by Cluj Cultural Centre

Artist Alexandra PIRICI with Paco CALVO (ES)

Alexandra Pirici

Paco Calvo

Residency hosted by Cluj Cultural Centre

Artist Ciprian MUREŞAN with Sanneke STIGTER (NL) and Sven DUPRÉ

Ciprian Mureșan

Sanneke Stigter

Sven Dupré

Residency hosted by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Artist Christiaan ZWANIKKEN with Emmanuel GRIMAUD (FR) and DM HOYT (US)

Christiaan Zwanikken

Emmanuel Grimaud

DM Hoyt

Residency hosted by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Artist duo Dmitry GELFAND & Evelina DOMNITCH with Florian SCHRECK (DE), Guillaume SCHWEICHER (BE/LU)

Gelfand & Domnitch

Florian Schreck

Guillaume Schweicher

Residency hosted by Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art

Artist Oswaldo MACIÁ with Chris BEAN (IE) and Emilia LESZKOWICZ (PL)

Oswaldo Maciá

Chris Bean

Emilia Leszkowicz

Residency hosted by Ars Electronica

Artist Maja SMREKAR with Jonas JØRGENSEN (DK)

Maja Smrekar

Jonas Jørgensen

Residency hosted by Ars Electronica

Artist Kat AUSTEN with Indrė ŽLIOBAITĖ (LT/FI) and Laurence GILL (IR)

Kat Austen

Indrė Žliobaitė

Laurence Gill

Residency hosted by GLUON

Artist Voldemars JOHANSONS with Hugo THIENPONT (BE), Alexander KISH (BY/CH) and Antoine RESERBAT-PLANTEY (FR)

Voldemārs Johansons

Hugo Thienpont 

Alexander Kish

Antoine Reserbat-Plantey

Residency hosted by GLUON in collaboration with DIAS

Artist Siobhán McDONALD with Chris BEAN (IE), Teresa LETTIERI (IT), Emily SHUCKBURGH (UK)

Siobhán McDonald

Chris Bean

Teresa Lettieri

Emily Shuckburgh

Residency hosted by GLUON in collaboration with VIB Grand Challenge Program (BE)

Artist Kuang-Yi KU with Jean-Christophe MARINE (BE), Sofie GOORMACHTIG

Kuang-Yi Ku

Jean-Christophe Marine

Sofie Goormachtig

ARTISTS

Kat AUSTEN

Maja SMREKAR

Sandra LORENZI

Dmitry GELFAND & Evelina DOMNITCH

Christiaan ZWANIKKEN

Alexandra PIRICI

Ciprian MUREŞAN

Kuang-Yi KU

Voldemārs JOHANSONS

Siobhán McDONALD

Oswaldo MACIÁ

Hypercomf

3 137

SCIENTISTS

Antoine RESERBAT-PLANTEY

Alexander KISH

Sofie GOORMACHTIG

Jonas JØRGENSEN

Indrė ŽLIOBAITĖ

Laurence GILL

Paco CALVO

Sven DUPRÉ

Hugo THIENPONT

Sanneke  STIGTER

Jean-Christophe MARINE

Emily SHUCKBURGH

Teresa LETTIERI

Emilia LESZKOWICZ

Chris BEAN

Audrey-Flore NGOMSIK

Markos K. DIGENIS

Florian SCHRECK

Guillaume SCHWEICHER

Emmanuel GRIMAUD

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Our Scientific Committee Members are appointed by the Consortium of STUDIOTOPIA and will ensure the quality and integrity of our residencies, skill and expertise exchange between project participants for the duration of our Art&Science Residency Programme.

Adriaan EECKELS

Alexander DAMIANISCH

Antonio BAHAMONDE

Raoul FRESE

Ryszard W. KLUSZCZYŃSKI

Sofie BEKAERT

Ștefan VOINEA

Yannis IOANNIDIS

BLOG

What to expect from this Residency-blog?

This blog brings you weekly updates on the STUDIOTOPIA Art&Science residencies with short posts written by our artists and scientists. Here they will share the evolution of their ongoing projects, [virtually] inviting you to their labs and studios.

Sensing the Living, Promoting the Perception of Plants

Sensing the Living, Promoting the Perception of Plants is a project co-developed by the artist Alexandra Pirici and the scientist Paco Calvo as part of the Studiotopia Art&Science Residence programme hosted by Cluj Cultural Centre. Their collaboration investigates human perception and creates awareness about plants as living organisms by using the “naked eye” observation process.

biology, perception, plantgrowthprocess

Palaeoplasticene

Palaeoplasticene is a project co-developed by the artist Kat Austen and the scientists Indrė Žliobaitė and Laurence Gill. Together, they collaborate as part of the Studiotopia Art&Science Residence programme hosted by Ars Electronica. Recent research has shown the presence of microplastics at the outskirts of human reach, yet ecosystems are already adapting to this new materiality with microorganisms evolving to feed on plastic. This project proposes to "replay the tape of the history of life on Earth" and add plastics : what would have happenned if plastic had been produced in prehistory? How would it have interacted with other long-lived materials such as bone and stone?

palaeontology, microplastic, arselectronica

Beneath the earth and beyond the rocks

Beneath the earth and beyond the rocks is the project co-developed by the Irish artist Siobhán McDonald and the Irish scientist Professor Chris Bean as part of the Studiotopia Art&Science Residence programme hosted by GLUON. This project seeks to explore how human activities affect frequencies within the Critical Zone, a thin area between the soil and the rocks where all systems connect. It opens a dialogue to multiple explorations of the slow workings of geological processes found deep in the Earth surface: soil, skin, minerals and sounds In a delicate enquiry using drawing, sound and film Siobhán is looking at processes in the earth, such as the melting of the glaciers into the water cycle – which we as humans accelerate through our existence on the planet.

permafrost, resonance, geology

Marine Caves and Benthic Terrazzo: Fossilization in the home and the markings on the cave walls

The collaboration between the artist team Hypercomf and the marine biologist Markos Digenis investigates and communicates about the problematics of marine ecosystem preservation. They are currently working on the marine cave ecosystems of Chania, Crete and on the development of a sustainable floor design prototype made of marine plastic waste. The name of the project was inspired by the Venetian “terrazzo”, a mosaic technique which has also been widely used in Greece in the past decades, mostly for apartment building and industrial/storage space floors.

marinebiodiversity, marineplastics, savethesea

Consciousness

The Colombian artist Oswaldo Maciá and scientists Chris Bean and Emilia Leszkowicz are the residents of the STUDIOTOPIA Art&Science Residency hosted by LAZNIA Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk. Together they work around the glossary of words, and investigate sustainable development through notions of knowledge and perception.

consciousness, wordsglossary, lazniacentreforcontemporaryart

Feeding the Algorithm

Artist Maja Smrekar writes about the most recent chapter of her ongoing artistic research project !brute_force, which she is currently further developing in collaboration with scientist Jonas Jørgensen. This art-and-science research focuses on the human-with-animal-with-technology coexistence in a state of joint physical activity.

serontoninmetabolism, dogandhuman, interactiveinstallation

The story of packaging started with eating, from Egyptians' clay pots to Kellogs’ corn flakes

Audrey-Flore Ngomsik, scientist in residence in collaboration with collective 3 137, analyses how the circular economy could be an answer to a more sustainable food system by looking into food packaging.

foodpackaging, onassisstegi, plasticfree

Calico Human

Artist Kuang-Yi Ku and scientist Jean-Christophe Marine speculate the future medicine for skin color changing to prevent UV-induced skin cancer.

futuremedicine, skincolor, vibgrandchallenges

The Artist’s Relationship with Materials

A conversation between artist Ciprian Mureșan and students of the Minor in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the University of Amsterdam, coordinated by Sanneke Stigter, Assistant Professor Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, specialisation Contemporary Art.

artandscience, naturalheritage, ClujCulturalCentre

Center for Plant Immigrant Integration

How artist Kuang-Yi Ku and scientist Sofie Goormachtig are working together to explore the plant-microbe interaction from a new perspective?

artandscience, plantmicrobeinteraction, vibgrandchallenges