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As a multidisciplinary residency Nes accepts applicants from all creative disciplines and career stages 

Nes Studio

Nes residents share an open plan studio located in the old fish factory 

Group or Short Term Residencies

Nes offers short-stay residencies to art collectives or study abroad programs

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Artist in Residence – Celine Pierre

by | January 15, 2026 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Celine Pierre is a composer and an artistic director. Her's work stems from the fields of painting and performance, architecture, from experimental cinema, improvisation and music creation. Celine Pierre composes visual and sound crossings, taking the form of...
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Artist in Residence – Thom Zahler

by | January 14, 2026 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Thom Zahler is a comic book creator and animation writer. He created the Line Webtoons hit series Cupid's Arrows and Warning Label as well as the Harvey-nominated Love and Capes, Long Distance and the time-traveling wine comic Time and Vine. His latest project is The...
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Writer in Residence – Pei-Fen Hsu

by | January 13, 2026 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Pei-Fen Hsu is a Taiwanese female poet and writer. Her earlier work focuses on intimacy, emotional experience, psychosomatic conditions, and the ways individuals struggle to adapt to the world. In recent years, she has begun using research and writing experiments to...
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Artist in Residence – Kate Hendry

by | November 30, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Kate Hendry is an emerging visual artist and educator based on Kaurna Land, Adelaide, South Australia. Hendry received her Bachelor of Visual Art from Adelaide Central School of Art in 2024. As a self described, "unreliable narrator" her oil paintings explore the...
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Artist in Residence – Anthony Cullen

by | November 29, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

My art practice explores the psychology behind change, coping mechanisms, resistance to change, and the desire for perceived futures. I am interested in such themes because they examine how and why we position ourselves within social structures. My latest area of...
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Writer in Residence – joj

by | November 28, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

(Author portrait by Adrianne Mathiowetz) joj (they/them) is a France-based American nonbinary writer of creative nonfiction–memoir, essay, and flash/prose poetry. They are a self-described collector of unused graduate degrees, the most recent (2020) an MA in Creative...
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Artist in Residence – Leif Weigel

by | November 27, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Leif Weigel (they/them) is a writer and fiber artist from the farmland of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. At NES, Leif has been researching and exploring ancestral methods of processing wool, plants, and found objects washed up on the shore or strewn along roadsides....
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Artist in Residence – Dana Engfer

by | November 26, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Dana Engfer is a Berlin-based multi-media artist. In each work she incorporates a wide variety of media such as drawing, collage, photography, video and books. Dana sees herself as a collector of different traces of time, memories and intermediate states, representing...
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Artist in Residence – Tom Presman

by | November 25, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Tom Presman is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tel Aviv. Through intimate and everyday gestures and rituals, she examines how personal and collective histories are embodied, how the body becomes a vessel for memory and transformation. In her work, a place charged...
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Artist in Residency – Moritz Otto

by | November 24, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Moritz Otto is an artist and designer from Berlin, whose artistic work reflects a deep engagement with the banality of everyday life and the spontaneous observation of urban scenes. His distinct and enduring visual language lets ordinary objects suddenly pull a face,...
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