Madeleine Aimée is a Toronto-based filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist working across film, animation, painting, photography, and visual design. Her work often draws from folklore, memory, and dreamlike imagery, with a focus on the point where everyday life slips...

I am a visual artist based in Freiburg, Germany. I have studiied at the Academy of fine Arts in Berlin, graduated as Master of fine Arts. This is my third stay at Nes Artist Residency. Walking around on the peninsula Spákonufellshöfdi, I am watching the waves, I am...

Heather Stewart (she/they) is a contemporary choreographer, writer, and director working in the United States, Canada, and Europe. She is the founder and leader of experimental dance company, little house dance, an organization that works collaboratively with artists...

Jancie Creaney is a writer from Montreal whose practice incorporates conceptual inquiry, literary theory, and nature writing. With support from Nes and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, she is at work on a novel about language and landscape. Her process,...

Isabel Hunter is a Portland-based dance artist originally from the Chicagoland area. She holds a BFA in Contemporary Dance Performance with a minor in Psychology from the Boston Conservatory and is a company member and Community Director of little house dance, under...

Heledd Wyn is a Welsh filmmaker, artist and practice-based researcher whose work explores relationships between people, place and the other-than-human world. Working across film, photography, sound and participatory practice, she is interested in landscape not simply...

Julien Philippon is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer creating immersive sonic environments that invite listeners inward. Through composition, sound design and texture, he explores music as an emotional language beyond words — creating spaces where...

Ioulia Akhmadeeva is a Mexican visual artist, researcher, and professor based in Morelia, Mexico, where she has lived and developed her artistic career since 1994. She works across printmaking, drawing, artist's books, book-objects, and expanded approaches to graphic...

Sanne Kabalt is a Dutch artist working with photography and writing. Her practice explores themes of illness, mourning, and human–nonhuman relations, often extending into installation and performance. Shortly before Sanne arrived at Nes, a local artist donated a...

August Artist-in-Residence Anne Hay lives and works as a sculptor on an island a few miles south of Oslo, Norway. She completed her master's degree in 2007, with the main title "Where art and science meet". She has an interest in deep-sea species, which can often be...

Céline Pierre is a composer and an artistic director. Her's work has its origins in visuals arts, performance, improvisation and music creation. She composes visual and sound crossings, taking the form of documentary videos, mixed video music pieces, video musics,...

Christina Simon is a printmaker from Central Germany. She lives and works in her own printmaking studio near Leipzig. Printmaking has held a prominent place and a long tradition in this region since the Reformation. The focus of her work is large-format color linocuts...

Chicago-based artist Amanda Reid fuses performance, illustration, film, and light installations to investigate memory, migration, and cultural belonging. Her work draws from her personal history immigrating from Vietnam to the United States. Using the tension between...

Sibyl Kempson is a multi-disciplinary artist making durational, immersive, and proscenium performance for the stage, museum, chamber, and specified site, as well as visual narratives on film and video for screens large and small. Her work unearths and...

July Artist-in-Residence Marius van Zandwijk is an Amsterdam-based visual artist. His works are best described as paintings of inconvenient places, intuitively chosen. He explores the materiality of a place, his embodied experience, and the concrete stories others...

I am a visual artist born in Poland and based in France. My practice spans oil painting, etching, and video, and is rooted in an engagement with place, territory, and both real and imagined spaces. Through atmospheres of melancholy, reverie, and strangeness, I examine...

Mary Larsen is a Miami based mixed-media artist whose work is rooted in transformation and process of materials, memories, and meaning. She reclaims discarded books, her older paintings, and obsolete media, layering paint, ink, maps, and found images to create...

Christopher Robbins and John Baca each have their own individual practices as well as a collaboration that has spanned Copenhagen (Denmark), Pancevo (Serbia), Nebraska (USA), New York City (USA), and now, Iceland. Between their solo and collaborative work, they have...

Artist-in-Residence pauline buzaré conceives of her work as a poetics of matter where the body and the landscape meet and merge. Travel is a major source of inspiration and a testing ground for the production of her works in large format (installation, video,...

Izabelle Desroches is a visual artist, cultural mediator, and curator living and working in Quebec City, Canada. Through a relational approach, her work explores the connections between the body, territory, and memory. She is interested in how images generate...