ART PROSPECT network RESIDENCIES

Residencies for artists and curators at the Art Prospect Network partner organizations in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus/Germany, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine/Poland, and Uzbekistan

The Art Prospect Network Residency program provides opportunities for artists and curators to conduct research, create new work, and collaborate with the local arts community in partnership with arts organizations in partner countries. Fifty six artists and curators from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan participated in the residency program in 2017-2018 and twelve US artists in 2021-2022.

In 2023, the Art Prospect Network Residency program supports residencies for eighteen artists and curators from USA and the Art Prospect Network countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan) focusing on exchange and collaboration in the field of socially engaged art and/or public art. Selected from an open call, the Art Prospect Network Residency Fellows will collaborate with host organizations from the Art Prospect Network countries.

Each Art Prospect Network partner offers a one-month residency to participate in a collaborative project, such as a public art festival or event, lead skill sharing programs, and/or conduct an independent project. Participants and host organizations work together to define the residency goals and structure based on their reciprocal interests, needs and strengths.

RESIDENCY APPLICANTS
Application deadline is March 3
United States
New York
New York

Nova is Executive Director of Triangle Arts Association, an artist residency founded in New York in 1982 which hosts year-round residencies for local and international artists and curators, and has expanded to a worldwide network of more than forty members. She was previously a curator at The Drawing Center in New York City, where she co-directed Open Sessions, a two-year residency/exhibition hybrid program organized with local, national, and international artists, supporting drawing practices in relation to film, architecture, sculpture, music, and other fields. An alumna of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, she also holds a B.A. from McGill University, Montreal.

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United States
Buffalo
NY

Dorothea Braemer is a documentary and experimental media artist and assistant professor in media production at Buffalo State University. In her art, Braemer seeks to playfully address serious issues through collaborative media making. In addition to media, her socially engaged art practice includes performance, masks, dollhouses, social gatherings, and other activities that bring people together. Braemer’s award-winning work has been exhibited widely in the US, Europe and Asia, and has been supported by organizations such as the New York State Council of the Arts, the German Federal Foreign Office, and the Fulbright program.

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United States
Cambridge
MA

Kim Córdova is a Mexican American writer, artist, and independent curator. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including Art Forum, e-flux Criticism, Art Review, deAppel, frieze, SFMoMA Open Space, and Momus where she was the Mexico City Contributing Editor (2016-2020). She is a 2020 Eisenhower Fellow and a 2023 Fulbright Public Policy Fellow. Kim is a Fellow at the New York Times Mellon Foundation Critical Minded Program (2023). She is a Master of Design Studies candidate in the power and place trajectory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Kim completed the post-graduate studio art program at Soma in Mexico City and received her BA from CCS at UCSB.

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Tatiana Fiodorova is an artist, curator, and teacher. She works in installation, performance, public art, video, photography, drawing, and artists’ books.

During her residency, Fiodorova studied the trends, technology and social aspects of silk production in Georgia. In addition, as part of a summer school organized by the museum, she lead a workshop for artists and researchers on creating artists’ books.

United States
Buffalo
NY

Alex Fisher is a curator and writer from Buffalo, New York. His research interests include (re)formations of legacy and the mutual associations of natural, built, and political environments. He contributes to various publications. Since 2022, Alex has been coordinating Kindling, a Swedish-Ukrainian art project supported by the Swedish Institute. He was part of the Manifesta 14 Prishtina Communication team. As a Fulbright Scholar in Ukraine, he conducted fieldwork and organized programs with public and private cultural organizations. Alex received his Master’s degree in Design Studies with distinction from Harvard University.  

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United States / France

Tatiana Grigorenko was born in the US to a family of Soviet political dissidents. History, especially the history of repression, is central to her practice. Using collage, photography, sculpture and video, Tatiana explores the role of the image in the construction of history and examines different strategies of revolt and resistance, turning the hegemonic manipulation of reality into a creative act of opposition. Currently based in Paris, France, Tatiana exhibits internationally. She was a finalist for the Prix BMW, Creative Capital and the Fulbright Foundation and has received grants from the Schaeffer Foundation and the Thomas J. Watson Foundation.

During her Back Apartment Residency in 2018, Tatiana worked on a video project entitled Small Acts of Sabotage (How I Proved I Was Not a Camel). In a series of short interviews, ordinary people recounted experiences of their resistance to the Soviet system, in the form of a humorous anecdote. Small Acts of Sabotage made use of the Russian tradition of “anecdotes” to obliquely poke fun at and reveal the absurdity of a given system’s rules and regulations.

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United States
Surfside Beach
SC

Amira Hanafi is a poet, culture worker, and artist working with language as a material. Their work uses systems, games, performance, and publishing to bring together communities of real and fictional characters who speak, interact, and sometimes exchange identities. Amira’s work has been shown widely online and in offline spaces around the world, most recently at the 5th International Biennale of Casablanca, Morocco, and at Les Abattoirs Musée in Toulouse, France. Their work won the grand prize at the 2023 edition of ArtFields in Lake City, SC, USA. Amira is currently Writer in Residence at Coastal Carolina University, where they teach creative writing and work on projects that aim to constitute language for fluid identities and border-crossing bodies.

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United States
Irvine
CA

Anna Lublina (they/them) is an interdisciplinary performance maker, dramaturg, and educator focused on building mutually beneficial relationships between humans, objects, and environments. As the child of a Soviet Jewish immigrant, they are drawn to diaspora as a creative format and as an anti-nationalist political orientation. They explore the mutability of structure, linking social practice, object theater, dance, music, and text to create installations and performances that imagine more mutualistic futures. Anna’s work has been presented at various venues including Mousonturm (DE), Bloomfield Science Museum (IL), St. Ann’s Warehouse (NYC), Judson Church (NYC), the 14th St Y (NYC), and CPR (NYC). 

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Ukraine
Kyiv

Timothy Maxymenko is a sound and performance artist from Kyiv, Ukraine. He works across various media including audio, video, installation, movement and performance. In his art practice the city becomes an organism for research and interaction. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in the Intermedia Department, and is currently based in London. He has been shortlisted for PinchukArtCentre Prize 2020.

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Kazakhstan

Liza Popova is an artist, photographer, and cinematographer currently based in Kazakhstan. She works with socially significant themes, highlighting them through documentary films and photo projects. In her projects, Liza raises such thought-provoking themes as feminism and the portrayal of women’s vulnerability in society. Liza’s solo photo exhibition took place in 2022 in Perm, Russia, where the city streets showcased photographs dedicated to the issue of violence. When working on a photograph or a cinematic frame, Liza seeks a vibrant visual image capable of evoking numerous associations in the viewer.

United States / UK / Iran

Shahpour Pouyan is an artist whose practice offers a fresh perspective on the intersection of history, politics, and culture with a unique blend of aesthetic and thematic concerns. Shahpour’s multidisciplinary approach to art invites viewers to reflect on the complex relationships between power, memory, and the human condition. His work has been exhibited and collected internationally, received critical acclaim for his insightful and thought-provoking pieces, and has been featured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, LACMA, and Hayward Gallery, among other venues.

Shahpour was trained in mathematics, physics, and Neoplatonist philosophy at the Iranian Institute of Philosophy. He received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting at Tehran and a Master of Fine Art in New Forms and Integrated Practices from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. He lives between Tehran, London and New York.

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Bulgaria
Sofia

Anastasia Skvortsova is a curator, educator and researcher currently based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her work is focused on public art, participatory practices, education, and ecology. She is leading a public programe for upcoming Contemporary Art Triennale in the Eastern Balkans.  Experimenting with formats and methods, Anastasia creates projects that encourage communities to meaningful dialogue and exchange through mediations, tours, and performances. Her experience includes running an independent art space Nepokorennie studio and leading teams of large-scale projects like Nova Art Contest for independent young artists. Anastasia presented her work across Russia and Europe curating shows and organizing workshops (Mediation school, Radiance Art Center, Apatity; The Goods of Time, Goethe Institute, Sofia). She received her MA in curatorial studies from St. Petersburg State University Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty (joint program with Bard College, USA in St. Petersburg, Russia) in 2014.

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Uzbekistan
Samarkand

Alexey Ulko is a contemporary art consultant, researcher, and filmmaker from Samarkand. His practice includes postcolonial studies, contemporary Central Asian art, and new metaphysics and esotericism. Alexey wrote and contributed to several books, including ἀγάπη (2021), Censoring Art (2018), Culture Smart! Uzbekistan (2017). He conducted research for the award-winning exhibition We Treasure Our Lucid Dreams (2020) at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. Alexey has co-curated several exhibitions, artistic, musical, and educational projects in Central Asia, has written over 40 articles, made over 20 experimental films, and taught at the Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages. He holds Master’s degree from the University of Exeter and is a member of the ESCAS, CESS and AAH.

Ukraine
Kyiv

Bogdana Voitenko is an artist and educator interested in the therapeutic effects of nature and the ways that people interact with them. She currently explores botanical printing on textiles. Through her artwork, she brings attention to the hidden potential of plants as a renewable and accessible resource.

In her works that are usually shown on reused textile or clothing, Bogdana emphasizes a sustainable approach to consumption and possibilities to prolong the lifespan of things we already own. Using participatory elements in her art projects, Bogdana often engages the community with a chosen topic and her artworks are always site responsive.

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FUNDERS

The Art Prospect Network Residencies are supported by the Kettering Family Philanthropies and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.