Past Residents
Past Resident2026: The Holt Family Foundation
Maro Michalakakos
Maro Michalakakos works in a number of mediums, including sculptural installations, paintings, drawings, relief on velvet, and performance, that are “interwoven” with memories of the artist’s family and self. Marked by a unique polished rawness, her work addresses social and cultural references and uses powerful personalities and issues while treating space as a conceptual totality. Her universe is on the verge of dreams, with a surface-level calm carefully placed between fantasy and reality.
Maro Michalakakos has exhibited work at the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul; and Benaki Museum, Athens, among others.
Residents from Greece
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
2024
Past Resident2026: Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD)
Andreia Santana
Andreia Santana’s artistic production conveys the experience of bodies and their space, combining pleasure and pain in different nuances, simultaneously portraying a sense of fragility and vulnerability while expressing a poetic force. Santana’s research explores the body, its representations, accessories, and divergent norms, as well as gender and its inherent ambiguities. Her work draws on feminist discourse and its reverberations, affirming positive, active agency. These influences are evident in her sculptures, which reference queer, feminist, eco-feminist, and transgender authors.
Andreia Santan has exhibited work at Oakville Galleries, Canada; Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal; and Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Austria, among others.
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2026: Espacio Valverde
Juan Zamora
Through a synthesis of science, technology, and art, Juan Zamora examines the intricate relationships between plants and their environments, engaging with the philosophical implications of plant intelligence and capacities. By positioning plants, air, and other non-human entities as active participants, Zamora encourages us to contemplate the ethical dimensions of our treatment of non-human life, prompting a reconsideration of our role within the tapestry of existence, illustrating the resilience and adaptability of life forms that have flourished for millions of years.
Juan Zamora has exhibited work at Helsinki Biennial, Finland; Matsu Biennial, Taiwan; and Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador; among others.