Past Residents
Current Resident: Feb 1, 2026–Feb 28, 2027
Mondriaan Fund
Studio #219
Artist
Mette Sterre
Beyond performance, Mette Sterre’s universes transcend into digital technologies, speculative environments, and sculptural body masks. Sterre imagines what else we could be by materially and ideologically upending the human contour. In these contexts, bodies and stories not only highlight their limitations but also show how much can be revealed in the process of being in change. Playful and captivating, their art poses concerns about knowledge, control, or systemic forces.
Mette Sterre has exhibited work at Manifesta 14 Prishtina, Amsterdam; Museum Of Modern and Contemporary Art Changdong, Seoul; and The Watermill Center, New York, among others.
mettesterre.comEvents & Exhibitions
2026 Spring Open Studios
April 17–April 18, 2026
Mette Sterre, Seapussy Power Galore(if you don't know, you don't grow ), 2021, performative installation, dimensions variable.
Mette Sterre, The Calculus of Infinitesimals Dissents into Abiogenesis Away From KeyBoard, 2024, performative installation, 20 min.
Mette Sterre, Meta Star Ratio, 2023, bodymask performance, 20 min.
Mette Sterre, Pointing Sisters Blame Game (who are we protecting from what?), 2025, performance with bodymask, 30 min.
Mette Sterre, Temper Tantrum Bonehouse (chilling Incissions calling things that have no name), 2025, exhibition overview, dimensions variable.
Residents from The Netherlands
Past Resident2026: Danish Arts Foundation
Filip Vest
Filip Vest explores subjects such as identity, performativity, and work. Through performances, installations, and film, Vest negotiates our social scripts and structures to see if there are other possible stories to tell, other ways of being in the world.
Filip Vest has exhibited work at The 15th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Estonia; Manifesta 13, France, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2026 Spring Open Studios
April 17–April 18, 2026
Filip Vest, Self Tape, 2024, film, 9 min. Photo by Ville Vidø.
Filip Vest, The Tryouts, 2024, performance, 60 min. Photo by Johan May Nitschke.
Filip Vest, Resort, 2023, performance, 60 min. Photo by Erik André Nes.
Filip Vest, The Wide-Mouthed Frog, 2022, performance, 20 min. Photo by Micaela Blomqvist.
Filip Vest, The Ruins, 2026, performance.
Residents from Denmark
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.
Happy Days, 2012, polyurethane foam, polyester fiber, and acrylik paint, 177 × 275 × 137 in. (449.58 × 698.5 × 347.98 cm).
Maro Michalakakos, À nous Toutes aka To all of Us (fem), 2023, shave velvet wire, 98 × 25 in. (248.92 × 63.5 cm).
Maro Michalakakos, L'Amore, 2004, mixed media, dimensions variable.
Maro Michalakakos, Untitled, 2014, watercolor on paper, 22 × 30 in. (55.88 × 76.2 cm).
Maro Michalakakos, RED CARPET, 2011, shaved velvet, 59 × 708 in. (149.86 × 1798.32 cm).
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