Current Residents
Current Resident: Jan 1, 2026–Jun 30, 2026
Uniarts Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts and Saastamoinen Foundation
Studio #208
Artist
Jade Kallio
Jade Kallio is a Helsinki-based filmmaker and artist working across experimental film, performance, and visual arts. Their practice reflects on gender, corporeality, and the spaces and social structures in which meanings are produced, with a focus on trans identities and marginalized experiences. Kallio explores how social norms shape possibilities for existence and visibility. Current projects blend documentary, speculative fiction, and magical realism while considering production structures, working conditions, and questions of narrative authority.
Jade Kallio has exhibited work at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany; The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ireland; and International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands, among others.
jadekallio.com
Jade Kallio, Conflict, 2024, mixed media, installation view.
Jade Kallio, Sterile Structures, 2025, mixed media, installation view.
Jade Kallio, Sterile Structures, 2025, metal and leather, installation view.
Jade Kallio, Janne, 2025, video, 32 min..
Jade Kallio, Janne, 2025, video, 32 min..
Residents from Finland
Current Resident: Jan 1, 2026–Jun 30, 2026
La Fondation pour l'Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon
Studio #206
Artist
Gaspar Willmann
Through a practice that combines painting and video, united by a shared focus on editing and appropriation, Gaspar Willmann examines how we consume images, how they circulate, and the affective and collective impact they carry.
Gaspar Willmann has exhibited work at Fondation Pernod Ricard; Frac des Pays de la Loire; and Fondation Fiminco, all in France, among others.
gasparwillmann.com
Gaspar Willmann, Glass house, 2024-2025, video.
Gaspar Willmann, Le pixel mort, 2023, painting and mixed media, 2361/4 × 707/8 in. (600 × 180.01 cm).
Gaspar Willmann, my ligature room, 2024, painting, installation view.
Gaspar Willmann, JUMAP (closing your eyes isn't going to change anything), 2023, painting, 48 × 74 in. (121.92 × 187.96 cm).
Gaspar Willmann, by the boy's bed, 2025, painting, 48 × 74 in. (121.92 × 187.96 cm).
Residents from France
Past Resident2026: Canada Council for the Arts
Heather Nicol
Heather Nicol is an installation, sculpture, and sound artist whose creative processes and outcomes are rooted in social engagement. Her site-specific interventions are often large scale, featuring audio scores principally built with her recordings of voices. She considers the historic, utilitarian, and acoustic properties of places where audiences can pause, listen, and imagine. Through sensory encounters and tactile constructions, she invites reflection on the complicated human desire for connection, and the associated pleasures and anxieties of being seen and heard.
Heather Nicol has exhibited work at The Bentway; The National Arts Centre; and The Fleck at Harbourfront Centre Theatre, all in Canada, among others.
Heather Nicol, Wind Ensemble, 2024, sound, electronics, textiles, aluminum and steel, dimensions variable.
Heather Nicol, Prelude/Requiem, 2023, sound, light, textiles, site specific installation.
Heather Nicol, September Song, 2021, sound, paper, piano and benches, dimensions variable.
Heather Nicol, Tornado Pod, 2017, spund and textiles, dimensions variable.
Heather Nicol, Soft Spin, 2015, sound, motors, aluminum and fabric, dimensions variable.
