Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Terike Haapoja
Terike Haapoja’s work consists of installations and collaborative projects characterized by the use of new media and new technology. In her projects Haapoja investigates our relationship to the non-human world from scientific, existential and poitical viewpoints. Haapoja’s projects are mostly large-scale and built around thematic framing, often including collaborations with professionals from other fields of studies.
Haapoja’s work has been show widely in solo and group exhibitions and festivals both nationally and internationally. She was honored with the Finnish Art Association’s Dukaatti Prize in 2008, with Finland Festival’s Young Artist of the year Prize in 2007, received a SÄDE Prize for best visual design in theatre and in 2010 was a nominee for Ars Fennica. Haapoja’s works are in the collections of Finnish State, Helsinki City Art Museum, Oulu Museum of Art and the Amos Anderson Art Museum. Haapoja represented Finland in the 55th Venice Biennale with a solo exhibition in the Nordic Pavilion. She lives and works in Helsinki.
Terike Haapoja, The Edge of the World, 2013, Participatory installation with virtual reality. Courtesy of the artist.
Terike Haapoja, The Party of Others, 2011, Installation and political intervention. Courtesy of the artist.
Terike Haapoja, Entropy, 2004, One channel video installation. Courtesy of the artist.
Terike Haapoja and Laura Gustafsson, The Museum of the history of cattle, 2013. Courtesy of the artist.
Terike Haapoja, Closed Circuit - Open Duration, 2013, Installation with seven parts. Courtesy of the artist and Nordic Pavilion, Venice Biennial.
Residents from Finland
Past Resident2021: Italian Cultural Institute of New York2014: NCTM e l'arte
Maria D. Rapicavoli
Maria D. Rapicavoli works across film, photography, and site- specific installation. Her work explores conditions of power, alienation, invisibility, and displacement through a critique of global economic and political systems. Drawing on her native Sicily as a place of departure and arrival, Rapicavoli explores the sea and the sky as sites of transit where individual narratives intersect with international politics. She seeks to make tangible the ways structures of power, taking place out of sight, impact our everyday lives
Maria D. Rapicavoli has exhibited work at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Palazzo Reale, Milan; and Whitechapel Gallery, London, among others.
Maria D. Rapicavoli, The Other: A Familiar Story, 2020, two channel video installation, 19:40 min.
Maria D. Rapicavoli, If I am In Pieces Is It Easier To See?, 2020, handmade glazed white ceramic.
Maria D. Rapicavoli, I Due Mari (The Two Seas), 35 handmade glazed ceramic vases, sea water, dimensions variable.
Maria D. Rapicavoli, A Starry Messenger, 2019, hand-carved white alabaster, glass lenses, transparency film, plexiglass, steel, 8 × 2 × 41/2 in. (20.32 × 5.08 × 11.43 cm).
Maria D. Rapicavoli, Crooked Incline, 2018, 100 porcelain pieces, plastic strings, dimensions variable.
Residents from Italy
Past Resident2014: Danish Arts Foundation
Molly Haslund
Molly Haslund is an artist working at the intersection of performance, interactive objects and sculpture. Haslund’s works span personal rituals, musical performances, workshops, and audience participation, making references to the pictorial arts, stand up comedy, literature and music. Lately the core of her practice has been solo performances, where she addresses existential and cultural questions.
Molly Haslund trained at the Royal Art Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen and Glasgow School of Art. In 2013 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde, Denmark, she showed her solo exhibition Rock Around the World, consisting of new and retrospective sculptures, called Coordination Models, placed in the city of Roskilde. During the time of the exhibition, performances took place in the streets and and other specific locations througout the city. At Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center Nikolaj, she showed her musical performance ’ Shot John Wayne and other Etudes. Her performance In the Beginning There Was Rhythm, was shown as part of the seminar ‘Lecture Performance’ at OVERGADEN, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen.
Molly Haslund, Reduced Space (Little Bench), 2013, Wood, paint, steel. Courtesy of the artist.
Molly Haslund, Balcony, 2013, Wood. Courtesy of the artist.
Molly Haslund, Circles - drawing upon the universe, 2013, Wood objects, performance. Courtesy of the artist.
Molly Haslund, In the Beginning there was rhythm, 2012, Performance. Courtesy of the artist.
Molly Haslund, In the Beginning there was rhythm, 2012, Performance. Courtesy of the artist.
