Current Residents
Past Resident2026: SAHA Association
Merve Tuna
Merve Tuna works at the intersection of craft, psychoanalysis, and narrative. Investigating parallels between craft processes and the human psyche, her object-oriented practice centers on the body and its psychosexual registers. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, film, and mathematical models, she explores how shared and personal traumas, shame, pain, and power are embodied and communicated through objects. Oscillating between control and play, her work translates research into sculptural and diagrammatic forms, using material experimentation and humor to release what exceeds language.
Merve Tuna has exhibited works at LOKART 3.0 – Biennale of Fine Arts, Hungary; Küçük Mustafa Paşa Hammam, Turkey; and Istanbul Design Biennial, Turkey, among others.
Merve Tuna, Isakower Machine, 2025, latex, linen, steel, industrial flow handling and electro-mechanical control equipments, 1181/8 × 14511/16 × 905/8 in. (299.97 × 370.08 × 230.12 cm). Photo by Hadiye Cangökçe.
Merve Tuna, Adaptive Body & Impossible Puzzles/The Fleeting Subject, 2025, installation view. Photo by Kayhan Kaygusuz.
Merve Tuna, Masculator/The Case of O: Scenes, Formulations, Derivations, 2021, silver-plated and black patinated bronze, 811/16 × 145/8 × 65/16 in. (22.1 × 37.08 × 16 cm). Photo by OnaGöre.
Merve Tuna, Shame - Trace / The Case of O: Scenes, Formulations, Derivations, 2021, hand embroidery on cotton canvas, 811/16 × 83/16 in. (22.1 × 20.83 cm).
Merve Tuna, mOtherhood Drawings, 2024, crayon and linseed oil on acid-free paper, 1911/16 × 275/8 in. (50.04 × 70.1 cm).
Residents from Turkey
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.
