Residency

Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan

Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan are collaborators who have worked together since 2011, currently based in Vienna and Bucharest. Their work in installation, video and performance uses research-based methodologies to reveal the invisible patterns that lie behind certain historical, social, or geopolitical narratives. Their recent work investigates the phenomenon of man-made landscapes around the world, where the making and marking of landscape (as a form of spatial modification) goes hand in hand with heightened state violence and the overexploitation of resources. They are the recipients of The Birgit Jürgenssen Prize 2022, awarded by The Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and currently they are holding the position of Creative Fellows at UCL’s, Postsocialist Art Centre in London. They completed an artist residency at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art and took part in the exhibition Coalition of Waters (2025).

Ania Nowak

Ania Nowak (b. 1983) works in the field of choreography, exploring the limits of the body and language, and the potential of desire, fragility and anger as tools for social transformation. She creates performances, video works, installations and texts addressing relations of care and co-existence in times of crisis, while redefining notions of pleasure, illness, pain, intimacy and accessibility beyond binary structures and exclusion.
She collaborates with alternative educational programmes across Europe, including Kem School in Warsaw and the School of Kindness in Sofia.
Her works have been presented, among others, at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlinische Galerie, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Sophiensaele (Berlin); Nowy Teatr (Warsaw); Kiasma (Helsinki); La Casa Encendida (Madrid); MQ Vienna; Kunsthalle Münster; and at the 14th Baltic Triennial and 12th Göteborg Biennial.
Selected solo exhibitions include: A Kiss Doesn’t Kill (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2023); Ill Delights (Galerie Wedding, Berlin, 2023); Can You Die of a Broken Heart? (Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, 2018); and Matters of Touch (Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, 2017).
She lives and works in Berlin.

Elżbieta Jabłońska

Elżbieta Jabłońska – Artystka wizualna, podejmująca ironiczną grę z przypisywanymi jednostce rolami społecznymi, mechanizmami funkcjonowania instytucji sztuki, poddająca refleksji zaangażowanie społeczne w obszarze sztuki. Jej twórczość wpisywana jest często w obręb sztuki feministycznej czy postfeministycznej. Tworzy głównie instalacje, fotografie, performance oraz działania czasowo-przestrzenne. Traktuje dzieło sztuki jako obiekt relacyjny, którego sens i znaczenie może podlegać zmianom i negocjacji. Aktualnie koncentruje się na gestach artystycznych, które zachęcają do działania, do budowania chwilowej wspólnoty, tworzenia pola wzajemnej komunikacji i porozumienia rezygnując tym samym z produkcji materii, a czasem również z własnego autorstwa. Profesora na Wydziale Sztuk Pięknych Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu.  Brała udział w wielu wystawach zbiorowych i indywidualnych. Laureatka nagrody Spojrzenia (2003 r.) oraz Nagrody im. Katarzyny Kobro (2023 r.). Prezeska Fundacji W788.

Ewelina Figarska

Ewelina Figarska creates sculptural objects, experimental and prose writings, as well as broadcasts. Her work explores the intersections between the everyday and the uncanny, literature and visual art. She is also deeply engaged with the body and multisensory ways of processing reality. She materialises her texts through interdisciplinary means. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź and a directing student at the Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków (2022/23), she is the author of objects, exhibitions, and experimental texts. In 2024/25 she is teaching at the Guest Artistic Studio at the Faculty of Design, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Through her radio programme Cebula, she focuses on conversation as a creative method and organises open calls for voice and sound recordings. Within the collective Garaż, she co-explores spaces for notes, alternative communication, nothings, and useful non-utilities. She is the author of the book I Am a Little Fruit Fly, I Came to Look at You (słowo/obraz terytoria, 2025).

Sylwia Górak

Sylwia Górak – painter, performer, and vocalist. She graduated from the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznań, earning a degree in painting and drawing (with a focus on performance) under the supervision of Prof. Jarosław Kozłowski. She has received multiple scholarships, including from Pro Helvetia (Switzerland), CEC ArtsLink (New York), and Landeshauptstadt Kulturamt (Düsseldorf). She was the winner of the 5th Young Artists Biennale Rybie Oko (2008). Górak has participated in exhibitions and concerts both in Poland and internationally, including at Carnegie Hall in New York. She studied with the world-renowned soprano Prof. Olga Szwajgier. Currently, she is active in acoustic and conceptual performance, possessing a four-octave vocal range. Her recent painting exhibitions have taken place at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Toruń, as well as in Vilnius and Reykjavík. She has also exhibited at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, the Centre for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, and the Queens Museum of Art in New York. In 2024, she served as chair of the Katarzyna Kobro Award jury at the Museum of Art in Łódź. She lives and works in Leżajsk.

Hyerim Han

Hyerim Han is a visual artist working with film, installation, drawing, and research-based projects. She graduated in Fine Arts from the Seoul National University of Science and Technology. In her practice, she focuses on everyday stories and myths that speak about social and interspecies relations. Her works often explore the experiences and perspectives of older people, addressing issues of labor, the body, social norms, and gestures of care and survival. She has participated in exhibitions at Sogeumnaru SmallArtMuseum in Ulsan (2025), Gyeongnam Art Museum in Changwon, Seo:ro Art Space in Seoul, and Yunsul Art Museum in Gimhae. She completed an artist residency at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art and took part in the exhibition Coalition of Waters (2025). She lives and works in Changwon.

Jean Ulrick Desert

Jean-Ulrick Désert (b. 1960, Port-au-Prince) is a Haitian-born conceptual artist. His work stems from the traditions of socially and culturally engaged conceptual art. Désert studied fine art at Cooper Union and later earned a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, New York.
His works have been presented at the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem (NYC), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), the Havana Biennial, and across Europe — including Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) — as well as in galleries and public spaces in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Ghent, Brussels and Dakar.
Désert is also active in academia. He has taught and served as a visiting critic at universities in the United States (Princeton, Yale, Columbia), Germany (Humboldt University) and France (École supérieure des Beaux-Arts). He is a recipient of awards including the LMCC Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (USA), Cité des Arts (France), and the WiDiMibaWi Art Prize 2022/23 (Germany).

Kelly Krugman

Kelly Nayaase-Naxhiñaa’ Krugman is a Zapotec-Jewish/Mexican-American curator, cultural worker, and editor centered with SAVVY Contemporary: The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, in Berlin. Her practice moves through sound, spirit, storytelling, and collaboration, approaching curatorial work as a means of channeling embodied knowledge across temporalities and geographies. In partnership with artists and transdisciplinary makers, she tends to spaces of epistemic exchange and anti-hegemonic disobedience. Refusing the impositions of dominant history, their work dwells in diasporic in-betweens and liminal spaces —where relation is a method, unlearning a ground, and art a gesture of meaning-making to reimagine otherwise. They completed an artist residency at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art and took part in the exhibition Coalition of Waters (2025).

Maja ∀. Ngom 

Maja ∀. Ngom is a Poznań-born multidisciplinary artist working with photography, installation, film, text and sculpture. She holds degrees in photography from the Royal College of Art in London and University of the Arts London, as well as in ethnolinguistics from Adam Mickiewicz University. She is also a participant in the Institute for Postnatural Studies programme (2025).
In her work, she combines diverse materials and natural elements to create imagined worlds inspired by embodied experience, generational memory and racial discourse. She examines the complexities of multiethnicity and the underrepresentation of marginalised bodies, substituting their absence with fictional narratives and fantastical motifs.
Her works have been shown at the Royal College of Art (London), the Museum of Art in Łódź, and the Biennale Zielona Góra Returning to the Future. In 2021, she presented the solo exhibition All That They Hide From Themselves at Centrala Space (Birmingham). In 2019, she published the photographic essay The Sweet Taste of Otherness in Obieg.
She lives and works in London.

Magdalena Starska

Magdalena Starska (b. 1980, Poznań) is an artist working with drawing, installation, and performance. She graduated from the University of the Arts in Poznań and was a member of the artistic collective Penerstwo. Working across various media, she allows her sculptures and performances to merge and evolve, while her drawings resist being defined as autonomous works. She draws on materials from her immediate surroundings, using simple objects to affirm everyday gestures and sensations. Her practice often engages ephemeral phenomena such as flickering light or materials that change their physical state. Starska also creates subtle interventions in public space, discreetly involving passers-by in events unfolding between the private and the public. She participated in the Each Other and Dobro-Stan programmes at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in 2025. She lives and works in Poznań.

Parul Sinha

Parul Sinha jest artystką wizualną, która ukończyła studia magisterskie z malarstwa na College of Art w Delhi (2016). Tworzy przede wszystkim akwarele, w których skupia się na narracjach ekologicznych i tematach miejskiej alienacji. Brała udział w projekcie książkowym opublikowanym w Mini-Majelis w ramach Documenta Fifteen w Kassel. Prezentowała swoje prace na wystawie indywidualnej w Metta Contemporary w Navi Mumbai (2018) oraz w wystawach zbiorowych w Clark House Initiative w Mumbaju (2017) i w galerii Latitude 28. Oprócz wystaw współtworzyła również ilustracje i komiksy o tematyce ekologicznej. W swojej praktyce artystka stara się zwrócić uwagę na pomijane wątki ekologiczne i relacje społeczności z bioróżnorodnością, które są w stanie ciągłego zagrożenia. W swoich wizualnych opowieściach Parul Sinha bada w jaki sposób wrażliwość środowiskowa kształtowana jest przez wzorce konsumpcji i podkreśla rosnącą degradację ekosystemów w obliczu zmian klimatycznych i ekspansji miast.

Paweł Matyszewski

Paweł Matyszewski (b. 1984, Białystok) is a painter, author of objects and installations, and a gardener. He graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the University of the Arts in Poznań in 2009 under Professor Piotr C. Kowalski, and obtained his PhD in 2021 under the supervision of Dr Dominik Lejman at the same institution. His works have been presented in Poland, Austria, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Spain, Lithuania, Germany, Serbia, Hungary, and the United Kingdom. He has been awarded scholarships from the National Centre for Culture (2014) and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2012, 2024), and received numerous art prizes, including at the Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień (2009, 2012) and the Young Art Biennale Rybie Oko (2013, 2015). His practice explores the broad notion of marginal phenomena and behaviours situated at the intersection of culture and biology. He combines the language of realism and abstraction, painting and object. His solo exhibition With Sand in My Teeth was presented at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in 2025.

Ranjit Kandalgaonkar

Ranjit Kandalgaonkar’s art practice primarily comprises a lens directed at the urban context of cities. His city-specific projects map vulnerability within redevelopment strategies of urbanisation, combative histories of reclamation/speculation or record timelines and blindspots -alternate markers of a city that’s unraveling.  His works respond to research conducted on modes of philanthropy practiced within community-based trusts; a subaltern imagination of the Bombay plague of 1896; subsequent loss of flora/fauna in colonial Bombay; and a long-term project on latter day 20th century ship-breaking and invisible shipping infrastructures. They attempt to unlock trapped data through placing the work in the context of an unseen social history.  Awards & fellowships include; Majlis Visual Arts fellowship, UDRI Architectural fellowship, The Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence, The Wellcome Trust Seed award, SAI Harvard University Artist Residency and the Gasworks Artist residency. His work has been exhibited at UCL-Cities Methodologies, Bergen Assembly Art & Research Triennale, Melahuset/OCA Norway, Colomboscope, Warehouse421, the Wellcome Collection and other galleries locally and internationally. He completed an artist residency at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art and took part in the exhibition Coalition of Waters (2025). He lives and works in Mumbai, India.

Roberto Uribe Castro

Roberto Uribe Castro studied architecture in Bogotá and fine arts in Berlin. He has worked as an independent architect and consultant on the first urban development plan for Bogotá that addressed environmental challenges. He has collaborated on major artistic projects with artists such as Mona Hatoum and Doris Salcedo.
His artistic practice focuses on the urban environment as a historical document, creating installations that examine the relationships between architecture, politics and history. He has received a Berlin Senate grant and was a finalist in art competitions in Germany and Ireland.
Roberto is also co-founder of CC_Berlin, a platform supporting rural communities in Mexico and Colombia. He lives and works in Berlin.

Ru Kim

Ru Kim is an artist who enjoys using performance and video installations to question the use of art in resisting and reappropriating perpetuations of violence generated by patriarchal, imperial, and colonial ideologies of domination. Employing various media such as video, photography, sound, performance, installation, and text, they seek to develop forms that challenge binaries and fixed identities. Moving through their own fluidity in language, culture, and identity, Ru Kim is nourished by hydro-, Black, and queer feminist theories to lead deconstructivist analyses of oppressive, racist and colonial representations. Recent projects focus particularly on stories told through the lens of the more-than-human witness, strategies of water as seen through a hydrofeminist lens, documentation of queerness in Korean history, and archives revealing the “Asian” construction enacted by the Western gaze. They completed an artist residency at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art and took part in the exhibition Coalition of Waters (2025). They live and work in Seoul.

Tanja Ostojić

Tanja Ostojić is a visual artist and performer whose interdisciplinary practice also includes teaching and research. She is recognised as one of the pioneers of institutional critique from a gender perspective and as a key figure in socially and politically engaged feminist art, particularly in the contexts of migration and gender issues. She graduated from the University of Arts in Belgrade, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, and the Graduate School at Universität der Künste in Berlin. Her work has been presented internationally, including at the Venice Biennale, Performa, and the Busan Biennale. She lives and works in Berlin.

Theresa Weber

Theresa Weber graduated from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the Royal College of Art, London. She combines collage, textile installation and collaborative performance, seeking to question existing power hierarchies and fixed categorizations. In her perspective as an artist with a Jamaican, German and Greek family background, her practice often refers to Caribbean discourse, existing mythologies and historical research fields. Her works consists of culturally loaded materials that engage with the body from an de-colonial perspective. Represented through contemporary body-marks and archival techniques, her practice exemplifies the constant transformation within every tradition. On the dynamic field between transparency and opacity, Weber’s practice creates space for strength and resilience through nuance and fragility. She completed an artist residency at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art and took part in the exhibition Coalition of Waters (2025). She lives and works in Berlin.