Artist Researchers In Residence

Lucy Finchett-Maddock is a legal theorist and artist undertaking a two-part artistic research residency responding to Michel Rouleau-Dick’s postdoctoral research project on the topic ‘Warped Mirrors:  Statehood in Focus’, investigating the phenomena, possibilities and dangers of digital statehood.  Michel Rouleau-Dick’s research seeks to question the two-pronged question of efficacy and ethics connected to the newly […]

Jérémie McGowan and Amund Sjølie Sveen were artists in residence at UmArts in March 2026 in preparation for their participation at the Artic Art Summit in June. In search of the Real Arctic in Ubmeje, the artists were given a tour of the town from a Sámi perspective, visited UmArts and the Arts Campus, the […]

Susanne Ewerlöf and Trine Hansen undertook a collaborative residency in the UmArts Research studio during February 2026. Focused on sites around Árviesjávrrie / Arvidsjaur, Trine Hansen, architect and musician, and Susanne Ewerlöf, curator and PhD student at the Valand Academy in Göteborg, are trying to understand how history, heritage and place interact. During February, they […]

Susanne Ewerlöf and Trine Hansen collaborative residence at the UmArts Research studio from 9-18 February 2026. With a focus on sites around Árviesjávrrie / Arvidsjaur, Trine Hansen, architect and musician, and Susanne Ewerlöf, curator and PhD student, are trying to understand how history, heritage and place interact. During February, they will reside in Ubmeje/Umeå at […]

Cyanne van den Houten is a queer media artist based in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and founder of the art-meets-tech collective Telemagic. Van den Houten´s practice revolves around the parallels between magic and technology, exploring the synthetic connection between humans and machines.

Florian will be based in the UmArts Studio during September undertaking research for his new project for the Art and Ai exhibition at Bildmuseet. Florian Model is an artist, curator and cultural producer based in Stuttgart/Germany, graduating from the Stuttgart State Academy of Art & Design in 2017 with a diploma in Fine Arts. His […]

We welcome artists Sasha Rotts, Pavel Rotts and curator Sona Stepanyan for a research residency in August. Lucid Plexus is a study of forms of historical memory, through the lens of collective remembrance, personal testimony, and intergenerational narrative. Anchored in the experience of the Ingrian Finns, an ethnic minority inhabiting Russian territories since the 17th century, their […]

Ana Zdravković is a visual artist from Belgrade, Serbia. Her work involves mostly painting and drawing, as well as experiments with different materials. She is inspired by a variety of forms and textures encountered in nature and explores the complexity of relations between human, other living beings and the environment.

Zeno Gries has an open-ended approach to artistic work, deliberately relinquishing control over certain aspects of the creative process. This methodology often leads him to collaborate with scholars, actors, and other artists from various disciplines.

Nisrine Boukhari is an artist-theorist currently pursuing her PhD at The Artistic Research department Angewandte Kunst Wien residing between Vienna and Stockholm. In her art-based research projects, she uses language to evoke a distinctive mind’s energy, exploring new realms of imagination that involve the body and the mind in an immersive poetic and sensorial experience through […]

Elena Mazzi’s practice is based on the examination of specific territories where she reinterprets the cultural and natural heritage of places, interweaving stories, facts and fantasies handed down by local communities, in order to suggest possible resolutions to the man-nature-culture conflict. Her somewhat anthropological working method favour a holistic approach aimed at repairing the rifts that occur in society.