Ladora Munteanu is a Romanian-American writer and painter based in Paris, France. Having first come to Nes for a short stay in April, she returned in August for a three-month residency to create a new body of work in painting. "There is something special about being...

Hæ, ég er Rikki og ég læri íslensku. Mér finnst gaman að læra tungumál: amerískt táknmál, íslensku, smágrísku og núna íslenskt táknmál. Ég vinn sem táknmálstúlkur og forritari. Ég byrjaði að skrifa samtöl til að æfa mig í íslensku og ég hef skrifað nokkrar sögur sem...

Originally from Taiwan and based in Paris, Chen Shu Fen (Sophine) is an illustrator who loves documenting life through photography. She approaches art with a sense of playful humor, treating life as a gentle comedy woven from subtle everyday details. For Sophine,...

Birgit Hampel explores the personal perception of time through self-built pinhole cameras, long exposures, and alternative photographic techniques. During her stay in Iceland, she explores the beauty of the natural landscape in relation to duration and transience. The...

Faye Tagen is an interdisciplinary artist who makes paintings and sculptures that explore the themes of spirituality and shared humanity. She uses nameless figures to tell stories of loss, love, and quiet realizations. During her stay at Nes Artist Residency, Faye's...

Veronike Hinsberg frequently uses textile craft techniques as conceptual models and templates for exploring different methods of representation. For her project "Lopepeysa," which she is developing during her stay in Iceland, she takes the knitting patterns of the...

Xiaofu Wang is a Chinese-Australian photographer based in Berlin. She has lived on three continents, and much of her work is made on the move. Sometimes she stays in one place for a long time. In Athens, along with Claude Somot, she assembled an archive of...

Madeleine Aimée is a Toronto-based filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist working across film, animation, painting, photography, and visual design. Her work often draws from folklore, memory, and dreamlike imagery, with a focus on the point where everyday life slips...

I am a visual artist based in Freiburg, Germany. I have studiied at the Academy of fine Arts in Berlin, graduated as Master of fine Arts. This is my third stay at Nes Artist Residency. Walking around on the peninsula Spákonufellshöfdi, I am watching the waves, I am...

Heather Stewart (she/they) is a contemporary choreographer, writer, and director working in the United States, Canada, and Europe. She is the founder and leader of experimental dance company, little house dance, an organization that works collaboratively with artists...

Jancie Creaney is a writer from Montreal whose practice incorporates conceptual inquiry, literary theory, and nature writing. With support from Nes and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, she is at work on a novel about language and landscape. Her process,...

Isabel Hunter is a Portland-based dance artist originally from the Chicagoland area. She holds a BFA in Contemporary Dance Performance with a minor in Psychology from the Boston Conservatory and is a company member and Community Director of little house dance, under...

Heledd Wyn is a Welsh filmmaker, artist and practice-based researcher whose work explores relationships between people, place and the other-than-human world. Working across film, photography, sound and participatory practice, she is interested in landscape not simply...

Julien Philippon is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer creating immersive sonic environments that invite listeners inward. Through composition, sound design and texture, he explores music as an emotional language beyond words — creating spaces where...

Ioulia Akhmadeeva is a Mexican visual artist, researcher, and professor based in Morelia, Mexico, where she has lived and developed her artistic career since 1994. She works across printmaking, drawing, artist's books, book-objects, and expanded approaches to graphic...

Sanne Kabalt is a Dutch artist working with photography and writing. Her practice explores themes of illness, mourning, and human–nonhuman relations, often extending into installation and performance. Shortly before Sanne arrived at Nes, a local artist donated a...

August Artist-in-Residence Anne Hay lives and works as a sculptor on an island a few miles south of Oslo, Norway. She completed her master's degree in 2007, with the main title "Where art and science meet". She has an interest in deep-sea species, which can often be...

Céline Pierre is a composer and an artistic director. Her's work has its origins in visuals arts, performance, improvisation and music creation. She composes visual and sound crossings, taking the form of documentary videos, mixed video music pieces, video musics,...

Christina Simon is a printmaker from Central Germany. She lives and works in her own printmaking studio near Leipzig. Printmaking has held a prominent place and a long tradition in this region since the Reformation. The focus of her work is large-format color linocuts...

Chicago-based artist Amanda Reid fuses performance, illustration, film, and light installations to investigate memory, migration, and cultural belonging. Her work draws from her personal history immigrating from Vietnam to the United States. Using the tension between...