Delfina Studio Trust Awarded Residencies

Awarded Residencies 2001


NIFCA has an international studio agreement with the Delfina Studio Trust in London during 2000-2001. The Trust, established in 1988, provides both British and international artists studio space and other facilities. Today, there are thirty five artists working full-time in the Delfina studios, nine of them being international residents. Delfina Studio Trust is housed in the London Bridge area, not far from Tate Modern.

In spring 2001, NIFCA announced three residencies of four months each for artists from the Nordic and Baltic countries. The open application procedure attracted around one hundred applications from the whole region. As a result, the following artists were awarded residencies in London


ALEKSANDRA MIR (SE) will be NIFCA's resident artist at Delfina Studio Trust during March-June 2001. Born in Poland in1967, a citizen of Sweden, she now lives and works in New York. Her new work will be shown at the Barbican Centre in London 8 Feb - 25 March 2001, as part of the exhibition ‘Pyramids of Mars’ curated by The Modern Institute in Glasgow. The video documentary of her past work First Woman on the Moon is being screened during the ‘History of the Future’ exhibition at the Waygood gallery in Newcastle in January. This project can also be visited at www.cascoprojects.org

PEKKA NISKANEN (FI), will be NIFCA's resident artist at Delfina Studio Trust during July-October 2001. Born in Finland in 1961, he lives and works in Helsinki. Among his latest videoworks are As a Matter of Fat (1998 ) and A Girl Bathing in a Kitchen Sink (2000). The latter of these videos will be presented on the International Transmediale Media Festival competition 4-11 February, 2001 in Berlin.

SALLA TYKKÄ (FI) is the current resident artist until 28 February 2002. Born in 1973, she lives and works in Helsinki. Graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki in 2000 her main media are film, video and photography, she is working on a new film in London.


READ MORE in NIFCA Info 1/01, pp. 14-15.