PUNKT 2003

PUNKT - Residencies 2003 for artists in the Nordic region and North-West Russia


PUNKT is a residency programme developing contacts, dialogues, and new collaboration initiatives between the Nordic region and North-West Russia in 2003.The programme offers around 40 artists and curators in the region the possibility to live and work, develop contacts, commit research, engage in projects at various locations throughout the region for periods of 1-4 months per residency.

The PUNKT Residency Programme is a collaboration project funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers. The project is curated by the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, NIFCA, and the Nordic Council of Ministers' Information Office in St. Petersburg. The programme is realised in collaboration with residential art centres, institutions and organisations in the Nordic region and North-West Russia.


Awarded Residencies

The selections to PUNKT 2003 were made by an invited selection panel:

Marina Koldobskaia, director of the National Centre of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg Branch (RU)
Åsa Nacking, Rooseum, Malmö (SE)
Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen, director Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam (NL)
Cristina Ricupero, curator, NIFCA
Jari-Pekka Vanhala, curator, Kiasma, Helsinki (FI)
NIFCA thanks the selection panel for their valuable contribution.


Leirvik, Faroe Islands
Antonina Baigusheva (RU)

Suomenlinna, Helsinki (FI)
Igor Baskin (RU)
Philipp Dontsov (RU)
Andrei Ljublinsky (RU)
Maria Zaborovskaja (RU)

Petrozavodsk, (RU)
Kimmo Sarje (FI)

Kanal Griboedeova, St. Petersburg (RU)
Sigrun Hrolfsdottir (IS)
Valter Kokot (FI)
Astrid Kruse Jensen (DK)
Teemu Mäki (FI)
Erik Norby (NO)
Karima Risk (NO)
Liisa Roberts (FI)

The Pro Arte Institute, St. Petersburg (RU)
Mari Lagerqvist (SE)

Konstepidemin, Gothenburg (SE)
Kirill Romanov (RU)
Mihail Zheleznikov (RU)

Studio House Malongen, Stockholm (SE)
Sergei Chernov (RU)