Artists
Inga Meldere lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Inga has obtained a Master degree in Fine Arts in Painting. Between 2013 and 2014, she was a researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands. In her practice, she emphasises painting as a performative tool and considers it an expanded field. Meldere works with cross-disciplinary, innovative, and speculative approaches within conservation, pedagogy and contemporary art. Her practice explores the traces of impermanence, dealing with questions around authenticity, social history, and the exploration of micro-histories.
Anna Ihle has recently been sculpting in oak with her chainsaw while thinking of time management, a recurring theme in her practice. She is involved in artist union work. Anna has a 9 months old daughter, and currently lives in Stavanger, Norway—the town where she grew up.
Addoley Dzegede is a Ghanaian-American textile enthusiast who loves sleeping in and eating ice cream year round. She learned Spanish during the pandemic and looks forward to talking people’s ears off someday in person. Addoley is a Tulsa Artist Fellow, also calling Pittsburgh and other places home.
Cristina Molina is a visual artist who hails from the subtropics of Miami and currently lives and works in New Orleans—two precarious terrains that have thematically influenced her practice. Spanning performance, video installation, photography, and textile design, Molina’s artwork is set amongst vulnerable landscapes both real, and imagined. Using the language of magical realism, her artworks reshape and centralize little-known narratives to upend dominant histories.
Dave Greber (b. 1982, Philadelphia) is an artist, educator, and consultant, based in New Orleans. He creates experiences situated for the blockchain, gallery and wider public arena, manifested through digital media, sculptural installation, and social/environmental interventions. His practice is enthusiastically intuitive and aided by divination and collaboration with fellow biological and artificial intelligence.
Helene Duckert (b. 1988, Oslo) is an multidisciplinary artist, writer and speaker. Duckert works with discarded objects, detritus, and obsolete materials scavenged from her life and surroundings, creating assemblages and installations that function as personal comments on contemporary living.
Kjetil Detroit Kristensen (b 1981 Stavanger) is a Norwegian artist who works in various fields, including installation, film, and performance. His long-term aim is to explore and erase the borders between art and everyday life. In his artistic practice, Kristensen works both in galleries and in public spaces, building bridges between the two and searching for intersections.
Līga Spunde was born in 1990, in Riga, Latvia. She received her BFA and MFA in Visual Communication from the Art Academy of Latvia. Līga often creates her work as multimedia installations in which personal stories are closely entwined with a consciously constructed fiction. The interpretations and use of recognizable characters serve as an extension of her personal experiences, tapping into general truths. Usually, the content of the work determines the physical form of the conception, so a variety of media and materials are used in the installations.