Artist-in-Residence Program

curated by Laetitia Deschamps

SLIPVILLAN’S PRESENTATION

Location: Mälarvarvsbacken 32, 117 33 Stockholm, Sweden

Website: slipvillan.org

Originally a shipyard building, Slipvillan was transformed in 2007 into a thriving cultural center that nurtures diverse art projects. The center is dedicated to promoting cultural activities and providing a platform for artists to showcase their works.

Slipvillan is a vibrant cultural hub located on Långholmen, an island in the heart of Stockholm. It serves as a creative space for three professional visual artists—Rikard Fåhraeus, Ida Rödén, and Laetitia Deschamps—who work daily in their personal studios. The venue offers a dynamic yearly program featuring a variety of events, including art exhibitions, performances, readings, workshops, open studios, and an artist residency.

ESTABLISMENT OF THE RESIDENCY

The artist residency at Slipvillan was established in 2020 through the initiative of artist Laetitia Deschamps. Since its inception, the residency has welcomed international artists from diverse countries such as France, the Netherlands, the United States and China.

In 2024, Slipvillan became a proud member of the Swedish Artist Residency Network SWAN, further enhancing its commitment to fostering global artistic exchange and collaboration. In 2025, Slipvillan became also a member of RES Artis, the Worldwide Network of Arts Residencies. 

FOCUS OF THE RESIDENCY

While Slipvillan's residency is open to diverse subjects, we place a particular focus on ecology.

In today's rapidly changing world, the intersection of art and ecology has never been more crucial. Our artist residency program is dedicated to fostering creative exploration and research in ecological questions, providing a unique platform for artists to immerse themselves in the study and representation of environmental issues. The residency aims to catalyze a deeper understanding and appreciation of the natural world through artistic expression and scholarly inquiry.

At the core of our residency lies a commitment to ecological awareness and sustainability. Residents are encouraged to engage with environmental concerns, ranging from climate change and biodiversity loss to sustainable living practices and conservation efforts. This residency provides an invaluable opportunity for artists to reflect on these themes, explore innovative solutions, and communicate their findings through various artistic mediums.

At the conclusion of the residency, we organize workshops or open studio events that allow artists to present their art and thoughts to the local community. These events foster knowledge-sharing, help develop a deeper connection with the environment, and inspire the public with new perspectives on ecological issues.

THE RESIDENCY SPACE

The house features a shared, fully equipped kitchen and bathroom facilities. Residents can also enjoy a spacious private garden, which includes an outdoor working area with a rain shelter installed during the summer months. In addition to electric heating, each studio is equipped with a fireplace for the winter season, creating a cozy atmosphere. Various tools and bicycles are available for borrowing, and free Wi-Fi is provided. The total residency working space is 32 m², excluding the shared kitchen and bathroom areas.

There are several shops conveniently located just 15 minutes away from the residency. Residents can easily access all necessary supplies and amenities. Whether you need groceries, art materials, or other essentials, you'll find a variety of shops within a short distance. Additionally, the residency is well-served by the metro and buses, making it easy to travel around the city.

Metro & bus station: HORNSTULL

Direct buses from the airport to Hornstull

2 removables walls of 122 cm x 280 cm

NETWORK AND ACCESS TO THE ART SCENE

Stockholm boasts a vibrant and dynamic art scene that reflects its rich cultural heritage and innovative spirit. The city is home to a plethora of galleries, museums, and cultural institutions that showcase a diverse array of art forms, from classical to contemporary. Highlights include the Moderna Museet or Artipelag, renowned for its impressive collection of contemporary art, and the Fotografiska, an internationally recognized center for contemporary photography. Some other galleries are also interesting to visit such as Tensta Konsthall, Konsthall C or Bonniers konsthall.

In addition to these major institutions, Stockholm's art scene thrives through numerous independent galleries, artist-run spaces, and creative hubs like Slipvillan.

Throughout the year, Stockholm participated in various art events, festivals, and fairs, such as the Supermarket Independent Art Fair, which attract artists and art lovers from around the world. This vibrant ecosystem fosters a dynamic exchange of ideas and continually pushes the boundaries of artistic expression, making Stockholm a key destination for anyone passionate about the arts.

Having a residency at Slipvillan, give the benefit of an international network in the area of the artist-run galleries like Studio44-Stockholm, Candyland, Flat Octopus, Detroit Stockholm, SKF/Konstnärshuset, ruimte Caesuur and Supermarket Art Fair.

Slipvillan can assist you in sourcing art materials and provide a direct contact with Transart, a reputable fine art transport company.

PERIODS OF RESIDENCY

Limited periods are available for the residency with a minimum of two weeks:

• Januari and February (Application in September)

• 15 June to the 15 September (Application in January)

APPLICATION GUIDELINES

Your application should include the following elements:

• A one-page description of yourself and your project residency (PDF file), including:
• The desired period of residency
• An explanation of how you plan to secure funding
• Five images of your relevant artworks (PDF file)
• Your CV (PDF file)

Please send your application to: air@slipvillan.org

Application Deadlines:

• Apply by September (or earlier) for a residency period in January and February.
• Apply by January (or earlier) for a residency period between June 15th and September 15th.

Please ensure that your application adheres to the provided guidelines. Incomplete applications or those that do not follow the specified instructions will not be considered or receive a response.

PRICES

Participants are required to arrange for personal payment or secure funding to participate in the residency.

The costs can be shared between two artists on the same period.

The pricing structure is as follows:

• Minimum of 2 weeks: 7,500 SEK (approximately 750 €)
• 3 weeks: 11,250 SEK (approximately 1,125 €)
• 1 month: 15,000 SEK (approximately 1,500 €)

As a non-profit organization, Slipvillan relies on these fees to cover only a portion of the rent and operational costs for the house.

HOW TO APPLY TO GET FUNDING FOR THE PROJECT RESIDENCY?

Slipvillan encourages artists to apply for mobility funding or project funding. It is often possible to secure financial support from cultural state institutions, regional or departmental authorities, local city councils, and various private foundations.

To assist you, Slipvillan provides the following non-exhaustive list of potential funding sources:

For the artists from the Nordic and Baltic countries: Front page - Nordic Culture Point

For the artists from European countries: https://culture.ec.europa.eu/creative-europe/creative-europe-culture-strand/culture-moves-europe

For the artists from Sweden: https://www.kulturradet.se/ and https://www.konstnarsnamnden.se/

For all artists whatever the country: https://on-the-move.org/resources/funding

Residency Program 2025

HARRIET LIU - OAKVILLE, ONTARIO, CANADA 

Period: 23.06.2025 - 06.07.2025 (2 weeks)

Open Studio / Workshop: 05.07.2025

Project: Something about Peru - Culture, People and Climate Change

I am an artist living in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

My paintings are based on my volunteering experience in Peru. While I was volunteering at a local elementary school, I stayed with a local Peruvian family. Peruvian people are resilient and hardworking. Despite the hardships in their lives, they still strive to make their living space beautiful. During my residency, I will be creating preparation works for my next series of paintings aiming to raise awareness of poverty, lack access to health care and negative effects of climate change in the country.

Photo credits: 

Artist portrait: Harriet Liu

(Work in the background: "Mi Casa Tu Casa" (Red Courtyard), acrylic on canvas, 30x40 inches, 2024)

Works: Harriet Liu, The Peru Village, acrylic on canvas, 24x36 inches, 2024

Harriet Liu, "Mi Casa Tu Casa" (The Green House), acrylic on canvas, 30x40 inches, 2025

Harriet Liu, The Peru Market, acrylic on canvas, 24x30 inches, 2024

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JANINE MARIA SCHNEIDER & NADINE LEMKE - VIENNA, AUSTRIA

Period: 07.07.2025 - 20.07.2025 (2 weeks)

Open Studio / Workshop: 19.07.2025

Project: Stripes and stories!

We explore the intersection of textiles, memory, and social impact through the motif of stripes. We investigate how fabric strips can represent personal experiences and relationships. Our artistic practices merge traditional textile techniques with contemporary approaches, questioning patterns, structures and sustainability. During our residency at Slipvillan, we will further develop our research by working with second-hand textiles and experimenting with new material combinations.

NL:

My research begins with the retrospective of Svenskt Tenn at the Museum Liljevalchs in Stockholm, which showcases original designs and realizations of curtains and furniture by the Austrian architect and designer Josef Frank. His artistic designs embody a modern aesthetic that stands in contrast to mass production, resulting in creations that are both sophisticated and timeless. During my residency at Slipvillan, I plan to explore secondhand stores for crocheted textiles, with the aim of transforming these materials into solidified assemblages.

JMS:

For my current project, I am exploring the history of textile production and its working conditions. A central location for my research is the Långholmens Spinnhus, a former women’s prison where women were incarcerated for theft, poverty-related offenses, and moral transgressions. During their imprisonment, they were required to spin and weave textiles as part of their so-called "rehabilitation."

I come from a region in Austria known for its former textile industry, and many women in my family worked in textile production before it was outsourced to other countries. From this personal perspective, I believe it is important to examine the history of textiles not just within regional boundaries, but also in an international context. The global interconnections between textile production, working conditions, and feminist movements need to be made visible and discussed across borders.

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Janine Maria Schneider

In my artistic practice, I engage with questions of bodily identity in and through public space, architecture, and spatial politics. I primarily work with the media of photography, video, installation, and performance. I am particularly interested in how designed spaces impact human performance and vice versa.

Janine Maria Schneider, born in 1986 in Dornbirn, studied Performative Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In her latest project, which explores the border between Vorarlberg and Switzerland, she was nominated for the 11th Hypo Vorarlberg Art Prize. Schneider lives and works in Vienna.

www.janinemariaschneider.com

Foto Credits:

Artist Portrait: Alexandra Gritsevskaja

Works:  Janine Maria Schneider, The Strip, 2024 (How to Make a Border Stone Disappear)

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Nadine Lemke

I am engaged in site-specific crochet installations, photography, and drawings, exploring the relationships, patterns, and personal living environments that shape our experiences. My interest lies in the patterns that surround us daily, which can manifest as thought processes and actions, as well as built or organic structures featuring repetitive elements. I am particularly drawn to the interplay between the past and present, recognizing that they are interconnected; the new emerges from the old. Conventional patterns and structures can be reimagined for contemporary contexts. Working with textile craft techniques necessitates an awareness of their historical connotations. My practice seeks to deconstruct and reinterpret these elements, creating a dialogue between history and modernity.

Nadine Lemke is working with site-specific crochet installations, photography and drawings. She deals with relations, patterns and personal living environments. Born in Germany, she studied art in public space at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as well as sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden. She lives and works in Vienna.

www.nadinelemke.net

Foto Credits:

Artist portrait: Luiza Puiu, Club22 #1, 2024, LLLLLL, Vienna

Works: Nadine Lemke, Begleiterin, 2021,Dream Estate Seestadt, Vienna

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APOLLINE GRIVELET - HAUTS-DE-FRANCE REGION, FRANCE

Period: 21.07.2025 - 31.08.2025 (6 weeks)

Open Studio: 30.08.2025

Financial support by the city of Stockholm and by the French Institute of Sweden

This residency is also part of a cross-residency program with the contemporary art center L'H du Siège-Valenciennes in France.

L'H du Siège Centre d'Art Contemporain : hdusiege.org

Project: Microscapes

At the basis of my work lies a curiosity for the natural world, and need to understand the realtionship between humans and non-humans. For people my age, this scientific curiosity became a deep urgency, an urgency that today questions how visual artists could still work. We are weaving a tight line between our desire to produce art pieces that makes us think, while managing our environmental footprint.

Personally, I’m always drawn to large scale projects, where natural materials, common or rare, are used for their inherent properties, and are set up the evolve and change. Those projects can be physically large, take a long time, or be entirely in situ, and pose conservation challenges. Today, I find myself questioning these instinct and I would like to evolve my work towards a form of simplicity.

Therefore, for my time in the Slipvillan residency, I wish to work with a new media, or rather a new scale: microscopy.

First I would like to take that time to explore Stockholm and it’s surroundings, getting some understanding of history and environment, while sampling material to examine with my microscope. In France, I am an amateur naturalist and part of my personal time is dedicated to the observation and recording of the species I meet. This practice will be integrated to my research in Slipvillan, has a way to finding the materials and questions I wish to work on. Many early pioneers of natural history worked in Sweden and visits to the Naturhistoriska riksmuseet will be integral to the project.

On the other hand, I will experiment with the possibilities of creation with a microscope: what exactly can you do? Can you draw, sculpt, mold? With what materials? Alive, evolving, still? At what scale? How can you make it viewable to the public? How to build a show around it?

So far a lot of experimenting will be needed and it seems this residency will be an ideal environment, at the interface of city and the aquatic environment.

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Apolline Grivelet is a visual artist, born in 1988. She graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2012. She lives and works in Quesnel-Aubry in the Hauts-de-France Region.

Her practice, inspired by natural sciences, mainly focuses on the relationships between humans and their environment. Her artistic arrangements unfold over the long term, following an experimental approach and often include animals, plants, and biological processes.

www.apolline-grivelet.com

Foto Credits:

Artist portrait: Apolline Grivellet

Work in the artist portrait: Apolline Grivelet, Miroir 1 / Mirror 1, second-hand window, double gazing, Azerbaijan crude oil, caramel, birch pitch, silicone oil, 2023

Photo: Frederic Iovino

Works: Apolline Grivelet, Solastalgie, evolving installation with cinnamon, caramel, beeswax, glass and lighting device, 2020 and Qui aurait pu le prédire? / Who could have predicted it?, Protest flag, fabric, bleach, elderberry branches, 2023

Residency Program 2024

JIA XINYU - BEIJING, CHINA

Project: Group Exhibition Water like Stone >>>

JIA XINYU is a Chinese visual artist who graduated in 2006 from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (Oil Painting). In 2010 she graduated with a Bachelor (Oil Painting), in Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and in 2014, she graduated with a Master (Oil Painting), in Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. She lives and works in Beijing.

Artist Statement

“There are a few words that roughly summarize my art works : "hidden", "entangled","method" and "misunderstanding" but all of them are only my own interpretations. Maybe my artworks have nothing to do with these words at all. Intangible doesn’t mean non-existent … A poem, a sentence, an ordered image or a hidden nook … entangled past experiences and memories to continue the creation of new scenarios. Every object in my works are an observation of this world from my life, but by presenting them they may truly have become non-original (different from the original object). This “misreading” of the ultimate essence causes thus the viewer to continue “misreading” the work. This relationship is what I call our “secret passage” to the unknown that happens between us.”

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PU PENG - CHENGDU / SHANGHAI, CHINA

Project: Group Exhibition Water like Stone >>>

Pu Peng is a visual artist born in Yunnan in 1985. He graduated a bachelor’s degree from the Printmaking Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 2008. In 2013, he established his personal studio in Chengdu and he currently resides in Chengdu and Shanghai.

PU PENG is part of the following important collections : Montreal Yunge Art Institute, Runpu Zhai Gallery, Sichuan Yuanshang Yuan Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., Sichuan Weiming Boya Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., Chengdu Xingyi Investment, Sichuan Yuanyi Hengqian Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., Sichuan Xindu Art Museum, Yingmeng Contemporary Art Museum, Tomorrow Culture, Huaxia Art Network, American Asian Contemporary Art Center, Lan Art, among others.

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GUOJIALING - BEIJING, CHINA / TOKYO, JAPAN 

Project: Group Exhibition Water like Stone >>>

GUOJIALING was born in China. She graduated in 2022 and continues her studies in the Tokyo University of Arts (Oil Painting). She incorporates multiple perspectives and time frames into a single work, depicting subjective landscapes through the relationships between ambiguously painted figures and their surrounding objects.

In addition to traditional painting works, she uses deformed canvases and semi-three-dimensional forms, exploring a new balance between three dimension and painting.

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LUQI BAO - BEIJING, CHINA

Project: Group Exhibition Water like Stone >>>

Luqi Bao is a poet and a visual artist, born in Hangzhou, China in 2000. He graduated from the Chinese Academy of Art, majored in Chinese landscape painting. He currently studies in the Chinese National Academy of Arts as a postgraduate student. Luqi Bao pays attention to the study and inheritance of Chinese traditional philosophy and art. At the same time, he values the combination of Chinese traditional spirit and the reflection on contemporary life.

In addition to his ink and aquarelle paintings, Luqi Bao writes poems. He wrote a personal poetry anthology called “Sealed in the Sea”, which values the ideological content aesthetics and the conciseness of words in poetry.

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SONGMINGYUAN - KUNMING, CHINA

Project: Drawing in the Western World

Songmingyuan was born in 1987 in Yunnan, China. He is part of the Lisu National Chinese minority. He graduated from Yunnan University in 2010 and he settled in "Art Granary" in Chengdu, in Sichuan the same year. He established his personal studio in Kunming in 2012. He became a member of the art group called "Alibaba Brother" in 2015 and he became a member of the music band "God Bye" in 2019.

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JORIEKE ROTTIER - MIDDELBURG, THE NETHERLANDS

Project: ISLAND - The material present and the simple act

A marine student¹ stares at the sea, sitting on a bench by the shore. In his hand a paper boat. I live on Walcheren (Zeeland, NL), an island in a delta whose fertile land is protected by dikes. Far from life in the big city, where art events take place daily, as a child I encountered art in public spaces.

During a festival, a fighter jet demonstration ended in a crash on the island of Långholmen. There was one injured person. A paper airplane², its nose drilled into the ground, commemorates the event.

The discovery that there is another island that has a connection to the fragility of man and island, to being on the road, symbolized with a paper fold, is the visual starting point for this working period.

On Långholmen, a bare rock on which people have manually applied mud and sewage sediment to make it fertile, I will be present for two weeks with attention, absorbing the impressions as folds in my paper.

What does it mean to be part of an archipelago, as a place and as a human being, within current climate developments? What materials and processes are specific to this place? What intrinsic and visual qualities do they offer? What is discarded here, what washes up here? This work period takes place as part of the research within my work process that starts in the spring and continues through fall 2024.

The central question herein is "to what extent does man coincide with her environment?"

www.joriekerottier.nl

Page about the project plus map >>>

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CHRISTOPHE DELORY - FRANCE / SWEDEN

Project: Living heritage of Stockholm city >>>

The project will focus on the multiple human aspects of this heritage. It will integrate the reality of society, a portrait of the current city. Everyone will be photographed with the same background, to highlight our differences in a common portrait. The project will update what it means to be a citizen of Stockholm.

Christopher Delory is a French photographer based between France and Sweden for more than 30 years. His work questions identity, community, territory and memory. He works in a documentary style, following the definition of Walker Evans (USA 1903-1975) with a focal point on the subjective aspects. His artworks has been exhibited in several countries all over the world.

www.christophedelory.com

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