In April, we are thrilled to welcome Weronika Trojańska and Marta Viktorija Agruma to the residency.

Weronika Trojańska is a Polish interdisciplinary artist working with sound, embodiment, and politics of cultural anthropology. She holds an MA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań and the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, and earned a PhD in the Field of Art at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. Her work engages lived traditions and the body’s sonic intelligence, exploring how sound carries cultural knowledge and links people to social and ritual worlds, often inviting others into shared spaces that question the role of an artist, audience, and artwork. Her work has been shown at Kunstgewerbemuseum (Berlin), Pawilon (Poznań), Port25 (Mannheim) and BWABydgoszcz, EYE Filmmuseum (Amsterdam), MoMA, Emily Harvey Foundation, Rongwrong (Amsterdam), among others. In 2017, Trojańska also performed Yoko Ono historical Cut Piece at the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg. She has also published texts in a number of Polish and English-language art magazines (including OnCurating, Metropolis M, and Arterritory.com).

Marta Viktorija Agruma is a visual artist based in Riga, Latvia. Her main artistic interest is the process of abstraction, which Marta Viktorija explores in the form of objects, paintings, and video, working with different materialities, textures, and object transparency. The visual research has resulted in the series “The Cloud at the Edge of the World” (2020-ongoing), a solo show “Refreshing Rhizome” (2021, DOM gallery, Riga, Latvia), and is continued in a body of work called “The Cloud of Unknowing 101-112” (2023). When things get too cloudy and abstract, an occasional text-based work might appear on the horizon. Marta Viktorija Agruma holds a bachelor’s degree in painting from the Art Academy of Latvia (AAL), and in 2023, she obtained a master’s degree in the interdisciplinary programme POST (AAL).

The residency is supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia (Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds).