Six artists selected for Art Hub Residency in 2025
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AHC welcomes six new artists to the Art Hub Residency, who will move into the new facilities on Thoravej in Copenhagen’s Nordvest district for the first time. The six artists are Maria Meinild, Maja Li Härdelin, Paul Haas, Silas Inoue, Christine Dahlerup and Madeleine Andersson.
Throughout 2025, six artists will occupy the new studios on Thoravej as part of the Art Hub Residency program, which focuses on networking, immersion and production.
The six artists were selected based on an open call and a jury consisting of curator and writer Elena Tzotzi, author, curator and writer Kristian Vistrup Madsen and curator at AHC Marie Braad Larsen. For the first time, the jury has selected artists for both the spring and autumn periods in the same round.
The selected artists are Maria Meinild, Maja Li Härdelin, Paul Haas (spring period 2025), Silas Inoue, Christine Dahlerup og Madeleine Andersson (fall period 2025).
The residents will have their daily routine at Thoravej 29, where they will each be provided with a studio. There is no production requirement in the residency, but as something new, the residents will have access to good production facilities, including wood, metal, digital and casting workshops at Thoravej. Read more about the workshop facilities here.
During the residency, the six residents will be part of a program where they, among other things, will meet selected curators and mentors as well as participate in a visiting program to a number of art institutions in Denmark. In addition, the six residents will, each in their own way, communicate parts of their practice in a public format during the residency period.
You can read the jury statements for the selection below:
Spring 2025
PAUL HAAS (DE)
A recent graduate from Städelschule, Frankfurt, Paul Haas has shown great promise as a filmmaker unafraid of addressing complex moral and political issues. His short film Bent Time, a portrait of right wing youth culture in small town Germany, impressed the jury with its poetic, though matter-of-fact style. As Haas delves deeper into his research of the social dynamics of new forms of nationalism, we believe he will draw much benefit from the mentorships offered by Art Hub and the community at Thoravej 29 and in Copenhagen.
MAJA LI HÄRDELIN (SE)
Maja Li Härdelin, an artist who works across literature, film, and performance, appealed to the jury through the interdisciplinary scope of her work, and the sense of humour and personality that she applies to it. Her work exhibits a commendable absence of vanity and openness towards experimentation. As a Copenhagen-graduate and Malmö-resident, Härdelin will be able to use the residency at Art Hub to rekindle her ties to the Danish art scene.
MARIA MEINILD (DK/SE)
Maria Meinild is an artist who has been working with social relations, media and science through image-making and installation for more than 10 years. Her artistic language appealed to the jury as both mature and complex, as well as at a crucial state where it could benefit from the opportunities offered by AHC. During the residency Meinild will continue her work with Kirlian photography and a collaboration with the Radiography Department at Rigshospitalet.
Fall 2025
SILAS INOUE (DK/JP)
Silas Inoue’s use of materials often include machine parts, sugar, oil, robotics and fungi – ingredients that address both the organic and technological realm of our world. The jury believes that the residency at AHC can offer a prolonged moment of time and collegial knowledge exchange beneficial for creating a hybrid monster; a new work composed of living and dead organisms, in a sort of world building that could expand our notion, function and usage of public space.
CHRISTINE DAHLERUP (DK)
The artistic practice of Christine Dahlerup unfolds between image and sculptural spatiality slightly outside language and meaning. With a precise material sensitivity, she addresses simultaneously both critical thought and experiential feeling, not limiting the work to the logic of linearity. Apart from deepening her practice by way of collegial exchange and inspirational mentorships, the residency at AHC will provide for a rooted locality to learn, evolve and contribute within the Danish art scene.
MADELEINE ANDERSSON (SE)
Madeleine Andersson employs intuitive video installations, speculative texts and performance lectures as a means to think beyond the expected course of cause and effect. The jury was particularly fond of her ability to merge a poignant critique of capitalist systematisation with a parasitising and distorting sense of humour that captures the challenges of productive resistance in our times. The residency at AHC will provide for an immersive and intense period of mapping, researching and fantasising in order to embrace a more emotional knowledge production.
ABOUT ART HUB RESIDENCY
The first Art Hub Residency took place in 2019. It is one of Art Hub Copenhagen’s three different residency programmes.
Focusing on networking, contemplation, and production, Art Hub Residency basically offers a studio, a monthly fee, a production budget, and a programme of development and discussion/feedback based on the needs of each individual artist.
Art Hub Copenhagen actively aims to create and expand artists’ networks both at home and abroad.
As well as the importance of networking, Art Hub Residency provides the artists with time for contemplation and/or production. There is no requirement to produce work during the residency, so the time can be tailored to suit the process of each artist. It might involve research and studies, putting ideas to the test or actual production. There is also the option, by appointment, of a short working residency at the Danish Art Workshops.
One of the requirements of the programme is that, during their residency, each artist must present their practice, research, work, or project to the public. The form of presentation is up to the artist. It could be a talk, a podcast, a video, a text, a small exhibition, a performance, or something completely different. The presentations, shaped and organised in collaboration with each individual artist, are publicised as part of Art Hub Copenhagen’s events programme.
You can read more about the residency and see all the previous resident artists here.
Art Hub Residency is supported by Flanders – Department of Culture, Youth and Media.
