Current artists
Ollie Hermanson (Norway), Robert Lisek (Finland), and Andrea Jespersen (Denmark) are the first artists selected for the new residency programme launched by the Art Museums of Skagen. They will take over the museum’s studios in February 2024.
Ollie Hermansson (Norway)
Ollie Hermansson is a performance artist who studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and moreover studied performative art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Hermansson’s work is centred on performances, workshops, text, drawings, and tactile gestures. The idea is to get very close to the audience in a personal and intimate fashion, calling for audience participation in work focusing on queer experience.
Robert Lisek (Finland)
Robert Lisek is a Polish-Finnish mathematician and artist, holds a PhD from the University of Arts in Poznań, and is interested in systems, networks, and processes in computer science, biology, and in a social context. Lizek combines research, music, and different conceptual art forms whilst exploring relationships between biological and mechanical aspect.
Andrea Jespersen (Denmark)
Andrea Jespersen is a visual artist who works with various scales, materials and techniques. Through interdisciplinary research, her art explores how we ponder and play with the knowledge we possess. Jespersen is a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art (London) and holds a PhD from Northumbria University (UK). Her research focuses on female conceptual art practices that rely on the 'cerebral handmade’.http://andreajespersen.com