Veigar Ölnir Gunnarsson is an Icelandic artist based in the Netherlands who works with sculpture and video installations. His practice engages with fragmentation—material, cultural, and spatial—through the use of sculptural replicas, amateur acting and multi-screen compositions. Drawing from film language and theatrical conventions, he uses absence and repetition as structuring devices—foregrounding what is missing, delayed, or implied. His research reflects on how cultural narratives are built, withheld, or broken apart. Whilst in residency, Veigar will be developing new work for his upcoming solo exhibition at Listasafns Ísafjarðar in Iceland. Veigar graduated from the Piet Zwart Institute in 2025, he has recently exhibited at TENT and A Tale of a Tub in Rotterdam and Boekie Woekie in Amsterdam
Olga Elliot works with graphic design, writing and research. Her artistic practice evolves around the relationship between image and text and often translates into collaborative or autonomous publishing projects. With an essayistic approach to archives she creates poetic connections between complex matters such as ecology, myth and embodied knowledges, seeking to challenge dominant narratives through visual languages and mixed-media installations.
During the residency she will be working on her video essay A Special Coincidence, weaving together her father's VHS tapes from the 1990’s with her own footage, sound and ultrasound recordings from her pregnancy, questioning what it means to become a planet, a site of reproduction and extraction. In her research she explores the mythic siblings, Apollo and Artemis, to reflect on the lunar imaginaries and colonial legacies that are embedded in the present explorations of the Moon. Moving between scales, the multi-channel video work traces how different temporalities and bodies — human, celestial, archival — orbit and shape one another.
Olga is currently part of the Design Department at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam and will be showing A Special Coincidence at nearby exhibition space, Looiersgracht 60 for the department’s graduation show The Best Day of My Life open June 11th-14th.
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