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Augusta Atla: “art must remain a free space for all voices.”

Augusta Atla enjoyed a residency at Wassard Elea in 2014. She is an active visual artist, debater, poet and writer, based in Denmark. She recently participated in a public debate on the Danish Constitution Day (Grundlovsdag) entitled “ART, IDENTITY AND BOYCOTT: WHERE IS THE LINE FOR CULTURAL EXCLUSION?” She is giving a lecture entitled “TheContinue reading “Augusta Atla: “art must remain a free space for all voices.””

Featured guests: Esther Lamneck and Mara Helmuth

Musician Esther Lamneck (clarinet and tárogató) and Composer Mara Helmuth enjoyed a collaborative residency at Wassard Elea in the Spring of 2025, in the two apartments The Philosopher and The Poet. Here they worked on a new music project. One work resulting from this residency was Wind Blown Rain for computer and tárogató. The videoContinue reading “Featured guests: Esther Lamneck and Mara Helmuth”

Featured Guest: Prof. Thomas Kiørboe

Professor Thomas Kiørboe (Dr. Scient), of DTU (Technical University of Denmark), enjoyed a residency in ‘The Philosopher’ during the Spring of 2025 and here he worked on the research article ‘Diatoms–copepods: An evolutionary arms race’ now published and available at https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70355.Professor Kiørboe is the author of about 270 peer reviewed journal articles and 2 booksContinue reading “Featured Guest: Prof. Thomas Kiørboe”

Featured guest: Jerilyn Jurinek, visual artist

“A village is a work of survival, of crumbling and repaired corridors, curling up hills for protection, for worship, community, for beauty and time to remember its story. Places built for protection are beautiful. Beauty is a kind of camouflage.” Jerilyn Jurinek What, René, did I get out of staying in Wassard Elea’s apartment inContinue reading “Featured guest: Jerilyn Jurinek, visual artist”

Jaana Lönnroos art exhibition

Visual artist Jaana Lönnroos was in residence at Wassard Elea for about two months during September-November 2022. During this residency she finished a series of works which are featured in an exhibition entitled ‘Dettagli Divini’ in Kotka, Finland, that is opening this Saturday, December 3rd.