Vrångsholmen Association has it’s base in Vrångsholmen, once a correctional facility for misbehaving children, that since 1981 has been transformed into a artistic space for artists. Over the years, visual artists, craftmen, authors, musicians, dancers and architects have used the premises for various activities such as their own artistic production, course, repetition and conferences. Read more about Vrångsholmen here

Artists in residency:

Anna Unsgaard

Anna Unsgaard works with objects, collages and installations where she investigates and explores her family history reflected through herself and the world today.

More information: https://www.annaunsgaard.se/ & https://konstepidemin.se/artist/anna-unsgaard/

Helle Lindskog

Helle Lindskog is a visual artist that draws inspiration from the everyday, from objects and aesthetic expressions that hold meaning in a lived life. Her works are often manifested through various media that interact with their meanings, such as text, installation, and site-specific interventions.

Currently, she is interested in the literary metaphor of the loose thread, an interest that she explore through both writing and weaving. In literary terms, the loose thread often has a bad reputation—it is something that leads the reader astray and does not necessarily advance the story, at least within the framework of classical Western dramaturgy. The weave, on the other hand, is a structure that holds loose parts together. It is a way of creating textiles by interlacing threads within the stretched warp.

Lea-Marie Sittler
Project name: Lea & the Loved Ones (solo)

Lea-Marie Sittler is singer, guitarist and songwriter in the project Lea & the Loved Ones. On the residency in Vitlycke she’ll work with lyric writing and poetry and explore alternative tunings on the guitar to find new expressions and colours in her songs.

Lea-Marie Sittler is a freelance musician active primarily in Gothenburg’s music scene. She mainly works as a touring singer, guitarist, and songwriter and has, over the past year, established herself as both a dedicated and inspiring choir leader.

More information: https://www.leaandthelovedones.se/

Christian Kiwi Berg

Christian Kiwi Berg is a musician, composer, and music producer based in Gothenburg.

During the residency, Christian will focus on composing music for a future dance project.

Joel Heirås och Frøydis Dahlø
Project name: // Varieté 46. //

Joel Heirås

After being affected by Parkinson’s disease at the age of 40, I was faced with the question, how can a motor disease be handled with movement-based performing arts? Can the symptoms that at first glance be perceived as obstacles actually benefit the scenic creation?

I am a Gothenburg-based improviser, physical performer and musician. In my stage practice, I work in the borderland between theatre, dance, music and poetry. I enjoy when the combination of these elements puts me in a state of intense communication with others – fellow players and audience. The body – my instrument – is the register with which I have the opportunity to express myself, and it works best when I relate to this instrument like the puppeteer to his puppet. Or as music.

Frøydis Dahlø

For the past six years, she has lived and worked across multiple European countries, engaging in various tours and projects that merge nature performance, environmental art, theatre, and the development of urban ecosystems. She specializes in creating site-specific, immersive performances, drawing on methodologies she has explored as part of the performance group Acting for Climate in productions such as Greenhouse Network, Bark, and Redoubt Skalka.

Her practice is deeply rooted in sensory approaches to the environment, heavily influenced by new materialist and posthumanist philosophies, combined with an intimate knowledge of ecosystems and nature. A distinctive thread of humor—sometimes subtle, sometimes boldly explicit—runs through her work. This reflects both her personality and a deliberate strategy to engage with the weighty challenges of anthropocentric issues.

Frøydis thrives on playfulness and audience interaction, creating spaces for curiosity, co-creation, and exploration. She often invites the public into direct contact with materials, historical ecosystems, or the artistic process itself, opening doors to new perspectives and worlds.

About their work during the residency:

Physicality in a physical world
Poiesis in an autopoetic world.
the meeting point with ecologic practice

We engage with our current moment – the Anthropocene; How do we
re-Earth the Earth? and explore artistic practice to imagine a post
anthropocentric presence.

Attention, connection, loss of control. Physical problem solving.
PLAY! Research.
the agency (autopoiesis) of the site

Linnea Jardemark
Project name: Beyond Collaboration

Linnea Jardemark (b. 1990) is an artist based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her work can be experienced through performances, installations, guided walks and workshops. Jardemark graduated from the Fine Art Bachelor at Akademin Valand, The University of Gothenburg in 2018. She is currently a residency artist at Skogen in Gothenburg.

The ongoing projekt Beyond collaboration explores artistic collaborations in the extended time frame beyond the temporary project format. Can artist collaborations today be reimagined—both practically and philosophically—to move beyond either the commodification of the collaboration or the individualization of the solo process? Drawing from the philosophical idea of a logic beyond the separation of you and me, alone or together inspired by the philosopher Jonna Bornemark – can it be both collaborative and solo at the same time? To explore these questions, I use tools such as mapping, collective reading sessions, writing, and object-making.

More information: www.linneajardemark.se