Studio AiR Green 2025
Studio AiR Green is our 8 week residency for one artist
Chen-Yu Wang
Spring 2025
Chen-Yu Wang is a Taiwanese artist, researcher and factory girl currently based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. She holds a MA in Social Design from Design Academy Eindhoven and BA in Fashion Textiles from Ravensbourne University London. Her work has been included in a group exhibition at W139, GLUE Amsterdam, National Taiwan Crafts Research and Development Center, Dutch Design Week, London Design Festival, and Venice Design Biennale. She has been in the artist-in-residency at Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium; Salwa Foundation, The Netherlands; Icelandic Textile Center and more. She has given lectures at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague and Medialab Matadero, Madrid. In 2023, her artistic practice was awarded the Talent Development Grant by Stimuleringsfonds, The Netherlands.
Designer, artist, researcher, maker and factory girl, Chen-Yu Wang graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2022. In these different roles, Wang translates Eastern and Western ways of thinking, written information in Mandarin and English, the implicit between material and immaterial and the dialogue between us and the other. Wang wants to break through the silence of the important but invisible voices of capitalism. Core themes are decolonization, decentralization of euro-centrism, hybridization and anti-racism. Wang is looking for ways to integrate sociology and anthropology into her artistic practice. She expresses her reflections on these themes through the medium of textiles, sculptures, drawings, performances, installations and spaces. The act of making becomes a therapeutic tool for revisiting imprinted discomfort and to create a new reality for herself and the audience.
"At the end of 2024 I was practicing sound healing in India and it inspired me to interweave sound together with textiles. How? During my two months residency with AiR Green I want to take a break from my critical and political approach and return to the joy of working poetically with textiles, photography, the body, sound and painting. I am looking forward to staying in the natural environment in Norway, in an atmosphere that purely allows artists to concentrate on textiles, and have a chance to interact with other textile artists and curators. At the end of the residency, I am hoping to build a soft space participants can immerse in."
Chan-Yu Wang March 2025
Former
AiR Studio residents
Forough Absalan
Fall 2024
Absalan is an artist based in Berlin, originally from Iran, currently staying in Oslo. During the Air Green Artist Residency, Forough plans to focus on her current project titled with every grandma that falls, a mountain dies. This multimedia-textileart-installation is a tribute to the fading archives of ancestral knowledge, cultural practices, and the ecological damage intertwined with their loss
Deborah Jeromin
Spring 2024
Deborah Jeromin was born 1987 in Flensburg (Germany), lives and works between Leipzig (Germany) and Crete (Greece). She develops a research on mainly historical topics and makes them accessible through different media. She focuses on textile handcraft processes and memories, feminist history and sites of National Socialism. Her documentary “Riven Threads“ was shown on DOK Leipzig (2020) an Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (2021). 2020 she published the book „parachutesilk.“
