Residency Far Away So Close
Residency Far Away So Close (RFASC) is mobile residency program for international professional curators in south Sweden. Each selected curator gets the opportunity to produce an exhibition in collaboration with an art institution in the region. The residency programme is supporting the curator and arrange meetings/visits with artists, galleries and institutions during a two month residency period.

The aim is to create exchange between the Swedish and the international art scene were the curator works. The curators will generate new opportunities for local artists and Swedish artists to exhibit internationally and will give the art scene in south Sweden a broader selection of exhibitions.

RFASC will through hands-on production of exhibitions support curators and investigate how institutions and indepandent curators can collaborate. The programme wants to enlighten and investigate the complex work structure of the curator, as an initiator, producer and network generator.


Residency Far Away So Close - 2009-2010
In collaboration with Ystad Konstmuseum, participationg curator: Sonia Dermience, Belgium.
Residency period: November 2009 - February 2010.
Opening at Ystad Art Museum: February 6

Sonia Dermience, born 1971, lives in Brussels
Dermience founded Komplot in 2002, a curatorial collective concerned with nomadic creative practices, trends of specialization and the infiltration of private, public and institutional space. Projects such as 'The Public School', 'Vollevox' or 'Architecture of Survival' explore new terrain in relation to objects, spaces, artists and the public. She has conducted extensive research into post '68 collaborative art practices in her native country of Belgium; organizing seminars and making two documentary films with artist Kosten Koper as Catherine Vertige. This research is on-going with the production of a new film and other projects which deal with the collaborative context.
CV_Dermience (pdf)

In collaboration with Malmö Konsthall, participating curator: Dorothea Jendricke, Germany.
Residency period: Spring 2010
Opening at Malmö Konsthall: March 10

Dorothea Jendricke, born 1975 lives and works in Berlin and Frankfurt, Germany
At present she holds a one-year research fellowship as Assistant Curator to Daniel Birnbaum and Melanie Ohnemus at PORTIKUS, Frankfurt am Main. Prior to this she was Co-Curator of the non-profit project space CENTER, and founder and director of SCHINKEL PROGRESSIVE RESIDENCY, Berlin as well as she worked for Berlin based gallery ESTHER SCHIPPER. She has done extensive work with publications, essays, and is a regular contributor for among others Flash Art and Artforum.com


Residency Far Away So Close 2009-2010 is a collaboration between:
Farawaysoclose, Malmö Konsthall and Ystad Art Museum
With support from:
Kultur Skåne, Statens Kulturråd och Stiftelsen framtidens kultur


Residency Far Away So Close - 2008-Jan 2009

From left : Linda Rydberg & Jessica Segerlund, Farawaysoclose, Gabrielle Giattino & Chris Sharp, curators in residence, Magnus Jensner, chief curator, Dunkers Kulturhus och Marika Reuterswärd, curator, Malmö Art Museum. Malmo Februari, 2008. Photo: Andreas Nilsson/Malmo Art Museum


Chris Sharp och Gabrielle Giattino
Foto: Andreas Nilsson/Malmo Konstmuseum

Curators in residence:
Gabrielle Giattino, USA, born 1975, lives and works in New York City, USA. She is the initiator for the curatorial platform DISPATCH in NYC and worked as a curator/director/associate director at Swiss Institute – Contemporary Art, New York, and information assistant at TATE Modern, London among other.
Exhibition RFASC: Subject Index at Malmo Art Museum, August 23 - October 12, 2008
Residency period: August 4 - 25 and September - October 15

Chris Sharp, USA, born 1974, lives and works in Paris, France. Worked as News Editor, Flash Art, Milan, 2006-spring 2008. Sharp written texts for catalogues produced by among others Drawing Centre, New York and Gasag Kunstwerk, Berlin. He has curated exhibitions at among others Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève, Paris and In Situ: Fabienne Leclerc, Paris.
Exhibition RFASC: Disarming Matter at Dunkers Kulturhus, October 10, 2008 - January 25, 2009
Lecture and talk: October 11 at Dunkers Kulturhus
Residency period: August - October 13

Residency Far Away So Close is a collaboration between Farawaysoclose, Malmo Art Museum and Dunkers Kulturhus.
With support from Kultur Skane and Stiftelsen framtidens kultur