Artist in Residence, Stockholm, 1 September–15 November 2026

Rosa Aiello is an Italian-Canadian artist, filmmaker and writer. She often works with collaborative methods and with editing in various capacities. Her works, at once intimate and alienating, primarily take the form of time-based media: experimental fiction and documentary films, live performance, as well as architectural installation and photographic series. She is interested in structures; both social constructs, like the family, and the actual built world, like architecture and city infrastructure. Her focus on film is also a focus on conditions of film production, and the relational dynamics which emerge from the filmmaking process. She thus documents and interrogates social forms, especially collaborative roles, hierarchies, and states of observation and performativity.  She lives and works in Berlin.

Rosa Aiello

While at IASPIS she will be developing new experimental documentary-fiction film work.

She has had solo shows in numerous venues, most recently at Westfalischer Kunstverein, Muenster (2025); Mint, Stockholm (2024); Anorak e.V, Berlin (2023); Galerie Drei, Cologne (2023); Kevin Space, Vienna (2022). Her video works have been shown at Kasseler Dokfest, Matatabi Moving Image, Centre Pompidou, Fluentum, ICA London, The Whitney Museum, SAAG Lethbridge, Kunstmuseum/KunsthalleAppenzell, Cittipunkt, and SculptureCenter among others. Her work is part of the public collections of Whitney Museum, Centre Pompidou, and FRAC Lorraine. She has been part of the fiction group Pure Fiction since 2014. She graduated from Peter Fischli’s class at Staedelschule in 2018, and studied narrative form at Oxford University and McGill University before that. In 2024 she participated in the Berlinale Talents film networking program. Her writing has been published in various publications including Triple Canopy, Art Papers, CanadianArt, and F. R. David. In 2026, she will release the book Room Tone with Distanz Verlag, in which she reflects and has invited others to reflect on methodology and collaboration in filmmaking.