New Artists in residence at IASPIS in Stockholm

IASPIS welcomes five international artists (including two artist collectives) to the residency programme in Stockholm in September 2025: Nur Horsanali, Mulu Office (Liu Chao-Tze and Zhou Junsheng), Alisa Oleva, Maria Toumazou, Space Black (Rayan Elnayal and Heba Tabidi).

The International Dance Program welcomes Sweden-based artist Anna Pehrsson.

Alisa Oleva, MULU OFFICE, Anna Pehrsson, Nur Horsanali, Space Black, Maria Toumazou

Nur Horsanalı is a Turkish designer, researcher, and educator based in the Netherlands. With a background in industrial design, her practice critically engages with the built environment, industrial production systems, and the relationships between human and more-than-human actors within these realms. Working across collaborative exhibitions, publications, and educational formats, she activates spaces for reflection and dialogue while exploring decentralised approaches to design. Her current work is rooted in collective practice with the Sympoietic Society, a cross-border group addressing ecological loss and grief through site-sensitive interventions.

MULU OFFICE is an artist collective and small-scale art publishing studio based in New Taipei City, Taiwan. Founded by visual artists Liu Chao-Tze and Zhou Junsheng in 2021, MULU has been actively experimenting with ways of transforming images into pages and integrating them with viewers’ reading behaviour through co-creation. For MULU, reading a book — especially an artist’s book — is one of the most direct and intimate ways for audiences to engage with artworks. A book is not only an independent object but also a container in which images — placed between pages — sequentially map a continuum of time and space that unfolds and connects with the viewer in the present.

Alisa Oleva is a walking artist based in London. She works in the city’s spaces and streets, exploring the politics of public space and how the city moves — and how we move it — through urban choreography and urban archaeology. Her practice engages with traces and surfaces, borders and inventories, intervals and silences, passages and cracks. Projects have taken the form of one-to-one and collective performances, walking scores, intimate encounters, gatherings, parkour sessions, walkshops, soundwalks, and audiowalks.

Maria Toumazou is an artist based in Nicosia, Cyprus. Working predominantly with sculpture, she shapes objects, materials, and situations through creative processes informed by site and biography.

At IASPIS, she will research the genre of exhibition catalogues in historical collections, as a way to deepen her inquiry into how artworks are mediated before and after exhibitions.

Space Black was founded with a hopeful vision for an alternative, imaginative, and innovative future. The studio is led by architectural designer and visual artist Rayan Elnayal and civil engineer and DJ Heba Tabidi. They are building an alternative practice model that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration to imagine spatial futures for marginalised communities rooted in justice and joy. The studio explores underrepresented and under-resourced ideas in the built environment through concept design and research, education, and cultural work.

Anna Pehrsson, born in Boliden, is a dancer, choreographer and artist active in the intersection between dance, choreography and visual arts. She has danced with Alias Compagnie, Corpus / Royal Danish Ballet, and Cullberg Ballet, among others and has since debut as a choreographer 2016, created a wide range of works for the gallery, the public sphere, as well as commissioned works and research projects. She is also a visual artist, extending her work to writing, drawing, stone carving, metal work and video. Pehrsson is an associate artist of Weld, Stockholm and holds an MFA in Choreography from DOCH, an MFA from Konstfack and a postmaster accreditation from KKH, The Royal Institute of Art.