VV Foundation is delighted to announce the Winners of the 2024 Autumn PAiR Open Call! This time, the quantity and quality of the proposals have led the jury to an exciting and meticulous selection process. We would like to thank everyone who submitted a proposal for their interest, time and effort. And we are thrilled to welcome new PAiR residents:

Eneritz Furyak (Eneritz Dueso Domenech) 

WURI 

Evelyn Raudsepp 

Kirill Makarov 

 

Information about the winners:

  • Eneritz Furyak (Eneritz Dueso Domenech) is from the Basque Country (Spain) and has developed her artistic career mainly in music, as a composer, producer and performer. Emadan (LP, 2021), her latest album, combines folk sounds and electronica with abstract lyrics written in Basque. In recent years she has also worked on different experimental projects, producing the soundtrack for the documentary film ‘Bi arnas’ (2022) and participating in the International Trikitixa Festival (traditional diatonic accordion festival) with a proposal of noise. Since 2023 she’s been working on her project Paisaiak (‘Landscapes’): a collection of audiovisual pieces created in different artist residencies around the world that encapsulate themes, imagery and sounds from each of the places she’s been working in. In Pāvilosta she will produce one of those pieces, probably the last one created abroad – a sound “postcard” inspired by the Baltic Sea and Kurzeme’s context and history, a culmination of the Paisaiak project that will provide another base for further future artistic research and collaboration.
  • WURI (b. 1979) lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. She received her BFA (2002) from the Korean National University of Arts, South KoreaShe has been working on various media such as photography, video, and installation, uniting them with everyday materials that are easy to ‘disappear’, thus creating stories that combine personal experiences and place-specific situations. She has participated in several exhibitions abroad, as well as in art galleries in Seoul, and collaborates with NGOs and various communities. Recently, has developed an interest in place attachment, place identity, and place memory in modern urban society, acknowledging the challenges of accumulating place attachment in the contemporary globalized world. Her working process frequently includes preliminary research on place experiences and workshop sessions with community members, which serve as a platform to comprehensively form the background for the project. Thus, she utilizes these activities as tools to find artistic ways to communicate within relationships with others and society.
  • Evelyn Raudsepp is a Tallinn-based curator and producer for performing and visual arts, interested in cross-disciplinary projects and experimental formats. She received a Bachelor’s Degree in theatre studies from the University of Tartu and a Master’s Degree in art studies from the Estonian Academy of Art. She is currently working as a creative producer for Independent Dance Stage (STL), as well as the curator and project manager at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM). Raudsepp’s curatorial position centres around her playful invitation to artists and curators to step beyond their conventional practices and working methods. With her performative curation, she creates unique formats in which the audience is also welcome to activate their perceptional horizon in order to meet unexpected artistic situations.
  • Kirill Makarov is an artist , born in Leningrad in 1988. Graduated from Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design. In 2011, he held his first solo exhibition — Secret Level. The first exhibition of paintings by Kirill was in Moscow at the Start Young Art Site of the Winzavod Contemporary Art Center (2013). Elbow Room Project, shown in the parallel program of the European Manifesta Biennale in St. Petersburg in 2014, marked the artist’s fascination with the latest media: in his art, he tries to synthesize a digital image with painting. He was a scholar of the grant program of Garage Museum for artists working in the field of contemporary art (2012–2013), artist-in-residence of the Abbey of La Pres (France), Vyksa Art Residence (Russia, 2019) and Garage Museum (Russia, 2019). His artworks are in collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery (Russia), Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation (Russia), Credit Suisse(Switzerland) and others. Now he lives and works in Paris.