Artist in Residence Program 2024 WORLD HERITAGE REVISITED
Since August 1st, 2024, five artists from the European Danube region have been guests of the donumenta Artist in Residence Program "WORLD HERITAGE REVISITED". During their four-week stay in the World Heritage City of Regensburg, they will explore the historical heritage and, based on this research, they will present their project ideas at the end of their stay.
Anna Zvyagintseva, Ukraine

Anna Zvyagintseva (1986) investigates imperceptible, impalpable facets of life, showcasing their fragility and documenting elusive intangible moments. She is working with topics such as body, paths, useless action, small gesture. Her oeuvre is made by an entanglement of drawing in various forms and transmedial variations like sculpture, installations, video and painting. She focuses on the idea of potentiality doing something without clear purpose, she researches how hesitation and mistakes can lead to unexpected encounters and outcomes. Many of her works speaks about potentiality of doubt and are an attempt to observe movement of thought. Zvyagintseva is particularly interested in situations which appear as unburdened by extreme effort or high expectation, as well as in small gestures which were done quickly, and which don’t claim to assert some form of truth.
Bojan Stojčić, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bojan Stojčić (1988) uses techniques and materials that are heterogeneous and subjected to form and moment. He exposes the poetics of his subject by reducing its meaning and form. He`s most intrigued by what is not there – be it personal, political or poetic. This is what his work articulates and uncovers. He highlights the essence of its politics by working with time, words and movement. Although informed by it, Stojčić`s practice does not expropriate the lived experience of the last Bosnian war. Rather, he deconstructs the notions embedded within the collective imaginaries surrounding him, deeply affected by the transformations of the social and geopolitical. Misplaced, displaced and missing moments, meanings and forms are at the root of both his work and individual history.
Erika Velická, Czech Republic

Erika Velická (1992) is a Czech sculptor known for her distinctive approach to material and form. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2013-2019) and has been pursuing postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Brno University of Technology since 2021. Since 2024 she has led the Sculpture 1 studio at AVU in Prague.Velická was awarded the Josef, Marie and Zdeňka Hlávka Foundation Award (2019) and the Bogdan Najdenov Prize for Figurative Sculpture (2017). Her practice is characterized by a unique sculptural language and recurring motifs that are adapted to the specific requirements of each project.
Johanna Tinzl, Austria

Johanna Tinzl (1976) is a visual artist. Her practice encompasses a broad spectrum of media and is based on a sensitive and participatory examination of the history of certain people, communities, places and landscapes. She explores questions of collective memory and politically motivated processes of representation. Tinzl is particularly interested in the performativity of historical narratives and the visualization of global and local dimensions of ecological and technological processes. In her sometimes fictional as well as documentary formats, the artist always emphasizes the polyphony of narratives and thus questions the hegemonic constructions of history(ies).
Sonja Jo, Serbia

Sonja Jo (1992) works in sculpture and installation. Her works focus on the impact of visual culture in everyday communication, ranging from childhood games, TV commercials to the five-pointed red star. She traces the transformation of these everyday symbols, questioning the two irreconcilable concepts of living, past ideologies and contemporary life. The ambivalent nature of the past and present and the transformations of meaning in different ideological conditions are recurrent themes in the artist’s works.