Photo: Nonzuzo Gxekwa

Marine Kaiser (CH / FR, 1992) is an artist based in Brussels. She investigates the roots of our contemporary landscapes through research into the construction of the West and its legacies. Her interventions compose contradictions and complexities by standing at the thresholds of temporary communities. After studying at HEAD Geneva and erg Brussels, she participated in the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Recently, her work has been presented at Manifesta 12 Palermo, Pavillon de l’Arsenal Paris, AGB Berlin, Le 18 Marrakesh, and Kanal – Centre Pompidou Brussels. During the ARCUS Research residency, Marine will explore the concept of Shakkei (borrowed scenery) as an opening toward another mode of affiliation with the living world, suggesting possibilities for a synergistic relationship: where what is occupied is to be shared, what is used is returned, what is damaged is repaired; where the passage beyond private property is not operated for picturing nature but where activities become nothing but borrowings.

Photo: Öncü H Gültekin

Iza Koczanowska is a Polish artist, researcher, and interior architect whose context- and place-　specific practice engages spatial and material research to produce sculptural installations and interventions within space. Through examining sociopolitical dynamics, tourism, and extractivism, she generates speculative, multi-entity realms and agencies. She graduated in Intermedia and Interior Architecture from the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, and holds an MA cum laude from the MIARD programme at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. She has participated in residencies at M4guestatelier (Amsterdam), Snehta (Athens), and Sesama (Yogyakarta), and her work has been presented at Dutch Design Week, the Nieuwe Instituut, and CSW Łaźnia in Gdańsk. At ARCUS, she will focus on Japanese wellness tourism, exploring care practices in traditional onsen for communal relaxation and connection. Through field research, local biomaterial experiments, and participatory engagement, she will examine social significance and cultural notions of shadow and atmosphere, producing research outputs and photographic documentation.
https://izakoczanowska.com

Photo: Micklin Korsuize

Augustina Lavickaitė is a visual researcher using image, sound, and text to explore how witnessing and remembering take shape in objects and landscapes. Augustina’s practice often uses archiving, both as a source of material and as a format: she collects new and found materials and assembles them into narratives. Her work has been presented at Art Rotterdam, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, the Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius, and Dutch Design Week. In 2024 she received the Young Designer Award from Vilnius Academy of Arts. She collaborates with institutions including Nieuwe Instituut in the Netherlands and is supported by Creative Industries Fund, Nordic Culture Point, and Cultuurfonds. At ARCUS, she will research reading the sky as a cross-cultural practice by comparing historical transcendental interpretation with contemporary geopolitical vigilance, asking how airspace becomes a legible surface for power and control.
https://augustina-lavickaite.com