Lilo4ever! Thanks for your love! Rest in peace angel u always be with us. Maybe love is something we learn through practicing it and you made me practice it everyday. Grateful that we found each other and for Chi chi to make it happen #dontshopadopt and all friends and people that she meet!
More than Human – More than Residency is a project I’m doing together with curator and researcher Camilla Larsson about hosting and intimacy. On 15/11 14:00 we will have Ida Bencke giving the lecture “Rehearsing decolonial ecologies”
In this talk, Ida Bencke will share some of the reflections and hesitations connected to the exhibition Hosting Lands which she is co-curating along with Dea Antonsen and Aziza Hamel.
The project More than Human more than Residency focuses on the intimate dimension of running residencies and of communicating what emerges from the residency periods in the form of art exhibitions, artist talks, open studios, and other public activities. The question of intimacy is a fundamental, but often overlooked, aspect of small actors’ activities. By intimacy we mean, first and foremost, a sense of closeness and trust that forms the basis for being able to meet human to human and in “more-than-human” relations, as well as to connect to a place. It is also a necessary quality in order to create art, share one’s creation, and to be able to receive art and culture. It is a quality that this project values and will generate knowledge about. We will also ask ourselves what intimacy is and can be in a time of both geological and geopolitical crisis. Picture by artist Eleonora Meoni @_atthelove_ thanks for the trust this project is supported by region Stockholm as part of @nkf_sweden extended public programs
finally made a bench that wanna be a painting out of a drawing on a crazy CNC machine at @lejonsnickeri_bygg and it looked like a hand sawed thing amazing and it holds three foto by @nojannahasnos Anna Johansson
Natasja Loutchko, The thing that holds you
2025
Monolith chair with paint and glue
Mörby gård konst picture by stellar @simonblanck@morbygardkonst thanks to @lejonsnickeri_bygg for the vanish
Fragiles Open studio 16-19 @nkf_sweden with @ella_cb invited by @cave3000 photo by @4namendoza4ldana . Thanks for the opportunity to have you over.
Ellas videos and installations are informed by her sculptural practice. Her sculptural work informs these more essayistic pieces, and what she learns from her immediate exchanges with materials and objects feeds directly into how she conceives space in her installations.
Ella C Bernard Fragiles
Walk and screening 27/9 Nordic guest studio, Stockholm
Walk 16.00 Nytorget 15A start at the Nordic guest studio
17.00 - 19.00 Open studio and screening at Nytorget 15A at the Nordic guest studio
18.00 Soup and tea
We begin at the studio, where Ella C Bernard will give a short introduction to her project and practice. Afterwards, participants are invited to join Ella on a walk to observe the “details” inscribed in the urban space—traces that reveal how we live in and engage with the city. Participants are encouraged to bring their phones to photograph or film what we discover together. After the walk we gone head back to the studio where there will be the a chance to see Ella C Bernards practice and the project Fragiles. There will be soup and tea.
The walk in the neighbourhood lasting about 1–1.5 hours and will be in the area around the studio.
Fragiles
Fragiles is a series of abstract portraits of places and cities. The artist began the project as a sculptural installation in Paris in 2023. Since then, it has developed into a combination of sculpture and film, with Stockholm becoming the third iteration, following Paris, France, and Lima, Peru.
The work focuses on infrastructure and explores how film can create a tangible, haptic experience of the city. In each location, the artist collaborates with local sound artists, musicians, and writers to discover the city as its residents live it, and to trace how they care for their environment—inscribed in the marks of time on architecture and urban space.
The project pays particular attention to structural elements—such as sewer and ventilation systems, the wear of time, or visible DIY fixes—that reflect how inhabitants engage with their surroundings. Ella C Bernard is invited by Natasja Loutchko in the unfolding project CAVE — an art project of intimate dialogues. #ellacbernard #cave3000
Ella C Bernard is at Nordic guest studio to work on their ongoing project Fragiles.
Fragiles is an ongoing series of abstract city portraits that began in Paris (2023) and expanded in Lima (2024). In Stockholm, Bernard will work on the third iteration, combining sculpture and film to explore how architecture and streets carry traces of time and everyday life. Collaborating with local voices, she creates haptic encounters with the city through sound, text, and moving image.
Ella C Bernard is a German artist whose visual practice encompasses sculpture, installation, moving image, and text. She primarily works with found and salvaged objects and materials, which often bear traces of their use and their abandonment from the utilitarian and capitalist circuit. Selected for their aesthetic and material potential, these elements are incorporated into installations or become sculptures while retaining their agency: they are presented to be read as they are, without calling for metaphorical or narrative interpretations from viewers.
She is also co-founder of Unqualified Comments, a feminist, queer, and anti-fascist platform for collective reflection and exchange. At her stay she will host a public event with Unqualified Comments and Fragiles.
Walk with Ella C Bernard
27.09 at the Nordin Guest studio located at Nytorget 15A
4pm
Ella C Bernard graduated from the Städelschule, Frankfurt, in 2022 and has since exhibited widely across Europe, the U.S. and Mexico. Ella C Bernard is invited by Natasja Loutchko in the unfolding project CAVE — an art project of intimate dialogues @cave3000 pic. Ella C Bernard Ass in Window 95x65 cm
