Finland
http://www.nastjaronkko.com
@nastja_ronkko
Residency period: May-July 2026
Residency granted by Finnish Cultural Foundation @kulttuurirahasto
Nastja Säde Rönkkö is an artist working with moving image, performance, installation and text. Rönkkö works internationally and has exhibited and performed internationally in places such as Somerset House, London, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, SXSW, Austin, TX, Royal Academy of Arts, London, FACT, Foundation for Art and Technology, Liverpool, Museum of Moving Image, New York, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, UCCA China and BMoCA Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO.
Recent solo exhibitions include HAM Helsinki, Serlachius Museum Mänttä, Turku Art Museum, Seinäjoki Kunsthall, Finland (2024) and Beaconsfield Gallery, London (2023). Recent group exhibitions include Enter Woodland Spirits, European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024, Estonia, Riga Photograhy Biennale (2024), The Irreplaceable Human, Louisiana Art Museum, Denmark (2023-2024), Milk & Decay, Paradaise Tossed, IMAI Düsseldorf, Germany (2023) and LungA Bliss Festival, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland (2023).
Rebecca Krasnik has joined us here at SÍM Residency in May 2026 as part of the Nordic Analog Network Darkroom Exchange Program.
As part of the program, Rebecca hosted a Darkroom Workshop at Ljósmyndaskólinn on Saturday 23rd.
We are pleased to welcome artist and photographer Rebecca Krasnik to our residency program. Working across analogue photography, historic printmaking techniques, and computer-generated imagery, Krasnik’s practice explores the evolving relationship between physical and digital image-making.
Her work moves fluidly between artist books, sculptural installations, and augmented reality (AR), creating encounters that contrast bodily experience with digital representations of time and space. Through these layered approaches, Krasnik investigates how emerging technologies continue to shape the ways we create, perceive, and interact with images today.
During her residency, Krasnik is continuing her experimental research into photographic processes that bridge digital and analogue methods, bringing tactile, material practices into dialogue with screen-based imagery.
The residency is supported by the Nordic Analog Network in collaboration with Ljósmyndaskólinn.
Darkroom Workshop: Digital Contact Prints
As part of her stay, Rebecca Krasnik lead a hands-on workshop introducing participants to digital contact prints through experimental darkroom processes.
Using light emitted from screens, participants transformed digital images into analogue photographic prints. The workshop explored how water, physicality, and manual handling can be reintroduced into the creation of otherwise digital images.
Krasnik presented examples from her own experimental practice, providing an introduction to the technique, and guiding participants through their own darkroom experiments.
Images above: Rebecca Krasnik's work. Images courtesy of Rebecca Krasnik.
Images above: Documentation of darkroom workshop, 'Digital Contact Prints'. images courtesy of Rebecca Krasnik.
SÍM Residency presents In Resonance — a group exhibition by artists-in-residence originally on view at SÍM Project Space in March 2026, the exhibition is now available as a virtual experience until July 16th.
Follow the link to enter the virtual exhibition: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=pLecJx3EDoH
Participating Artists:
Luna van der Straaten she/her - NL
Igor Schiller he/him - RS/NL
Debbie Chen she/her - USA
Heesoo Agnes Kim she/her - ROK
Sunny Ely they/them - CA
