SAIR Residency – Final Chapter
- Augustus Veinoglou
- Oct 8
- 2 min read
The final edition of the SAIR residency programme brings together two remarkable artists, Adrianna Szojda (1989, Poland) and Olga Staňková (1995, Czech Republic), hosted at Snehta Residency in Athens. SAIR is an EU-funded collaboration between four partner organisations MGLC Ljubljana, Matadero Madrid, MeetFactory Prague, and Snehta Athens; dedicated to fostering transnational artistic exchange and sustainable cultural practices.
Adrianna Szojda (right) is a researcher, cultural mediator, and artist working at the intersection of art, education, and agroecology. Her practice investigates human and more-than-human interrelationships, exploring new forms of interspecies communication through plurisensoriality and non-hegemonic epistemologies.
Engaging with ecofeminism, food sovereignty, and collective care, her project “In-between soil and debris: regenerative practices and methodologies with and for the damaged world” seeks to trace regenerative practices that already exist within local communities. At Snehta, Szojda continues her research through experiments with soil chromatographies and by mapping local regenerative networks.
Olga Staňková is a Czech interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on material and processual experimentation within abstract and formal creation. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Fine Arts and Art Management at the University of Technology in Brno, her doctoral research “Fluid Nature” examines artistic approaches reflecting the current state of nature. Through her work, Staňková explores the boundaries between painting, object, and materiality while addressing themes such as the Anthropocene, biocene, and ecological interconnection.
During her residency at Snehta, she continues her series of airbrush and epoxy pigment experiments, developing the theoretical framework embedded within their metaphorical language.
With the conclusion of this residency cycle, the SAIR programme will culminate in its final event on 28, 29, and 30 November, marking the official closing of the project and celebrating the collaborative achievements among the four partner organisations and their artists.