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08/06 2026

Summer Sessions 2026 Residency – Selected Artists

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Summer Sessions is a European residency programme supporting emerging artists working at the intersection of art, technology and society. This international talent development network offers residencies to emerging artists, providing a productive environment, high-quality production support, and expert feedback to kick-start or further develop a professional artistic project. Artists selected for the residency program will have the opportunity to publicly present their work in the host country of one of the network’s partner organizations.

 

 

 

This year’s selection brings together ten artists and makers whose practices engage with a wide range of themes, methods and disciplines. During the coming months, they will develop new work through residencies hosted across the Summer Sessions network, receiving support from partner organisations, experts and local communities.

 

The selected artists are:

Emily W. Bernstein
Michael Caplan
Eunseong Park
Ivan Đukez
Nina Anin
Ceren Sözer
David Tiemstra
Julie van Essen
Miguel Teodoro
Arnas Rasimavicius

 

Metamedia Association will be hosting Ivan Đukez this year.

Ivan Đukez is a Croatian artist born in 1999. After enrolling at musical primary school, finishing high school for languages, he got a BA degree at School of design in Zagreb. He took three semestral courses for photography and film, a course for curatorial writing, and finished four Metamedia speculative design workshops. In 2024. he co-founded an art association, where he’s currently managing social media, design and photographic and video documentation. The association supports young and upcoming artists to experiment and produce works in multi and interdisciplinary art fields. His interests range from music and sound art to writing, graphic and product design and contemporary photography. Firmly believing in producing art with the community, through unpretentious acts, respecting the diversities and breeding inclusiveness, he tries to create always having this credo in sight. In his  projects he’s exploring the nature-human relationships, through physical, performative and respectful encounters with a dose of humour.

 

His work A sip of water questions how do the stories we tell ourselves impact us and our confidence as artists, partners or humans in general? If stories and emotions they carry affect the water, how do they influence us and our own structure? Different sound frequencies can influence cognitive states by encouraging brainwaves to oscillate in resonance with the sound (alpha, theta waves…) I would record my voice saying sth like: You are not original. Your work is old fashioned. Or: What you are doing is not enough. Using a vocoder or sound software to alter my voice, I would isolate the frequency or sometimes produce completely unintelligible sounds. These frequencies would be passed on to the bodies of water, by using vibrational speakers. That water is now a well of my emotions. The audience could take a sip of me or have a chance to “baptise me” in a performance. Water could be used from the areas of the residence, considering that the location in which the artist lives forms a part of the present self. This therapy, using sound and performance as healing tools, would allow me to reconcile with thoughts and voices that occupy my mind.

 

Summer Sessions offers artists the time and space to experiment, conduct research and expand their practice within an international context. Through a series of residencies across Europe, participants are encouraged to explore new ideas, collaborate across disciplines and engage with diverse technological, social and cultural environments.

 

 

The programme is organised by V2_ in collaboration with Sardegna Teatro (Italy), Metamedia (Croatia), Academy for Theatre and Digitality (Germany), PiNA (Slovenia), Schmiede Hallein (Austria) and Marginal (Romania).

 

 

The program is supported by the City of Pula, Istria County, and the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia.