This fall at FABRIKKEN's International Residencies 2026
Four artists arrive at FABRIKKEN this autumn. Here is a preview of who is coming and what they bring to FABRIKKEN and the Copenhagen art scene.
From August, FABRIKKEN for Kunst og Design welcomes four international artists in residence. Each brings a distinct practice — and together they reflect the breadth of artistic inquiry that the residency programmes are built to support.
Since 2007, close to 200 international artists have visited FABRIKKEN through fully funded residency programmes developed in partnership with leading Nordic and international arts institutions. The programmes offer a private studio, shared accommodation, travel support, curatorial guidance, and access to a professional community of more than 70 Copenhagen-based artists and designers. Each residency typically concludes with a public event.
FABRIKKEN's International Residencies in 2026 are supported by Det Obelske Familiefond, Statens Kunstfond, The Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark, The Finnish Cultural Foundation, and The Goethe-Institut Denmark.
AUGUST: Aala Nyman
Aala Nyman (FI, b. 1996) is a Helsinki-based artist working across sculpture, ceramics, photography, textiles, and installation. Her practice centres on the temporality and accidental nature of everyday objects and materials — found items, leftover and surplus materials, clothing, and other modest things from daily life. Nyman's process is one of discovery: things find their form through gathering, observing, and altering. She holds a Master's degree in Sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki (2025).
Nyman arrives in August as part of FIDA — an art market-oriented accelerator programme for early-career Finnish and Finland-based visual artists, developed and operated in collaboration with The Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark. The two-month residency coincides with the art fairs in Copenhagen and includes active curatorial support.
SEPTEMBER: Tuomas Lehtomaa
Tuomas Lehtomaa is an artist working with sculpture and site-specific installation. Their practice draws on the inner lives of everyday materials — and the expectations and desires that become bound to them.
Lehtomaa joins FABRIKKEN in September as part of The Finnish Cultural Foundation Programme — a collaboration for artists based in Finland offering two three-month residencies at FABRIKKEN per year, with active mentoring and curatorial support.
OCTOBER: Haliz Yosef
Haliz Yosef is an artist whose practice unfolds through site-specific engagement with place — asking why places carry the names they do, and whose stories they tell. She works with fragmented memory, diasporic identity, and ontological phenomena. Dreamlike narratives take on physical form through installation, sound, sculpture, and moving image. Her practice continues to evolve as she inhabits new places and encounters new objects; she approaches materials with curiosity and a feel for their particular romance.
Yosef joins FABRIKKEN in October for a three-month residency and will receive active mentoring and curatorial support.
OCTOBER: Joey Holder
Joey Holder (UK) is an artist and researcher whose work raises philosophical questions about our universe and the yet unknown — across science, technology, and human-machine-animal interactions. She creates immersive, multimedia works developed in conversation with experts from marine biology, genetic research, and behavioural psychology, exploring themes including deep-sea lifeforms, speculative evolution, non-human time, and aliens. Currently a PhD candidate at Birmingham City University, Holder is investigating how the concept of Multi-Agent Worlding can bring alternative possibilities into being. She also directs SPUR, an online platform supporting digital art, and Chaos Magic, an arts project space in Nottingham.
Holder arrives in October for a three-month residency and will receive active mentoring and curatorial support.
For inquiries regarding FABRIKKEN's international residency programmes, please contact Head of Development and International Residencies, Maria Gry Bregnbak: mb(at)ffkd.dk