Introducing Split residency artists: Alexandra and gruppocorp3
Right after the PMP Workshop Week in Croatia, 1 + 2 artists will remain in Split for their hybrid artist residency. They will work for a month in beautiful Split and after that, they´ll continue their work for another 4 weeks online. The artists will work on their own projects as well on a section for the PMP Toolkit.
Meet the artists:
Alexandra Stroganova
Website: www.alexandrastroganova.com
Instagram: @xstrox
Alexandra Stroganova (b. 1990, FI) is a transdisciplinary artist based in Helsinki. She holds an MA degree in Nordic Visual Studies and Art Education, with a minor in Visual Culture, Curating, and Contemporary Art from Aalto University, Finland.
Her artistic work spans a wide range of media, combining research with experimental uses of materials and sustainable practices. Currently, Alexandra is drawn to alternative photographic processes such as cyanotype, anthotype, and analogue photography.
Through her artistic practice, Stroganova challenges the divides between nature and culture, human and non-human, and past-present-future. In her work, Alexandra draws on feminist philosophies such as new materialism and hydrofeminism, promoting the ethics of care and attentiveness, where more-than-human agents such as water, plants, and fungi become active collaborators.
PMP Toolkit
Through the PMP toolkit, Stroganova will share perspectives on ethics in artmaking from a feminist new materialist standpoint. This approach sees ethics as relational — acknowledging the agency of the more-than-human realm and emphasizing co-creation with matter, ecosystems, and legacies.
Residency Project at PROSTOR, Split
During the residency at PROSTOR in Split, Alexandra plans to deepen her exploration of water in relation to the notion of identity by working with alternative photographic processes and video, incorporating locally sourced materials like seaweed. Split’s history as a coastal city, shaped by migration, maritime exchange, and ecological change, provides a compelling context for this work.
– I see art as a process of entanglement with materials, histories, and environments, and I want to explore the notion of identity as porous, viscous, and ever-changing through the lens of hydrofeminism. I look forward to exploring the Dalmatian coast, working with the sea, and connecting with the community at PROSTOR, Stroganova says.
The outcome of this residency will form the basis for the artwork to be presented at the final Professional Media Presence project exhibition in October 2026.
gruppocorp3
Instagram: @gruppocorp3
Contemporary dance collective gruppocorp3 was founded in 2024 by Milan based dancers Eleonora Serpente and Roberta Di Serio (both born in 1999, IT). The collective creates, in collaboration with visual artists and musicians, screendance projects, interactive performances and live installations, focusing on the influence that artwork produces on natural, artificial and human environments.
Project STeReO
During their residency in Split, Eleanora and Roberta will work on their new project STeReO, which stages a body in exploration, a body that fights and fights itself, torn between judgments and legacies and a visceral desire to discover and reveal itself.