Various rock pigments on silk, bougainvillea pigment on silk, collection of Portuguese rocks, plants and sea sea shells, 2025.

Performances on video, projected on silk, 7:02 min, 2024–2025.

Cyanotypes on silk, various sizes, 2024.

The grantee artists Beata Daria Kubecka, Rina Neimi, and Mari Sagrusten, selected in partnership with the DTK Kunstfagskolen i Bærum art school (Norway), participated in the project titled “Coast to Coast”, which lasted 25 days, from April 3 to 27, 2025. Joining this project was artist Emilia Pennanen, based in Helsinki, Finland, also a grantee of the Culture Moves Europe initiative, with her own research project focused on the cliffs of Portugal’s western coast. She was working at the residency for 40 days, from March 18th until April 26th. This was part of their artistic residency at RAMA – Residências Artísticas de Maceira e Alfeiria, carried out within the scope of Culture Moves Europe, funded by the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut.

The artists were challenged to relate their artistic practices to their lived experiences along the coasts of Norway, Finland (where they reside), and Portugal’s West region, where RAMA is located. They sought points of contact and contrast between the nature, culture, and spirituality of each coastal territory — the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The project also focused on how the artists’ bodies and perceptions responded to displacement across these distinct environmental and cultural contexts.