Kordon announced their residents for the PINHOLE residency program

KORDON is thrilled to announce the selected residents for the PINHOLE residency program, which will take place from May 17 to July 15, 2026 in Hiiumaa. PINHOLE focuses on spatial situations in post-traumatic times, addressing the persistence and adaptation of military architectural heritage in the context of social and political transformations.

The aim of the residency is to explore spatial values and examine how and why architectural structures still exist from one era to another, even after losing their original function and meaning. We seek to answer the question: what are the spatial values that transcend the timeline of change? The residency program aims to address political trauma through artistic research.
 
Right now, when there is a war in Europe, the question of its consequences for the environment and the local community has raised in focus. How to deal with the complex legacy of war? How to rethink, repurpose and reuse military architecture to heal the wounds of the past? In what way to transform the gloomy shadows of the past into a modern spatial art experience? Time and space, past and future – everything is connected, one influences the other. In the present moment, dealing with the past, we look at the future through a PINHOLE, where things may look completely different. PINHOLE program is a continuation of the TIME LAP residency program in KORDON, which took place in the fall of 2024.

Anu Pennanen (FI) is a visual artist and filmmaker born in Kirkkonummi, Finland. Her films and video installations have been exhibited extensively: CCA, Glasgow; CAC, Vilnius; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Montehermoso Cultural Center; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Manifesta 5, Donostia-San Sebastián, Nordic Art Biennial, Ars Baltica Triennale, Liverpool Biennial, Grand Café Saint-Nazaire, KUMU Estonian Art Museum, KunstenFestival des Arts Brussels and Kiasma Museum Helsinki, among others.

Kaisa Karvinen (FI) is an architect, curator and researcher currently based in Helsinki. Through writing, publications, and exhibitions she explores the principles shaping the construction of diverse futures and histories in architecture and design. She is the curator of the Finnish Pavillion of Architecture Biennale in Venice 2027 and Nordic Pavillion 2025.

Jona Kleinlein (NO) is based in Henningsvær Lofoten and works with Film, Video Games and Installations. He graduated Moving Images (BA) from Nordland University of Art and Film (now Filmuniversity Kabelvåg, part of University in Tromsø). Kleinlein works as a Director of Photography on different projects and was part of Total Refusal 2020-2024 where he conducted lectures, screened films and had several exhibitions.

Nelly Haag (NO) is based in Lofoten, Norway where she cooperates with her partner Jona Kleinlein in documentary film and independent video art. Their work has received development grants by Arktisk Film Norge and Norwegian Film Institute. She is part of the European Social Documentary Training Program (EsoDoc 2025). Her professional background includes both practical and theoretical theatre work.