Funding Recipients

Funding recipients

DAI Friends & Alumni Grant raised money for a grant for second-year DAI students from outside the EU. This grant was to be shared with eligible and interested DAI students, who bear financial burden and/or stress in their second year of study.

Meet those who have been supported by this grant in previous years:

Dandelion Eghosa

Dandelion Eghosa is a 27 year old non-binary visual artist from Nigeria, who is currently studying at the DAI Art praxis-Artez MA program in the Netherlands, working with diverse visual mediums including photography, digital, analog collages, and film. Their interests lie in documenting the expressions of everyday life and in highlighting marginalized identities particularly the Afro-LGBTQ+ community. Their work offers a fresh interpretation of queer imagery that provides a counterpoint to existing misrepresentations and encourages the expansion of human thought, beliefs and feelings.

Hannah Lee Jones

Hannah Jones (US) is an interdisciplinary artist working with dance, writing, video and has a history of engagement in collaborative, experimental projects. She completed her undergraduate education in Studio Art at Oberlin College, after which she lived in Detroit, MI and is currently based in Berlin, DE.

Marilú Namoda

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Marilú Mapengo Námoda is an artist whose work focuses on healing colonial trauma.

Performance, Storytelling, Astrology, Installations and Videoart are some of the multiple mediums she/they have been experiencing.
Currently developing LOVE PRAXIS an art intervention oriented to support humanity's on the journey of giving birth to the Futures.

website: https://mmaapengonamoda.com/

Maoyi (Peixuan Qiu)

Maoyi is a former architect working within the realms of art and activism. They work with the tools of field research, visual design, moving images, sound, text, and sometimes performances to unpack a series of questions concerning queer migration and spatial resistance. As one of the co-founders of an independent space base in China, they work with queer feminist communities in cross-regions and transnational collaborations on the basis of considering the dynamics of underground spaces and queer practice within the East & Southeast Asian landscape.

Marika Vandekraats

Marika Vandekraats is a Canadian artist working with text, sculpture, performance, and sound to highlight moments of exchange between human and non-human worlds.

Through this research, she (in)forms through a variety of knowledges and works to unravel the entanglements made between climate and capital in the world. She is currently based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Anastasia Nefedova

Anastasia Nefedova (b. 1991, Zhukovsky, Moscow region) is a curator and researcher currently based in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. In her practice, she addresses questions of how we (human and non-human) can live together, sharing experiences, memories, and stories through alternative tools of preservation, transmission, and perception.

Among her curatorial and group projects are Grain Forecasting by Co(in)cidentally kollektiv with Gamze Öztürk, Community art project for Charlois neighbourhood, Rotterdam (2023); Speed-Placing Game What’s the Point with Valeria Moro, for 24 hours marathon by SOUPSPOON Collective , RIB Gallery, Rotterdam (2023); Dream Wasteland by Mats Adelman and Ylva Westerlund (MMOMA, 2022); and Unnamable. Selected works from the collection of ММОМА with Olga Turchina (Centre of Contemporary Arts Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod, 2021-2022). Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine she was working as a curator and researcher at Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art (MMOMA, 2019-2022).

Baoxin (Bobo) Liao

Baoxin Liao (Bobo) is an artist and curator who comes from Southern China and developed her artistic lives between Canton and Rotterdam while remaining deeply engaged with her native region as a source of creative inspiration.

Liao worked as a curator and researcher at FEI Arts in Guangzhou, China from 2017 to 2020. In 2020, Liao established an art collective ‘Shunde_Shuntak’ in her hometown Shunde, which is dedicated to researching, documenting, and disseminating culture and knowledge in southern China. Liao’s current artistic practices intertwines folktale, rituals, auto-ethnography, performance and every day life. With a desire to explore the multi-layered culture of her hometown, and to engage in contemporary art research and interdisciplinary collaborations,

Gabriel Acevedo

Gabriel Acevedo Velarde (Lima, 1976) is a Peruvian artist currently working on an autobiographical rendering of his participation in a group legal complaint that took him and other ex-students of his school to the Peruvian Congress in 2017. Some of his his solo shows are "Paranormal Citizen" (Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid), "Interruptions on decrees and stages" (Mori Museum, Tokyo), "Quorum Power" (Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City), "Cone Flow" (Modern Art Museum at Fort Worth, Texas). He has participated in the Lyon Biennial, Sao Paulo Biennial, Corruption - Everybody knows (e-flux NY), among other group exhibitions. He currently lives in between Amsterdam and Brussels.

Noam Youngrak Son

Noam Youngrak Son is a communication designer practicing queer publishing. They explore revolutionary methods of disseminating deviant narratives. In their work, publishing concerns more than mere printed matter, since, in its etymology, the word "publishing" originally meant to populate communities and to breed interspecies relations. The term "queer" in this context is not used as a statement of identity but as that of methodology – small yet collective strategies of publishing that challenge the modern myth of a heroic designer.

Yi Hong Wang

Hong is an image researcher. His practice focuses on absence as a (re)calling technology in the image. The interest guides him in digging into re/deconstructing the subjectivity ghost of the island Taiwan and image fragmentally with archipelago/islander thinking.

Raúl Silva

Raúl Silva is an arts researcher focused on working from historic memory, approaching the relations between the colonial religious imagery, the ideal of modernity, the paradigm of progress and the aftermath of the internal armed conflict in Perú. He holds a BA in Fine Arts from Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and am currently studying an MA in Art Praxis at the Dutch Art Institute (ArtEZ).

Lucas Lugarinho

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Lucas Lugarinho (BR) produces videogames and paintings as an effort to better understand our ever so mutualistic relationship with images. By exploring the constant feedback loop between culture, technology and nature, the artist steers through digital landscapes of subculture imageboards, buried blogs or over-attended videos in order to connect what modes of bonding with abstractions have emerged from the systematic reinforcement of past century’s telecommunications revolution over our lives.

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yy? (b.1993) born and raised in Shandong, China. Her work encompasses social practice, installation, textile, and text. Through her practice, she examines her long interest in the position of women's subject within patriarchy, enacts critical social practices by researching feminist philosophies and activism archive, examining the dynamics within the power structure of Asian families, and expanding the imaginaries associated with polyphyletic communities.

Foad Alijani

Foad Alijani is a transmedia artist interested in the interplay between memory and space through imagination and prospection. His research-oriented, process-based practice reveals itself through maps, static and moving images, and what he terms contraption-installations. Since 2018, he has been progressing his curatorial initiative, Paadmaan projects, which explores the alternative paths and the practice of art within the ever-changing conditions of life.

Anna Buyvid

Anna Buyvid is a curator and researcher. She was born in Ukraine and has been based in Amsterdam since 2014. Her curatorial practice addresses the notion of borders. The topic expands from the apparent current global situation to more profound social and political aspects of limitations. Anna’s goal is to address what can be done through interventions to understand the functional impact and role of boundaries in today’s world, where there are no “natural” borders - all are social constructions delimited by governments and institutions. Her research covers postcolonial narratives in Eastern Europe, censorship, propaganda, and alternative exhibition solutions, it is also in sync with curatorial work on notion of trauma and enclosed spaces. It expands with a question of how we experience catastrophe away from catastrophe. “I consider curating as a discursive practice, inalienable from ideological and socio-political aspects. At the same time, research becomes a media, a category or a form, so new formats of its representation are a vital part of development.”

Qiaoling Cai

She writes, curates, and wanders.

When creating, she is driven solely by an inner "must do," never following any trend. Currently, she is fascinated by narrative structures that fail to convey true feelings and meanings, and their manifestations in contemporary Chinese popular film and television. Through this, she attempts to process the intergenerational trauma tied to her relationship with her era and country during her formative years. When curating, she values communication with the audience, believing that the negotiation space built by art possesses transformative force. She sees curation as weaving relationships, with action focused on persistently building connections, and never using people as mere tools to achieve goals.

At the center of her inner universe is the rooftop from her childhood, where she would gaze long at the sky, listening to the everyday sounds of her neighbors.

As a curator at Guangdong Times Museum (2018-2022), she participated in researching and curating multiple group and solo exhibitions, and developed participatory interpretation projects for audiences.

Echo Yijia Guo

Echo Yijia Guo is an audiovisual maker and a living being. Their artistic practices are rooted in understanding layers of relationships between migrants and social-ecological spaces, to reach the proximity toward home. Rethinking through boundaries, borders, and rules, Echo is testing tools not only to re(dis)orient their body in an unfamiliar space but also to navigate and reclaim diasporic bodily experiences in societies marked by intersectional discrimination. Such tools and methodologies encompass practices like counter-mapping, memory archiving, re-enactment, processes of unlearning, collective writing, participatory projections, and game-making.

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