21/04/2026
Thinking with aquatic organisms in the Baltic Sea…
We are excited to welcome our new GRASS Fellow, Kristina Õllek, to Gotland. She will be in residence at BAC for six weeks, during which time she will also occupy a workspace at Campus Gotland in Visby. On Gotland she will, amongst other things, be researching water from a broad spectrum and tapping into research areas of local marine ecologists.
Kristina Õllek (born 1989 in Tallinn, Estonia) is a visual artist based in Tallinn. Over the past nine years, her work has explored the fragile deep-sea ecosystems on the coasts of the North Sea and sunk into the hypoxic zones of the Baltic Sea - ”thinking with” the aquatic organisms, such as cyanobacteria, as well as the filter feeders.
The GRASS Fellow Programme, organised by BAC and Uppsala University Graduate School in Sustainability Studies (GRASS), invites artists with a particular focus on sustainability issues to Campus Gotland. The aim of the residency programme is twofold: for the artists to deepen their practice in dialogue with researchers and students, and to enrich the campus environment with artistic experiments, field trips, workshops and artistic interventions that contribute to increased curiosity, awareness and knowledge about sustainability issues.
The GRASS Fellow Programme is supported by the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture in 2025-2026.
