Unidee2008

Visual artist, Gothenburg, Sweden
Born in Gothenburg, after receiving her BFA in San Francisco, she has since exhibited internationally. In 2006 the Duolun Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai presented her solo exhibition, and as part of the 52nd Venice Biennale exhibition “Migration Addicts”, she created a sculpture in the Campo Santo Stefano. Josefina was invited for a residency at Sculpturespace in New York and received a fellowship from the Independent Study Course at Konsthögskolan Valand, resulting in a publication and exhibition.

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………………………………….Artist in Residence in Shanghai

A residency program will be created for the exchange of cultural workers in the Asian region, based on the ideas of Cittadellarte and Unidee-University of Ideas, as a response to the absence of communication between the Asian regions as well as the lack of local funding for such projects.
With the main office located in Shanghai, it will be registered as a non-profit in Hong Kong and host institutions in Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Philippines and Malaysia. The main office will raise the necessary funding and support for the residencies at the regional host institutions. Residents will receive an initial introduction to the ideas of Cittadellarte Unidee and Art for Social Responsible Transformation, after which they will become residents at their preferred host institution around the Asian region.

The Shanghai office will act as an independent association in collaboration through active exchanges in residencies, workshops and projects, assistance in locating and applying for funding, with the hope of constant exchanges between the main office in Biella, the Shanghai office and regional Asian host institutions.
The idea is to plant the seed of the possibilities from combining cultural workers personal research with social responsible transformation in all fabrics of life such as economy, education, politics, philosophy and science. Applications from cultural workers would be welcomed, as well as host institutions in the realization of projects in a network of cultural institutions.