Residinsje

Radina Kordova - Artist in Space

Kunsthuis Syb is happy to present From the source to the mouth and everything in between, a research and performance project by Radina Kordova.

For this residency, Kordova walks the full 2,850-kilometre course of the Danube, from its source in Germany’s Black Forest to its delta at the Black Sea in Romania. Through walking, listening, and sensory documentation, she treats the river as a living presence and reflects on ecology, memory, identity, and belonging.

The project grows out of her long relationship with the Danube, having once lived on its banks in Ruse, Bulgaria. Moving against the familiar East to West route, she walks west to east through Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania, gathering sensory, spatial, and political traces along the way.

The residency is part of Artist in Space, a talent development programme of the Noordenaars, a network of more than 16 art spaces across the northern Netherlands.

Below is Radina’s first journey letter, sent from along the Danube.

Noordenaars and Artist in Space

Noordenaars is a platform for art presentation venues and initiatives in the north of the Netherlands. In 2024, Noordenaars launched four new programs to stimulate the artistic and professional practices of promising visual artists, from emerging to mid-career (Veld, Lucht, Land, and Horizon). The Artist in Space program encourages the creation of new work that can make a meaningful contribution to contemporary art in the Netherlands. Over the course of a year, artists collaborate with art spaces in Friesland, Drenthe, and Groningen, as well as with partners from both within and outside the art sector, guided by their individual developmental goals.