We are excited to share that the TIDAL ArtS Residency Programme has selected its four winning artistic projects, and one of them will take place in Hungary, along the Danube in Ráckeve.
Out of more than 600 international applications, four projects were awarded €50,000 each, representing key European water regions.
The selected Hungarian residency, HUSO HUSO, will be hosted by the Árpád Museum in Ráckeve.
Adam Hudec is a researcher, artist/architect, and environmental activist working at the intersection of art, spatial research, and natural sciences. He is co-founder of Dusts Institute, a Vienna-based platform exploring environmental sensing, material agency, and participatory practice.
Monika Pascoe Mikyšková is a visual artist. Her work has long been positioned at the intersection of painting, drawing, object, and spatial installation. She systematically develops themes of the relationship between humans and nature, memory, and time, with a particular focus on plant structures, ethnobotany, and material processes.
Their residency project, HUSO HUSO, engages with the Danube’s transformed aquatic ecosystem as both a living environment and a layered cultural archive. It addresses the ecological consequences of industrialisation, dam construction, and river regulation, which have disrupted habitats, oxygen flows, and species migration.
Focusing on the extinction of the beluga sturgeon, once central to the river’s biodiversity and cultural identity, the project reflects on the loss of interconnected ecological and human systems. Drawing on ancient practices, Danube sediments will be processed into natural pigments, each encoding the river’s chemical and environmental conditions.
Historical artefacts from the hosting institution, Árpád Museum, further anchor the work in local traditions and livelihoods once tied to the river.
The project is developed collaboratively with local communities and scientists through workshops in Ráckeve, where participants will create ceramic mosaic tiles by painting with river sediments. Scientific partners contribute ecological analysis, merging research with artistic practice.
The final exhibition will present the outcomes of the research, community workshops, and a sculpture of the sturgeon, symbolising both loss and renewed connection.
Each residency artist or collective will receive a financial grant of €50,000 to develop and deliver their project for a year, engaging local communities in creative activities connected to the Mission’s themes of ocean and water restoration.
The activities and results of each residency project will be presented publicly in their respective region from Spring 2027.
👉 Find all artists and their full project descriptions at: https://tidalarts.eu/tidal-arts-announces-four-winning-artistic-projects-for-residency-programme/
This project is funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe research and innovation programme.