Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and HIAP - Helsinki International Artist Programme announce the recipients of the TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange 2025

TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange has been active for nineteen years and gives an Irish or Ireland-based artist the opportunity to spend three months at HIAP. The selected artist has access to production facilities, visiting curators and an international network of artists. In return, TBG+S hosts a Finnish or Finland-based artist to live and work in Dublin for two months, kindly funded by the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland.

Cliodhna Timoney is a visual artist working across sculpture, imagery, and sound to trace the edges, in-betweens, accumulations, and linkages within space as a means of reflecting upon our relationships — with one another, the nonhuman, and place. Rhythm of space has been a constant concern in her work; here, she aims to reveal rhythm’s potential to connect, to ignite, and, fundamentally, to destabilise fixed states and absolutes.

Recent exhibitions in Ireland include Radical Archaeologies, The Glucksman, Cork, (2023); The 40th EVA International Biennial, Limerick (2023), Flashes of Light, VISUAL, Carlow, (2022); and TURAS, Regional Cultural Centre, Donegal (2021). Timoney was awarded a Visual Arts Bursary by The Arts Council of Ireland in 2024.

Yujie Zhou is a Chinese visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. They navigate performativity and a decoded notion of language through photography, textiles, video, and publishing. Based on the juxtaposition between their nationalist upbringing and their current life in Finland, their practice interrogates dominant historical narratives and power structures while reframing collective individuality.

Select solo exhibitions in Finalnd include: QWERTY, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki (2023); White Shadows, Taidekeskus Mältinranta, Tampere, (2024); Four Women, Photographic Centre Peri, Turku (2023). Select awards and residencies include: FUTURES Photography Talent nomination by Fotogalleriet (2024), Oslo, Norway; Kone Foundation’s Saari Residency Fellowship (2024); and the Finnish Art Society’s Young Artist Grant (2023).