MEET CLUB RAUM’S ARTISTS IN RESIDENCY
Club RAUM introduces its three artists in residency for 2025: Philip Atanasov, Catalina Reyes Navarro, and Aron Saxe. Created in partnership with the AFK (Amsterdam Funds for the Arts), RAUM's programme aims to empower mid-career, graduate professionals - such as writers, designers and researchers. Each artist will embark on a dedicated residency stint, culminating in three weekend showcases where their work will take center stage. These weekends will serve as a cross-pollination of artistic disciplines, such as contemporary art, performance, and even nightlife.
Philip Atanasov is a multidisciplinary artist working in the fields of art, architecture and design. His practice oscillates between functional pieces and conceptual work such as furniture, sculpture and installation through which he materialises his research-based practice. His projects revolve around the inherent relation between human and environment, situating the role of technology in-between and extrapolating on the convergence of the latter. Working between digital mediums and traditional craftsmanship, his recent projects question the implementation of technological innovation and development within the human body.
Catalina Reyes Navarro is a Chilean artist and filmmaker. She builds temporal constellations in her moving image work, tracing and reshaping the perception with our surroundings. Her artistic practice revolves around exploring the intersections of memory, ecology, and resilience, using photography, video and performance. Through her work, she questions persistence and fragility of memory in the face of erasure and transformation. Looking at how societal values shape our understanding of our environment, questioning how we judge something as beautiful, valuable, or threatening.
Aron Saxe is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans sculpture, large-scale installations, and clothing design. By bringing together these mediums, he creates immersive, emotive works that invite audiences into his intricate world-building and research-driven explorations. Connected to club culture, Aron has designed custom pieces for DJs including Peach, Shanti Celeste, Call Super, and Angel D’lite, as well as key figures in Amsterdam’s nightlife scene. These works expanded on research into astrobotany and planetary science, constructing speculative environments where alien plant life engulfed and absorbed human elements—inviting the viewer to sink into surreal visions of bodily transformation.
