Vincent Duraud
France/Sweden
Artist-in-residence April – May 2026
During this residency, I plan to look at the archives of Loviisa Town Museum through a queer lens, in order to highlight invisible histories. In parallel, a special focus on the architectural facades of Lovisa will explore their symbolism and affective power, along workshops to help to understand Lovisa’s people’s experiences of their surroundings.
This research will inform installation works in collaboration with Enni Kalilainen for the summer exhibition at Loviisa Town Museum
Program during the residency
Art Afterwork – Presentations: residence Artists Vincent Duraud and Yevheniia Laptii
Kino Marilyn, Kuningattarenkatu 17, Loviisa
17.4.2026 18.00
Queer Workshop – Loviisa Facades – with Vincent Duraud
Kucku Residence Aleksanterinkatu 8, Loviisa
22.4.2026 17.00
The workshop combines a city walk and a workshop at the Kucku residence. We meet in the courtyard at Aleksanterinkatu 8. This workshop is especially intended for LGBTQ+/queer participants, and queer history is also given special attention in Vincent’s project.
Do you have memories from Loviisa that you would like to share? What kinds of feelings do different buildings in Loviisa evoke? How do they reflect power relations and identity? During this workshop, we will reflect on and discuss Loviisa’s beautiful environment.
Loviisa Facades – Workshop with Vincent Duraud
Sopukka, Alexandersgatan 10, Loviisa
23.4.2026 17.00
The workshop combines a city walk and a workshop in Sopukka’s premises.
We will talk about streets, squares, and places that are special to you. I am happy to listen! There is also no requirement to speak if you would prefer to simply take part.
Opening party of Looking for Us by Enni Kalilainen and Vincent Duraud
Loviisan kaupunginmuseo – Lovisa stadsmuseum
22.5.2026 18.00
Live Talkshow, Mirella Pendolin and Kalle Katz will play songs selected by the artists accompanied by interviews with the artists.
Looking for Us draws on contemporary queer lived experiences and explores the need to see people and phenomena with whom we can feel a sense of connection, both in historical narratives and in everyday life. The exhibition is curated by Heidi Lunabba.
Publications
About the artist
Vincent Duraud
Vincent Duraud (<powervacua>) (b. 1986) is a transdisciplinary artist with a practice across performance, installation, sound, writing, curating, and community organising, while sharing their time between Stockholm and Copenhagen. With an early background in political economy & the non-profit sector, they hold a recent MFA from Konstfack (Sweden), where they delved along the political contours of dissonance and other languages and territories of performance without a stage. Their work has been shown in Paletten Art Journal, at Available & the Rat (Rotterdam), Index foundation and Cinemaqueer Festival in Stockholm, and at the Penarth Centre (London). They have co-founded and co-run art collectives interested in queer knowledge-making & sharing — fake daughter, fantasia & Abrasives.
