Some WAPC members gathers to make WAP26 in Stockholm. Interventions weave across different registers of time and site. The focus is on how walking is interlocked in our practices. Fieldworks and seminars are jointly done to locate and entangle structures, narratives and forces. We practiced a a safe and friendly attitude as part of the art scene we share. The below group has an application for mobility grant pending, Culture Moves Europe.
WAPC research time in Stockholm is from August 2 -19, 2026
Janice Jensen
co-curator WAP26 Janice Jensen (*1994) is a visual artist from Germany. She is mostly engaged with drawing and painting but also works with media such as video and painting in virtual reality. Among other things, Janice considers herself a walking artist and combines walking and drawing using her self-designed drawing machine to document landscapes. She has participated in all WAP programs and is co -curator of WAP26 and as such group leader for WAPC.
Jurate Girdvainis is a painter who earned her Master’s degree in painting from the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2020. During 2019-2020, she took part in the Erasmus exchange program at the Funen Art Academy. Her works are on everyday objects, repetition, memory. In 2025 she turns to work with text and recordings as part of her walking practice. “I walk and the stars fall, I think about time…” Listen >>>
Girdvainis is based out of Vilnius, Lithuania.
Bilyana Furnadzhieva
The Paris based Sofia born artist engage with walking as inspiration for her collages, music and sculptures.
On a walk she picks up pebbles, chestnuts, leaves, blossoms which have attracted her attention as a visual artist. Later on, in her studio, all of these things will go into the making of works of art, sending out messages connected with global processes – like climate change, for example. She became a walking artist during her residency at BKN in 2020. She became a WAPC member in 2025
WAP23/25 participant Juanma González is a Spanish visual artist working as Lecturer in the Arts in Murcia whose practice combines site-specific installation, walking, photography, performance, and interventions in the landscape. His research focuses on human movement—particularly walking and pilgrimage—as a method of knowledge and a form of artistic production, generating participatory situations in which body, territory, and community are interwoven. Initially trained in historical photographic techniques at Universidad Europea de Madrid (1999), he later studied Fine Arts at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and obtained his MFA from the Royal Institute of Art (KKH) in Stockholm in 2016, where he was based until 2025. He has continued his artistic research through programs such as Research_LAB (KKH, 2017), Sites and Situations (Konstfack, 2018), Site and Participant (University of the Arts Stockholm, 2020), and The Photographic Artist’s Book: Performing Sustainability (KKH, 2022).
González is based in Spain. Saint Olav Waterway, Pilgrimage Trail >>>
Nahelli Chavoya
WAP23 participant
Chavoya is a dancer and poet trained for more than 20 years in different dance styles. Her writing and dance practice have always been intimately connected. Chavoya use poetry to reflect on movement, and movement to pose questions about poetry and the poetic experience. Art practice entails performing dance/movement explorations, including somatic attuning, improvisations, action painting, walking and meditations in motion.
From Guadalajara, Mexico now living in Limerick, Ireland.
Walking driven project Granit Dreams >>>
Anna Viola Hallberg
Co-curator of WAP26 Participant and curator WAP23/24/25
Walking is an integral part of Hallbergs practice as an artist and curator visualizing or enacting possible futures relating to artistic research on care, proximity, and responsibility. 2023 WAP program website on Research Catalogue was Shortlist Marŝarto Awards. 2020-25 she was the head curator of BKN where WAP residency program was conceived and held from 2023. Hallberg prefers walks leading up to or along water. Liminal and attentive walking before distance. In 2020 Hallberg introduced walking as part of the introduction for artist arriving to BKN, as it nurtures friendship, care and responsibility. Hallberg has been curator of the WAP program since 2023 and in instigator of WAPC 2025.
Anna Viola Hallberg is based out of Stockholm and Mariestad, Sweden
Walking Talking Pod Cast >>> RC WAP24, “Walk With Us” with invited walking artists for specific stretches >>>
