The residency program at OT301 is temporarily suspended.
Thank you to all the artists who have participated in the residency between 2013 - 2025.
We hope to be able to bring back this program in the future. Stay informed via this page.
I am Mattias Eliasson, a 36 year old visual artist who grew up in countryside Sweden and studied fine art in Amsterdam and Stockholm. Some year after graduating from Rietveld in 2012 I lived with my partner and our cat for a while at OT301. It was a great time, I really liked the energy and the feeling of openness that the entire building with its activities and people were radiating. Since some years I am mostly living in a cabin in a Swedish forest, growing vegetables in combination with a studio practice. But I do often get a craving for city energy and often I miss Amsterdam. This spring I would love to spend a few months at your residency working on an exhibition that I will open in Sweden in May. It would be a great moment for new input and new energies from the city of Amsterdam, and since I am familiar with what the OT301 is about I am certain it would be of great nourishment for my project and myself to stay there, and hopefully I could contribute with some energy for you as well.
Being a vegan myself, interested in cooking and with some experience of running one person non profit food services, I would be very interested in volunteering at De Peper and get som insights into how that service is being operated on a daily basis. I am also enthusiastic about your cinema program and would gladly help out with ground service when/if such is needed.
Regarding my art practice, it concerns drawing, text, installation and sculpture and often finds starting points in specific venues, found material, a state of mind, a feeling of anxiety, craft related methods, gardening, everyday objects. Through playful combinations of unglamorous material the pieces which appear often sheds a light on the temporal and fragile of existence. Be it that of a human, the psyche or the place we inhabit. Living on the countryside and building from scratch my own studio/living cabin, sauna, dry toilet and greenhouse, ways of investing in alternative lifestyle is at core in both my practice and outlook on life. A diy, amateuristic, non professional approach to both problemsolving, everyday life and art making is for me usually the most enjoyable and playful pathway forward.