Image: Agnieszka Pokrywka, Green Matter, 2026.

The European Media Art Platform (EMAP) is pleased to announce the selection of 15 artists for its 2026 residency programme. Out of 643 submissions from across Europe, the participating member institutions jointly selected the artists during the jury conference hosted at the MEET Digital Culture Center in Milano.

Multimedia artist Agnieszka Pokrywka (Poland/Finland) has been selected for RIXC/EMAP residency. During the residency, she will develop and finalize her project "Green Matter" – a feature-length sci-fi documentary film about a lonely astronaut who looks for answers in the microbial world. 

Agnieszka Pokrywka (she/her) is a multidisciplinary wizardess and fermenter. With a background in art and science, she works with film, sound, text, food, science and collaborative practices to build eclectic narratives. Agnieszka is the voice behind Ferment Radio, a podcast on bacterial and social fermentation; cofounder of Super Eclectic, a creative studio for the world we want; a member of The Centre for the Social Study of Microbes at the University of Helsinki, and a PhD candidate as well as a member of the RAT-research group at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland.


Agnieszka Pokrywka
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EMAP is a European platform and residency programme dedicated to supporting emerging artists working in media art and related fields, including digital, technological, and interdisciplinary practices. The platform fosters collaboration between leading media art institutions across Europe, providing artists with the opportunity to develop and produce new work within an international context.

The 2026 selection reflects the transnational scope of the programme. The participating artists come from a range of European contexts and institutional backgrounds, underlining EMAP’s role as a platform for exchange, mobility, and collaboration across different cultural and geographic environments. The selected artists will join residencies at one of EMAP’s member institutions, gaining production support, access to facilities, and the opportunity to develop new projects in close exchange with local contexts and international peers.

The 2026 programme brings together a wide spectrum of artistic approaches and topics, engaging with contemporary questions through experimental, technological, and research-based practices.

All Selected EMAP Artists 2026

Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria)
Calin Segal

Chroniques (Marseille, France)
Noemi Iglesias Barrios

CIKE Creative Industry Košice (Košice, Slovakia)
Ida Hiršenfelder

gnration (Braga, Portugal)
Dr. Lea Luka Tiziana Sikau

iMAL (Brussels, Belgium)
Éva Csonka

IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Paolo Cirio

Kersnikova Institute [Kapelica Gallery] (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Ivan Iovine

KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis (Zagreb, Croatia)
Natalia Grekhova

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijón, Spain)
Seyed Mohsen Hazrati Far

Meet Digital Culture Center (Milano, Italy)
Ariella Vidach

NeMe (Limassol, Cyprus)
Cesar Escudero Andaluz

Onassis Foundation (Athens, Greece)
Celine Daemen

RIXC Centre for New Media Culture (Riga, Latvia)
Agnieszka Pokrywka

Werkleitz Centre for Media Art (Halle/Saale, Germany)
Loïs Soleil

WRO Art Center (Wrocław, Poland)
Thomas Garnier

More about EMAP: https://emare.eu/