Borderland Residencies 2025
Rachel Daniëls / Vika Prokopaviciute
From 1 September to 30 November 2025, the museum will host the two artists Rachel Daniëls and Vika Prokopaviciute as artists-in-residence. The Borderland Residencies programme supports the development of their artistic practice through financial funding, provision of studio spaces, and opportunities for cross-border networking within the Borderland Residencies community. We warmly welcome Rachel Daniëls and Vika Prokopaviciute and look forward to accompanying their processes throughout the residency!
Rachel Daniëls (b. 1998, Genk, BE) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, installation, performance, and sound. After earning her Master’s degree in Sculpture & Installation from PXL-MAD School of Arts in Hasselt in 2023, she is now based in Brussels. Daniëls’ installations intertwine everyday objects, pictograms, and symbols from global (sub)cultures, and are often accompanied by coexisting soundscapes. Her works reveal layers of humour, menace, and latent violence, addressing power structures, social control, and the tension between collectivity and individualism. At Ludwig Forum, she plans to prototype installations that investigate the material and metaphorical qualities of rubber—exploring topics such as resilience, adaptability, and shifting identities within the EuRegion. At the same time, she considers the material’s industrial origins, which evoke themes of human craftsmanship, labour, and innovation, highlighting a tension between natural pliability and constructed structure. Daniëls’ performances and installations have been presented in a range of venues across Belgium, including Museum M, C-mine, Horst Arts and Music Festival, Annie Gentils Gallery, Whitehouse Gallery, and Base-Alpha Gallery.
Vika Prokopaviciute (b. 1983, Lithuania) is a painter based in Vienna whose work navigates between abstraction and figuration. Her paintings form an ongoing network of interrelated images, inviting viewers to reconsider perception through subtle shifts in form, colour, and composition. Using the fluidity of perspective, Prokopaviciute’s practice emphasises the constant flux of meaning, navigating between multiple viewpoints. Her paintings suggest that meaning is never fixed but always in motion, unfolding through the act of looking. During her residency, she will develop a series of paintings responding to the concept of borders—examining their dual nature as both separators and connectors, and reflecting on what lies beyond the edges of the canvas and perception. Prokopaviciute’s work has been exhibited at institutions such as Coulisse, Stockholm; Commune, Vienna; Salzburger Kunstverein; Nicodim, New York; House of Spouse, Vienna; and Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York.
The Borderland Residencies programme offers the artists a unique platform to deepen their practice, engage with the specific cultural and social contexts of the region, and contribute to a vibrant artistic exchange across (national) borders. Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and from funds of the RKP – Regional Cultural Program NRW.
For further information about the Borderland Residencies Programme please visit https://borderland-residencies.eu.
Credits: Rachel Daniëls, photo: Guy Kokken / Vika Prokopaviciut, photo: Julia Malmquist
