Selected artists for the portfolio residency program PortRe 2026

Alice leteissier and lana haga are the two artists selected for PortRe 2026 - A portfolio residency program for emerging visual artists

PortRe is the Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark’s 1-week long residency program in Copenhagen with focus on the artist’s portfolio. It is operated in collaboration with The Stina Krook Foundation (FIN) and was launched in 2019. The purpose of PortRe is to create an opportunity for emerging Finnish, or Finland-based, visual artists to come to Copenhagen and present their portfolios to a number of established actors in the Danish cultural field; for example, gallerists, art critics, curators or other art professionals and commence on a constructive conversation around the artist’s portfolio. The portfolio is an important and necessary tool for visual artists, yet artists rarely have the possibility to discuss them with the people evaluating them. The aim with the program is to provide this possibility for emerging artists, in an early stage of their career, as a unique opportunity for development and rewarding dialogue between artists and art professionals.  

PortRe is a residency program by invitation only and welcomes 2 artists a year for a duration of 1 week each. The artists are selected by The Stina Krook Foundation's board from candidates suggested by the foundation’s art experts: Kai Kartio and Helen Korpak. 

This year’s selected artists are Alice Leteissier and Lana Haga. Their residency periods will take place during 2026-2027. 

Alice Leteissier is an artist working across film, video installation, and writing. Her practice examines how contemporary image culture codes, circulates, and increasingly automates affective legibility. 

Working through collaborative film production methods, she develops tightly scripted works that are short, slick, and affect-laden. Borrowing and recombining the aesthetic logic of formats ranging from user-generated video to blockbuster cinema, her installations produce eerie dissonances: soap-opera scenes scripted from online reviews, or a mockumentary in which a disgusted facial expression becomes a corporate mascot. Through these constructed frictions, her work explores how emotional codes detach from their narrative origins and begin to circulate as autonomous formulas. 

Leteissier holds a BFA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, and an MFA from the University of the Arts, Helsinki. 

Lana Haga is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, relief, and sound. Working primarily with plastic and textiles sourced as byproducts of industrial manufacturing and consumer waste, Haga focuses on materials embedded within contemporary systems of production, consumption, and disposal. Her practice constructs conditions in which form emerges through repetition, accumulation, compression, containment, and release. In Haga’s works, materials exceed their original function and reorganise into new configurations shaped by material behaviour, time, memory, chance, and physical forces. 

Lana Haga is represented by Galleria Heino. She has exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London and MUU Contemporary Art Centre and Galleria. Her work is held in national and international private collections, including the Heino Art Foundation Collection, Helsinki. 

The Stina Krook Foundation

The purpose of the Stina Krook Foundation is to support and promote visual arts and performing arts. Stina Nicolaisen, née Krook, established the foundation in December 1976. The first awards were presented on Stinas' birthday on 15 March 1978. Since its establishment, the foundation has supported more than 600 artists in the fields of visual and performing arts with an amount that totals above three million euros. The surprise and joy has been great among the receivers, as the foundation does not accept applications. Instead, the board make its decisions based on suggestions by experts in the field of visual arts and performing arts.