Workshop: Orbital Rhythms with Juana Bustamante
Admission fee to the museum.
Free admission for students, young people under 25 as well as employees at Lund University.
Language: English
An Artist-Led Workshop with Juana Bustamante
As part of the inaugural artist residency organized by the Northern Drawing School (NDS) and co-hosted by Skissernas Museum, artist Juana Bustamante opens her research and studio methodology through a two-hour drawing workshop. This session functions as an extension of her practice, serving as a dedicated site of enquiry focused on examining perception, temporal rhythms, and celestial mechanics. Participants engage directly with questions driving her practice:
– How can drawing restore time to the act of looking?
– How can becoming attentive to a shadow reveal our position within larger celestial movements?
– How can drawing materialize what we understand intellectually, yet have forgotten how to physically experience?
Taking the Sun as a primary catalyst, participants construct spatial devices at the threshold between drawing instruments and sundials. Through physical alignment and shadow tracking, drawing becomes a methodology for making the familiar strange again, anchoring abstract natural laws into a tangible, sensory experience. It is an invitation to enter a slow rhythm of perception, tracing movement alongside the Earth’s own pace. Open to all.
No previous drawing experience required.
About the Artist
Juana Bustamante (Bogotá, 1998) is a Colombian artist based in Brussels working across drawing, installation, sculpture, and writing. Intersecting her art practice with astronomical imaginaries, she explores perception, orientation, and cosmological systems. She holds an MA from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels (ARBA-ESA / ULB) and a BFA from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá.
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About The Northern Drawing School (NDS)
The Northern Drawing School (NDS) is an international network of fifteen art institutions across Europe and Iraqi Kurdistan dedicated to advancing artistic drawing within higher education and research. The network frames drawing as a core cognitive methodology for independent thinking, interdisciplinary research, and complex problem-solving. Beyond higher education, NDS works to democratize access to drawing, welcoming individuals of all skill levels to engage with process-based artistic practice. Each August, NDS gathers in Lund for an annual drawing convention. This year marks a major milestone as the network launches its inaugural artist residency program. As a long-term initiative, NDS is working in collaboration with Lund University, Skissernas Museum, and Lund Municipality to establish the Lund Centre for Artistic Drawing (L-CAD), a future physical and conceptual hub for residencies, archives, and academic exchange, creating a shared, polyphonic space for drawing across borders and disciplines.
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