Introducing Annie Åkerman, Mila Balzhieva and Lyz Parayzo, AiR 351 Grants / 2026 recipients:

Annie Åkerman is an artist and writer. Her work engages with the materiality that underpins the use and circulation of energy. She focuses on how measurement, object and interface correlate in organizational systems.

Mila Balzhieva is an interdisciplinary artist based in Austria. Rooted in her Buryat background, where spirits are spoken to and landscapes carry memory, her practice spans textiles, drawing, installation, and digital media. She explores more-than-human kinship, ecology, and technology through material processes that treat agency as distributed beyond the human. Her works often take the form of textile shrines, speculative plant glyphs, and portals where Buryat cosmologies intersect with contemporary technologies.

Lyz Parayzo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1994) is an artist and researcher currently based in Paris, France. Her autobiographical practice offers a critical reinterpretation of Brazilian modernist traditions through the lenses of gender, identity, and politics. Working across sculpture, performance, and installation, she creates symbolic healing objects through the manipulation of metal and other industrial materials, exploring the intersections of power, violence, desire, and care while proposing new rituals of transformation.

We thank all candidates for their participation and also the jury members for their review (Nathalie Anglès, Lilian Tone and Sébastien Pluot).

For more information about each resident please check their profile page on AIR 351´s website.