Artist-in-Residence 2026: Danielle Alhassid
February–April 2026
As part of the LABA Europe Exchange Program, LABA Barcelona welcomes LABA NY alumna Danielle Alhassid for a three-month residency in Barcelona.
The residency invites Alhassid to develop a new research-based artistic project in close collaboration with LABA Barcelona partner archives and cultural institutions, as well as with LABA BCN Fellows and Alumni, and will conclude with a public exhibition of the process making of the newly developed work, accompanied by a series of public programs that share the research and creative process with wider audiences.
A series of public programs will accompany the exhibition, offering insight into the artist’s research process and creative development. The residency creates an opportunity for audiences to encounter texts and collections through contemporary art, while supporting the artist’s continued exploration of language, diaspora, and women’s cultural history.
Public Program
The events are open to the public. Admission is free; advance registration is required.
March 10, 2026
Passa Punto Opening Event: Artist Talk and Guided Tour
March 10, 2026
Passa Punto Opening Event: Artist Talk and Guided Tour
The opening will feature a lecture-performance by Danielle Alhassid addressing research, grandmotherhood, oral history, and stop-motion animation.
Passa Punto is a multichannel stop-motion animation installation that stages a multi-generational Ladino tea gathering in which objects, memories, and voices move between presence and absence. Through a choreography of domestic objects and projected images, crochet patterns gradually transform into a city map before returning to lace, suggesting the shifting relationship between memory and physical space.
Presented in Barcelona, the installation emphasizes a Ladino soundscape that weaves together personal memory and cultural echo, situating the work within the Sephardic linguistic heritage historically connected to the Iberian Peninsula.
The title is drawn from the Ladino expression Pasa punto, pasa mundo –
“A moment passes, a world passes.”
Sound in collaboration with: Chanan Ben-Simon
Translation: Aron Saltiel
Voice: Ester Alhassid, Lisa Bernardini-Saltiel
Curator: Nathalie Kertesz
March 25, 2026
Art and Research, or When Animated Spirits Gather to Read in Yiddish
With Elik Elhanan and Danielle Alhassid
Scholar Elik Elhanan and artist Danielle Alhassid collaborate at the intersection of academic inquiry and installation-based practice.
This conversation will focus on projects developed around the Tsenerene, the 17th-century Yiddish text often referred to as the “women’s Bible.” They will discuss the politics of Yiddish texts written for and by women, and their shifting presence within archives, libraries, and museums. The talk traces the movement of Yiddish texts from 17th-century Amsterdam to 21st-century New York.
April 28, 2026
Closing Event – Research Presentation and Participatory Workshop
This concluding event will present the outcomes of the research conducted during the exchange, alongside a participatory workshop.
Structured as a performative, seated guided tour, the artist will lead participants through the spaces and materials encountered during her residency, reflecting on them in relation to earlier works while sharing her research methods and artistic process. The event will include an interactive component inspired by themes and elements addressed throughout the residency.
The events are open to the public. Admission is free; advance registration is required.
Danielle Alhassid is an artist based in Brooklyn, NYC. Her practice spans stop-motion animation, printmaking, and performance, with a focus on archives, femininity, and the urban experience.
She received her MFA from Hunter College, New York (2024), and her BFA from Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (2020). Her work has been presented at the Brooklyn Museum, Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, 14th Street Y Theater in New York, the Stedelijk Museum, and the Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam.
Her work has been commissioned by the Amsterdam Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and Azrieli Gallery, and is held in private collections. She is the recipient of the Naomi Anolic Visual Arts Award (2024) and is a LABA NYC alumna (2023).
