Tangent Projects Studio Residency Autumn/Winter 2024
For our Autumn/Winter 2024 residency programme we are very happy to welcome Juan Blanco & Kenichi Ishiguro to Tangent Projects studios
Many thanks to the selection team - Maria Monegro, Mana Pinto & Giancarlo Montes Santangelo.
Juan Blanco (he/him) works between Berlin, and Bogotá.
Juan Blanco studied Fine Arts at the Universidad de los Andes Bogotá (BFA, 2011) and Painting at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts Kiel (MFA, 2020) in the class of Antje Majewski.
His work fluctuates between painting, printmaking, installation, and collective thinking practices with MCWW and 101 projectspace. Selected shows: Reconnecting Earth, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany (2024. G). are you happy to be in Paris?, Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria (2024, G). Tropical depression, Matjö, Cologne (2021, Solo), MSD.Buzón, Galería Santafé, Bogotá (2020, G), and Gottfried Brockmann Preis, Stadtgalerie, Kiel (2019 and 2021, G). In 2019, he received the DAAD Prize for outstanding achievements in his studies in 2019. In 2023, Juan received the scholarship for project spaces and culture initiative from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
Currently, Juan is fellow in the Künslerhaus Lauenburg in Lauenburg, Germany. Juan is an independent and institutional lecturer, was guest at the Muthesius Künsthochschule, the Linz university of arts, and the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW.
Kenichi Ishiguro is a visual artist from Japan.
He works with local contexts and natural resources, such as minerals and other phenomena rooted in the land, to create sculptures and moving images that bind these elements together. Ishiguro holds a BFA in Sculpture from Kyoto University of the Arts, an MFA in Contemporary Art and Theory from Hiroshima City University, and an MFA in Global Seminar from Kyoto University of the Arts. He has been awarded fellowships, including the Pola Art Foundation Fellowship for Overseas Training of Young Artists, the Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation Contemporary Art Research Grant, and the Nomura Foundation for Arts and Culture Grant, which supported his stay in the United States in April 2023 to March 2024.
His recent exhibitions include the Semi Art Community Project: Boo Gie Woo Gie Art Museum at the Ulsan Museum of Art in South Korea (2023), Aichi Triennale 2022 "Still Alive" at the Former Ichinomiya Central Nursing School in Japan (2022), "FOOLS GOLD," a solo exhibition at 3331 Gallery in Tokyo "2022), and "Soft Territory" at the Shiga Museum of Art in Japan (2021). His works are in the collections of the Shiga Museum of Art. He has participated in artist-in-residence programs such as the Parramatta Artists Studio (2024) in Australia, AIR3331 in Tokyo (2021), and the Tsushima Art Fantasia in Nagasaki (2021).
In 2014, Ishiguro co-founded Yamanaka Suplex, a collaborative studio and cultural platform located on the border of Kyoto and Shiga that supports emerging artists and cultural practitioners through shared resources and cross-disciplinary projects.