Košice Artist in Residence
Manabu Kanai is an visual artist/researcher, born in Tokyo 1983. He is currently working towards Ph.D degree at Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan. He places art as a process of exploring for the way of abstracting/describing the Weltbild. Working across installation, painting, sculpture and computer programing, he tries to generate particular art form based […]
Anja Schäfer is a Berlin based artist primarily working in photography. She gathers inspiration for her work in daily life, particularly in personal and (auto-) biographical stories. Fascinated by the history of Kosice her project is based on the personal stories of selected encounters with the citizens. She examined this collection of narrative information and visualized […]
Jan Durina (b-1988) is a Slovak visual artist, working primarily with photography. His images are mirrors of his own inner reality, autobiographical maps of his physical and mental location. Fascinated by the nature and natural absurdity of life itself, Durina explores his tense feelings in his images and takes us on a feral, emotive, visual, […]
Host organizations Red Gallery, London, Great Britain K.A.I.R. Košice Artist in Residence and Košice European Capital of Culture 2013, Košice, Slovakia London …well, do we have to say more? Red Gallery RED is an events and exhibition space in the heart of Shoreditch. “In April 2010, we took over 1-3 Rivington Street, […]
Host organisations Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo K.A.I.R. Košice Artist in Residence and Košice European Capital of Culture 2013, Košice, Slovakia Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo Located in a tranquil residential suburb in central Tokyo, Youkobo Art Space consists of a gallery, artist studios, and comfortable accommodation. Youkobo Art Space’s primary objective is to support and enhance the creativity […]
“My paintings are small in scale, modestly painted investigations into form, volume and colour. Simple repeated marks made on canvas that don’t try to look anything other than themselves. Their interpretation is open. I often start with a shape or shapes, dots, patterns, badly drawn things; the strange and the familiar collide, looking for meaning. […]