Artists in Residence January 2023

It is with great excitement that we announce the five selected participants of BLANK100 Residency at Craveiral Farmhouse, taking place from January 9 to February 6, 2022 in São Teotónio, Portugal: Inês Neto dos Santos, Manuel Tainha, Maximilian Arnold, Toulu Hassani and Zé Ardisson.

We are looking forward to sharing with you insights into the artists’ work in progress and our program during the course of their four-week stay in the Portuguese countryside via our Instagram.

ARTISTS

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Toulu Hassani (b. 1984, Ahwaz) lives and works in Hannover. She studied fine arts at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig and at the Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Through her practice, Toulu draws on cosmic and astrophysical references and poses questions about infinity, causalities, and spatio-temporal orders.

Zé Ardisson (b. 1988, Évora) lives and works between Lisbon and Bali, Indonesia. He graduated in Communication (2011) and attended the painting course at the National Society of Fine Arts in 2014. Memories, recurrent dreams and fears are elements that run through the artist's works and contaminate his works, giving them an admittedly biographical nature.

Inês Neto dos Santos (b. 1992, Lisbon) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in London and Brussels. She completed an MA in Visual Communication at Royal College of Art (2016) and a BA in Graphic Design and Illustration at London College of Communication (2013). Her practice moves between performance, installation and social sculpture, investigating the socio-political implications of what we eat and how we come to eat it.

Manuel Tainha (b.1993) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. He studied in Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Lisbon and at the class of Anselm Reyle at the Hamburg university of Fine Arts (HFBK). Tainha’s work explores composition through the alternance of processes, may it be addiction/subtraction or bidimensional/objectual. The cultural value of materials such as textiles, limitations on architecture contexts, co-relationships of fragility and violence in the work process and domestic conditions are constants in his working process.

Maximilian Arnold (b. 1987, Heidelberg) lives and works in Berlin. His practice can be understood as a layering and sequential process of transformation. Beyond paintbrushes, the artist uses a wide range of tools, such as rags, cutters, sandpaper, spatulas and everyday objects used for transfer printing. As a starting point, archives of images are cut up and appropriated in the image-making process through the act of collaging. In his work, a collage is not a means to an end, but its structural basis. Maximilian studied at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe and Städelschule Frankfurt am Main.

ABOUT

BLANK100 Residency at Craveiral Farmhouse invites artists from different disciplines to spend four weeks in the Portuguese countryside, providing them with a unique platform to collectively explore contemporary issues and experiment with addressing them. The challenge of working in an unknown, rural landscape opens up new possibilities and pushes artists to approach their working process differently. The residency focuses on the implementation of eco-friendly working materials, recycling processes and general respect for the surrounding nature to support artists willing to improve their environmental impact within their practice. The programme includes workshops, open studio events, shared dinners and other common activities focusing on creative exchange and collaboration, but also giving time for self-care, reflection and research. Artists are provided with their own self-catered farm lofts including daily breakfast at Craveiral Farmtable Restaurant, working spaces, material and the opportunity to make use of the extensive vegetable garden and all other facilities of Craveiral Farmhouse.

BLANK100 is a nomadic project supporting artistic exchange, started with the interim use of a former furniture factory in Dalston, London. Within a period of 15 months, BLANK100 hosted various exhibitions, performance events, talks and supper clubs connecting creatives from all disciplines. The concept was based on a strong belief in community and that ideas need to be given the right platform to fully unfold. BLANK100 teamed up with Craveiral Farmhouse for a long-term artist residency partnership, with new exciting projects to be realized within the coming years.

Craveiral Farmhouse is a sustainable quinta in Odemira, consisting of 38 whitewashed self-contained cottages on nine hectares of land. Known for its farm-to-table restaurant, Craveiral Farmhouse further provides four swimming pools, a well-being area, an educational farm with animals, an orchard of trees, a permaculture garden and nature centre. More than a luxury hotel, it is dedicated to leaving a positive impact on the world, providing unique experiences for guests looking to connect with nature and understand rural life.

Copyright © 2022 BLANK100, All rights reserved. www.blank100.co.uk info@blank.100.co.uk Photo Credits: 1. Craveiral Farmhouse - Artist Apartments © Martin Kaufmann / 2. Work by Inês Neto dos Santos © Photodocumenta / 3. Work by Manuel Tainha © Courtsy of the artist / 4. Work by Maximillian Arnold © Stefan Haehnel / 5. Work by Toulu Hassani © Courtsy of the artist / 6. Work by Zé Ardisson © Courtsy of the artist