FIGUERETES 2022
A melting pot in which innovative ideas and emerging artistic practices from all kinds of backgrounds could coalesce in co-creational projects
(February – April 2022)
Residency programme presented in La Carpintería, Ibiza
Figueretes 2022 was a two-month hybrid residency programme for international artists and collectives under 35, gathering on the island of Ibiza to explore notions of presence and ways of working together in relation to unfamiliar territory and its existing resources. Curated by Linda Rocco, this edition approached artists as connectors and catalysts for creative and cultural fervour — historically described as radar and antennae for the future, capable of imagining the unthinkable.
The programme combined in-person events for local audiences with an online component that situated the residency within an international panorama of contemporary concerns. Through dialogue and technology-driven approaches, Figueretes 2022 experimented with co-organising as a means of cultivating a lively socio-technical scenario, where collaboration became both method and subject.
Working fluidly across media and disciplines, the invited artists approached the island’s multicultural communities, distinctive natural landscape, and creative scene as their canvas, operating theatre, or playing field. Their work asked what it meant to be present in an increasingly digitised world: how presence could generate meaningful ripple effects within local contexts, and what it might feel like when “being there” was no longer a fixed condition, but a shifting negotiation.
The residency culminated in a public event unveiling A Manifesto of Presence — a collective body of contributions that connected the material, thematic, emotional, and human context of Ibiza. Composed of multimedia artworks, reflections, notes, conversations, and fragments, the manifesto captured a shared horizon of emerging artistic practices and offered a working document for future editions.
Artists
Andrés Izquierdo
FIGUERETES 2022, 6
Andrés Izquierdo (Madrid, 1993) draws on psychoanalysis and allegory to explore themes of childhood, grief, and the restorative qualities of space and objects. Working across a wide range of media—including mobile sculptures, furniture design, figurative ceramics, marker-pen drawings, and architectural installations—his practice is driven by juxtapositions of anarchic yet structured conditions: earth and sky, biology and theology, emergence and dissolution. Fascinated by what is—and at the same time isn’t—Izquierdo interweaves physical presence (landscape, cosmology, and phenomena) with conscious contemplation, expressed through intrusive thoughts, daydreams, and bodily sentiments.
Residency: 6 — Figueretes 22
Alex Baczynski-Jenkins
FIGUERETES 2022
Alex Baczynski-Jenkins is an artist and choreographer whose practice engages with queer affect, embodiment, and relationality. Through gesture, collectivity, touch, and sensuality, his work unfolds the structures and politics of desire. He has presented solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel (2019), Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw (2018), and Chisenhale Gallery in London (2017), and has shown work internationally in contexts such as the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2019), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2019), Migros Museum of Contemporary Art Zurich (2018), Palais de Tokyo Paris (2017), Museum of Modern Art Warsaw (2017), Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York (2016), Muzeum Sztuki Łódź (2016), and Basel Liste (2014).
He is co-founder of the feminist and queer project space Kem in Warsaw, which has developed projects including Kem Care at the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw (2017) and Three Springs at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art (2018–2019). Baczynski-Jenkins was a fellow of the Home Workspace Program in Beirut (2012–2013), and in 2018 he received both the Arts Foundation Award and the Frieze Artist Award.
Residency: Figueretes 22
Katrine Skovsgaard
FIGUERETES 2022
Katrine Skovsgaard is a Danish artist working between Copenhagen and London. She is the recipient of the Sven Dalsgaard Honorary Award for young experimental artists, HIGH Prize of Creative Excellence and the 15th of June Foundations Honorary Award. Her work investigates ways to communicate subjective sensory and emotional experience, especially those personal experiences we do not talk about and those we do not notice. Her research is based on art practice and located at the intersection of understandings of shame, chronic pain, sharing and mutual care. Her work has been exhibited at Brandts, c4 Projects, Copenhagen Art Week, Kunsthal Aarhus, Middelfart Museum and The Psychiatry in Southern Denmark, Montez Press Radio, Sorø Art Museum, Vollsmose Culture House and elsewhere.
Residency: Figueretes 22
Web: www.katrineskovsgaard.net / @katskovsgaard
Keiken
FIGUERETES 2022
Keiken is an artist collective co-founded by Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori, and Isabel Ramos in 2015. Based between London and Berlin, the collective draws from mixed diasporic backgrounds (Mexican / Japanese / European / Jewish) and works collaboratively to build speculative worlds that test-drive alternative ways of existing. Their practice unfolds across filmmaking, gaming, installation, Extended Reality (XR), blockchain, and performance, often taking the form of immersive environments that simulate new social structures and imaginative futures.
Keiken were awarded the Chanel Next Prize, and their work has been presented internationally in exhibitions and contexts such as the 2nd Thailand Biennale (Korat), House of Electronic Arts HEK (Basel), the Russian Federation Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale (Venice), Koenig Galerie (Decentraland), FACT (Liverpool), HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt), transmediale at Haus der Kulturen der Welt HKW (Berlin, 2020), the Institute of Contemporary Arts ICA (London), and Jerwood Arts (London, 2019).
Residency: Figueretes 22
Site: www.keiken.cloud / @keiken
Jorge Isla
FIGUERETES 2022
Jorge Isla is a visual artist based in Bilbao. Since 2015, his practice has focused on observing and analysing the realities — and the modes of production and consumption — that shape contemporary society. His work operates at the intersection of sculpture, video art, and photography, building visual narratives that examine how images, objects, and systems circulate within today’s economy of attention and value.
In 2015, he received the VEGAP award, and in 2016 he was granted the MAPA Grant from LENS School. In 2017, he was awarded a Visual Arts Grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture at the Collège d’Espagne in Paris. His work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including The Natural History Museum of the Universitat de València (2018), Photoespaña (2017), the XV Bienal de Fotografía of Córdoba (2017), Kir Royal Gallery (Madrid, 2017), Antonia Puyó Gallery (Saragossa, 2017), the Contemporary Art Glass Museum of Alcorcón (Madrid, 2018), Centro de Creación Contemporánea Matadero (Madrid, 2018), Art Lima (2018), Unseen Art Fair (Amsterdam, 2018), Estampa Art Fair (Madrid, 2017 & 2018), and Photo London Art Fair (2019).
Residency: Figueretes 22
Site: www.jorgeisla.com / @jorgeisla.nft
Ndayé Kouagou
FIGUERETES 2022
Ndayé Kouagou is an artist and performer based in Paris. His practice always starts from texts of which he is the author. Voluntarily or involuntarily confused, he tries as best as he can to bring a reflection on three topics: legitimacy, freedom, and love. The result is… what it is. He describes his work as “quite interesting, but not that interesting or maybe not interesting at all”. He has presented his work, among others, at Auto Italia South East (London), Centrale Fies (Dro/Italy), and Lafayette Anticipation (Paris), where he also launched his publishing project YBR* (Young Black Romantics).
Residency: Figueretes 22
Raissa Pardini
FIGUERETES 2022
Raissa Pardini is an Italian-born, UK-based visual artist whose practice moves through music and contemporary culture. Sixteen of her poster works were recently added to the Victoria & Albert Museum’s permanent collection as part of its documentation of the current wave of the rising British music scene. She has collaborated with some of the most influential artists and platforms worldwide — from Apple Music to MTV, Sony to Vevo, The New York Times, Adobe, and WeTransfer — and worked with artists such as Måneskin, Nadia Lee Cohen, Paul Weller, Idles, and Khruangbin, among others.
Alongside her visual practice, Pardini has been deeply involved in public speaking, seminars, mentorship programs, and festivals, where she highlights the importance of visual language in the music industry and encourages younger audiences to develop their own creative paths. She has hosted sessions for Adobe Live, spoken on the main OFFF stage in Barcelona, participated in Wide Awake Festival, and appeared as a guest on platforms such as the Rough Trade podcast, Synesthesia, BIMM Institute, and numerous universities across Europe.
Residency: Figueretes 22
