Fellowship holders 2024

Final Presentations Fellows 2024 – Photos: Dirk Eisermann

Reading and Concert

Saturday, 21 September – 5 pm
Reading by Senka followed by a concert by Sara Cubarsi
in the Stadtgalerie Künstlerhaus Lauenburg (admission for a donation)

Welcome and introduction
Gitta Neemann-Güntner, Deputy District President of the Duchy of Lauenburg, Chairwoman of the Social, Education and Culture Committee
Marita Landgraf, Artistic Director

Thanks to Ingrid from the current board and Ulrike

Juan Blanco, 11 m2 – Photo: Nathalia Azuero

Juan Blanco, Objects Ensamble, 2021

Juan Blanco

The visual artist Juan Blanco (Colombia) is currently working on an installation that includes woodcuts, photographs, drawings and paintings about and with nature. These are images of landscapes from Schleswig-Holstein, Bogotá and the surrounding area, where the artist grew up and lived. He captures landmarks, mountains, water and rivers on his own maps. Grids and wave-like structures are linked to the movement and observation of water or geographical structures.

In his works, Juan Blanco searches for ways to translate images, using different media and materials. It is his artistic exploration of the way in which landscape and nature are depicted, how we view nature. Where is the boundary between nature and human construction?

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Sara Cubarsi, Harmonic Flow

Sara Cubarsi, Exvot III Excerpts

Sara Cubarsi

Residency Fellowship for Composition
The performer and composer Sara Cubarsi (Spain) will be working on two new works during her fellowship. She will be exploring intonation and tuning systems and ways of expanding them. She explores boundaries, shifts and materialities on various levels: in her compositions, in her playing on the electric violin or in visual works – e.g. wax paintings that melt during a concert. In wax, Sara Cubarsi finds an infinitely malleable material that is unpredictable and fragile. It allows objects to merge with each other and with other objects. She adopts this principle in her working method. ‘Exvot V’ is a new piece in her Exvot series in an extended pure voicing for electric violin, electric foot organ and bells. Cubarsi sees the new piece as an extension of the two previous works/forms. Not only are musical elements adopted, but her body, arm movements and symbolic references merge into an assemblage.

Senka

Residency Fellowship for Literature
In the novel project ‘Ein Beerenbecherchen, randvoll’, Senka deals with family, craftsmanship and queerness and explores in dialogue with protagonists the stories they grow up with, what they use their hands for and in which landscapes they are uprooted and uprooted. The first draft of this project is to be finalised at Künstlerhaus Lauenburg. Senka was born in Novosibirsk (Siberia) in 1993, began threading glass beads and writing at the age of six, and was most recently a fellow at the LCB’s writers’ workshop.

Langenbach, If someone says jump(2023) – Photos: Marie-Theres Böhmker im Studio Peragine

Clara Lena Langenbach

Work grant with child, Visual Arts
Hamburg-based artist Clara Lena Langenbach creates sculptures and objects and examines normative conditions of corporeality in her artistic practice. Through moulding processes on human bodies, the artist aims to generate new forms as part of her scholarship that depict familiar but not clearly recognisable parts of the body. For her project ‘Fight or Flight’, these will be assembled into oversized sculptures. In this way, a public debate on body (pre)images and norms can be initiated.