Tanadori Yamaguchi + Maki Portilla-Kawamura + Key Portilla-Kawamura + Ali Ganjavian

Tadanori Yamaguchi

Osaka, 1970

He has worked in Japan and Spain

1999

Oviedo Art School

1996

Kyoto University Creative Art Centre, Japan

Maki Portilla-Kawamura

Oviedo, 1982

She has worked in the UK and Spain

2004

Chelsea College of Art, London

2001

Middlesex University School of Design, London

Key Portilla-Kawamura

Oviedo, 1979

She has worked in the UK, Japan and Spain

Works in Madrid Abierto

Locutorio Colón

Tadanori Yamaguchi

exhibitions and prizes

2005
  • Group exhibition at Galería Espacio Líquido, Gijón 
2004
  • Solo exhibition at Galería Amaga, Avilés
2003
  • Racimo de Ecos, honourable mention in the 1st Madrid Abierto
  • Selected in the Luarca Art Competition, Asturias
  • Selected in the Caja España Art Competition, Zamora
  • First Prize in the San Martín del Rey Aurelio Sculpture Biennial, Asturias
  • Espejos Recipro-visores, winning project in the competition for artistic projects organized by the Culture Department of the Principality of Asturias
  • Alfombra Mágica, winning project in the competition for chair design, organized by the a-mínima magazine (currently in production)
2002
  • Mirador bajo la escombrera, winning project in the Espacio Mínimo Habitable competition, organised by Morés-25 Aniversario
1999
  • Solo exhibition at Museo Barjola, Gijón
1998
  • Scholarship and solo exhibition at Museo Antón, Candás, Asturias
1996
  • Selected in the Kobe Stone Sculpture Symposium, Japan
1995
  • Selected in the Kasama "Artists’ Camp" Stone Sculpture Symposium, Japan
1994
  • Solo exhibition at the Chayamachi Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Maki Portilla-Kawamura

exhibitions and prizes

2004
  • Design and production of public space in the Maya 9 community, Guatemala
2003
  • Racimo de Ecos
  • Alfombra Mágica
  • Espejos Recipro-visores
2002
  • Mirador bajo la escombrera

Key Portilla-Kawamura

exhibitions and prizes

2004
  • AA in Slovenia exhibition in Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Summer Course Speaker at Universidad de Oviedo and Universität Kassel, Germany
2003
  • Racimo de Ecos
  • Espejos Recipro-visores
2002
  • Critique is not Enough exhibition
  • Speaker at Fondazione Pistolletto, Biella, Italy and Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Special Mention in the Fondazione Pistolletto Minimum Prize
2002
  • Mirador bajo la escombrera
2002
  • Summer Course Speaker at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Aranjuez
2001
  • Regular participant in the ARCO Art Experts Forum
2001
  • Cajastur scholarship for young artists, Oviedo

Ali Ganjavian

exhibitions and prizes

2004
  • Speaker at Universität Kassel, Germany
  • Bio Land exhibition at the Henry Moore Gallery, London
  • Fly Utopia exhibition and conference, Transmidiale, Berlin
2003
  • Latent Utopias group exhibition, Gratz
2002
  • Critique is not Enough exhibition
  • Speaker at Fondazione Pistolletto, Biella, Italy and Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Special Mention in the Fondazione Pistolletto Minimum Prize
2001
  • Participant in the ARCO Art Experts Forum
2001
  • Invited by the TVB School in New Delhi for an Indian rural village refurbishment project