The Reading Room is an ongoing collaborative project conceived in 2021 that brings together creatives and audiences to share texts and be part of a mutual, collective experience. Since 2021, the Reading Room has changed and evolved and travelled to different sites and countries.

From 2021 to 2024, during each edition of the Reading Room in Tangent Projects, the gallery was converted into a reading space - a place to sit, meet, read, and be. The gallery kept normal opening hours to the public during the week with weekly activations. These events consisted of exciting and fun reading/text-based activities, each one hosted by a different creative or collective.

These activations also incorporate the Cotangent Residency Programme, our short-term artist residency offered to 2 artists during the summer. By involving participants of the Cotangent Residency, the scope of the Reading Room expands beyond the gallery walls, thereby creating possibilities for new connections and dialogues across diverse locations and spaces.

This became more of a reality from 2025 onwards, whereby the Reading Room moved to different sites and countries. In 2025, the Reading Room found a home in nūn (Barcelona), with 4 gatherings over the year. In December 2025, there was an edition in the Fire Station Artist Studios in Dublin. In 2026, the Reading Room travelled to Buenos Aires as part of Tsering’s residency with Par Residencies and Esacio de Pileta. There was also an edition in Afterschool Department (Barcelona) and at the end of Tsering’s residency in the National Sculpture Factory and The Guesthouse in Cork, Ireland.