Urban Sansui Exhibition Catalogue

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Sansui Tokyo is a collective that considers contemporary art and society under the theme of sansui thought to be peculiar to East Asia. Sansui is often regarded as a classical subject represented by landscape painting (sansuiga/shanshuihua) and rock gardens (karesansui), but an underlying human non-agency presents us with many implications in the 21st century.

Ryosuke Kondo, who presides over Sansui Tokyo, has long been interested in an understanding of nature rooted in East Asia and found in fieldwork in both Chinese feng shui and Japanese gardens while researching the history of the Western landscape. The term “landscape,” derived from the West, is premised on the binary opposition between humans (the subject) and nature (the object), whereas sansui, in East Asia, presupposes that both humans and nature exist undifferentiated in the flux of all things.

A perspective such as that of sansui, which does not fit within a limited framework of nature and landscape, can be effective when facing a present-day society in which modern Western values are ​​reaching a deadlock. Sansui Tokyo explores the world of sansui in a unique way and aims to build a new relationship between art and society.

• Urban Sansui β

  Wed. 20 – Fri. 22 December, 2023
  13:00 – 21:00 daily (no admittance after 19:30)
  Artists: Tomohito Ishii / Hatsune Katayama / Naha Kanie / Shinichi Takashima + Shu Nakagawa / Asako Fujikura / Taisuke Makihara / Naofumi Maruyama / Rui Mizuki / Saori Miyake
  Guests: Hajime Ishikawa (Landscape architect) / Shinji Ohmaki (Artist) / Satoshi Koganezawa (Curator)
  Curated by Ryosuke Kondo
  Organized by Sansui Tokyo
  In cooperation with kudan house

  Concept

  Urban Sansui is an exhibition organized by the artist collective Sansui Tokyo at kudan house in March, 2023. Although the exhibition was held for only 10 days, the combination of contemporary art and historical architecture was a great success, attracting nearly 200 visitors on the last day of the exhibition.

  Coincided with the Urban Sansui exhibition catalogue launch, in this exhibition + talk Urban Sansui β, five new artists and three guests will join the participating members of Urban Sansui to reflect on the previous exhibition from a variety of perspectives as well as to explore the vision of Sansui Tokyo in the future.

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• Urban Sansui

  Fri. 10 – Sun. 19 March, 2023
  11:00 – 18:00 daily (no admittance after 17:00)
  Artists: Tomohito Ishii / Asako Fujikura / Taisuke Makihara / Rui Mizuki
  Curated by Ryosuke Kondo
  Research by Naoki Saito
  Assistance by Muen Koh
  Organized by Sansui Tokyo
  In cooperation with kudan house
  Technical support by YOKOITO Additive Manufacturing
  Supported by Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation, Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), Nomura Foundation
  Venue: kudan house

  Concept

  Sansui, which was once the inspiration for landscape painting(sansuiga/shanshuihua) and dry rock gardens(karesansui), used to be a worldview widely rooted in the lifestyle and culture of the Japanese people until the early 20th century. It presupposes that humans and nature are inseparable; both exist undifferentiated in the flux of all things. At a time when modern Western values are at a standstill and concepts such as “common” and “care” are attracting attention, the philosophy behind Sansui provides a suggestive starting point for rethinking contemporary life and society.

  Rather than simply revive it, however, this exhibition aims to update the pre-modern Sansui from a contemporary perspective. Whereas in the past Chinese painters were inspired by the geology of the continent, with its steep mountain cliffs and fertile plains, the artists featured in this exhibition work in the city, filled with its buildings and infrastructure. Imagination is used to transform the surface of our urban environment, which, far more than the ancient ground beneath, reflects the seemingly incompatible, yet inseparable relationship between humans and nature. At the same time, the outbreak of the new coronavirus has made us realize the importance of carefully dealing with our daily lives and imagining the invisible other. This is precisely the kind of imagination that urban dwellers need in today’s society — “Urban Sansui.”

  kudan house is operated based on the idea of having inherited a historical building that has been weaving a story since its construction in 1927 and recreating the value of the place in the present age. It is iconic for the Spanish style and earthquake-resistant wall structure of the building, as well as the pragmatic composition of the garden, and conveys the thoughts and desires of former residents and guests, who cherished their daily lives, and of visitors past and present. This is consistent with the concept embraced by this exhibition, which questions how we imagine the things around us. Blurring the boundary between the subject and the object by seamlessly connecting works by contemporary artists with furniture that has been in use since before World War II, stately Western-style architecture with a modern garden, and private grounds with public urban spaces, the exhibition invites viewers into a world of Sansui.

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• Individual Sansui

  Sat. 15 February – Sun. 8 March, 2020
  12:00 – 19:00 daily (Fri., Sat., Sun., and National holidays)
  Artists: Tomohito Ishii / Shinichi Takashima + Shu Nakagawa / Taisuke Makihara / Rui Mizuki
  Organizer: Ryosuke Kondo (art critic)
  Venue: Komagome SOKO

  Concept

  We are pleased to present Individual Sansui, an exhibition featuring four groups of artists at Komagome SOKO.

  Ryosuke Kondo, who organized this exhibition, has been interested in an understanding of nature rooted in East Asia through fieldwork in both Chinese Feng Shui and Japanese gardens, while researching the history of Western landscape. The term “landscape,” derived from the West, is premised on the presence of humans (the subject), whereas sansui originates in China and does not clearly distinguish human beings from nature. Rather than a visible world consisting of mountains and water, it is a symbol of polarities: yang and yin, static and dynamic, tangible and intangible; and it is believed that both humans and nature exist undifferentiated in the chain of things.

  Such a perspective of sansui is not limited to East Asia’s view of nature, but is also rich in suggestions for considering art and society in the age of globalization. For example, originals and reproductions that the modern art model regarded as a master-and-servant relationship will be reinterpreted as complementary. In addition, a human agency that is undermined by artificial intelligence and biotechnology may not be a given in the first place. In other words, sansui can be a keyword neither for nationalism nor for criticism against Western modernism but for thinking about the near future.

  The four groups of artists in this exhibition are diverse in terms of both mediums and interests, but they share an approach which intuitively seizes everyday objects, and they throw themselves into heteronomous thinking through physical relationships with materials, i.e. matter. The worlds they respectively evoke may be called sansui as a “topos” where people and nature are undifferentiated as substances and actions exist prior to thinking. This exhibition presents such potential of sansui. During the exhibition period, a series of gallery talks will be held with a variety of special guests to further explore the art of sansui.

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• 2023.03.18

  Urban Sansui “Reading Performance: Sub Sansui Urban Reading”

  Maiko Jinushi and Kanie Naha

• 2023.03.18

  Urban Sansui “Guest Talk”

  Hiroki Yamamoto (Scholar of Cultural Studies), Asako Fujikura, and Ryosuke Kondo

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  Tomohito Ishii

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  Tomohito Ishii

  Tomohito Ishii, born in 1981, is an artist who obtained his M.A. from the Painting Course, Graduate School of Art and Design, Musashino Art University. He creates artworks that focuseson visual perception as an information reception device by painting images sourced from his own photographs or existing imagery. In recent years, he has been creating paintings using oil and UV printing techniques, featuring a double image with an inverted depiction of potted plants as motifs. Through this approach, he aims to transform the symbolic recognition of human beings inseparable from urban spaces. In addition to his artistic practice, he also engages in curation, such as αM+ vol. 2: My Hole – Hole in Art: Subterraneans and Mirrorless Mirror.

  
  

  

  Solo Exhibitions

  2023	Sub Anaglyph, CAPSULE, Tokyo, Japan
  2022	To the Ground, to Above the Ground, Into and Out of the Crystal Palace, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
  2019	Plane of Jouissance, CAPSULE, Tokyo, Japan
  2017	House of future,  Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
  2011	Complex Circuit, gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan

  Group Exhibitions

  2023	Urban Sansui, kudan house, Tokyo, Japan
  2020	The Alpha and the Omega, Uriwari Sekitei Park, Yamagata, Japan Individual Sansui, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo, Japan
  2019	Distance and Transmission, gallery N, Tokyo, Japan
  2018	SURVIBIA!!, Digital Hollywood University, Tokyo, Japan Backlash, Space TGC, Tokyo, Japan Neo Moroism 5, Tsinghua University Visual Artcenter, Beijing, China
  2017	Pharmakon: Medical-ecological approach for artistic sensibilization, The Terminal Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan  New flat field, Digital Hollywood University, Tokyo, Japan
  2016	The Greater Taipei Biennial of Contemporary Arts, NTUA, Taipei, Taiwan Neo Moroism 4, 798 Art Factory BTAP, Beijing, China Adachi Delta, Adachidelta, Tokyo, Japan
  2015	Siding Railroad  2015 ,  Ex-Tokorozawa Meal Center, Tokyo , Japan My hole, Art of hole,  Space 23℃, Tokyo , Japan Neo Moroism 2,  Red Tory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou. Guangzhou. China Daiwa Collection Ⅶ,  Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum. Okinawa Innocence,  Temple du gôut, Nantes ,France
  2014	Parplume UniversityⅡ, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto Neo Moroism 2, 798 Art Factory BTAP, Beijing, China Parplume University, YAMASHITABILDG, Nagoya, Japan Summer and Painters,  ARATANIURANO, Tokyo Japan
  2013	Biennial Open Exhibition, NN Contemporary art, Northampton, Uk ILYAURA The Window, The Window, Paris, France Day(s) dreaming, Le 59 Rivoli, Paris, France SOMANYIMAGES, Sprout Curation, Tokyo, Japan
  2012	Pandemonium, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan
  2011	4 Artist show, Shugo Arts, Tokyo, Japan
  2008	15years, WAKO WORKS OF ART, Tokyo, Japan
  2007	Portrait Session @NADiff, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan Portrait Session, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
  2006	Masada Takeshi & Tomohito Ishii, WAKO WORKS OF ART, Tokyo, Japan  Completion works, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
  2005	flom/to #3, WAKO WORKS OF ART, Tokyo, Japan
  2004	Graduation works, Musashino Art University ,Tokyo ,Japan

  Scholarships and Awards

  2019	Single Grant, Arts Counsil Tokyo
  2012	Paris award  Musashino Art University
  2005	Cité International des Arts (Paris)

  Curation / Direction

  2019	My Hole: Hole in Arts series (2019), Curation, Space23℃/ CAPSULE/ clinic
  2018	My Hole: Scab of the 21st Century,  Curation, Space23℃
  2017	New flat field,  Direction, Digital Hollywood University
  2016	Adachi Deltra,  Direction,  Adachi Delta
  2012	Pandemonium,  Curation,  XYZ Collective

  Project

  2019	My Hole: Scab of the 21st Century,  Catalog Published
  2016	My hole, Art of hole,   Catalog Published
  2013	ILYAURA The Window,   Nuit Blanche joint event ILYAURA,   Art Association ILYUAURA established

  Text

  2019	My swollen hand, Wolf and wolf, by Ryo Katsumata, 2019
  2018	New flat field,  BT, by Takuya Nakao, 2017
  2012	Pendulum of image,  Pandemonium art book, by Keisuke Mori
  2011	Art Anatomy,  Kyoto Newspaper, by Yasuyuki Nakai, 2011 Topography of /,   BT, by Tomohiro Masuda, 2011 The Pandemonium of Image,  αM Project, by Masayuki Tanaka
  2005	Gallery Reviews,  BT, by Yuichiro Takashima, 2005

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  Hatsune Katayama

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  Hatsune Katayama

  Born in 1998. Completed B.A. in Fine Arts (Painting) at Musashino Art University in 2020. I use everyday materials such as fabric and wood to create installation works that transform the environment by changing the conditions of the place. I am interested in the environment as a place where things exist, and it is supposed to be as such that is unconsciously implanted in convention. Through my works, by recapturing those places, I consider the subject that exists there because this leads to focusing on the community beyond the subject that would live in. Based on my recent I have developed a strong interest in the multilayered nature and uncertainty of the horizon. And I have created works that amplify this sense of multilayeredness and uncertainty by recognizing the environment, physical sensations and the relationship between the two. By physically confronting the actual environment through my works, rather than merely connecting them to the images of the works inside, I evoke the uncertainty of everyday perception and the strange tactility of living with such sensations.

  
  

  

  Solo Exhibitions

  2023	Lake / Hole, Gallery “Cube”, Arts and Culture Library, University of Toyama (Toyama, Japan)
  2021	Cutting off / Standing on Accumulation, FAL, Musashino Art University(Tokyo, Japan)
  2021	Hardness under the Feet, LIVE studio 696 warehouse(Saitama, Japan)

  Group Exhibitions

  2023	GR19Art Project,INDIGENOUS AND STREET, la mora, OkuwaVillage (Nagano, Japan)
  2023	General Museum｜Site _Some Practices, (Tokyo, Japan)
  2023	In an Urbanized Wilderness, SUNDAY(Tokyo, Japan)
  2022	In an Urbanized Wilderness, a mountain lodge in Minami-Aiki Village (Nagano, Japan) and its surrounding area
  2020	Selected Works from Musashino Art University Degree Show 2019, Musashino Art University Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
  2020	Musashino Art University Degree Show 2019, Building No.4, Musashino Art University (Tokyo, Japan)
  2019	KISO PAINTINGS Art Project, Vol.3. Houses of Dawn, a site of old post town, Yabuharajuku, Kiso Village (Nagano, Japan)

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  Kanie Naha

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  Kanie Naha

  KANIE Naha is a poet. He marked his debut in 2010 as a winner of the Newcomer Prize of Eureka magazine. In 2015 he received the Elsur Foundation Award, and in 2016 was awarded the 21st Nakahara Chuya Prize for his anthology of poems “Yōisareta Shokutaku [The Laid Table]” (self-published, later released from Seidosha). In addition to publishing poems, essays, book reviews, etc. in newspapers and magazines, he is also involved in designing numerous poetry anthologies. In 2017 he starred in the NHK BS Premium drama “Roudoku-ya [The Reader],” and participated in the “MOT Satellite” exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. In 2018, he was invited to the University of Iowa and a poetry festival in Finland to present live reading performances.

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  Shinichi Takashima
  + Shu Nakagawa

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  Shinichi Takashima
  + Shu Nakagawa

  This unit is composed of Shinichi Takashima (born in 1978 in Tokyo), an artist who works on performance pieces and writes critiques, and Shu Nakagawa (born in 1980 in Kochi), a photographer and videographer who is specialized in natural materials and craft products. In 2014, they started collaboration to produce video works, which are based on the motility of the camera which is not visually captured in its own frame. They depict the world without human beings by their own method like the measurement by use of motion parallax.

  Solo Exhibitions

  Have something that defines my judgment　vol. 5 Shinichi Takashima + Shu Nakagawa: Negligible, gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan, 2023.

  No Experience Necessary, Sprout Curation, Tokyo, Japan, 2022.

  Perspective and Pivot Point: The Shortcut Road Movie, Media Shop gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 2019.

  Group Exhibitions

  IMG/Exhibition of video works by three artists, Sprout Curation, Tokyo, Japan, 2019.

  Mapping the Invisible: Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 2018.

  Railroad Siding 2017, the 2nd Center for Meal factory of Tokorozawa City, Saitama, Japan, 2017.

  Unconditional Restoration, milkyeast, Tokyo, Japan, 2015.

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  Asako Fujikura

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  Asako Fujikura

  Born in Saitama, Japan in 1992. Asako Fujikura is an artist who holds an M.A. from the Department of New Media, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts.

  Her artistic focus lies in the exploration of infrastructures that span urban and suburban areas, as well as the depth of landscapes associated with them. She primarily creates works using 3DCG animation techniques. In recent years, Fujikura has been delving into the dynamics of logistics in landfill areas and the emergence of gardens within the city, with the aim of developing innovative spatial expressions.

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  Taisuke Makihara

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  Taisuke Makihara

  Taisuke Makihara, born in 1977, is an artist who obtained his M.A. from the Painting Course, Graduate School of Art and Design, Musashino Art University. He has been recognized for his work, receiving the 2nd Shiseido Art Egg Award, and has also served as a research fellow in the UK through the Agency for Cultural Affairs (2009–2011). Makihara’s installations approach specific objects and places, starting with the creation of secondary forms such as restoration, repair, and the differences that occur before and after these processes. He shifts our perceptions by means of so-called “landscaping,” a very simple technique such as separating the attri-butes and uses of ready-made objects and reassigning them to topographic features, or recombining objects in mountainous areas with those in plain areas.

  
  

  

  Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

  2016	‘Nature Study’ gFAL, Musashino Art University, Tokyo ‘Nature Study’ Gallery MUSÉE F, Tokyo
  2013	‘River’ MIYAKE FINE ART, Tokyo
  2010	‘Recent Work’ Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
  2008	‘Road Runner’ Gallery MUSÉE F, Tokyo ‘flooring’ Shiseido art egg 2, SHISEIDO GALLERY, Tokyo
  2007	‘display’ αM project, ON THE TRAIL vol.1, art space kimura ASK?, Tokyo
  2003	INAX gallery 2, Tokyo
  2001	AKIYAMA GALLERY, Tokyo

  Group Exhibitions (Selected)

  2023	‘Urban Sansui’ kudan house, Tokyo
  2022	‘In an Urbanized Wilderness’ A mountain lodge in Minami-aiki, Nagano
  2020	‘Individual Sansui’  Komagome SOKO, Tokyo
  2018	‘REENVISIONING JAPANESE GARDEN’  kudan house, Tokyo
  2017	‘To Die in Vain (or Not)’  TALION GALLERY, Tokyo
  2012	‘UTOPIA -As an anonymous place’ ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Hiroshima
  2011	‘FLORENCE TRUST 2011’ The Florence Trust, London
  2010	‘almost the same, but not quite’ 48 Stunde Neukölln, Damen Salon, Berlin
  2008	‘Gunma Biennale for Young Artist 2008’ The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
  2007	‘Hiroshima Art Project’ Former Hiroshima Branch of Bank of Japan, Hiroshima
  2006	‘Kiryu-saien12’ Kiryu Moriyoshi Factory, Gunma
  2004	‘Integrate’ Gallery Omotesando, Tokyo

  Grants and Awards

  2008	Shiseido art egg prize, Japan

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  Naofumi Maruyama

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  Naofumi Maruyama

  

  Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

  2023	HIRAKU Project Vol.14 Naofumi Maruyama Kicking the Water: Sengokuhara, Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa
  2022	Kicking the Water, ShugoArts, Tokyo
  2018	Lascaux and Weather, ShugoArts, Tokyo
  2017	FLOWING, Wooson Gallery, Daegu

  Group Exhibitions (Selected)

  2023	GROUND3, ART LAB AICHI, Aichi Passport to Shangri-La, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
  2022	DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow, The National Art Center, Tokyo Energy Overflowing from the Gaze (Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2022), Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
  2020	25th Anniversary Exhibition ”VISION”｜DISTANCE, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
  2019	Weavers of Worlds: A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
  2018	Monet’s Legacy, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi / Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa

  Award

  2008	The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technologyʼs Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists

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  Rui Mizuki

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  Rui Mizuki

  Rui Mizuki, born in 1983, is an artist who holds a Ph.D. in Media Art from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts. Using multiplicity, behavior, intervention, translation, and space as keywords, and connecting them to issues in urban culture and art history, he works on the themes of “encounter with the outside of convention,” “overcoming boundaries,” and “interpretation of the other.” In recent years, Mizuki has been interpreting the concept of “nature” as the “other side of human activity” and creating works using vari-ous media to delve into this concept.

  Solo Exhibitions

  2019	AZUMAKUDARI / WAITINGROOM (Tokyo,JP)
  2018	FM (Flexible Mindset) / haku exhibition (Kyoto,JP) Mosaic of City / ARTZONE (Kyoto,JP)
  2017	C’s / RMIT PROJECT SPACE (Melbourne,AU) Mirror behind hole : Photography into Sculpture vol.3 Rui MIZUKI / gallery αM (Tokyo,JP)
  2005	liquid space / Honenin (Kyoto,JP)

  Group Exhibitions

  2021	constellation #02 / rin art association (Gunma) Symptoms – Four thoughts and physicality – / Artspace Kan (Kyoto)
  2020	GINZA ROOFTOP PROJECT / GINZA TOKYU-PLAZA｜KIRIKO TERRACE. WATER SIDE (Tokyo) VOCA 2020 / The Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo) Individual Sansui / Komagome soko (Tokyo)
  2018	Compiling behaviors, digesting actions / TOKAS Hongo (Tokyo,JP)
  2016	NEO-EDEN / Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum (Suzhou,CH)
  2015	Urbanism – Cityscapes/Residences / kanakawanishi Gallery (Tokyo,JP) STEP OUT! New Japanese Photographers / IMA Gallery (Tokyo,JP) still moving / Former Suujin Elementary School (Kyoto,JP) ARTIST WORKSHOP @KCUA “The Catalogue” by Rinko KAWAUCHI / @KCUA (Kyoto,JP) Series”Spin Photograph #01″ / Bloom Gallery (Osaka,JP) TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD NEW VISIONS #1 / G/P+g3/ gallery (Tokyo,JP)
  2014	TERRADA ART AWARD / T-Art Complex (Tokyo,JP) NIPPON NOW　Junge japanische Kunst und das Rheinland / E.ON (Düsseldorf,Germany)
  2013	flowing urbanity / ART68 (Cologne,Germany) TSCA Rough Consensus / HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO (Kyoto,JP)
  2012	KAGEUTSUSHI―reflections, transition, infection― / @KCUA (Kyoto,JP) INTERIM SHOW / Kyoto City University of Arts (Kyoto,JP) Exhibition of the Works of Doctoral Students / @KCUA (Kyoto,JP)
  2011	INTERIM SHOW / Kyoto City University of Arts (Kyoto,JP)
  2010	Turm 3. made in Japan / Galerie pack of patches (Germany)
  2009	WAKUWAKU JOBAN-KASHIWA Project / TSCA (Chiba,JP) now here , nowhere / Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto,JP)
  2008	Double Chronos (Curated by Yuko HASEGAWA seminar) / ZAP (Tokyo,JP) sensuous / AD&A gallery (Osaka,JP)
  2007	Views of Water：From Monet and Taikan to the Present / Yokohama Museum of Art (Kanagawa,JP) P&E 2007 / ARTCOURT Gallery (Osaka,JP)
  2006	STAIRS / CASO (Osaka,JP) GINZA KOMATSU ART PROJECT 06 / GINZA KOMATSU (Tokyo,JP)

  Project Support

  2014	Temporary foundation
  2014	Yokohama Triennale 2014　/　Yokohama Museum of Art (Kanagawa,JP)

  Grants and Awards

  2014	TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD 2014 #4, Jury Prize

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  Saori Miyake

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  Saori Miyake

  Being interested in the nature of the image that mediates between private experience and collective memory, Saori Miyake attempts to explore the “painterly image” inherent in people’s gaze and bring it to life in a polyphonic way. Her works include photograms, videos, prints, and drawings as a means of tracing back and examining the origins of the image such as “shadow.”

  
  

  

  Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

  2023　Nowhere in Blue, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo

  2021　Artist in Museum Vil.9 Saori MIYAKE, The MUSEUM OF FINE ATRS, GiFU, Gifu

  2019　GARDEN | POTSDAM , Space TGC, Tokyo

  　　　 THE MISSING SHADE 3, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo

  Group Exhibitions (Selected)

  2022　Mirrorless Mirror, gallery αM, Tokyo

  2021　The Practice of Everyday Practice, Nagoya University of the Arts Art & Design Center, Aichi

  　　　 Oku-Noto Triennale 2020 +, Suzu city, Ishikawa

  2019　MOT Annual 2019　Echo after Echo : Summoned Voices, New Shadows, The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo

  2018　20th DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow, The National Art Center, Tokyo

  2017　ArtMeets04 Koichi TABATA / Saori MIYAKE, Arts Maebashi, Gunma

  Grants and Awards

  2016　The Kyoto Prefecture Culture Prize for Effort

  2015　Fellowship of Overseas Study Program for Artists by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan

  2010　VOCA Prize

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  Ryosuke Kondo

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  Ryosuke Kondo

  Born in Osaka, Japan in 1982. Ryosuke Kondo is an artist, art critic, and curator. He obtained his B.A. from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, the University of London, and his M.A. from the Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. He was a JSPS Research Fellow (2014-16) and a Fulbright visiting researcher at Harvard Graduate School of Design (2016-17). 

  
  Specializing in the aesthetics and history of landscape, Kondo’s research primarily focuses on the theory of art and gardening in modern Britain, America, and Japan. He aims at understanding landscape as a living environment through both theoretical and practical pursuits. In addition to academic articles, he writes reviews for art and culture magazines, such as Bijutsu Techo and Ohararyu SOKA, and organizes contemporary art exhibitions, including Urban Sansui (kudan house, 2023) and Individual Sansui (Komagome SOKO, 2020).