2009.8.22 – 10.12 Nakanoshima Park http://www.suito-osaka2009.jp/ by Shinkawa Takashi Yanobe Kenji Lucky Dragon 2009 From midsummer to early autumn, a massive arts festival including several major music and film events ran at various locations around both the Kita and MinamiView More >
Nakaya Fujiko + doubleNegatives Architecture MU: Mercurial Unfolding 2009.9.24 – 10.31 L’Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo http://www.institut.jp/ja/evenements/9141 by Ozaki Tetsuya (ART iT) Mercurial Unfolding is a collaboration between the artist known as the ‘fog sculptor’ and an architecture group of self-proclaimedView More >
Ars Electronica Festival 2009.9.3 – 8 Linz, Austria (various locations) http://www.aec.at/festival_about_en.php Japan Media Art Festival in Vienna 2009.9.12 – 20 Vienna, Austria (MuseumsQuartier) http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/vienna/ by Philippe Codognet & Fukunaga Hiroko The small industrial city of Linz is the unexpected venueView More >
2009.5.30 – 9.23 Nizayama Forest Art Museum http://www.town.nyuzen.toyama.jp/nizayama/ by Matsuura Naomi Flowing Water 2009 Photo Sunhi Mang Most of us begin life on a bed, sleep on a bed every night, and draw our last breath on one. Shiota ChiharuView More >
People Playing with the Dead 2009.7.18 – 9.27 Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery http://www.operacity.jp/ag/exh108/index.html by Hara Hisako Konoike Tomoko: Inter-Traveller – People Playing with the Dead 2009 Photo Nagare Satoshi, Courtesy Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery © Konoike Tomoko ThisView More >
2009.8.1 – 9.5 TARO NASU (Tokyo) http://www.taronasugallery.com by Hosaka Kenjiro (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo) This summer, six metropolitan art galleries each organized architecture exhibitions under the common title Architect Tokyo. The Tomio Koyama Gallery, for example, showcasedView More >
2009.9.3 – 25 Kimusa (DSC), Artsonje Center (Seoul) http://www.platformseoul.org/ by Ozaki Tetsuya (ART iT) Kang Jaegu Prologue #3 Portrait Shot 2009, 90x130cm, Inkjet print A group exhibition held every year since 2006 in Seoul’s foremost art district, Samcheong-dong. This yearView More >
2009.7.16 – 9.9 Kenji Taki Gallery (Tokyo) http://www2.odn.ne.jp/kenjitaki/ by Matsuura Naomi Fragile Surface (body 2) 2009 Stitching with thread pulled out from fabric, embroidery frame, cloth 80.5 x 181 cm At the Stitch by Stitch group exhibition currently on atView More >
2009.5.23 – 7.20 Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art http://www.hcmca.cf.city.hiroshima.jp/web/index.html by Oshima Santo (Suntory Museum Tenpozan) Installation view of Martin Creed 2009 Courtesy Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Photo Omote Nobutada To be honest my first impression, having takenView More >
2009.6.24 – 9.7 The Museum of Modern Art, New York http://www.moma.org by Olivia Hampton Installation view of Projects 90: Song Dong at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2009 Photo Jason Mandella “Dad, don’t worry, mum and we areView More >
2009.6.20-9.23 The National Museum of Art, Osaka http://www.nmao.go.jp/ Windswept Woman II 2009 ©Miwa Yanagi by Ozaki Tetsuya This is a large-scale solo exhibition by Yanagi, who is representing Japan at the Venice Biennale. Including as it does all the pieces fromView More >
2009.6.17-30 PLSMIS（Minami-aoyama） http://www.plsmis.com by Uchida Shinichi (ART iT) Photo: Kioku Keizo Anyone coming across these works with no prior knowledge could be forgiven for being unsure of exactly how they are ‘painted’. Ichikawa’s works are made by scorching paper usingView More >