okayama art summit 2022 岡山芸術交流 2022

okayama art summit 2022 岡山芸術交流 2022

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Artistic Director

Rirkrit Tiravanija

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    Former Uchisange Elementary School
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    Former Uchisange Elementary School

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Born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanijais widely recognized as one of the most influential artists of his generation. His work defies media-based description, as his practice combines traditional object making, public and private performances, teaching, and other forms of public service and social action. Winner of the 2005 Hugo Boss Prize awarded by the Guggenheim Museum, Tiravanija was also awarded the Benesse by the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in Japan and the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Lucelia Artist Award.
He has had exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum of New York, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hirschhorn Smithsonian, Glenstone Museum, Luma Foundation in Arles and at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam that then was presented in Paris and London. Tiravanija is on the faculty of the School of the Arts at Columbia University, and is a founding member and curator of Utopia Station, a collective project of artists, art historians and curators. Tiravanija is also President of an educational-ecological project known as The Land Foundation, located in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where he maintains his primary residence and studio.

Rasel Ahmed

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    Okayama Orient Museum
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Works in Columbus, Ohio.
His major exhibitions include MFA online exhibition (2020), USAID, Washington DC, USA (2018), South Asian Queer Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden (2018), DC Center Washington DC, USA (2017), British Council, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2015), Dialogue international film festival, Kolkata, India (2014).

Art Labor
in collaboration
with Jrai artists

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    Hayashibara Museum of Art
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Including Thao Nguyen Phan, Truong Cong Tung & Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran is an artist collective based in Ho Chi Minh City,
They have been exhibited widely in Vietnam and international, notably such as Paradise Kortrijk, Triennial for contemporary art, Belgium (2021); Carnegie International 57th, Bangkok Art Biennale, ‘A beast, a god, and a line’ at Dhaka Art Summit, Para Site and Modern Art in Warsaw (2018); Cosmopolis #1: Collective Intelligence at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Asian Art Biennial, Taiwan; ‘Salt of the Jungle’ at KF Gallery, Korea, (2017); Jrai Dew Sculpture Garden in Central Highlands of Vietnam (2016-17); The Adventure of Color Wheel at Pediatrics Department, Eye Hospital HCMC (2015); Unconditional Belief at Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City (2014).

Wang Bing

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    Hayashibara Museum of Art
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Born in 1967, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China. Lives and works in France and China.
Wang Bing notable solo exhibitions include LE BAL, Paris (2021); Kunsthalle Zürich (2018-2019); CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2016); Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2014). In 2018, the Museo Reina Sofía and Filmoteca Española, Madrid have shown his work for a major survey exhibition.
Group exhibitions include the Marta Herford gGmbH (2021); Textile Museum, Washington D.C. (2020); Bowdoin College Museum of Art (2019); Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Shenzhen (2017); Brunswick Centre Culturel de Strombeek, Brussels (2017); Jeonju International Film Festival (2015); Shanghai Biennale (2014); Milano Filmmaker Film Festival (2010).

Daniel Boyd

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Born in 1982, Cairns, Australia. Lives and works in Sydney, New South Wales.
Boyd’s practice has lead him to participate in major biennales and exhibitions including All the World's Futures, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice (2015) curated by Okwui Enwezor; Mondialité (2017) curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Asad Raza at the Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels (2017); A Time for Dreams, Moscow International Biennale for Young Arts, Moscow curated by David Elliot (2014); The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (2012); Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Whorled Explorations, Kochi, India (2014) curated by Jitish Kallat;); and Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2007) curated by Brenda L Croft.

Lygia Clark

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    Okayama Orient Museum

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Born 1920 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil Died 1988 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
For more than three decades, Lygia Clark (b. 1920, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; d. 1988, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) created works that proposed a radical reassessment of the role and function of art.
Primarily working in painting, sculpture, performance and, later, psychoanalytical experiences,
Clark intended to break down traditional ideas concerning the artist, artwork and viewer.
Her pioneering practice questioned the relationship between art object and spectator, through corporeal and organic forms that encouraged physical encounters and sensorial experiences.
Clark has had solo exhibitions at Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (2020); Tate Modern, London, UK (with Hélio Oiticica, 2020); Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK (2016); MoMA, New York, US (2014);
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK (2014); and Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil (2012).
Her work has been included in recent group shows at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2021);
MASP, São Paulo, Brazil (2019); MoMA, New York, US (2019); ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (2019);
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (2019); Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (2018); MAMBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2018); Brooklyn Museum, New York, US (2018);
and Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland (2017).Clark’s work is held in the collections of Centre Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, US; Museum of Modern Art, New York, US;
MAM Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, US; and Tate Modern, London.

Abraham
Cruzvillegas

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Born in 1968, Mexico City, Mexico where they lives and works.
His major solo exhibitions include Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (2021), La Maison Rendez-Vous, Brussels (2020), The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach (2020), Aspen Art Museum, United States (2019), Ginza Maison Hèrmes Le Forum, Tokyo (2017), Sinbyeong, Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2015). Group exhibitions include Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, United States (2021), Lakeside Arts Center, Nottingham, United Kingdom (2019), 14th Bienal de Artes Mediales de Santiago (2019).

ENKU

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    Okayama Orient Museum

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Enkū(1632–1695)
Enkū was a Japanese Buddhist monk and sculptor during the early Edo period. He was born in Mino Province (Gifu Prefecture) in 1632, and is thought to have entered the priesthood at a young age, after which he continued his mountain asceticism on Mt.Hakusan and other mountains. Enkū left Mino in his early 30s, and traveled through the Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto and Kinai regions. By 1663, He began carving statues and is said to have created over 100,000 statues during his lifetime. Enkū returned to Mino in1695 and died at the age of 64 on July 15 of the same year. Enkū’s sculptures are known for being crudely carved from a single piece of wood and feature bold, simple forms. Their rustic expression of natural wood texture without color or decoration is often described as ‘folksy’. In his early years, some of Enkū’s works followed the tradition of carving smooth surfaces, but he gradually shifted to astrong, abstract style with chisel marks. Many sosftly smiling Buddha statues were carved after his style was established. Enkū’s numerous Buddha statues must have been made not only to teach Buddhism to the people, but also as part of his way to realize his enlightenment as a Buddhist monk.
Written by Yuki Okazaki, Assistant Curator
Sadamu Yokoyama, Deputy Director

Ryoji Ikeda

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    Okayama Castle Middle Level

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Born in 1966 in Gifu, Ikeda currently lives and works in Paris and Kyoto. While rooted in electronicmusic, the internationally active composer and artist also produces art as experimentation. Ikeda’simmersive live performances and installations employ anelaborate orchestration of sound, visuals,matter, physical phenomena, and mathematical concepts.Since 2008, He presented solo exhibitions in major institutions worldwide such as Center PompidouParis, Carriageworks Sydney, MONA Hobart-Tasmania, Park Avenue Armory New York, Museum ofContemporary art Tokyo, Museo de Arte Bogota, ZKM centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe, EyeFilmmuseum Amsterdam, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 180 The Strand London, PHI Center Montréalamongst others. In 2022, Hirosaki Museum ofContemporary Art is presenting his first major soloexhibition in Japan since 2009.Ikeda’s long term audiovisual project, ‘data-verse’ commissioned by Audemars Piguet Contemporarywas revealed at Venice Biennale 2019, ‘May You Live in Interesting Times’curated by Ralph Rugoff.As a composer, Ikeda’s audiovisual and acoustic concerts where performed at Barbican CenterLondon, Centre Pompidou and Festival d’Automne à Paris, Los Angeles Philharmonie,Concertgebouw Brugge, The MET New York, Kyoto Experiment, Festival Musica Strasbourg,Diaghilev Festival Perm.Ikeda has received the Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN in 2014, and the 70th Japanese Ministerof Education Award for Fine Arts (Media Arts Division) in 2020.

Mari Katayama

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    Okayama Tenmaya Omotecho Shopping Street side show window

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Born in 1987, Gunma, Japan.
Major exhibitions include 58th Venezia Biennale, Venezia, Italy (2019); White Rainbow, London, UK (2019); Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan (2017); Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan (2017); Mori Arts Center, Japan (2016); Aichi Triennale 2013, Aichi, Japan (2013) etc. Main publication is the "GIFT" United Vagabonds (2019). Received the 35th Higashikawa Award for New Artists (2019); and the 45th Kimura Ihei Photo Award (2020).

My-Linh Le

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    Tenjinyama Cultural Plaza of Okayama Prefecture
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    Okayama Shrine

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My-Linh Le is a Bay Area (California) -based, second generation Vietnamese American dancer, award winning choreographer, multidisciplinary storyteller, and former environmental attorney.
Her major works include THE ORIGINE STORY OF NO NAME, San Francisco, USA (2021), UNTITLED, San Francisco, USA (2021-2022), MUD WATER, Oakland, USA (2019-2021), TRONG NUOC, Tempe, USA (2019-2020), THE REVERSE TURING TEST, Chiang Mai Thailand (2017-2018).

David Medalla

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Born in 1942, Manila, Philippine. Died in 2020.
Medalla’s work was the subject of the solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2005). His work was included in the Harald Szeemann–curated exhibitions Weiss auf Weiss (1966); Bern Kunsthalle (1969); and in DOCUMENTA 5, Kassel (1972).
Important group exhibitions featuring the artist’s work include How Art Became Active: 1960 to Now at Tate Modern (2016); Other Primary Structures at The Jewish Museum, New York (2014); Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making 1789-2013, Tate Liverpool (2013–14); Thresholds, TRAFO, Szczecin (2013); When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013, Fondazione Prada, Venice (2013); Une exposition parlée, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (2013); Migrations, Tate Britain, London (2012); À la vie délibérée, Une histoire de la performance sur la Côte d’Azur de 1951 à 2011, Villa Arson, Nice, France (2012).

Asif Mian

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Born in 1978, Jersey City, NJ. Lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Working at the intersection of drawing, sculpture, video, and performance, Mian’s practice reflects on the perceptions and processings of violence. Drawing on personal and collective experiences, Mian psychologically shifts everyday objects and practices through metabolization, embedding, and hybridization. His varied methods employ the splicing of rugs together as ‘event sculptures’, modifying intimidation rituals for performance, and subverting drone thermal cameras for video installations.
Mian was a finalist for the 2022 Artadia New York Award, and winner of the 2020 Queens Museum-Jerome Foundation Fellowship with the solo exhibition, “RAF: Prosthetic Location” at Queens Museum, NY (2021). His work has also been featured in group exhibitions including ‘Always, Already, Haunting, "disss-co," Haunt’ curated by Whitney ISP fellows at The Kitchen (2019); Open Call at The Shed (2019); Beyond Geographies: Contemporary Art and Muslim Experience at BRIC, Brooklyn (2019); and the Queens International: Volumes at Queens Museum (2018).

Precious
Okoyomon

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Nigerian-American poet and artist born in 1993. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
They have had institutional solo exhibitions at the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2021); Performance Space New York (2021); the Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2020); the LUMA Westbau, Zurich (2018). Group exhibitions were held at, the Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France (2021); LUMA Arles, France (2021); Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (2021); Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2020); LUMA Westbau Zurich, Switzerland (2019); Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2019). Major performances have been commissioned by the Serpentine Galleries, London (2019) and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2019).

Frida Orupabo

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    Okayama Orient Museum

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born 1986 in Sarpsborg, Norway. Lives and works in Oslo.
Solo exhibitions include Future Generation Art Prize, Kiev and Venice (2021 and 2022); Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim (2021); Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (2020); Portikus, Frankfurt am Main and Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (both 2019). Her work has been presented in group exhibitions at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (2021); the Jewish Museum (curated by Jonathan Horowitz), New York (2020); Museum Ludwig Cologne, Germany (2020); Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germay (2020); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2021); Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg (2021); MUAC, Mexico City (2021); Rudolfinum, Prague (2021); Munch Triennale, Oslo (2022); Hannah Ryggen Triennial, Oslo (2022); FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Linazay (2021); MOMENTUM biennale, Moss and Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (2021); Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (curated by Isaac Julien), London (2020); Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2020).

Vandy Rattana

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Born in Cambodia in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge and having grown up in Phnom Penh. Currently lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan.
His major solo exhibitions include Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan (2020), Galerie Chateau d'Eau, Toulouse, France (2018), CAPC, Bordeaux, France (2015), Asia Society Museum, New York City, America (2013). His major group exhibitions include Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea (2020), Singapore Biennale (2019), Jewish Museum, Frankfurt, Germany (2019), Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi, Japan (2019), Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (KMFA), Taiwan (2019), Galerie Faux Mouvement, Metz, France (2017), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2017), Museum of contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan (2015), Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan. (2013), dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany (2012).

Bárbara
Sánchez-Kane

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1987, Mérida, Mexico.
Under the figure of the macho sentimental, Sánchez-Kane resists the traditionalnotions of mexicanidad and its relationship with the feminine and masculine. Itdoes not matter if it is through fashion design, painting, performance or installation,the work is the same, going through anxiety and fear, to question pleasureand domination.
Some of the most notable solo exhibitions and performances by the artistinclude: sánchezkaneismo, kurimanzutto, Mexico City (2022); Prêt-à-Patria (aspart of Siembra), kurimanzutto, Mexico City (2021); Latino Couture, MuseoExperimental El ECO, Mexico City (2020); Macho Sentimental vol. II, Palais deTokyo (2019); Las Puertas al Sentimentalismo, Licenciado Gallery, Mexico City(2019); Macho Sentimental vol. I, Grand Tour Studio, Milan (2018); and VastGraveyard of the Missing, Institute of Contemporary Art – Los Angeles (2017).
Among her most recent group exhibitions are De por Vida, Company Gallery,New York (2021); En llamas, Llano, Mexico City, (2021); Otrxs Mundxs, MuseoTamayo, Mexico City (2020); Señora, Meyer Kainer Galerie, Austria (2020); andPrince·sse·s des villes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019).Bárbara Sánchez-Kane lives and works in Mexico City.

Aki Sasamoto

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Born in 1980, Kanagawa, Japan. Lives and works in New York, USA.
Her major solo exhibitions include Bortolami Gallery, New York, USA (2020,2019), White Rainbow, London, UK (2019), Take Ninagawa, Tokyo, Japan (2017), Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil (2017), Sculpture Center, New York, USA (2016). Group exhibitions include UCCA Edge, Shanghai (2021), Hirosaki Museum of Comtemporary Art, Aomori, Japan (2021,2021), The National Museum of Art, Osaka (2018), Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (2017), Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo (2017), Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture (2015), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2013), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010), MoMA PS1, New York (2010).

Jacolby
Satterwhite

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Born in 1986, Columbia, South Carolina. Lives and works in New York.
Satterwhite’s work has been presented in numerous exhibitions and festivals internationally, including most recently at Haus der Kunst, Munich (2021); Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2021); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2021); Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia (2019); Pioneer Works, New York (2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2019); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2019); Minneapolis Institute of Art (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2018); Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2018); New Museum, New York (2017); Public Art Fund, New York (2017); San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco (2017); and Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2017).

Shimabuku

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Born in Kobe, Japan in 1969. Currently based in Naha City, Japan, he works around the world.
Since the early 1990s, he has traveled to many places in Japan and abroad, creating video, sculpture, performance, and installation works related to the places, the lives and cultures of the people living there, and new ways of communication. His work sometimes extends to the relationship between creatures and humans. His style, which is full of poetic sentiment and humor but also inspires people metaphorically, has earned him international acclaim.
He has participated in many major international exhibitions, including the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), the 14th Lyon Biennale (2017), the 12th Havana Biennial (2015), the 9th Taipei Biennial (2014), the 11th Sharjah Biennial (2013), the 2nd Bienal de São Paulo (2006), Liverpool Bienal (2006), and the 11th Bienal, Sydney (1998).
Major recent solo exhibitions include Weals Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, Belgium (2022); National New Museum, Monaco (2021); Centre d'Art Contemporain, Clédac, Yblis, France (2018); Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (2014); Icon Gallery, Birmingham, U.S.A. (2014); and Icon Gallery, Birmingham, U.K. (2015). Birmingham, U.K. (2013), among others.

Yutaka Sone

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Born in 1965, Shizuoka, Japan. Lives and works in China, Mexico, Belgium and Japan.
Solo exhibitions include, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China (2017); David Zwirner, New York (2016); Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles (2013); Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo (2011); Maison Hermès Le Forum, Tokyo (2010); Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (2006); Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan (2002). Sone’s work has also been exhibited in group exhibitions such as, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan (2020); Kanazawa 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa, Japan (2019); Chinretsukan, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan (2019); Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy (2018); Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany (2018); Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China (2013).

Apichatpong
Weerasethakul

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    Cinema Clair Marunouchi

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Born in Khon Kaen, north-eastern. Lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
In 2012, he is invited to participate in Documenta (13), one of the most well-known art exhibitions in Kassel, Germany. In 2016, a retrospective of his films was presented at Tate Modern, London (2016). He was the Principal Laureate of the 2016 Prince Claus Awards, the Netherlands. In 2019, Apichatpong was awarded the Artes Mundi prize, the UK's largest prize for international contemporary art. His on-going project includes Fever Room, a projection performance about displaced consciousness. It has been presented at Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels (2016); Festival d’Automne, Paris (2016); Volksbühne, Berlin (2017); Wiener Festwochen, Vienna (2019), among others.

Haegue Yang

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Born in 1971 in Seoul, South Korea. Currently lives and works in Berlin and Seoul.
Yang has participated in major international exhibitions including the 16th Istanbul Biennial (2019); the 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018); La Biennale de Montréal (2016); the 12th Sharjah Biennial (2015); the 9th Taipei Biennial (2014); Documenta XIII in Kassel (2012); and the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). Selected recent solo exhibitions have been held at Tate St Ives (2020), Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila (2020), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2020), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2020), The Bass Museum of Art, Miami (2019); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2019); South London Gallery (2019); MO.CO. Panacée, Montpellier (2018), and Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2018).

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PEPPERLAND

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Live House PEPPERLAND
Founded in 1974 at the dawn of the ‘live house’ (live music club) in Japan, PEPPERLAND was started with the intention to create a place like Andy Warhol's "Exploding Plastic Inevitable". The long-standing institution established the live music culture in Okayama and has continued to emphasize activities that transverse, connect, and intermix all cultural fields, from music to other forms including movies, plays, lectures, and poetry readings. Music is the fastest medium with which one can express the vision of the next generation, and PEPPERLAND has maintained an attitude of respecting, accepting, and nurturing the sensibilities of youth, regardless of genre. With a shirt and autographed photo of Joseph Beuys on display inside, the live house is unique in its respect for the Situationist approach to "social sculpture" through music.

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Iseo Nose
Photographer, art exhibition organizer, and music critic.
Born in 1947, Iseo Nose has presided over Live House PEPPERLAND since 1974. While developing activities that transcend boundaries, he was involved in editing and writing for Yuzuru Agi's "Rock Magazine" from 1983 until the publication ceased. His major exhibitions include "Spectacle: Nose Iseo 1968-2004" (2004), a collaborative cultural project between Okayama and Kurashiki City; "X-COLOR Graffiti in Japan", which he organized at Art Tower Mito in Ibaraki (2005); "The photograph as seen from Goethe morphology" at Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art in Okayama (2013); and "OPAM x Nose Iseo Theater in Museum" at Oita Prefectural Art Museum in Oita (2016). Among other places, Nose has lectured at Art Biotop in Nasu "Shule im Berg (The Mountain School)" (2009–), and Kyoto International Film and Art Festival (2015–). He also formed silver halide photography group, Phenomena (2008–), and opened Bigakko Okayama (2010–), an accredited school of Tokyo's Bigakko, which has a history of over 50 years. Nose authored many books and critiques, including, "Shin Ongaku no Kaisetsu (New Music Decoding)" (2013), published by disk union; and “ISEO NOSE MORPHOLOGY” (2014), a photography collection published by AKAAKA Art Publishing Inc. He received the Fukutake Cultural Award from the Fukutake Education and Culture Foundation in 2018, and his work has been featured in the collection of Keio University Art Center, Tokyo.

Gert Robijns

  • Opening hours
    09:00〜17:00
    Venues
    Former Uchisange Elementary School

Profile

Born in 1972, Sint-Truiden. Lives and works in Borgloon, Belgium.
Over the course of his career, Gert Robijns has crafted extraordinary and unfamiliar compositions, ambitious and sometimes outlandish versions of things we know to be familiar. Dislodging everyday objects from their traditional frameworks, Robijns simultaneously deconstructs the quotidian from its contexts while foregrounding poetic dimensions that can be found just beneath the surface of his chosen subjects.
Robijns has spent the past decade working on his RESET concept, wherein the recreation and revaluation of the (social) landscape are key. In 2010, Robijns made a copy of the small town of Gotem, his birthplace, out of white wood and metal on a scale of 75:100, including the church and rectory. From then on, he became dedicated to following this idea of RESET in various projects, among them Reset Charbon, a reflection on Limburg's mining history, and Reset Mobile, a temporary structure that has been travelling as an unprogrammed freespace around the world.
Gert Robijns (b. Sint-Truiden, Belgium, 1972) first attended the Hogeschool Sint Lukas Brussel from 1992-1996 and then did further research in the department of fine arts of the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht (NL). Later he participated in the artists residency programmes: PS1, New York, and the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. Since 2001 he has been visiting lecturer at KASK in Ghent.

Group

OVERCOAT

  • Opening hours
    09:00〜17:00
    Venues
    Former Uchisange Elementary School
  • Opening hours
    09:00 〜 17:00
    Venues
    Former Uchisange Elementary School

Profile

OVERCOAT is a fashion brand founded in 2015 by New York resident, Ryuhei Oomaru (born in 1977 in Fukuoka). Under the concept "Wearing New York", the brand aims for sizeless, genderless, and ageless craftsmanship, with a special focus on the shoulder line. The collection has expanded into department stores and concept stores, mainly in Japan and the U.S., and has been acclaimed by the art industry and creative community.

Shu Isezaki(Bizen)・
Smith Ethan Shogo・
De'Andre Kiguchi
(Ujo Bori)

  • Opening hours
    09:00〜17:00
    Venues
    Former Uchisange Elementary School
  • Opening hours
    09:00 〜 17:00
    Venues
    Former Uchisange Elementary School

Profile

Bizen-yaki is prototypically produced in Bizen City, Okayama Prefecture. It is characterized by the technique of firing with a high-temperature oxidizing flame without a glaze. Having the longest history among the six oldest kilns in Japan, we can trace the roots of Bizen-yaki back to the Kofun period. Shu Isezaki, Bizen-yaki artist and son of Kyo Isezaki, began training at his father's kiln after studying abroad and gaining experience at a culinary school.
Shu Isezaki
Born in 1996
Lives and works in Okayama Prefecture

Ujobori is a style of wood carving and was first produced in 1925 by sculptor, Kyuho Kiguchi. This lacquerware craft is characterized by delicate carvings and realistic representations. Kiguchi is said to have named "Ujobori" after Okayama Castle, also known as "Ujo". The high level of skill and specialization that goes into producing Ujobori has made it a regional specialty of Okayama. De'Andre Kiguchi and Smith Ethan Shogo are young carvers working to fuse tradition and modernity.
De'Andre Kiguchi
Born in 1998 in the US
Lives and works in Okayama Prefecture
Smith Ethan Shogo
Born in 1998
Lives and works in Okayama Prefecture

Performance

Untitled Band
(Shun Owada and
friends)

  • Opening hours
    09:00 〜 17:00
    Venues
    Former Uchisange Elementary School(9月30日のみ)

Profile

The band, led by Shun Owada, consists of artists including Ju Muraoka, Masataka Kimura, Hiroyuki Oki, and Yutaka Sone. Initiated by Sone, the group formed in Okayama in the fall of 2021.