works: installation / drawing
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1975
born in Tokyo (J)
1994–1998
BFA, National University of Art and Music, Tokyo (J)
1998–2002
MFA, National University of Art and Music, Tokyo (J)
2000–2004
University of the Arts, Berlin (D)
awards / scholarships
2009
Berlin Senate Work Scholarship
2004–2007
Ministry of Culture Bunka-Cho Scholarship
2001–2003
DAAD Scholarship (Berlin)
2000
Pola Foundation Scholarship
lives and works in Berlin (D) and Tokyo (J)
exhibitions
selected solo exhibitions
2010
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (J)
2009
Dresden dream with Y.A., Gallery Alexandra Saheb, Berlin (D)
You are welcome!, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Duesseldorf (D)
in that moment: where was she?, rahncontemporary, Zurich (CH)
You are welcome!, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Duesseldorf (D)
in that moment: where was she?, rahncontemporary, Zurich (CH)
2007
Even if we`re not together, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (J)*
Take me to the edge of heaven, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin (D)
Take me to the edge of heaven, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin (D)
2006
May I Enter?, Gallery Alexandra Saheb, Berlin (D)
2004
Invisible Birds, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (J)
2003
July to remember the past days more exactly, Closetgallery, Halifax (CAN)
2002
Hier and Now, Büro Friedrich, Berlin (D)
Normal-life, Spice Museum, Tokyo (J) / Studio J, Osaka (J) / Tzutsuya, Hiroshima (J) / 3rd So-ko, Fukuoka (J)
Gasag-Kunstpreis, 2yk Gallery, Berlin (D)
Normal-life, Spice Museum, Tokyo (J) / Studio J, Osaka (J) / Tzutsuya, Hiroshima (J) / 3rd So-ko, Fukuoka (J)
Gasag-Kunstpreis, 2yk Gallery, Berlin (D)
selected group exhibitions
2010
Selected Artists 2009, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin (D)*
L.G.S.N.H.C.M.E.S.M.K.T., rahncontemporary, Zurich (CH)
L.G.S.N.H.C.M.E.S.M.K.T., rahncontemporary, Zurich (CH)
2009
Stitch by Stitch, Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo (J)
unerreichbar ist gerade nah genug, Gallery Alexandra Saheb, Berlin (D)
Fragile – Terres d’empathie, Museé d’Art Moderne, St. Etienne (F) / Accademia d’Ungheria – Palazzo dei Falconieri, Rome (I) / Daejon Museum of Art (ROK)*
Voca 2009, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo (J)
unerreichbar ist gerade nah genug, Gallery Alexandra Saheb, Berlin (D)
Fragile – Terres d’empathie, Museé d’Art Moderne, St. Etienne (F) / Accademia d’Ungheria – Palazzo dei Falconieri, Rome (I) / Daejon Museum of Art (ROK)*
Voca 2009, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo (J)
2008
The Echo, Zaim, Yokohama (J)
Apart a Part, Wonder Site, Tokyo (J)
Between Time and Space, Nunnery Gallery, London (GB)*
Re-Reading the Future – Ästhetik der Ähnlichkeiten, 1st International Triennale of Contemporary Art (ITCA), National Gallery, Prague (CZ)*
Artist File, The National Art Center, Tokyo (J)
Von dem, was dann noch bleibt, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden (D)
Apart a Part, Wonder Site, Tokyo (J)
Between Time and Space, Nunnery Gallery, London (GB)*
Re-Reading the Future – Ästhetik der Ähnlichkeiten, 1st International Triennale of Contemporary Art (ITCA), National Gallery, Prague (CZ)*
Artist File, The National Art Center, Tokyo (J)
Von dem, was dann noch bleibt, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden (D)
2007
Cycle and Recycle, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya (J)*
So nah. So fern, Kulturstiftung Schloss Agathenburg (D)*
Thread, Koroška Galerie der bildenden Künste, Slovenj Gradec (CZ)
So nah. So fern, Kulturstiftung Schloss Agathenburg (D)*
Thread, Koroška Galerie der bildenden Künste, Slovenj Gradec (CZ)
2006
Landscape is the eye of the beholder, Gallery Alexandra Saheb, Berlin (D)
Zones of Contact, 15th Biennial Sydney, National Gallery, Sydney (AUS)*
Zones of Contact, 15th Biennial Sydney, National Gallery, Sydney (AUS)*
2005
Rooming-In, ArtMbassy, Berlin (D)
2004
Unpainted, Villa Grisebach, Berlin (D)
2003
Normal / Normal?, Dirt Gallery, Kansas City (USA)
Reading Spaces, Gallery Plastyfikatory, Lubon (PL)
Reading Spaces, Gallery Plastyfikatory, Lubon (PL)
* = Catalogue
exhibitions rahncontemporary Zurich
2010
L.G.S.N.H.C.M.E.S.M.K.T. (group show)
22.1. – 20.3.2010
22.1. – 20.3.2010
2009
in that moment: where was she? (solo show)
9.1. – 7.3.2009
9.1. – 7.3.2009
catalogues
Between Time and Space
Exhib. Cat. Nunnery Gallery London, 2008.
ISBN 3-93343-23-9
Exhib. Cat. Nunnery Gallery London, 2008.
ISBN 3-93343-23-9
15 SF*
Cycle and Recycle
Exhib. Cat. Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya 2007.
Exhib. Cat. Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya 2007.
32 SF*
Re-Reading the Future – Ästhetik der Ähnlichkeiten
Exhib. Cat. National Gallery Prague, 2008.
ISBN 978-80-86970-65-3
Exhib. Cat. National Gallery Prague, 2008.
ISBN 978-80-86970-65-3
38 SF*
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news
press
selected reviews
Artforum International, October 2006
Charles Green, Zones of Contact: 2006 Biennale of Sydney
www.artforum.com
Art Monthly, July – August 2006
Nathalie King, 15th Biennale of Sydney
www.artmonthly.co.uk
Kulturspiegel, October 26, 2007
Ingeborg Wiensowski, Tageskarte Kunst. Im Goldrausch
www.spiegel.de
Kunstforum International, 2008, issue 189
Peter Funken, Take me to the edge of heaven
www.kunstforum.de