"Glocalization-Binding"
Naoki Matsuyama
Aki Namba
Yoshinori Niwa
Mayrhofer-Ohata
Curated by Mika Maruyama, Hongwei Duan
Dienstag, 19. März um 19:00
Ausstellungsdauer: 19. März bis 31. März 2019
Biography
Naoki Matsuyama
Born 1982 in Rieti, Italy. Works as editor, translator, and writer in English, Italian, and Japanese, with a focus on contemporary criticism and art. With a background in architecture he is currently finishing his master's degree in science technology studies with a research focus on infrastructure, sound and disaster.
Aki Namba
Born in Japan, she is a graphic designer and artist who lives and works in Austria. Her work employs subtle interventions in everyday phenomena to challenge the viewer to renegotiate his perceptions of his lived and mental environment. Through careful physical and cognitive repositioning of everyday objects in relation to seemingly disconnected phenomena and situation, she aims to question our presumptions of "cause-and-effect" in our immediate surroundings. The result of her unconventional reconstruction of "reality" is a double-take in the mind of the beholder, inviting him to contemplate the wider implications of his own assumptions about the world we live in. Instead of producing tangible, physical objects, she visualizes and constructs situations which catalyse unexpected ideas and novel ways of thinking.
Yoshinori Niwa
Born in 1982 in the Aichi Prefecture in Japan, he graduated Tama Art University's Department of Moving Images and Performing Arts in 2005. Niwa's work has been exhibited internationally; recent group exhibitions include Double Vision: Contemporary Art From Japan, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Haifa Museum of Art (2012); Aichi Triennale 2013, Aichi Arts Center (2013); Roppongi Crossing 2013: OUT OF DOUBT, Mori Art Museum (2013), Historically Historic Historical History of Communism, Edel Assanti (2015), OUR BELOVED WORLD, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (2015), MAM screen Yoshinori Niwa Selected video works, Mori Art Museum (2016) and his work is included in international collections including the KADIST Foundation, Paris/San Francisco, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Mori Art Museum and Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. Niwa lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
Mayrhofer-Ohata
MAYRHOFER-OHATA is an artist-duo working on the boundaries between reality and fiction, engaging in a playful way with society and its representations. Sayaka Ohata studied fine arts at the Tama Art University Tokyo (MA) and at the Institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts de Besançon (MA). Joseph Mayrhofer-Ohata studied, with a strong leaning towards poetry, romance languages and philosophy at the Sorbonne Paris IV and at the University of Vienna (MA). Since 2014, Sayaka and Joseph work together primarily on site-specific speculations and interventions. The results of their nomadic, project-based practice are installations, books and performative video works.
