
Kawamata Tadashi Tree Hut in the Place Vendome, Paris 2013
BIOGRAPHY
Kawamata Tadashi 川俣正
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Born in 1953 in Mikasa, Hokkaido, Japan
Lives and works in Paris, France
– Education –
1981 | MFA, Tokyo National University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan |
– Selected Solo Exhibitions –
2020 | Construction, Japan House Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
Insertion into City Life, BankART Station, BankART Temporary, Bashamichi station, Yokohama | |
Shiseido window installation, Shiseido the Store, Tokyo | |
2019 | Destruction, kamel mennour, Paris, France |
Destruction / Reconstruction,, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK | |
2018 | Over Flow, Museum Art Architecture Technology, Lisbon, Portugal |
2017 | Early Works, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo |
Crossroads, Kiyotsu Warehouse Museum, Niigata | |
The Shower, Made in Cloister, Naple, Italy | |
Starting Over, Under Construction, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo | |
2016 | Under the water, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France |
2015 | Kawamata Maquettes 1983-2015, kamel mennour, Paris, France |
2014 | Stairs, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK |
Box construction II, Gallery 604, Busan, Korea | |
Project Document TOKYO IN PROGRESS 2010-2013, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan | |
Prekaere Konstruktionen, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Switzerland | |
2013 | Scheiterturm / Log Tower, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Switzerland |
HORIZONS: Project Les Sentiers de l’eau ,en Camargue, Musee de la Camargue, France | |
Collectie Folie, Parc la Villette, Paris, France | |
2012 | Expand BankART, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan |
Box construction Daegu, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea | |
Box construction, Gallery 604, Busan, Korea | |
2011 | Under the water, Kamel Mennour, Paris, France |
2010 | The Tree Hut in Masan, Masan Moonshin Art Museum, Masan, Korea |
Tree Hut, Carton Workshop, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France |
– Selected Group Exhibitions –
2020 | Vladivostok International Biennale of Visual Arts, Vladivostok, Russia (upcoming) |
Helsinki Biennial 2020, Helsinki, Finland | |
Drawings, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo | |
2019 | Weavers of Worlds – A Century of Flux in Japanese, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo |
on sculpture – between line and figure, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo | |
The Nature Rules: Dreaming of Earth Project, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo | |
Multiples, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo | |
2018 | EGON SCHIELE The Jubilee Show RELOADED, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria |
Culture City of East Asia 2018 Kanazawa Altering Home,21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan | |
Art on the Road-Three Traveling Exhibitions From the Hara Museum, Hara Museum Arc, Gunnma, Japan | |
2017 | JAPAN ALPS ART FESTIVAL 2017,Shinano-city, Niigata prefecture, Japan |
OpenART Biennale 2017, Örebro, Sweden | |
JAPAN ALPS ART FESTIVAL 2017, Omachi, Nagano Prefecture, Japan | |
2016 | KNOCK ON WOOD, Magda Danysz, Paris,France |
2015 | Tsumari Diorama, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Niigata, Japan |
2014 | Triennale Brugge 2015, Bruges, Belgium |
Collection Becoming, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan | |
La Chaire, Kibe Project, Kunisaki Art Festival 2014,Kunisaki City, Oita, Japan | |
MAK-Permanent Collection Asia (China-Japan-Korea), MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art,Vienna, Austria | |
Japon, Centre d’art contemporain (cac), Meymac, France | |
2013 | Unstable Territoy, Center for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Plazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy |
Garden Tower in Toronto, Toronto Nuit Blanche 2013, Canada | |
Tree hut in the Place Vendome, FIAC 2013, Paris, France | |
SITE- Place of Memories, Spaces with Potential, Hiroshima City Museum of Modern Art, Hiroshima, Japan | |
Favela Cafe, Art Basel, Switzerland | |
2012 | Chairs for Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Art Fair, UAE |
Exchange Library, FIAC, Paris, France | |
Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale, Niigata, Japan | |
2010 | Mukaijima Project The Island Made by the Island, Setouchi International Art Festival, Kagawa, Japan |
Walkway and Tower, EMSCHERKUNST 2010, Essen, Germany |
– Selected Projects –
2020 | Sendai in Progress, Sendai, Miyagi |
2019 | Belvedere de l’hermitage, Nantes, France |
Project in Tremblay-en-France, Tremblay-en-France, France | |
2018 | Hokkaido in Progress (Iwamizawa Project 2018), Iwamizawa, Hokkaido |
2017 | Tokyo in Progress (Shioiri Tower) Closing Event, Tokyo |
2017 | Hokkaido in Progress (Iwamizawa Project 2017), Iwamizawa, Hokkaido |
2015 | Guangzhou project, Guangzhou, China |
2014 | Tront Lamp Post,Waterfront Tront, Tront, Canada |
Hokkaido in Progress (Mikasa project 2014), Mikasa, Hokkaido, Japan | |
2013 | Tree hut in the Place Vendome, FIAC 2013, Paris, France |
Camarguve boat tour, Arles, France | |
ESCALE” et “DECISE, Arles, France | |
Project Les Sentiers de l’eau ,en Camargue HORIZONS, Musee de la Camargue, France | |
Au fil de la SAONE, Lyon, France | |
Tokyo in Progress Closing Event, Tokyo, Japan | |
Hokkaido in Progress (Mikasa project 2013), Mikasa, Hokkaido, Japan | |
2012 | Corner Structure, Bonn, Germany |
Favela in Gent, Track, Gent, Belgium | |
Tokyo in Progress (Toyosu Dome), Tokyo, Japan | |
Tokyo in Progress (Tsukuda Terrace), Tokyo Culture Creation Project, Tokyo | |
Hokkaido in Progress (Mikasa project 2012), Mikasa, Hokkaido, Japan | |
2011 | Workshop Camargue, Les Sentiers De L’eau- Water Path 2, Marseille-Provence Musee de Camargue, Franceance |
Workshop at Bergloon, Belgium, Z33- huis voor actuele kunst, Hasselt, Belgium | |
Cergy Pontoise Art commission work, Cergy Pontoise, France | |
Chaumont sur Loire Project Chateau de Chaumont, Chaumont sur Loire, France | |
Hokkaido in Progress (Mikasa project 2011), Hokkaido, Japan | |
Tokyo in Progress (Shioiri Tower), Tokyo, Japan | |
2010 | Drift Structure, Uster, Switzerland |
Tokyo in Progress, Tokyo, Japan |
EXHIBITIONS
Drawings
Jae-eun Choi, Kawamata Tadashi, Isozaki Arata, Francis Shingo, Shinoda Taro
September 25 – November 7, 2020
Multiples
Iba Yasuko, Isozaki Arata, Kawamata Tadashi, Ozawa Tsuyoshi, Shinoda Taro
March 5 – March 30, 2019
Group Show 2
Back Seung Woo, Hikosaka Naoyoshi, Kawamata Tadashi, Ozawa Tsuyoshi, Shinoda Taro, Tomatsu Shomei
April 7 – April 14, 2018
Early Works
KAWAMATA Tadashi
August 2 – October 7, 2017
Project Document TOKYO IN PROGRESS 2010-2013
KAWAMATA Tadashi
Jul 26 – Sep 27, 2014