Kawamata Tadashi, "La Biennale di Venezia", Venezia, 1982
川俣正 Kawamata Tadashi
Born in 1953, Kawamata achieved international recognition with his participation in the Venice Biennale in 1982, and has since held exhibitions at Documenta and La Biennale de Lyon, to name a few. Kawamata currently is a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His works today range from architecture and city planning, to historiography and sociology, to daily communications, to medicine.
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EXHIBITIONS
Kawamata Tadashi: Works from Late ’80s to Early ’90s
KAWAMATA Tadashi
June 29 – August 10, 2024
Early Works
KAWAMATA Tadashi
August 2 – October 7, 2017
Project Document TOKYO IN PROGRESS 2010-2013
KAWAMATA Tadashi
July 26 – September 27, 2014
BIOGRAPHY
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
2020 Insertion into City Life, BankART Station, BankART Temporary, Bashamichi station, Yokohama
2020 Shiseido window installation, Shiseido the Store, Tokyo
2019 Destruction, kamel mennour, Paris, France
2019 Destruction / Reconstruction, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK
2018 Over Flow, Museum Art Architecture Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 Early Works, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo
2017 Crossroads, Kiyotsu Warehouse Museum, Niigata
2017 The Shower, Made in Cloister, Naples, Italy
2017 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
2014 Box construction II, Gallery 604, Busan, Korea
2014 Project Document TOKYO IN PROGRESS 2010-2013, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Prekaere Konstruktionen, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Switzerland
2013 Scheiterturm / Log Tower, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Switzerland
2013 HORIZONS: Project Les Sentiers de l’eau ,en Camargue, Musee de la Camargue, France
2013 Collectie Folie, Parc la Villette, Paris, France
2012 Expand BankART, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan
2012 Box construction Daegu, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2012 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
2010 Tree Hut, Carton Workshop, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Vladivostok International Biennale of Visual Arts, Vladivostok, Russia
2020 Helsinki Biennial 2020, Helsinki, Finland
2020 Drawings, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo
2019 Weavers of Worlds – A Century of Flux in Japanese, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
2019 on sculpture – between line and figure, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo
2019 The Nature Rules: Dreaming of Earth Project, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2019 Multiples, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo
2018 EGON SCHIELE The Jubilee Show RELOADED, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria
2018 Culture City of East Asia 2018 Kanazawa Altering Home, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2018 Art on the Road-Three Traveling Exhibitions From the Hara Museum, Hara Museum Arc, Gunma, Japan
2017 JAPAN ALPS ART FESTIVAL 2017, Shinano, Niigata, Japan
2017 OpenART Biennale 2017, Örebro, Sweden
2017 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
2014 Collection Becoming, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
2014 La Chaire, Kibe Project, Kunisaki Art Festival 2014,Kunisaki City, Oita, Japan
2014 MAK-Permanent Collection Asia (China-Japan-Korea), MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art,Vienna, Austria
2014 Japon, Centre d’art contemporain (cac), Meymac, France
2013 Unstable Territory, Center for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Plazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
2013 Garden Tower in Toronto, Toronto Nuit Blanche 2013, Canada
2013 Tree hut in the Place Vendome, FIAC 2013, Paris, France
2013 SITE- Place of Memories, Spaces with Potential, Hiroshima City Museum of Modern Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2013 Favela Cafe, Art Basel, Switzerland
2012 Chairs for Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Art Fair, UAE
2012 Exchange Library, FIAC, Paris, France
2012 Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale, Niigata, Japan
2010 Mukaijima Project The Island Made by the Island, Setouchi International Art Festival, Kagawa, Japan
2010 Walkway and Tower, EMSCHERKUNST 2010, Essen, Germany
Selected Projects
2020 Sendai in Progress, Sendai, Miyagi
2019 Belvedere de l’hermitage, Nantes, France
2019 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
2014 Hokkaido in Progress (Mikasa project 2014), Mikasa, Hokkaido, Japan
2013 Tree hut in the Place Vendome, FIAC 2013, Paris, France
2013 Camarguve boat tour, Arles, France
2013 ESCALE” et “DECISE, Arles, France
2013 Project Les Sentiers de l’eau ,en Camargue HORIZONS, Musee de la Camargue, France
2013 Au fil de la SAONE, Lyon, France
2013 Tokyo in Progress Closing Event, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Hokkaido in Progress (Mikasa project 2013), Mikasa, Hokkaido, Japan
2012 Corner Structure, Bonn, Germany
2012 Favela in Gent, Track, Gent, Belgium
2012 Tokyo in Progress (Toyosu Dome), Tokyo, Japan
2012 Tokyo in Progress (Tsukuda Terrace), Tokyo Culture Creation Project, Tokyo
2012 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
2011 Workshop at Bergloon, Belgium, Z33- huis voor actuele kunst, Hasselt, Belgium
2011 Cergy Pontoise Art commission work, Cergy Pontoise, France
2011 Chaumont sur Loire Project Chateau de Chaumont, Chaumont sur Loire, France
2011 Hokkaido in Progress (Mikasa project 2011), Hokkaido, Japan
2011 Tokyo in Progress (Shioiri Tower), Tokyo, Japan
2010 Drift Structure, Uster, Switzerland
2010 Tokyo in Progress, Tokyo, Japan