Tadashi Kawamata

Tadashi Kawamata (Japanese川 俣 正, Tadashi Kawamata, * 1953 in Mikasa, Hokkaido ) is a Japanese sculptor and photographer who lives and works in Tokyo and Paris.

Life and work

Kawamata is born in 1953 in northern Japan and obtained from the 1972 Hokkaido - Iwamizawa -Higashi High School graduated from high school. 1999 to 2005 he taught at the Tōkyō Daigaku Geijutsu in Tokyo since Tadashi Kawamata is a professor at the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts de Paris, Paris. 2005 Kawamata was artistic director of the 3rd Yokohama Triennale.

"I'm like a migratory bird. They are called nomadic, but a nomad is a bit too special. As a migratory bird to live somewhere and pulls away each season, but you also have to return. "

Tadashi Kawamata operates worldwide. His works consist in relation to their surroundings. He developed building constructions of superimposed beams and boards that are sourced locally or nearby. In some projects, he refers to the makeshift shelters for the homeless. Other monumental work pieces are bridge projects or non-accessible tree houses such as at the Berlin House of World Cultures. His temporary " scaffolding " to be built on and on churches, hospitals, houses and abandoned hangars.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2013 Tadashi Kawamata Gandamaison in Versailles, France
  • 2013 funeral tower Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Canton of Thurgau, Switzerland
  • 2013 Favela Café Art Basel, Basel
  • 2010 Drift Structure Zellweger Park, Uster, Switzerland
  • 2009 House of World Cultures, Berlin
  • Hagelandkaai station Gent Dampoort, Ghent
  • 2002 square before the Ujazdowski Castle, Poland.
  • 2000 Walkway and Tower Emscherkunst, Emscher Island

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2010 cottages on the facade Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
  • 1997 Tadashi Kawamata fieldwork Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover
  • 1995 Tadashi Kawamata - Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen

Group Exhibitions

  • 2010 13th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
  • 2003 Bridge and Archives Museum Schloss Moyland in Bedburg -Hau: Tadashi Kawamata and Leo van der Kleij
  • 1997 Skulptur.Projekte in Münster
  • 1992 Documenta IX, Kassel
  • 1987 Documenta 8, Kassel
  • 1982 55th Biennale di Venezia, Venice
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