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Carrying My Own Belongings Inside the Body<\/h1>\n

2021
\nOil pastel, acrylic, pencil, newspaper, marker and tape on canvas
\n85x60cm
\nat ”
\n Why does humankind engage in economic activity?<\/a>” 2023 Satoko Oe Contemporary<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Communities We Must Have Imagined<\/h1>\n

2019
\nSingle channel video
\n15min.42sec.
\nat “The Communities We Must Have Imagined<\/a>” 2019 Satoko Oe Contemporary<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Unavoidable Work in Order to Keep Us Alive<\/h1>\n

2019
\nNeon tube
\n110x110cm
\nPhoto by TAKAMURADAISUKE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Withdrawing Adolf Hitler from a Private Space<\/h1>\n

2018
\nCommissioned and produced by steirischer herbst
\nNewspaper advertisement
\nGraphic by Yelena Maksutay
\nWithdrawing Adolf Hitler from a Private Space (2018)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Withdrawing Adolf Hitler from a Private Space<\/h1>\n

2018
\nCommissioned and produced by steirischer herbst
\nDocumentary video series on the Internet and Clothing collecting container
\nPhoto by Mathias V\u00f6lzke
\nCourtesy of steirischer herbst
\nWithdrawing Adolf Hitler from a Private Space (2018)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Paying a Courtesy Call on the Incumbent Mayor by all His Predecessors in History<\/h1>\n

2016
\n9-channel video installation, 9 programmed-LED
\n1h6min.34sec.
\nInstallation view: Miyanoura Gallery 6, Naoshima 2016
\nPhoto by Yasushi Ichikawa
\nPaying a Courtesy Call on the Incumbent Mayor by all His Predecessors in History (2016)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Selling the Right to Name a Pile of Garbage<\/h1>\n

2014
\nProject and single-channel video
\n25min.43sec.
\nSelling the Right to Name a Pile of Garbage (2014)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Proposing to Hold Up Karl Marx to the Japanese Communist Party<\/h1>\n

2013
\n2-channel video installation (18\u201902 min each), Photo print on banner, Blackboard, Flag, Megaphone
\n18min.02sec. each
\nat Installation view: Mori Art Museum 10th Anniversary Exhibition \u201cRoppongi Crossing 2013: OUT OF DOUBT\u201d, Mori Art Museum
\nPhoto by Osamu Watanabe
\nCourtesy of Mori Art Museum<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Looking for Vladimir Lenin at Moscow Apartments<\/h1>\n

2012
\n3-channel video installation
\n8min.40sec. each
\nLooking for Vladimir Lenin at Moscow Apartments (2012)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Walk in the Opposite Direction of a Demonstration Parade<\/h1>\n

2011
\nSingle channel video
\n10min.01sec.
\nWalk in the Opposite Direction of a Demonstration Parade (2011)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tossing socialists in the air in Romania<\/h1>\n

2010
\nSingle channel video
\n29min.09sec.
\nTossing socialists in the air in Romania (2010)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For my friends who cannot decide marriage with each other yet, I hold a wedding at 2 am-midnight under a streetlight<\/h1>\n

2009
\nPhotographic print
\n120x150cm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Going to San Francisco to dispose of my garbage<\/h1>\n

2006
\nSingle channel video
\n17min.33sec.
\nGoing to San Francisco to dispose of my garbage (2006)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Transferring puddle A to puddle B<\/h1>\n

2004
\nSingle channel video
\n10min.53sec.
\nTransferring puddle A to puddle B (2004)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yoshinori NIWA<\/h3>\n
\n
1982<\/dt>\n
born in Aichi
\n lives and works in Vienna, Austria<\/dd>\n
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2005<\/dt>\n
BFA, Tama Art University Department of Moving Images and Performing Arts, Tokyo<\/dd>\n<\/div>\n

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Selected Solo Shows<\/h3>\n
\n
2023<\/dt>\n
“Why does humankind engage in economic activity?” Satoko Oe Contemporary, Tokyo<\/dd>\n
2022<\/dt>\n
“Can Humankind Kill Products?” Edel Assanti, London<\/dd>\n
2021<\/dt>\n
“Yoshinori Niwa: On Rehabilitation of Domination and Domain” Match Gallery\/The Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, Ljubljana
\n“Withdrawing Adolf Hitler from a Private Space” GOLD+BETON, K\u00f6ln<\/dd>\n
2020<\/dt>\n
“Rehabilitation of Ancestors” Zimmermann Krachtowill, Graz
\n“FROM 1 OCTOBER 2017: FACE COVER BAN IN AUSTRIA” das weisse haus, Vienna<\/dd>\n
2019<\/dt>\n
“The Communities We Must Have Imagined” Satoko Oe Contemporary, Tokyo
\n“We Unanimously Agree on a Plan that Nobody Has Asked For” PARCO gallery X, Tokyo<\/dd>\n
2017<\/dt>\n
“That Language Sounds Like A Language” Edel Assanti, London
\n“We’re Heading to a Place Where Nobody Wants to go By the Will of All” 1335MABINI, Manila
\n“MAM screen #5: Yoshinori Niwa Selected Video Works” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo<\/dd>\n
2016<\/dt>\n
“Zapoznela hipoteza \u2013 Od A do B” Alcatraz Gallery, Ljubljana
\n“Against Reason” CAPSULE, Tokyo
\n“Power of Ownership” 1335MABINI, Manila
\n“Against Name” Minatomachi Art Table Nagoya, Aichi<\/dd>\n
2015<\/dt>\n
“Historically Historic Historical History of Communism” Edel Assanti, London<\/dd>\n
2014<\/dt>\n
“Research and Production: Artistic Methods in a Transitional Period” Tamsui Historical Museum, Taipei
\n“Never Trust in People without Contradiction” 1335MABINI, Manila<\/dd>\n
2012<\/dt>\n
“Possibilities is the antonym of today” AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo
\n“Possibilities is the antonym of today” GALLERY TERRA TOKYO, Tokyo
\n“Clapping hands for the bears in Bern” NADiff Window Gallery, Tokyo<\/dd>\n
2011<\/dt>\n
“Searching for community, or their escape drama” AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo<\/dd>\n
2010<\/dt>\n
“No solution, but brawl” AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo
\n“The Poetics of Activism” gallery \u03b1lpha M, Tokyo
\n“Communicating with Thieves” HIAP Project Room, Helsinki<\/dd>\n
2009<\/dt>\n
“Face round, community!” Migigawanikenme, Tokyo
\n“Transforming puddle A to puddle B” Art in General, New York<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Selected Group shows<\/h3>\n
\n
2024<\/dt>\n
“8th Yokohama Triennale WILD GRASS: OUR LIVES” Yokohama Museum of Art and others, Kanagawa<\/dd>\n
2023<\/dt>\n
“The Constitution of Japan” Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo<\/dd>\n
2022<\/dt>\n
“Bucharest Biennale 10” Bucharest
\n“spring show: Yoshinori Niwa and Naoya Hirata” Satoko Oe Contemporary, Tokyo
\n“Uncurated” Kunstraum Feller, Vienna
\n“INEXISTENT BOOKS V” Aula46, Barcelona
\n“COLOMBOSCOPE 2021” Colombo
\n“Five Exercises of Resistance” Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv<\/dd>\n
2021<\/dt>\n
“Disposing of Hitler: Out of the Cellar, Into the Museum” The House of Austrian History, Vienna
\n“Rule?” 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo
\n“summer show” Satoko Oe Contemporary, Tokyo
\n“Taking My Thoughts for a Walk” Dortmunder Kunstverein+Urbane K\u00fcnste Ruhr, Dortmund<\/dd>\n
2020<\/dt>\n
“#JAPANREVISTED202X” online, Austrian Cultural Forum Tokyo
\n“BIG IDEAS\u2013 Political Ideologies and their aftermath” philomena+, Vienna
\n“TIME FOR OUTRAGE! ART IN TIMES OF SOCIAL ANGER” Museum Kunstpalast, D\u00fcsseldorf
\n“Everything You\u2019ve Ever Wanted is On the Other Side of the Planet” Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, Vienna
\n“Genealogie der Dinge” Kunstverein K\u00e4rnten, Klagenfurt
\n“RISO IS IT” OIL by Bijustsutecho, Tokyo
\n“Evacuation” Satoko Oe Contemporary, Tokyo
\n“FIT\u2019RI:NA \u0641\u062a\u0631\u064a\u0646\u0629” philomena+, Vienna
\n“Choreographing the Public \/ The Social Contract” OnCurating Project Space, Zurich<\/dd>\n
2019<\/dt>\n
“das weisse ab haus verkaufskunstschauw” das weisse haus, Vienna
\n“Shigeru HASEGAWA and Yoshinori NIWA” Satoko Oe Contemporary, Tokyo
\n“AOMORI EARTH2019: AGROTOPIA \u2013 WHEN LIFE BECOMES ART THROUGH LOCAL AGRICULTURE” Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori
\n“45th National Salon of Colombia”\u3000Bogota
\n“JAPAN UNLIMITED” frei_raum Q21 exhibition space, Vienna
\n“Protocols of Together” MEDO Space, Vienna
\n“Heimat\/Homeland\/Tierra” Otazu Foundation, Spain<\/dd>\n
2018<\/dt>\n
“Limited Vision” The National Forum of Music Wroclaw, Wroclaw
\n“steirischer herbst\u201918” Graz
\n“Practice of Occupation of the Work” Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw
\n“Wars Of Worlds” Visual Kontakt, Cluj-Napoca
\n“Imagining Memory: Between Anaesthesia and Amnesia” 1335MABINI, Manila
\n“Current Sign” das weises haus, Vienna<\/dd>\n
2017<\/dt>\n
“Too Pretty To Throw Away” Asia and Pacific Museum, Warsaw
\n“Wars Of Worlds” MOA contemporary, Bucharest
\n“Wars Of Worlds” National Museum of Art Constan\u021ba, Constan\u021ba
\n“Socially Engaged Art” 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
\n“Where are we going?” Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz<\/dd>\n
2016<\/dt>\n
“Rivers – The way of Living in Transition\/Asia Contemporary Art Links” Gwanju Biennale Hall, Gwanju
\n“Packaging Design from Japan: Too Pretty to Throw Away” Siebold Huis, Leiden
\n“Packaging Design from Japan: Too Pretty to Throw Away” Managua Center, Krakow
\n“Setouchi Triennale 2016” Naoshima Island, Kagawa
\n“House of Day, House of Night” @KCUA, Kyoto<\/dd>\n
2015<\/dt>\n
“OUR BELOVED WORLD” Marugame Inokuma-Genichiro Contemporary Art Museum, Marugame
\n“Rivers – The way of Living in Transition\/Asia Contemporary Art Links” The Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung<\/dd>\n
2014<\/dt>\n
“Some Like It Witty” Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
\n“Forces at Work” Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Manila
\n“Susukino Triennale 2014” Sapporo<\/dd>\n
2013<\/dt>\n
“The 7th Move on Asia: Censorship” Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul
\n“Aichi Triennale 2013” Aichi Arts Center, Aichi
\n“Roppongi Crossing 2013: OUT OF DOUBT” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo<\/dd>\n
2012<\/dt>\n
“Double Vision: Contemporary Art From Japan” Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
\n“Double Vision: Contemporary Art From Japan” Hiafa Museum of Art, Hiafa
\n“New Gallery \u00d7 New Artists \u00d7 New Works” AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo
\n“RYUGU IS OVER” Ryugu Bijutsu Ryokan, Yokohama
\n“Similarities and Differences\u2014 Asian Contemporary Media Arts from Daisuke 2012 Miyatsu Collection” BEXCO, Busan
\n“Identity VIII – curated by Shihoko Iida” nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo
\n“Daikanyama Art Street” HILLSIDE FORUM, Tokyo
\n“But Fresh” Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo<\/dd>\n
2011<\/dt>\n
“Social Dive \u2013 Exploratory Imagination” 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
\n“Gallery Artists\u2019 show 2011” AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo
\n“Art Struction” 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
\n“Re-Modernologio phase2: Observation and Notation” Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori
\n“Busan Biennale Sea Art Festival 2011” Busan
\n“BONE 14 \u2013 Performance Art Festival BERN” Schlachthaus Theater, Bern<\/dd>\n
2010<\/dt>\n
“UTOPIA OF EXOTIC” PAVILION UNICREDIT, Bucharest<\/dd>\n
2009<\/dt>\n
“The Arts of Togetherness” Gendai Gallery, Toronto<\/dd>\n
2007<\/dt>\n
“ENSEMBLE OF MEN” Matucana 100, Santiago
\n“Beauty Farm” Neue Kunst im Hagenbucher, Heilbronn<\/dd>\n
2006<\/dt>\n
“Living Art from Tokyo and San Francisco” The Lab, San Francisco<\/dd>\n
2005<\/dt>\n
“Ongoing vol.04 \u2013 Read Look Look!” BankART1929, Tokyo
\n“BOY! BOY! BOY!” Ochanomizu Women\u2019s University, Tokyo
\n“The Experimenter Project” Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest<\/dd>\n
2004<\/dt>\n
“Eyelevel Gallery Summer Performance Series 2004” Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax
\n“While you were away: Mail Art Show” 667shotwell, San Francisco<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Selected Performances, Screenings<\/h3>\n
\n
2015<\/dt>\n
“OUR BELOVED WORLD” Marugame Inokuma-Genichiro Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa
\n“Project Bakawan” University of Philippines Film Center, Manila<\/dd>\n
2011<\/dt>\n
“6th Carnival of e-Creativity” Sattal Estate, Bhimtal
\n“BONE 14 \u2013 Performance Art Festival BERN” Schlachthaus Theater, Bern<\/dd>\n
2010<\/dt>\n
“Communicating with Thieves” Helsinki
\n“Tossing Socialist in the Air in Romania” Bucharest<\/dd>\n
2008<\/dt>\n
“Make Tama Art University Pikapikapikapika” Tama Art University, Tokyo
\n“6th DaDao Live Art Festival” Shanghai
\n“UP-ON First Live Art Festival” Chengdu<\/dd>\n
2007<\/dt>\n
“Bucharest Biennale 3 parallel event” National Theater Bucharest, Bucharest
\n“Video screening II” Lothringer 13, Munich
\n“East-West Study Project 2007 \u2013 The Art of \u201eEncounter\u201c” Koln, Dusseldorf, Hanover
\n“KargART Video Festival” Istanbul<\/dd>\n
2006<\/dt>\n
“INPORT \u2013 International Video-Performance Art Festival” Tallinn
\n“Action Art After Zerojigen Generation” Tokyo
\n“SPRINGTIDE” Salzau Castle, Schleswig-Holstein<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Awards, Nominates, Grants, Scholarships<\/h3>\n
\n
2019<\/dt>\n
Harmonic Ito Foundation, JAPAN
\nPOLA Art Foundation, JAPAN<\/dd>\n
2018<\/dt>\n
Bildrecht, Austria
\nNomura Foundation, JAPAN
\nFollow Fluxus \u2013 After Fluxus2014, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, GERMANY (nominated)<\/dd>\n
2017<\/dt>\n
Aethetica Art Prize 2017 Longlist, UK<\/dd>\n
2016<\/dt>\n
Future Generation Art Award 2016, Victor Pinchuk Foundation, UKRAINE (nominated)<\/dd>\n
2015<\/dt>\n
Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists (long term), Agency for Cultural Affairs, JAPAN<\/dd>\n
2014<\/dt>\n
Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists (short term), Agency for Cultural Affairs, JAPAN
\nPrudential Eye Award 2015, Prudential Contemporary Art, SINGAPORE (nominated)
\nFuture Greats 2014, ArtReview, UK
\nFollow Fluxus \u2013 After Fluxus2014, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, GERMANY (nominated)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Publications<\/h3>\n
\n
2019<\/dt>\n
Following Red People in Vienna, PARCO, Tokyo<\/dd>\n
2018<\/dt>\n
Welcome Disappointed Welcome Government, Self-publishing, Wien<\/dd>\n
2017<\/dt>\n
Till the Demise of Capitalism, Art-Phil, Tokyo<\/dd>\n
2015<\/dt>\n
Historically Historic Historical History of Communism (monograph), Art-phil, Tokyo<\/dd>\n
2013<\/dt>\n
Reenacting Publicness – Translating Art Work Descriptions into 23 Different Languages (artist book), My Book Service, Tokyo<\/dd>\n
2010<\/dt>\n
The Community of Ruin, self-publishing, Tokyo<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Public Collections<\/h3>\n

Otazu Foundation, SPAIN<\/p>\n

Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, POLAND<\/p>\n

Kadist Foundation, Paris\/San Francisco<\/p>\n

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JAPAN<\/p>\n

Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, JAPAN<\/p>\n

The Fukutake Foundation, Kagawa, JAPAN<\/p>\n

Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, JAPAN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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