Artist’s Talk: Koki Tanaka
Artist’s Talk
October 31, 2018
05:00 pm
– 06:00 pm
31.10.2018, 5 pm.
Free admission, in English
Moderation: Marcel Bleuler
In view of the worldwide rise of nationalism, populism, and xenophobia, the artistic social studies of Koki Tanaka (b. Tochigi, Japan, 1975) focus on how we live together in societies. Realized especially for his exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, the project Vulnerable Histories (A Road Movie) (2018) highlights an example from Tanaka’s native country, the mutual incomprehension and mistrust between Zainichi Koreans and ethnic Japanese, to plead for vigilance toward racism and discrimination.
Koki Tanaka (b. Tochigi, Japan, 1975) lives and works in Kyoto. His art has been on view in numerous countries, including, most recently, at Kunsthaus Graz (2017), the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin (2015), the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2014), the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo (2013), the Museum of Art, Seoul (2013), the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012), the Taipei Contemporary Art Center (2012), and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2007). Tanaka was Japan’s official representative at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and received Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year Award in 2015. In 2017, he contributed work to Skulptur Projekte Münster and the 57th Venice Biennale.
Marcel Bleuler (PhD) works at the intersections between curatorial praxis and the scholarly study of art. He is a postdoctoral fellow in the Contemporary Art and Cultural Production division at the University of Salzburg, a co-director of the postgraduate program in Arts and International Cooperation at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), and an expert consultant for the Federal Art Committee (Swiss Art Awards). In March–October 2018, he is the programming curator of the anniversary project “I’ll be with you, whatever” of the Munich street magazine BISS (Bürger in sozialen Schwierigkeiten e.V.).
Free admission, in English
Moderation: Marcel Bleuler
In view of the worldwide rise of nationalism, populism, and xenophobia, the artistic social studies of Koki Tanaka (b. Tochigi, Japan, 1975) focus on how we live together in societies. Realized especially for his exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, the project Vulnerable Histories (A Road Movie) (2018) highlights an example from Tanaka’s native country, the mutual incomprehension and mistrust between Zainichi Koreans and ethnic Japanese, to plead for vigilance toward racism and discrimination.
Koki Tanaka (b. Tochigi, Japan, 1975) lives and works in Kyoto. His art has been on view in numerous countries, including, most recently, at Kunsthaus Graz (2017), the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin (2015), the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2014), the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo (2013), the Museum of Art, Seoul (2013), the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012), the Taipei Contemporary Art Center (2012), and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2007). Tanaka was Japan’s official representative at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and received Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year Award in 2015. In 2017, he contributed work to Skulptur Projekte Münster and the 57th Venice Biennale.
Marcel Bleuler (PhD) works at the intersections between curatorial praxis and the scholarly study of art. He is a postdoctoral fellow in the Contemporary Art and Cultural Production division at the University of Salzburg, a co-director of the postgraduate program in Arts and International Cooperation at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), and an expert consultant for the Federal Art Committee (Swiss Art Awards). In March–October 2018, he is the programming curator of the anniversary project “I’ll be with you, whatever” of the Munich street magazine BISS (Bürger in sozialen Schwierigkeiten e.V.).