AI KOWADA GALLERY

ARTIST

"Walk in the Opposite Direction of a Demonstration Parade"
DVD (10'01")
2011

Yoshinori NIWA

Yoshinori Niwa is a young Japanese artist who uses various techniques and media for his outstanding works. At the beginning of his career, he used to show the radical physical performances/happenings. In 2010, he achieved a successful exhibition in the gallery αM. His activities has been further expanded.

He says, "My acts are the interventions to the social structure and they are not mere performances." Niwa's artworks eliminate the theatrical elements such as dance. There is a simple and strict attitude of an artist who is trying to propose the questions to our society.

1982
Born in Aichi
2005
Department of Moving images and Performing arts, Tama Art University
lives and works in Tokyo

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012
"Antonym of the time is possibility" AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
"Antonym of the time is possibility" Gallery TERRA TOKYO, Tokyo
"Clapping Bears in Bern" NADiff Window Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2011
“Searching community, or their escape drama” AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2010
"No solution, but brawl" AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
"The poetics of activism" gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan
"Communicating with thief" HIAP project room, Helsinki, Finland
2009
"Transforming puddle A to puddle B" Art in General, NYC, USA
"Face round, community!" SOMEONE’S GARDEN, Tokyo, Japan
2008
"Shaking hands with 100cats in Norway" Gallery Coexist, Tokyo, Japan
2002
"Yoshinori Niwa exhibition" Circle graph gallery, Tokyo, Japan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012
"But Fresh" Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo
“Kashiwa City Jack
-Asia Pacific Contemporary media arts from Daisuke Miyatsu Collection" Kashiwa-shi, Chiba
"Daikanyama Art Street NOT AUTORITY, BUT ART" Kyuyamate-dori,　daikanyama, Tokyo
"Identity VIII - curated by Shihoko Iida" nicido contemporary art, Tokyo
“DoubleVision:Contemporary Art from Japan” , The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia ARTSHOW BUSAN 2012
"Similiarities and differences" -Asian contemporary media arts from Daisuke Miyatsu Collection, BEXCO, Busan, South Korea
"RYUGU IS OVER!!" Ryugu Bijyutsu Ryokan, Kanagawa, Japan
"New Gallery × New Artists × New Works" AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2011
“BONE Festival fur Aktionskunst in Bern” Bern, Switzerland
“Group show : Sea Art Festival 2011, Busan Biennale” , Songdo Beach(Amnam-dong, Seo-gu, Busan City), Korea
"Re-Modernologio 02” Aomori Comtemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan
“The Secret Garden” Catholicism Setagaya Church, Tokyo, Japan
"Social Dive" 3331 Arts Chiyoda 1F Main Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Gallery artists' show 2011" AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
"Art Struction" 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
"6th Carnival of e-creativity" Sattal Estate, Bhimtal, India
2010
"UTOPIA OF EXOTIC" Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest, Romania
*listing only the recent exhibitions

COLLECTION

Public collection - Hitotsubashi University.

"Holding a demonstration to the peak of Mt Fuji from the prime minister's official residence"
2 channel document video of the project, 15'25” each on DVD
2012

"Depositing money all my pocket in the street"
document video of the project, DVD (7'20)
2012

"Re-weaving crow’s nest at gallery’s ceiling"
DVD (12'01")
2010

"Communicating with thieves"
video (4'54")
2010