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Youki Hirakawa

Hirakawa was born in Nagoya/Japan in 1983 and has presented many monochrome films and serene installation works. The series, Lost Films, which deals with films that have been lost or missing from all over the world, has been invited to screen at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2019/Netherlands) and the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2019/Germany) to critical acclaim both at home and abroad. More recently, his artistic career has broadened with the participation in group exhibitions such as Spirit and Endeavours(Salisbury Cathedral/2020/UK) and Lumiere (Durham Cathedral/2021/UK), also joined international art festivals such as Digital Art Festival Taipei(2017/Taiwan), Kaunas in Art(2016/Lithuania), Sapporo International Art Festival(2014/Japan) and Aichi Triennale(2013/Japan).
Throughout the long period of the Corona disaster, Hirakawa creats installation with various ready-made and found objects spread around the space question, with a sense of humour, the concept of space and time that has been redefined through unprecedented change, as well as the structure and relation of things. What ties them together is the artist’ s keen eye for the structure of things and his consistent curiosity of the unknown nature of time.

Biography

20- Associate Professor | Aichi University of the Arts, JP
15-16 Overseas Research Fellow | Japanese Government Oversea Research Program, Agency for Cultural Affairs, JP
14-15 Resident Artist | Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, DE
 13-14 Overseas Research Fellow | Pola Art Foundation, JP 
11-12 Fellow | Akademie Schloss Solitude, DE
08-11 Research Associate | Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences, JP 
08 M.A | Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences, JP

Selected Solo Exhibitions  

22 D.F.N | Standing Pine, Nagoya, JP
22 Untitled Tear | Ando Gallery, Tokyo, JP
21 a film by | Ando Gallery, Tokyo, JP
19 Years Later | Standing Pine, Nagoya, JP
19 Rêve d’artiste La Magie à travers les âges" | Ando Gallery, Tokyo, JP
18 Nitrate Dreams | Pola Art Museum, Hakone, JP
18 A River Under Water | Anima Mundi, St.Ives, UK
18 Two Hearts Lost in the Darkness Two Eyes to not See | Carme Brescia, Brescia, IT
18 Until It Becomes a Film Sing in a Loud Voice | Ando Gallery, Tokyo, JP
17 The Better Way Back to the Soil | Double Square Gallery, Taipei, TW
17 Shadow of Film | Standing Pine, Nagoya, JP
16 Secret Fire | Anima Mundi, St Ives, UK  
15 Into a Horizon | White Rainbow, London, UK  
15 Close Your Eyes | Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
 15 Same Places, Different Phases -Energy, Matter and Time | Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, DE 
15 Unseen/Unscene | Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel, Wolfenbüttel, DE 
14 In Remembrance of Disappearance | MOT/ARTS, Taipei, TW
 14 Event Horizon | Standing Pine, Nagoya, JP 
13 Until You Fall into a Deep Sleep | Minokamo City Museum, JP  
13 Silence of Nature / Nature of Silence | Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, DE  
12 Timeless and Silentness | Standing Pine, Nagoya, JP
11 Slight Signs of Something | Standing Pine, Nagoya, JP
 09 Unlinked Images | Standing Pine, Nagoya, JP

Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings

23 Group Show -Upcoming | Tikotin Museum, Haifa, IL
22 From Sky to Sea | Sheffield Museum, Sheffield, UK
21 LUMIERE | Durham Cathedral, Durham, UK
21 Streaming Heritage 2021 spring | Nagoya, JP
21 Imagined Boundaries | Allobu, Obu, JP
20 Beyond Ourselves | Online Exhibition, Anima Mundi, St.Ives, UK
20 Surviving | PSG Art Gallery, Silpakorn University, TH
20 Ode to a Nightingale | Online Exhibition, Anima Mundi, St.Ives, UK
20 Spirit and Endeavours | Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, UK
20 Ephemeral Scenes | Double Square Gallery, Taipei, TW
20 State of Motion 2020: Rushes of Time | National Archives of Singapore, SG
19 65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen | Oberhausen, DE
19 Painful Happy | Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, TW
19 Aichi Art Chronicle 1919-2019 | Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, JP
19 Count the Waves - Visualizing Invisibility | The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, JP
19 11th Short Waves Festival | Poznan, PL
19 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam | Rotterdam, NL
18 Greater Taipei Biennial of Contemporary Arts | Our Museum, Taipei, TW
18 Ephemeral Matter | Kino Wolf, Berlin, DE
18 Buchstabenfest | Zollamt, Bad Radkersburg, AT
 17 Digital Art Festival Taipei | Taipei, TW
16 Yokyerler/Nonspaces | AKBANK SANAT, Istanbul, TR 
16 Empathy: Sensory Awakening | MOEA Taichung Software Park, Taichung, TW
 16 Domani - The Art of Tomorrow | National Art Center, Tokyo, JP
 16 International Contemporary Art Festival "Kaunas in Art" | Kaunas, LT  
16 Open Theater 2016 | Kanagawa Arts Theater, Yokohama, JP  
16 Pola Museum Annex 2016 | Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo, JP
14 Nuit Blanche London | White Rainbow, London, UK 
14 Sapporo International Art Festival | Sapporo, JP 
 14 Daily Reflections | Total Museum of Contemporary Art, KR 
13 Aichi Triennale 2013 | Nagoya and Okazaki, JP 
13 Stranger | National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, TW
 13 Subterranean Echoes | Center for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin, DE 
 13 Twilight, and we have something in mind | Hsin chu Art Museum the Art Park, TW
 12 Aichi Art Program | Okazaki-city, JP
 12 Moving | Kyoto Cinema, Kyoto Arts Center, JP
 12 Ko-In -lights,shadows,time | Okazaki Mind-scape Museum, Okazaki, JP
 12 In Our Backyards | Werkschau/Spinnerei, Leipzig, DE 
12 Now&After | Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Vyatka Art Museum, RU
11 Outer's Void | Nagoya City Archives, JP
 11 8th Busan International Video Art Festival | Space Bandee, KR
 11 Media Art Biennale WRO "Nippon Conception" | Wro Art Center, PL
 11 European Media Art Festival "Nippon Conception” | Filmtheater Hasetor, Osnabrueck, DE
10 Raster Noton Japan Tour | Club Mago, Nagoya, JP 
10 Aichi Triennale 2010 "The Nakagawa Canal" | Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, JP
10 Cinesonika | Simon Fraser University Surrey Theatre, CA 
09 Electrofringe | Playhouse, Newcastle, AU 
08 Day Dream | Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, JP 
08 12th Japan Media Art Festival | Nationla Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo, JP  

Selected Awards and Grants 

18 istyle Art and Sports Foundation | Grant
17 Sovereign Asian Art Prize | Finalist
15 Japanese Government Oversea Research Program, Agency for Cultural Affairs | Overseas Research Fellowship
15 Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation | Exhibition Grant 
14 Nominee of Hector Preis 2015 der Kunsthalle Manheim
 14 Nomura Foundation | Grant 
13 Pola Art Foundation | Overseas Research Fellowship
 12 16th Japan Media Art Festival | Jury Selections for Art Division 
12 Now & After, International Video Art Festival Moscow | 2nd Prize 
12 Nomura Foundation | Exhibition Grant 
11 Akademie Schloss Solitude | Fellowship
 10 Allotment Travel Award | Grant 
10 Cinesonika | Grand Prize 
08 12th Japan Media Art Festival | Jury Selections for Art Division
 08 Aigin Education and Cultural Foundation | Grant 
07 Toyota Art Competition | Excellent Prize of Sculpture Division

Residency Programs  

15 Case Sparse | Malonno, IT 
14-15 Kunstlerhaus Bethanien | Berlin, DE
11-12 Akademie Schloss Solitude | Stuttgart, DE

Bibliography