目［mé］

目[mé] is a contemporary art team centered around artist Haruka Kojin, director Kenji Minamigawa, and installer Hirofumi Masui. Through its works, the team explores how we might experience anew “just a world” that is always before our eyes.
Its major exhibitions and works include the solo exhibition Obviously, no one can make heads nor tails. (Chiba City Museum of Art, 2019), Contact in Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2019), Hawai’i Triennial 2022 (Hawaii, 2022), and masayume in Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special 13 (Tokyo, 2019–21), Engawa – A Season of Contemporary Art from Japan (Lisbon, 2023), and Veranos de la Villa 2024 (Madrid, 2024). 目[mé] also served as director of Saitama Triennale 2023.

2013: Maze Town-Phantasmagoric Alleys 2013- (Setouchi Triennale 2013)
FICTIONAL SCAPER (Zou-no-Hana Terrace, Kanagawa)
2014: Re-arrangements of Situations (ART GALLERY MITSUBISHI ESTATE ARTIUM, Fukuoka)
Unreliable Reality – The Where of This World (Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo; solo exhibition)
Document that Melts in the World (Yokohama Paratriennale 2014)
Rashomon | Yabunonaka (Festival/Tokyo 14, Owlspot Theater; stage design)
Day with a Man’s Face Floating in the Sky (Utsunomiya Museum of Art Outreach Project, Tochigi)
2015: Mitate Line (Oita Toilennale)
Constructing Speculation (Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2015)
Replicational Scaper (CAFE in Mito R, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki)
TOKYO MOMENT ("TOKYO" Sensing the Cultural Magma of the Metropolis, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)
2016: Maze Town-Phantasmagoric Alleys 2016- (Setouchi Triennale 2016)
Futako-Tamagawa Mobile Landscape Rickshaw (Tokyo Art Flow 00)
Distribution Works (S-HOUSE Museum, Okayama)
Elemental Detection (Saitama Triennale 2016)
Seeing Far From Near (Mé in Beppu, Oita)
2017: Tangible Landscape (Japan Alps Art Festival 2017, Nagano)
repetition window (Reborn-Art Festival 2017, Ishinomaki)
sense of oneness (Yokohama Paratriennale 2017; concept visual)
Document of sign (TURN FES 3, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)
2018: repetitive objects (Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018)
2019: Acrylic gas (VOCA2019, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo)
Contact (Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo)
Obviously, no one can make heads nor tails. (Chiba City Museum of Art; solo exhibition)
2019-21: masayume (Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special 13)

2020: space (Arts Towada 10th Anniversary Exhibition: Inter+Play, Towada Art Center, Aomori)
2021: Just a World (SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo; solo exhibition)
movements (Museum on Echigo-Tsumari [MonET], Niigata)
matter α, position (Eighth Tsubaki-kai: This New World, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo)
2022: matter α, matter β (Hawai‘i Triennial 2022: Pacific Century – E Ho‘omau no Moananuiākea, USA)
Acrylic gas and other works (Eighth Tsubaki-kai: This New World 2nd SEASON “QUEST”, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo)
repetition window 2022 (Reborn-Art Festival 2022, Ishinomaki)
Acrylic gas, Life scaper, and other works (Summer Vacation at a Certain Art Museum, Chiba City Museum of Art)
matter α (SEKISUI HOUSE meets ARTISTS, Tokyo)
2023: Acrylic gas, movements, matter α, and other works (SKY GALLERY EXHIBITION SERIES vol.5 『目[mé]』, SKY GALLERY, Tokyo)
Acrylic gas (Visionaries: Making Another Perspective, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto)
matter α, matter β, movements (Yashimāru, Kochi)
masayume (ENGAWA – A Season of Contemporary Art from Japan, Lisbon, Portugal)
Contact #2, A Small Window (Tsubaki-kai 8: This New World “Just/Here/Now”, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo)
Contact (Iris van Herpen. Sculpting the Senses, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France)
2024: Contact (ONE DOJIMA PROJECT, Osaka)
Elemental Detection (PERPETUAL MOMENT, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum)
Contact (Iris van Herpen. Sculpting the Senses, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Australia)
masayume (Veranos de la Villa, Madrid, Spain)
2025: Contact (Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses, Art Science Museum, Singapore)
space Ⅱ (ALTERNATIVE-STATE#2, Oita)
Contact (Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2026: Contact (Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses, Brooklyn Museum, USA)
space Ⅲ (SKWAT KAMEARI ART CENTER, Tokyo)

Art Direction

2023: Saitama Triennale 2023

Haruka Kojin

Artist: 1983 born in Hiroshima.

2009 MFA, Tokyo University of the Arts
She has exhibited her installations in São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, Japan Society, Centre Pompidou-Metz and other international venues, as well as in Japan.

Kenji Minamigawa

Director: 1979 born in Osaka.

2009 MFA, Tokyo University of the Arts
Launched art project team wah document in 2006. Several projects in Rotterdam, Hong kong and other international venues, as well as in Japan.
http://wah-document.com/

Hirofumi Masui

Installer: 1980 born in Shiga.

2008 BA, Faculty of Education, Bukkyo University
Active member of wah document since 2006.