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A Japanese art team centered around artist Haruka Kojin, director Kenji Minamigawa, and installer Hirofumi Masui. They create works that allow us to re-experience the “Just a world” that constantly unfolds before our eyes.
The art team participated in exhibitions including the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018, Niigata (2018), Roppongi Crossing 2019 at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2019), and Hawai’i Triennial 2022, Hawaii, USA (2022), among others. Their work masayume has been shown in exhibitions such as Engawa - A Season of Contemporary Art from Japan, Lisbon, Portugal (2023), Veranos de la Villa 2024, Madrid (2024), among others. Directors of Saitama Triennale 2023.
As an individual artist, Haruka Kojin has presented works in exhibitions including When Life Becomes Form at São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil (2008), Bye Bye Kitty!!!: Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art at Japan Society, New York, USA (2011), Japanorama - New vision on art since 1970 at Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France (2017-2018).
- 2013
- Maze Town-Phantasmagoric Alleys 2013- (Setouchi Triennale 2013, Kagawa)
FICTIONAL SCAPER (Zou-no-Hana Terrace, Yokohama) - 2014
- Re-arrangements of Situations (Solo exhibition, ART GALLERY MITSUBISHI ESTATE ARTIUM, Fukuoka)
Unreliable Reality – The Where of This World (Solo exhibition, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo)
Document that Melts in the World (Yokohama Paratriennale 2014)
Rashomon | Yabunonaka (Stage design, Festival/Tokyo 14, Owlspot Theater, Tokyo)
Day with a Man’s Face Floating in the Sky (Utsunomiya Museum of Art Outreach Project, Tochigi) - 2015
- Mitate Line (Oita Toilennale, Oita)
Constructing Speculation (Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2015, Niigata)
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, Tokyo) - 2016
- Maze Town-Phantasmagoric Alleys 2016- (Setouchi Triennale 2016, Kagawa)
Futako-Tamagawa Mobile Landscape Rickshaw (Tokyo Art Flow 00, Tokyo)
Distribution Works (S-HOUSE Museum, Okayama)
Elemental Detection (Saitama Triennale 2016, Saitama)
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 (Concept visual, Yokohama Paratriennale 2017, Yokohama)
Document of sign (TURN FES 3, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo) - 2018
- repetitive objects (Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018, Niigata)
- 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. (Solo exhibition, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba) - 2019-21
- masayume (Several locations in Tokyo, Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special13)
- 2020
- space (Arts Towada 10th Anniversary Exhibition: Inter+Play, Towada Art Center, Aomori)
- 2021
- Just a World (SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo)
movements (Museum on Echigo-Tsumari [MonET], Niigata)
matterα, 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, Hawaii, USA)
Acrylicgas and other works (Eighth Tsubaki-kai: This New World 2nd SEASON “QUEST”, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo)
repetition window 2022 (Reborn-Art Festival 2022, Ishinomaki)
Acrylicgas, Lifescaper, and other works (Summer Vacation at a Certain Art Museum, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba)
matter α (SEKISUI HOUSE meets ARTISTS, Tokyo) - 2023
- SKY GALLERY EXHIBITION SERIES vol.5 『目[mé]』(SKY GALLERY, Tokyo)
Acrylicgas (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 (Tsubaki-kai 8: This New World“Just/Here/Now”, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo)
Contact (Iris van Herpen. Sculpting the Senses, Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris, French) - 2024
- Contact (ONE DOJIMA PROJECT, Osaka)
Elemental Detection (PERPETUAL MOMENT, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo)
Contact (Iris van Herpen. Sculpting the Senses, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane, Australia)
masayume (Veranos de la Villa , Madrid, Spain)
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.
