Kōki Tanaka

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Kōki Tanaka ( Japanese 田中 功 起 , Tanaka Kōki ; * 1975 in Tochigi , Tochigi Prefecture ) is a Japanese installation and video artist . He lives in Los Angeles and Kyoto .

Life

Tanaka studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , the Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku in Tokyo and the Summer Academy Foundation at the Paul Klee Center in Bern.

He became known through installations and activities in which he used everyday objects and material found on site. The video Everything is Everything shows for minutes how Tanaka overturns, throws, crushes, opens and closes common everyday objects, mattresses, buckets, boxes, ladders, brooms, shovels, cups or umbrellas with playful dexterity. An important part of his work are projects in which he involves actors or exhibition visitors.

His installations and performances revolve around social relationships, which are about the process, how everyone works together in an open ended situation. In Tanaka's actions, individual work becomes group work. Both a pleasant working atmosphere and personal disputes up to the failure of cooperation take place.

A series of videos shows people doing the same job together:

  • 2010: A haircut by Nine Hairdressers at once (Second Attempt) , which is about nine hairdressers who together create a new haircut for a woman.
  • 2012: A Piano Played by Five Pianists at Once (First Attempt) , five pianists play and compose a piece together on one piano.
  • 2013: A Pottery Produced by 5 Potters at Once (Silent Attempt) , five professional potters were asked to make a pot together
  • 2013: A Poem Written by 5 Poets at Once (First Attempt) shows five poets writing a poem together.

In 2013 Tanaka played in the Japanese pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale . In 2015 he was named Artist of the Year by Deutsche Bank . The solo exhibition A vulnerable narrator / vulnerable narrators took place in the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle , Berlin.

The question of how people of different origins can live with each other is the central starting point of the project by Kōki Tanaka Provisional Studies: Workshop # 7 How to Live Together and Sharing the Unknown , who participated in the Skulptur.Projekte in Münster (Westphalia) in 2017 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liverpool Biennial Koki Tanaka , accessed March 18, 2017.
  2. ↑ Not to be confused with the singer Koki Tanaka in the English language or 田中 聖 in the Japanese language Wikipedia
  3. ↑ 連載 田中 功 起 質問 す る 13-1 ： 菅原 伸 也 さ ん へ 1 [1] , accessed on September 23, 2019.
  4. ↑ Deutsche Bank ArtMag Deutsche Bank honors Koki Tanaka as “Artist of the Year” 2015 , accessed on March 18, 2017.
  5. ↑ art in berlin The everyday in its political dimension - Koki Tanaka in the Kunsthalle Deutsche Bank , accessed on March 18, 2017.
  6. ↑ art - the art magazine when potters argue ( memento of the original from July 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on March 18, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de
  7. ^ ArtReview, Hou Hanru Koki Tanaka , accessed March 18, 2017.
  8. ↑ Koki Tanaka: Sculpture Projects Archive Here [2] , accessed on September 23, 2019.
  9. ^ Uni Münster, Institute for Political Science The "refugee crisis" in Germany - workshop for the "Skulptur Projekte 2017" , accessed on March 18, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Tanaka, Kōki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 田中 功 起 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese installation and video artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Tochigi , Tochigi Prefecture