Kodama Kanazawa
Independent curator
KENPOKU ART 2016
Large-scale art festival focusing on the nature, historical significance and spirit of innovation found throughout the region: Ibaraki Kenpoku (North Ibaraki)
Venues
6 cities in the northern Ibaraki Prefecture
Hitachi, Takahagi, Kitaibaraki, Hitachiota, Hitachiomiya and Daigo
Number of participating artists
85 artists from 22 countries and regions
Number of artworks
109 artworks (including projects)
Ken + Julia Yonetani "Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nuclear Nations" Photo: Kioku Keizo. (c) Kenpoku Art Executive Committee
Michael Beutler "A Guest at the Joycome's" Photo: Kioku Keizo. (c) Kenpoku Art Executive Committee
Akane Moriyama "Mirage in the Forest" Photo: Kioku Keizo. (c) Kenpoku Art Executive Committee
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov "The Fallen Sky"
Jung Hye Ryun "Serial Possibility -fukuroda fall"
Sudsiri Pui-ock "Soul Shelter"
teamLab, Flowers Bloom in an Infinite Universe inside a Teacup, 2017, Interactive Digital Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi © teamLab
Daniel Buren "In the corridor: the Four Rainbows, work in situ"
Participating artists
Norimizu Ameya, Song-Ming Ang, Nobutaka Aozaki, BCL, Daniel Buren, Zadok Ben-David, Michael Beutler, Oron & Ionat & Mike, CALAR.ink**, Saki Chikaraishi, Vincensius ‘Venzha’ Christiawan, Tiffany Chung, Composit, Isabelle Desjeux, Hiroshi Fuji, Takafumi Fukasawa*, Debbie Han, Takafumi Hara, Gojing-Maru Hayashi*, Katsuhiko Hibino, Ibaraki Design Promotion Conference*, Shinta Inoue, Aki Inomata, Interfering Floating Bodies**, Takashi Ishida, Kosho Ito, Hideo Iwasaki + metaPhorest, Ian Carlo Jaucian, Matthew Jensen, Jung Hye Ryun, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, KatoMasudaSaitoIwasawa (KMSI)**, Yoichiro Kawaguchi, Keiko Kimoto, Mariko Kinoshita, Choi Jeong Hwa, Jun Kitazawa, Pius Sigit Kuncoro, Takamasa Kuniyasu, Le Thua Tien, Sandrine Llouquet, magma, Tea Mäkipää, Satoko Masuda, Shizuka Matsui*, Mieko Matsumoto, Soichiro Mihara, Katsuto Miyahara*, Akane Moriyama, Fumiaki Murakami*, Tohru Nakazaki, Yoichi Ochiai, Miki Okamura, Nipan Oranniwesna, Tuksina Pipitkul, Sudsiri Pui-Ock, Tawatchai Puntusawasdi, Rafaël Rozendaal, Sumito Sakakibara, Nitipak Samsen, Yu Sato, secca, Kazuyo Sejima, Mithu Sen, Ryota Shioya, Sound of TapBoard**, SPREAD, Yoshihiro Suda, Hiroshi Suzuki + Masato Ohki*, Shintaro Tanaka, teamLab, Tokyo University of the Arts, Shohei Tsuda, Elena Tutatchikova, Satoshi Uchiumi, Yuji Ueno, Vide Infra**, Pieter Vermeersch, Ei Wada, Zhan Wang, Wang Te-Yu, Etsuko Yakushimaru, Miki Yamamoto, Ken + Julia Yonetani, Keisuke Yunoki* (*Selected from open call, **Selected from Hackathon)
General Director: Fumio Nanjo
Curators: Yukiko Shikata, Kodama Kanazawa
Creative Director: Junji Tanigawa
Communications Director: Chiaki Hayashi
Official Designer: Ken Okamoto
General Manager: Kousuke Kuwabara
Organizers: KENPOKU ART Executive Committee (Chair: The governor of Ibaraki Prefecture)
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