Koganezawa : surrealist mood
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Takehito Koganezawa was born in 1974 in Tokyo and has been living in Berlin since 1999.
Takehito Koganezawa has been selected to show at distinguished group shows and video festivals throughout Europe and Asia since 1997.
His work can also be seen at Manifesta 4, the fourth edition of a European biennial in Frankfurt, Germany in 2002. He is represented by (Gallery) Wohnmaschine in Berlin.
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Artistic Approach
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Koganezawa Takehito, On the way to the peak of normal (with Brandon LaBelle), 2002
Video-sound installation
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The artist works primarily with video and drawing, referring to video as his "brainwork", and to drawing as his "musclework".
Koganezawa's videos often originate from live performances and include the artist as an actor/participant. His drawings are simple coloured pencil lines on large white paper backgrounds.
Converging recognizable objects with abstract fragments, his drawings invoke a surrealist mood. And though surrealist, the artist maintains a light, humorous edge throughout all of his work.
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Project for the Biennale
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Koganezawa Takehito, On the way
to the peak of normal (with Brandon LaBelle), 2002
Video-sound installation
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by Takehito Koganezawa
"My work is about the hole. Like the hole of a donut becomes visible because of the donut, in my work I create the donut to get closer to the hole.
Making Art is not a safety net of my life, not a blanket for sleeping. It is a mirror for seeing myself, even I'm ugly.
For me art works are like the human body, they consist of bones and muscles. I see the bones as representing the concept while the muscles represent the formal aspects of the world.
Normally the art work is a play between both. I am interested in working to develop the muscles to create a sort of monster without a skeleton.
There is the chance that in the end it will become grotesque, but that is the chance that I will take."
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Works Shown at the 3rd Biennale de Montréal
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Solo Exhibitions (selection)
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2002Trespassing Space, performance, Kunstverein, Portikus et Frankensteiner Hof, Germany
2001 Some Island, Project Rooms, ARCO Madrid, Spain
Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany
Newmen, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany
2000 Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, USA
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Group Exhibitions (selection)
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2002La 3e Biennale de Montréal - 2002, Montréal (Québec), Canada
Drawing on Space, F.A. Projects, Londres, United Kingdom
Manifesta 4, a European biennial of contemporary art, Frankfort/Main, Germany
Lines Moving, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany
Translated Acts, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico, Mexico
Performances in the Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Contaminados, Museo des Artes & Disenao Contemporaneo, Costa Rica
2001 1site 2places, Kunstverein Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
A little bit of History Repeated, Live-Performance, Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany
Audible, Imagery, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
Styx-Projektionen, Europäische Akademie für Bildende Kunst, Trier, Germany
Translated Acts, Queens Museum, New York, USA
Videofestival, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
Berlin-London, ICA, Londres, United Kingdom
Secreciones, Galeria Jacob Karpio, San Jose, Costa Rica
Translated Acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
City Vision: City Clips, Internationales Filmfest, Rotterdam, Holland
2000 Kibou No Hikari, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan
Electric Dreams, billbord Leicester Square, Londres, United Kingdom
media_city seoul 2000, Séoul, South Korea
Art Ponton 02, Hambourg, Germany
Japan Medium Light, Montevideo, Amsterdam, Holland
Interim 2000 - Art, Time and the Discovery of Slowness, Schloss Plüschow, Germany
Continental Shift, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Wohnmaschine, avec Eric Hattan et Beatrice Wrobel, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany
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Koganezawa Takehito on the Web
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