Ryoichi Kurokawa
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Profile
Ryoichi Kurokawa | Born in 1978 in Osaka, Kurokawa began creating video and sound art in Kyoto in 1999. His residency in Paris in 2000 led to active showings of his work across Europe. From 2003, he produced live visuals for Sketch Show, a collaboration between YMO members Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, and HUMAN AUDIO SPONGE (Sketch Show + Ryuichi Sakamoto), at the Barcelona electronic music festival Sónar and other events. Major exhibitions include GLITCH (Pinakothek der Moderne, Germany, 2023), Are You Working Now? (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, 2023), Scenery of the Emptiness, and Asia (Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea, 2022), Future Shock (180 The Strand, London, UK, 2022), Living Matter (New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia, 2021), Líthi (KAMU kanazawa, Kanazawa, 2020), Coder le monde (Centre Pompidou, France, 2018), The Dream of Forms (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2017), One of a Thousand Ways to Defeat Entropy - The 54th Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy, 2011), and Synthesis (Tate Modern, London, UK, 2007). Recent solo exhibitions include fluxes (K11, Wuhan, China, 2018), al-jabr (Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, Modena, Italy, 2018), objectum (Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, 2018), unfold (Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018), A la llum de les idee (Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain, 2016), unfold (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool, UK, 2016), and Ordered Disorder (Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Lima, Peru, 2015). Kurokawa has also collaborated on a number of projects with scientists in various fields, including unfold (2016), with support by astrophysicist Vincent Minier, a researcher at the CEA-IRFU (Institut de recherche sur les lois fondamentales de l'Univers). In 2010, he won the prestigious Golden Nica Award in the category of Digital Music & Sound Art at Ars Electronica (Austria). |
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Awards
2024 | cm: av_c, performed in 2006, 10 Standout Performances from the Past 25 Years, MUTEK, Montreal, Can-ada |
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2016 | Director, Kinetic Media Lab/ACT, ACC (Asia Cultural Center), Gwangju, South Korea |
2014 | oscillating continuum, The 17th Japan Media Arts Festival, Art Division Jury Selections, Tokyo, Japan |
2011-2012 | Guest Professor/Invited Artist, Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France 2011 rheo: 5 horizons, The 14th Japan Media Arts Festival, Art Division Jury Selections, Tokyo, Japan |
2010 | Golden Nica, Prix Ars Electronica, Digital Musics & Sound Art category, Linz, Austria |
Solo Exhibitions
2020 | Líthi, KAMU kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan |
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2019 | Special feature exhibition | Ryoichi Kurokawa, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan mono, GNRation, Braga, Portugal |
2018 | unfold.alt/mod, Bucheon Art Bunker B39, Bucheon, South Korea fluxes, K11, Wuhan, China al-jabr, Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, Modena, Italy Objectum, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan unfold, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China |
2016 | A la llum de les idee, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain unfold, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, UK |
2015 | Ordered Disorder, Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Lima, Peru |
Group Exhibition
2024 | Artificial Dreams, Grand Palais Immersif, Paris, France Art and Science International Exhibition and Symposium, National Communication Center for Science and Technology, Beijing, China |
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2023 | GLITCH, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany AMBIENT KYOTO, visual art direction/video installation: ET (Densha), Music by Buffalo Daughter, Kyoto, Japan MUTEK MX, Domo Digital Papalote Museo del Niño, Mexico City, Mexico Are You Working Now, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan Dimensions, Pittlerwerke, Leipzig, Germany |
2022 | Scenery of the Emptiness, and Asia, ACC (Asia Culture Center), Gwangju, South Korea Future Shock, 180 The Strand, London, UK |
2021-2022 | Group Show: 6 Artists, Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2021 | Living Matter, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
2020 | MUTEK ES, IAAC school of design and architecture, Barcelona, Spain attraper le JE / champs de JEU, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan |
2019 | Welcome! You Are Connected! , Suwon Museum of Art, Suwon, South Korea Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
2018 | Coding the world, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France |
2017 | The Dream of Forms, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France |
2016 | ACC_R, ACT/ACC (Asia Culture Center), Gwangju, South Korea |
2015 | Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Festival Center, Adelaide, Australia |
2014 | BIAN, Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada |
2013 | Digitalife, Museum of Contemporary Arts of Rome Testaccio, Roma, Italy scopic measure, YCAM, Yamaguchi, Japan Elastic Reality, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijon, Spain Turbulences II, Villa Empain/Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium |
2012 | Catastrophology, Arko Art Center, Seoul, South Korea Bozar Electronic Arts Festival, BOZAR (Palais des Beaux-Arts), Brussels, Belgium Scopitone, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France Turbulences, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France Panorama, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France MUTEK, Montreal, Canada |
2011 | The 54th Venice Biennale - One of a thousand ways to defeat entropy, Arsenale Novissimo, Venice, Italy EXIT, Maison des Arts Créteil, Créteil, France |
2010 | Ars Electronica, Tabakfabrik, Linz, Austria |
2008 | Eye of the City, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan |
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Others
Selected Projects | |
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2017 | Scale.Travels, GNRation, Braga, Portugal |
Selected Concerts, Festivals and Events | |
2024 | FOOLK, La Térmica, Malaga, Spain Mapping Festival, Le Jardin des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland CineGlobe Festival, CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland XAOS Festival, Ulaanbaatar Event Hall, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia XAOS Festival, Black Box Theater, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia XNL, XNL, Piacenza, Italy |
2023 | OVNi, Le 109, Nice, France MA/IN festival, Cineteatro Don Bosco, Potenza, Italy Time Re:Imagined, Sweeties, The Standard, London, UK Time Re:Imagined, King’s Cross Station, London, UK MUTEK MX, Domo Digital Papalote Museo del Niño, Mexico City, Mexico subassemblies - China Tour / Beijing, Fulang Livehouse, Beijing, China subassemblies - China Tour / Shanghai, Bandai Namco Shanghai Base, Shanghai, China subassemblies - China Tour / Chengdu, Aflame Art Cente, Chengdu, China Now or Never, Melbourne Museum Plaza, Melbourne, Australia DokuFest, Lumbardhi Cinema, Prizren, Kosovo TKESHI, Kojori Forest, Tbilisi, Georgia Digital Infinities: Computer Generated Film & Video, 1952-2023 | LACMA, REDCAT ROY AND EDNA DISNEY/CALARTS THEATER (REDCAT), Los Angeles, US CaixaForum, CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain TEATROS del CANAL, Teatros del Canal, Madrid, Spain |
2022 | New Rituals, Barbican Centre, London, UK in s.asmbli, Sound Dome, House of Music Hungary, Budapest, Hungary MUTEK ES, Antiga Fabrica Estrella Damm, Barcelona, Spain |
2021 | Biennale Nemo, Le CENTQUATRE, Paris, France L.E.V., Teatro de la Laboral, Gijon, Spain |
2020 | OCT-LOFT Creative Festival, OCT-LOFT, Shenzhen, China |
2019 | MUTEK JP, LINE CUBE SHIBUYA, Tokyo, Japan MUTEK MX, Mexico City, Mexico Ars Electronica, Postcity, Linz, Austria MUTEK Montréal, Théâtre Maisonneuve, Montreal, Canada CTM Festival, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, Germany 2017 Day for Night, Post HTX, Houston, US |
2015 | ACT Festival, ACT/ACC, Gwangju, South Korea Adelaide Festival. Adelaide Festival Center. Adelaide, Australia |
2014 | Japan Media Art Festival, The National Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan RCVM, HARPA, Reykjavik, Iceland |
2013 | NEMO, Le CENTQUATRE, Paris, France MUTEK, Metropolis, Montreal, Canada EMPAC, EMPAC, Troy, US |
2012 | MUTEK MX, Novi_Sad & Ryoichi Kurokawa, Mexico City, Mexico Scopitone, Stereolux, Nantes, France TodaysArt, Lucent Danstheater, The Hague, Netherlands SonarSound Tokyo, ageHa | Studio Coast, Tokyo, Japan |
2011 | YCAM | sound tectonics, YCAM, Yamaguchi, Japan sound:frame, Ottakringer Brauerei /Alte Technik, Vienna, Austria Japan Media Art Festival, The National Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
2010 | Rencontres Internationales, REINA SOFIA National Museum, Madrid, Spain Lexus Hybrid Art, Vetoshny, Moscow, Russia A Taste of Sonar, Roundhouse, London, UK |
2009 | National Theater Concert Hall, National Theater Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan Sónar, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain Elektra, l'Usine, Montreal, Canada Transmediale/CTM, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany |
2008 | Shanghai eARTS, Shanghai, China Sonic Acts, Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
2007 | MUTEK MX, Mexico City, Mexico synthesis, TATE MODERN, London, UK Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille, France |
2006 | Ars Electronica, Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria MUTEK, Ex-Centris, Montreal, Canada |
2004 | SónarSound Tokyo, video performance/visual effect direction: HUMAN AUDIO SPONGE (Sketch Show+Ryuichi Sakamoto) , YEBISU GARDEN PLACE, Tokyo, Japan Sónar, video performance/visual effect direction: HUMAN AUDIO SPONGE (Sketch Show+Ryuichi Sa-kamoto), Barcelona, Spain |
2003 | Sónar, video performance/visual effect direction: Sketch Show (YMO:Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi), Barcelona, Spain |
Selected Discography | |
2016 | Sirens, Ryoichi Kurokawa / Novi_Sad, Sub Rosa, Book+CD |
2012 | 01:11, Album, Various Artists |
2004 | MUSIC FOR BABY!, AMORFON, Album, Various Artists Port Doc.1-5, port, Album, Various Artists READ, daisyworld discs, Album |
2003 | copynature, PROGRESSIVE FOrM, Album |
Selected Music Video Directions | |
2021 | ET (Densha) , from the album “We Are The Times” by Buffalo Daughter, BUFFALO RANCH / MU-SICMINE |