Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi

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“Cairn,” 2018, 4K transferred to high-definition video, 4 min. 38 sec.
“Dog or Ocean,” 2018, High-definition video, 2 min. 16 sec. (loop)
“Polaris,” 2018, High-definition video, 20 min. (loop)
“Letting the mountains hear the voice of the ocean,” 2017, 2-channel high-definition video, 6 min. 12 sec.
“How to make a mountain sculpture-Japanese Mountains” series “Mt. Asama,” 2013, Lambda print, 87 x 58 cm, Wood, 32 x 18.5 x 17.2 cm
“How to make a mountain sculpture-Japanese Mountains” series “Mt. Iwate,” 2013, Lambda print, 87 x 58 cm, Wood, 23.5 x 16.5 x 15.5 cm
“Major League Birdwatching,” 2011, HD video projection on baseball caps, stereo sound, tripod, dimensions variable, 9 min. 30 sec., C-print 40 x 30 cm
“Rubbing a Camel,” 2010, Video installation, Bronze, HD video 57x18x24 cm, 6 min. 56 sec.
“GOING MAINSTREAM,” 2010, 2-channel video installation, Blu-ray, Inflatable boat, 11 min. 16 sec.
“A Spoon Made From The Land,” 2009, Video installation, HD video, 11 min., Iron spoon 16 x 3.5 x 2.3 cm
“Dogsled,” 2008, Video installation, 23 radio-controlled cars, fake fur, wheeled sled, 5 min. 23 sec., Dimensions variable
“infinity,” 2006, HDV, 4 min. 38 sec.
“How to make a mountain sculpture” series “Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau,” 2006, Firewood, 29 x 18 x 16 cm, Lambda print, 72 x 48cm
“Candy,” 2005, Candy, Glass bowl, Video, 19 min. 22 sec.

Exhibition at TSCA

Profile

Mai Yamashita
2009	PhD Tokyo University of the Arts
2005-6	The Berlin University of the Arts, Class Stan Douglas, Guest student
2004	M.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
2001	B.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1976	Born in Chiba, Japan
Naoto Kobayashi
2005-6	The Berlin University of the Arts, Class Stan Douglas, Guest student
2002	M.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1999	B.A. The University of Tsukuba, School of Art and Design
1974	Born in Chiba, Japan

Awards

2016	Terumo Foundation for Life Sciences and Arts, Japan
2014	Pola Art Foundation, International Exchange, Japan
2013-14	Pollock Krasner Art Foundation, New York, USA
2009-12	The Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists, Japan
2011	Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation, Stipend, Japan
2010	The Nomura Foundation, Japan
2007-08	The Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists, Japan
2007	Special Prize of VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain
2006	The Asahi Shimbun Foundation, Japan The Nomura Cultural Foundation, Japan Honorable Mention of transmediale.06, Berlin 2nd Prize of Gstaad Film Festival 2006, Gstaad, Switzerland
2004	Takahashi Art Prize, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music, Tokyo
1999	Ataka Prize, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music, Tokyo

Solo Exhibitions

2023	If The Sun Had No Name, Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art, Chiba
2021	A mirage, Kurobe City Art Museum, Kurobe, Japan
2018	Nature Observation, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2015	Notebooks, and from the Notebooks, Oyama City Kurumaya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
2014	Mountains and a Dog, hiromiyoshii roppongi, Tokyo A Dog and Wooden Sculptures (Ein Hund und Holzskulpturen), Asifakeil, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna infinity, RL Window, Ryan Lee Gallery, NY 1000WAVES, Suburban PS, Rotterdam
2013	WORKS ON PAPER, Daikanyama T-Site, Tokyo
2011	The Four Souvenirs and The Book, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo Adventure, Courage, Love and Friendship, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany infinity, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Texas, USA IMPRINT, FIT, Vancouver, Canada
2010	GOING MAINSTREAM, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin Screen Spirit_Continued_#11, Städtische Galerie Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2009	Viewing week, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo The Small Mountain, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Chiba, Japan playing with time, NOW IDeA by Utrecht, Tokyo
2008	When I wish upon a star + Infinity, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium
2007	1000 Waves, Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany infinity, Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi, ZAIM Annex 304, Yokohama, Japan Yamashita Kobayahshi Repeast Playback@Maruya, Naoshima, Japan
2001	dam has broken, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo

Group Exhibition

2020	Under the Stars, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney VIDEO ART WEEK ROMA, MAXXI Museum, Rome
2019	Setouchi Triennale 2019, Kagawa Rafaël Rosendaal/Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2018	Journey, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan New Japan, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia Hors Pistes: El estadio del arte, Centre Pompidou Malaga, Spain
2017	Public Art Research Center 7, Sapporo Ekimae-dori Underground Walkway (Chi-Ka-Ho), Hokkaido KizArt, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
2016	Ryuta Iida, Motomasa Suzuki, Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi, Yoshitaka Yazu, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2015	CAFE in Mito R, Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Gallery, Ibaraki, Japan
2014	New York Stories: Twenty Years of ISCP, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York
2013	tireless workers, insitu, Berlin Victory Obsessed, Culture Centre Zamek, Poland Now Japan, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands Why not live for Art? Ⅱ, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo Super 8, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012	Cities and Things That Matter, Lombard Freid Projects, NY Eleventh Hour, Futura Centre For Contemporary Art, Prague Super 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Boby Talks?, Art Fair Tokyo : Special Video Program, Tokyo MEDIATED VISIONS, Galerie Wedding, Berlin Kashiwa City Jack -Asia Pacific Contemporary Media Arts from Daisuke Miyatsu Collection-, Kashiwa City, Japan
2011	Yokohama Triennale 2011, Japan Invisibleness is visibleness, Moca Taipei, Taiwan Super 8, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica Open Studio, ISCP-International Studio & Curatorial Program, NY UNFOLDING: PROCESSES/SPACE/TIME, Grimmuseum, Berlin Soramame, Hans Peter Zimmer Stiftung, Düsseldorf, Germany Body Talks?, SYMPOSIA, Tokyo
2010	Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan Roppongi Art Night, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo Things That Only An Artist Can Do, MARCO-Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain Love Sick, Stills Gallery, Sydney, Australia Convocatoria Internacional de Jóvenes Artistas, Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain No Holds Barred, Art Amsterdam Can’t go on like this!, Map Office, Hong Kong
2009	5+1 Junction Box, Vacant, Tokyo Vom Labor zum Projekt, Neuen Museum Weimar, Weimar, Germany UNIVERSO ELECTRÓNICO, El Tanque Espacio cultural, Canary Islands, Spain JAPAN VIDEO WINDOW, Duplex/10m2, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina R_minute, Info Nantes public computer screens, Nantes, France Destroy Everything You Touch, Espai’d Art de Gandia, Spain Once, there was the sea, Creative Space 9001, Kanagawa, Japan I wish upon a star, Shinjuku Ganka Garou, Tokyo Ping-Pong Critic, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto Videonale 11, Goethe-Institut Japan in Kyoto, Kyoto
2008	Yokohama Art & Home Collection with MIACA, Kanagawa, Japan Re-imagining Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin BACKLIGHT08 8th International Photographic Triennial, Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Tampere, Finland etc. IASmedia Screening 2008- Contemporary Art Video Screening program by IASmedia, Insa Art Space, Korea Sound & Vision Vol.3 RefLect, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan Ohayo JAPAN, Japan Festival Leipzig, LIA - Leipzig International Art Programme, Leipzig, Germany VIDEOZOMER, Petersburg Project Space, Amsterdam GOING TO OUESSANT – Video on the island, Ouessant, France Visions in the Nunnery 2008, The Nunnery Gallery, London Theory of Everything, CASZ with tank.tv, Amsterdam Screening #10, ART CLAIMS IMPULSE, Berlin FairPlay Film&Video Award Selection, Product Festival, Varna, Bulgaria The Doctoral Program Final Exhibition, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
2007	I Am Future Melancholic, Tate Modern, London I Am Future Melancholic, GoGallery, Milan, Italy Crawford Open 2007, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland Compendium 07 by MIACA JAPAN, H-I-T, Göteborg, Sweden Works by Emerging Video Artists, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN, US Theory of Everything, Dong Fang The Cinema of the Far East, Napoli Museumsnacht, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany Videonale 11, Insa Art Space of the Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea Videonale 11, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain Videonale 11, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany Madrid Abierto 2007, Canal Metro, Madrid Japanese Video Art Screening, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway Nightcomers, 10th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey MIACA@LUX, LUX, London Saison Video 2007 #31, Musée des Beaux-Arts et la Dentelle, Calais, France Artist as Activist, Plan B, Tokyo Future Landscape, Cambridge Film Festival, Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge, UK Evolution 2007, The Linacre Studio, Leeds, UK Saison Video 2007 #31, Musée des Beaux-Arts et la Dentelle, Calais, France Vor Ort, Villa am Aabach, Uster, Switzerland
2006	ARS 06-Sense of the Real, The Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki LichtRouten Lüdenscheid, Lüdenscheid, Germany Small mischiefs, Pump House Gallery, London Indblik, Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark O.V. L by REC, MIACA, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan Staring into Space, Trafó-House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest Fair Play 2006, play - gallery for still and motion pictures, Berlin Trans_vision, V&A Friday Late, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London Pixapins, PHOTOESPAÑA 2006, Madrid, Spain Theory of Everything, LocationOne, NY/Workstation Arts Center, Beijing/www.tank.tv / and others The Peninsula, Singapore History Museum, Singapore Everyday Life is a Microcosm, Cornell University Department of Art’s Experimental Studio, Ithaca, New York To Be Continued...,"Double Trouble," tank.tv, www.tank.tv ArtSway Open 06, ArtSway, Hampshire, UK Shrewsbury Open 2006-Unnatural Selection, Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, UK badmeister kunst und sport teil 2, Hallenbad Wald, Wald, Switzerland kunstkanister, Zeughaus Uster, Uster, Switzerland
2005	EMERGENCY 2, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK The Exposed Colour: Pink, The University Art Museum, Tokyo
2004	The World is Mine, Hiromi Yoshii Five, Tokyo Voice of Site –Tokyo-Chicago-NewYork-, Former Sakamoto Elementary School, Tokyo
2003	Green Space 2_licht/schatten, Haus am Horn, Weimar, Germany
2002	Philip Morris K.K. Art Award 2002 -The First Move, Tokyo International Forum Green Space, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Ibaraki, Japan Nanohana-Satomi-Hakken-Ten[Art Universiade], Chiba, Japan

Publication

Collection

	Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Others

FESTIVALS
2016	Tweetakt, Utrecht, the Netherlands
2011	Hors Pistes 2011, Centre Pompidou, Paris Performance-Festival 2011, Bremen, Germany
2010	Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland
2008	Near Sighted, Far Out: Video Art Festival #003, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, NY VIDEOAKT international videoart show, Glogauair, Berlin
2007	Trunk/The Nordic Art Video Festival, Östersund, Sweden Optica: the Gijon International Festival of Video Art, Spain D-NEFF, Victoria-Gastaiz, Spain Transitio_MX, Mexico City VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain KANSK VIDEO FESTIVAL 2007, Moscow EXiS2007, Seoul, Republic of Korea d/Art/07, The Australian Centre for Photography etc., Sydney 17th International Videofestival Bochum, Bochum, Germany 23rd Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Germany ZEMOS98 [ninth edition], Sevilla, Spain 20th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany FILE 2007, OI FUTURO CULTURAL CENTER, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands 10th Japan Media Art Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan 12th ifva festival, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2006	transmediale.06, Akademie der Künste, Gallery ZERO, Berlin transmediale.06–video selection touring events The 11th Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Centre Pompidou etc., Paris CODE: BLUE Millennium Dialogue 2006, China Millennium Art Museum, Beijing VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain shnit short film festival, Bern, Switzerland isfilmu Nakts #1, kSuns, Latvia 12th canariasmediafest 2006, Gran Canaria, Spain Ars Electronica Animation Festival, Linz, Austria EMAF:European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany Media Forum, Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow Media Art Friesland, Friesland, the Netherlands CYNETart_06 humane, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany Gstaad Film Festival 2006, Gstaad, Switzerland SHOWCASE International Portfolio Review, Kaufleuten, Zürich, as a part of tank.tv's Showreel
2005	Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany LOOP: THE PLACE FOR VIDEO ART LOVERS, Barcelona

Profile

Mai Yamashita
2009	PhD Tokyo University of the Arts
2005-6	The Berlin University of the Arts, Class Stan Douglas, Guest student
2004	M.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
2001	B.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1976	Born in Chiba, Japan
Naoto Kobayashi
2005-6	The Berlin University of the Arts, Class Stan Douglas, Guest student
2002	M.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1999	B.A. The University of Tsukuba, School of Art and Design
1974	Born in Chiba, Japan

Awards

2016	Terumo Foundation for Life Sciences and Arts, Japan
2014	Pola Art Foundation, International Exchange, Japan
2013-14	Pollock Krasner Art Foundation, New York, USA
2009-12	The Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists, Japan
2011	Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation, Stipend, Japan
2010	The Nomura Foundation, Japan
2007-08	The Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists, Japan
2007	Special Prize of VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain
2006	The Asahi Shimbun Foundation, Japan The Nomura Cultural Foundation, Japan Honorable Mention of transmediale.06, Berlin 2nd Prize of Gstaad Film Festival 2006, Gstaad, Switzerland
2004	Takahashi Art Prize, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music, Tokyo
1999	Ataka Prize, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music, Tokyo

Solo Exhibitions

2023	If The Sun Had No Name, Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art, Chiba
2021	A mirage, Kurobe City Art Museum, Kurobe, Japan
2018	Nature Observation, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2015	Notebooks, and from the Notebooks, Oyama City Kurumaya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
2014	Mountains and a Dog, hiromiyoshii roppongi, Tokyo A Dog and Wooden Sculptures (Ein Hund und Holzskulpturen), Asifakeil, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna infinity, RL Window, Ryan Lee Gallery, NY 1000WAVES, Suburban PS, Rotterdam
2013	WORKS ON PAPER, Daikanyama T-Site, Tokyo
2011	The Four Souvenirs and The Book, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo Adventure, Courage, Love and Friendship, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany infinity, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Texas, USA IMPRINT, FIT, Vancouver, Canada
2010	GOING MAINSTREAM, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin Screen Spirit_Continued_#11, Städtische Galerie Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2009	Viewing week, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo The Small Mountain, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Chiba, Japan playing with time, NOW IDeA by Utrecht, Tokyo
2008	When I wish upon a star + Infinity, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium
2007	1000 Waves, Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany infinity, Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi, ZAIM Annex 304, Yokohama, Japan Yamashita Kobayahshi Repeast Playback@Maruya, Naoshima, Japan
2001	dam has broken, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo

Group Exhibition

2020	Under the Stars, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney VIDEO ART WEEK ROMA, MAXXI Museum, Rome
2019	Setouchi Triennale 2019, Kagawa Rafaël Rosendaal/Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2018	Journey, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan New Japan, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia Hors Pistes: El estadio del arte, Centre Pompidou Malaga, Spain
2017	Public Art Research Center 7, Sapporo Ekimae-dori Underground Walkway (Chi-Ka-Ho), Hokkaido KizArt, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
2016	Ryuta Iida, Motomasa Suzuki, Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi, Yoshitaka Yazu, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2015	CAFE in Mito R, Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Gallery, Ibaraki, Japan
2014	New York Stories: Twenty Years of ISCP, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York
2013	tireless workers, insitu, Berlin Victory Obsessed, Culture Centre Zamek, Poland Now Japan, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands Why not live for Art? Ⅱ, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo Super 8, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012	Cities and Things That Matter, Lombard Freid Projects, NY Eleventh Hour, Futura Centre For Contemporary Art, Prague Super 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Boby Talks?, Art Fair Tokyo : Special Video Program, Tokyo MEDIATED VISIONS, Galerie Wedding, Berlin Kashiwa City Jack -Asia Pacific Contemporary Media Arts from Daisuke Miyatsu Collection-, Kashiwa City, Japan
2011	Yokohama Triennale 2011, Japan Invisibleness is visibleness, Moca Taipei, Taiwan Super 8, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica Open Studio, ISCP-International Studio & Curatorial Program, NY UNFOLDING: PROCESSES/SPACE/TIME, Grimmuseum, Berlin Soramame, Hans Peter Zimmer Stiftung, Düsseldorf, Germany Body Talks?, SYMPOSIA, Tokyo
2010	Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan Roppongi Art Night, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo Things That Only An Artist Can Do, MARCO-Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain Love Sick, Stills Gallery, Sydney, Australia Convocatoria Internacional de Jóvenes Artistas, Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain No Holds Barred, Art Amsterdam Can’t go on like this!, Map Office, Hong Kong
2009	5+1 Junction Box, Vacant, Tokyo Vom Labor zum Projekt, Neuen Museum Weimar, Weimar, Germany UNIVERSO ELECTRÓNICO, El Tanque Espacio cultural, Canary Islands, Spain JAPAN VIDEO WINDOW, Duplex/10m2, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina R_minute, Info Nantes public computer screens, Nantes, France Destroy Everything You Touch, Espai’d Art de Gandia, Spain Once, there was the sea, Creative Space 9001, Kanagawa, Japan I wish upon a star, Shinjuku Ganka Garou, Tokyo Ping-Pong Critic, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto Videonale 11, Goethe-Institut Japan in Kyoto, Kyoto
2008	Yokohama Art & Home Collection with MIACA, Kanagawa, Japan Re-imagining Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin BACKLIGHT08 8th International Photographic Triennial, Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Tampere, Finland etc. IASmedia Screening 2008- Contemporary Art Video Screening program by IASmedia, Insa Art Space, Korea Sound & Vision Vol.3 RefLect, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan Ohayo JAPAN, Japan Festival Leipzig, LIA - Leipzig International Art Programme, Leipzig, Germany VIDEOZOMER, Petersburg Project Space, Amsterdam GOING TO OUESSANT – Video on the island, Ouessant, France Visions in the Nunnery 2008, The Nunnery Gallery, London Theory of Everything, CASZ with tank.tv, Amsterdam Screening #10, ART CLAIMS IMPULSE, Berlin FairPlay Film&Video Award Selection, Product Festival, Varna, Bulgaria The Doctoral Program Final Exhibition, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
2007	I Am Future Melancholic, Tate Modern, London I Am Future Melancholic, GoGallery, Milan, Italy Crawford Open 2007, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland Compendium 07 by MIACA JAPAN, H-I-T, Göteborg, Sweden Works by Emerging Video Artists, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN, US Theory of Everything, Dong Fang The Cinema of the Far East, Napoli Museumsnacht, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany Videonale 11, Insa Art Space of the Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea Videonale 11, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain Videonale 11, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany Madrid Abierto 2007, Canal Metro, Madrid Japanese Video Art Screening, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway Nightcomers, 10th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey MIACA@LUX, LUX, London Saison Video 2007 #31, Musée des Beaux-Arts et la Dentelle, Calais, France Artist as Activist, Plan B, Tokyo Future Landscape, Cambridge Film Festival, Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge, UK Evolution 2007, The Linacre Studio, Leeds, UK Saison Video 2007 #31, Musée des Beaux-Arts et la Dentelle, Calais, France Vor Ort, Villa am Aabach, Uster, Switzerland
2006	ARS 06-Sense of the Real, The Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki LichtRouten Lüdenscheid, Lüdenscheid, Germany Small mischiefs, Pump House Gallery, London Indblik, Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark O.V. L by REC, MIACA, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan Staring into Space, Trafó-House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest Fair Play 2006, play - gallery for still and motion pictures, Berlin Trans_vision, V&A Friday Late, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London Pixapins, PHOTOESPAÑA 2006, Madrid, Spain Theory of Everything, LocationOne, NY/Workstation Arts Center, Beijing/www.tank.tv / and others The Peninsula, Singapore History Museum, Singapore Everyday Life is a Microcosm, Cornell University Department of Art’s Experimental Studio, Ithaca, New York To Be Continued...,"Double Trouble," tank.tv, www.tank.tv ArtSway Open 06, ArtSway, Hampshire, UK Shrewsbury Open 2006-Unnatural Selection, Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, UK badmeister kunst und sport teil 2, Hallenbad Wald, Wald, Switzerland kunstkanister, Zeughaus Uster, Uster, Switzerland
2005	EMERGENCY 2, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK The Exposed Colour: Pink, The University Art Museum, Tokyo
2004	The World is Mine, Hiromi Yoshii Five, Tokyo Voice of Site –Tokyo-Chicago-NewYork-, Former Sakamoto Elementary School, Tokyo
2003	Green Space 2_licht/schatten, Haus am Horn, Weimar, Germany
2002	Philip Morris K.K. Art Award 2002 -The First Move, Tokyo International Forum Green Space, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Ibaraki, Japan Nanohana-Satomi-Hakken-Ten[Art Universiade], Chiba, Japan

Publication

Collection

	Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Others

FESTIVALS
2016	Tweetakt, Utrecht, the Netherlands
2011	Hors Pistes 2011, Centre Pompidou, Paris Performance-Festival 2011, Bremen, Germany
2010	Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland
2008	Near Sighted, Far Out: Video Art Festival #003, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, NY VIDEOAKT international videoart show, Glogauair, Berlin
2007	Trunk/The Nordic Art Video Festival, Östersund, Sweden Optica: the Gijon International Festival of Video Art, Spain D-NEFF, Victoria-Gastaiz, Spain Transitio_MX, Mexico City VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain KANSK VIDEO FESTIVAL 2007, Moscow EXiS2007, Seoul, Republic of Korea d/Art/07, The Australian Centre for Photography etc., Sydney 17th International Videofestival Bochum, Bochum, Germany 23rd Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Germany ZEMOS98 [ninth edition], Sevilla, Spain 20th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany FILE 2007, OI FUTURO CULTURAL CENTER, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands 10th Japan Media Art Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan 12th ifva festival, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2006	transmediale.06, Akademie der Künste, Gallery ZERO, Berlin transmediale.06–video selection touring events The 11th Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Centre Pompidou etc., Paris CODE: BLUE Millennium Dialogue 2006, China Millennium Art Museum, Beijing VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain shnit short film festival, Bern, Switzerland isfilmu Nakts #1, kSuns, Latvia 12th canariasmediafest 2006, Gran Canaria, Spain Ars Electronica Animation Festival, Linz, Austria EMAF:European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany Media Forum, Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow Media Art Friesland, Friesland, the Netherlands CYNETart_06 humane, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany Gstaad Film Festival 2006, Gstaad, Switzerland SHOWCASE International Portfolio Review, Kaufleuten, Zürich, as a part of tank.tv's Showreel
2005	Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany LOOP: THE PLACE FOR VIDEO ART LOVERS, Barcelona

	Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi: "Journey" (Chiba City Museum of Art) From July 14 to September 9, the artist duo Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will be participating in Chiba City Museum of Art’s exhibition titled Journey. In line with the exhibit’s theme, Yamashita and Kobayashi will be showcasing their video work “Rubbing a Camel”: a video installation in which a bronze statue of a camel is repeatedly rubbed for five months as they travel through Egypt, Spain, Switzerland, and Germany. In addition, on August 11 (Sat), the artist duo will conduct a workshop which corresponds with the national holiday Mountain Day. ——————————— Journey Venue: Chiba City Museum of Art Period: July 14 (Sat)-September 9 (Sunday) Hours: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (Open until 8 p.m. on Fridays & Saturdays) Closed: August 6 (Mon), September 3 (Friday) Admission Fee: Adults ¥200; University Students ¥150; With a certification of disability, admission is free along with an accompanying caregiver. Exhibition Website: http://www.ccma-net.jp/english/index.html
	(Japanese) 山下麻衣＋小林直人：Web版美術手帖にて服部浩之氏によるレビュー掲載 (Japanese) インディペンデントキュレーターの服部浩之氏による山下麻衣＋小林直人個展「自然観察」（2018年5月12日〜6月23日）のレビューがWeb版美術手帖に掲載されました。山下麻衣＋小林直人「自然観察」展　観察という態度について bijutsutecho.com/insight/17139/
	Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi: "New Japan”（Solyanka State Gallery） The artist duo Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi is currently participating in a group exhibition at Moscow’s Solyanka State Gallery. The exhibition titled New Japan will be held from Friday, April 27 through Thursday, June 21, 2018. 　 There, Yamashita and Kobayashi will showcase three video pieces: infinity, 1000Waves, and telepathy. 　 If you happen to be in Moscow, we hope you’ll visit this multimedia group exhibition by contemporary Japanese artists. ———————————— New Japan Venue: Solyanka State Gallery Exhibition period: 2018.4.27 (Fri) – 6.21 (Thur) Artists: Haruyuki Ishii, Takashi Makino, Soichiro Mihara, Yuko Mohri, Ryo Orikasa, Aki Sasamoto, Akihiko Taniguchi, Sayaki Sayaka Shimada, Sayata Shimada, Lyota Yagi, Jinichi Yamaoka, Yasuaki Onishi, Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi, exonemo and SHIMURAbros. Website：http://new.solyanka.org
	Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi｜Nature Observation+ Naoto Kobayashi："Nature Observation" (Japanese) この度、Takuro Someya Contemporary Artでは2018年5月12日（土）〜6月23日（土）まで、山下麻衣＋小林直人の個展「自然観察」を開催することが決定いたしました。山下＋小林にとってTSCAでは2011年の「The Four Souvenirs and The Book」以来、約7年ぶりの個展開催となります。　 ※2018年1-2月版『GUIDE』には本展会期を1月27日（土）〜3月3日（土）と記載されておりますが、正しい会期は上記の通りです。訂正してお詫び申し上げます。 ――――――――――― 【展覧会概要】山下麻衣＋小林直人個展「自然観察」会　期：2018年5月12日（土）〜6月23日（土）　開廊：火曜 – 土曜 12:00 – 19:00（休廊日曜・月曜・祝日）　〒106-0047 東京都港区南麻布 3-9-11 パインコーストハイツ 1F TEL 03-6804-3018 ｜FAX 03-4578-0318 ｜E-MAIL: gallery@tsca.jp ―――――――――――
Artist	Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : Current News Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi participate in the artist-in-residence at quartier21, MuseumsQuartier Wien (Vienna) For more information, please visit the websites. MuseumsQuartier Wien quartier21 Period : March – April, 2014 Solo show : March 27 (Thu) – Aprl 24 (Thu) at Asifakeil (quartier21) “A Dog And Wooden Sculptures” Date: March 28 (Fri) – Apr 24 (Thu), 2014 Venue: Asifakeil (quartier21) Time: 10:00 – 22:00 Opening: Thursday 27 March, 19:00
Artist	Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "tireless workers" insitu, Berlin Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will participate in a group exhibition “tireless workers″ in Berlin. http://insitu-berlin.com/ “tireless workers” Dates: 14.11. – 18.01.2013 Venue: insitu, Berlin Artists: Francis Alÿs, David Brognon & Stéphanie Rollin, Moritz Frei, Isabelle Giovacchini, Klara Hobza, Letizia Romanini, Takahiro Suzuki, Guido van der Werwe, Mai Yamashita & Naoto Kobayashi
Artist	Masaru Iwai, Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "Now Japan" Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort, Netherlands Masaru Iwai and Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi will participate in a group exhibition in Netherlands. For more information, please visit the website. “Now Japan” Dates: 21 September, 2013 – 2 February, 2014 Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort, Netherlands http://www.kunsthalkade.nl/tentoonstelling.php?item=2047
Artist	Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "Victory Obessed" Zamek, Poland Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will participate in a group exhibition “Victory Obessed″ from 7th September to 10th October at Zamek Culture Center. Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi “Victory Obessed” Dates: 07.09. – 10.10.2013 Venue: Zamek Culture Center, Poland For more info, please visit the following link. http://www.zamek.poznan.pl/news,en,153,2390.html
Artist	Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "Why not live for Art? Ⅱ" Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will participate in a group show in this summer at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery. “Why not live for Art? Ⅱ” Dates: July 13 (Sat) – September 23 (Mon), 2013 Venue: Gallery1&2, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery http://www.operacity.jp/ag/exh154/index_e.html
Artist	Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "Super8" MAM, Rio Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi’s “Dogsled” will be screened on April 26 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “Super8″ Date: April 26 – June 2, 2013 Venue: Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil For more information http://mamrio.org.br/exposicoes/super-8/
Artist	Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "WORKS ON PAPER" DAIKANYAMA T-SITE, Tokyo A exhibition by Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will be held at DAIKANYAMA T-SITE in Tokyo.For more information, please visit the following website. http://tsite.jp/daikanyama/event/001573.html Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi “WORKS ON PAPER” Dates: February 19 – March 3, 2013 Venue: DAIKANYAMA T-SITE 1F Book Floor
Artist	Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "Kashiwa City Jack -Asia Pacific Contemporary Media Arts from Daisuke Miyatsu Collection-" Art Line Kashiwa 2012 “Candy” by Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will be shown on 3 and 4 November at Art Line Kashiwa 2012 “Kashiwa City Jack” program in Japan. Art Line Kashiwa 2012 “Kashiwa City Jack” -Asia Pacific Contemporary Media Arts from Daisuke Miyatsu Collection- Dates: 27.10. – 04.11.2012 Venue: Kashiwa city, Chiba, Japan Direction: Daisuke Miyatsu For more info, please look the following link. Art Line Kashiwa Kashiwa City Jack
Artist	Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "MEDIATED VISIONS" Galerie Wedding Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi are now participating in a group exhibition “MEDIATED VISIONS″ on 29 September to 10 November at Galerie Wedding in Berlin.They present two video pieces, “infinity” is their early masterpiece and “Unfortunately, impossible” which have had a few presentation opportunity ever so is a precious work. Dates: 29.09. – 10.11.2012 Venue: Galerie Wedding Artists: Costantino Ciervo, Johann Büsen, Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi For more info, please look the following link. Galerie Wedding
Artist	Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "SUPER 8 Part2" KÜNSTLERHAUS BETHANIEN Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will participate in video art exhibition “SUPER 8 Part2″ on 2nd and 15n September at KÜNSTLERHAUS BETHANIEN. Exhibition: 17.08. – 16.09.2012 Tue – Sun: 2 – 7pm Admission free For more info, please look the following link. http://www.bethanien.de/en/exhibitions/super-8-part-2/
Artist	Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : Yokohama Triennale 2011 Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will participate in Yokohama Triennale 2011. Yokohama Triennale 2011 Dates: Sat, Aug 6th – Sun, Nov 6th 2011 Venue : Yokohama Museum of Art / NYK Waterfront Warehouse (BankART Studio NYK), Kanagawa
Artist	Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : a new book "Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi　WORKS 2007-2011" Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi has published a new book. Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi　WORKS 2007-2011 128×144mm（case size 187×200×25mm） color text／ 96P hardcover with a case and a magnifying glass Price : ¥4095 (tax included) Design : Yoshihisa Tanaka Publication : Takuro Someya Contemporary Art Sold : Takuro Someya Contemporary Art ISBN 978-4-9905988-00-8 For more information, please contact our gallery. gallery@tsca.jp
Gallery	Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "The Four Souvenirs and The Book" TSCA NEW EXHIBITION Mai Yamashita / Born in 1976 in Chiba, Japan, PhD Tokyo University of The Arts Naoto Kobayashi / Born in 1974 in Chiba, Japan, M.A. Tokyo University of The Arts Yamashita and Kobayashi met at high school and started working together in 2000. Since moving to Germany in 2004, they have been working and living in Berlin and have traveled the world working on their projects. They have had solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Gottingen (Germany, 2011) and Kunsthalle Lingen (Germany, 2007) among others. Group shows include ARS06 at The Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA (Helsinki, 2006); Re-imagining Asia at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2008); Things That Only An Artist Can Do at MARCO- Museo de Arte Contemporanea (Vigo, Spain, 2010); Aichi Triennale 2010; and Yokohama Triennale 2011. Meandering thoughts and memories form a sort of consciousness that, through the artists’ simple actions, refreshes our own thoughts as real potential. “Major League Birdwatching” is a new piece based on stereotypical images of America and the contrasting reality found through their daily life experiences. Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi The Four Souvenirs and The Book August 6 (Sat) – September 17 (Sat), 2011 Opening reception for the artists : Saturday, 6th August, 6-8PM
Gallery	Gallery Collection Gallery Collection We proudly present our current ongoing exhibit, a group show featuring several representing artists. The show features works from each artist’s most memorable series, ranging from the delicate to the dynamic, and includes pieces on display in Japan for the first time, rare works, and pieces that were requested by many to be included in the show. We invite you to come experience the diverse terrain of this exciting exhibit. Gallery Collection May 7 (Sat) – May 21 (Sat), 2011 Ryuta Iida, Naoki Honjo, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi and Nerhol
Artist	Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi："Adventure, Courage, Love and Friendship" kunstvereingoettingen Solo Exhibition There will be solo exhibition of Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi at kunstvereingoettingen in Germany. Please visit the floor if you have chance to go to there. “Adventure, Courage, Love and Friendship” date : Feb 27 – Apr 17, 2011 venue : kunstvereingoettingen
Gallery	Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : ART STAGE SINGAPORE Takuro Someya Contemporary Art will participate in ART STAGE SINGAPORE 2011. We look forward to see you there. ART STAGE SINGAPORE Jan 12 (Wed) – Jan 16 (Sun), 2011 Venue : MARINA BAY SANDS artist : Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi Booth no. E9-01

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi: "Journey" (Chiba City Museum of Art)

From July 14 to September 9, the artist duo Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will be participating in Chiba City Museum of Art’s exhibition titled Journey.

In line with the exhibit’s theme, Yamashita and Kobayashi will be showcasing their video work “Rubbing a Camel”: a video installation in which a bronze statue of a camel is repeatedly rubbed for five months as they travel through Egypt, Spain, Switzerland, and Germany.

In addition, on August 11 (Sat), the artist duo will conduct a workshop which corresponds with the national holiday Mountain Day.

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Journey

Venue: Chiba City Museum of Art

Period: July 14 (Sat)-September 9 (Sunday)

Hours: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (Open until 8 p.m. on Fridays & Saturdays)

Closed: August 6 (Mon), September 3 (Friday)

Admission Fee: Adults ¥200; University Students ¥150; With a certification of disability, admission is free along with an accompanying caregiver.

Exhibition Website: http://www.ccma-net.jp/english/index.html

(Japanese) 山下麻衣＋小林直人：Web版美術手帖にて服部浩之氏によるレビュー掲載

(Japanese)

インディペンデントキュレーターの服部浩之氏による山下麻衣＋小林直人個展「自然観察」（2018年5月12日〜6月23日）のレビューがWeb版美術手帖に掲載されました。

山下麻衣＋小林直人「自然観察」展　観察という態度について

bijutsutecho.com/insight/17139/

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi: "New Japan”（Solyanka State Gallery）

The artist duo Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi is currently participating in a group exhibition at Moscow’s Solyanka State Gallery. The exhibition titled New Japan will be held from Friday, April 27 through Thursday, June 21, 2018.
　
There, Yamashita and Kobayashi will showcase three video pieces: infinity, 1000Waves, and telepathy.
　
If you happen to be in Moscow, we hope you’ll visit this multimedia group exhibition by contemporary Japanese artists.
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New Japan

Venue: Solyanka State Gallery

Exhibition period: 2018.4.27 (Fri) – 6.21 (Thur)

Artists: Haruyuki Ishii, Takashi Makino, Soichiro Mihara, Yuko Mohri, Ryo Orikasa, Aki Sasamoto, Akihiko Taniguchi, Sayaki Sayaka Shimada, Sayata Shimada, Lyota Yagi, Jinichi Yamaoka, Yasuaki Onishi, Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi, exonemo and SHIMURAbros.

Website：http://new.solyanka.org

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi｜Nature Observation+ Naoto Kobayashi："Nature Observation"

(Japanese)

この度、Takuro Someya Contemporary Artでは2018年5月12日（土）〜6月23日（土）まで、山下麻衣＋小林直人の個展「自然観察」を開催することが決定いたしました。

山下＋小林にとってTSCAでは2011年の「The Four Souvenirs and The Book」以来、約7年ぶりの個展開催となります。
　
※2018年1-2月版『GUIDE』には本展会期を1月27日（土）〜3月3日（土）と記載されておりますが、正しい会期は上記の通りです。訂正してお詫び申し上げます。

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【展覧会概要】

山下麻衣＋小林直人個展「自然観察」
会　期：2018年5月12日（土）〜6月23日（土）
　
開廊：火曜 – 土曜 12:00 – 19:00（休廊日曜・月曜・祝日）
　
〒106-0047 東京都港区南麻布 3-9-11 パインコーストハイツ 1F
TEL 03-6804-3018 ｜FAX 03-4578-0318 ｜E-MAIL: gallery@tsca.jp

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Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : Current News

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi participate in the artist-in-residence at quartier21, MuseumsQuartier Wien (Vienna)

For more information, please visit the websites.
MuseumsQuartier Wien
quartier21

Period : March – April, 2014
Solo show : March 27 (Thu) – Aprl 24 (Thu) at Asifakeil (quartier21)

“A Dog And Wooden Sculptures”
Date: March 28 (Fri) – Apr 24 (Thu), 2014
Venue: Asifakeil (quartier21)
Time: 10:00 – 22:00
Opening: Thursday 27 March, 19:00

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Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "tireless workers" insitu, Berlin

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will participate in a group exhibition “tireless workers″ in Berlin.
http://insitu-berlin.com/

“tireless workers”
Dates: 14.11. – 18.01.2013
Venue: insitu, Berlin
Artists: Francis Alÿs, David Brognon & Stéphanie Rollin, Moritz Frei, Isabelle Giovacchini, Klara Hobza, Letizia Romanini, Takahiro Suzuki, Guido van der Werwe, Mai Yamashita & Naoto Kobayashi

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Masaru Iwai, Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "Now Japan" Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort, Netherlands

Masaru Iwai and Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi will participate in a group exhibition in Netherlands.
For more information, please visit the website.

“Now Japan”
Dates: 21 September, 2013 – 2 February, 2014
Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort, Netherlands
http://www.kunsthalkade.nl/tentoonstelling.php?item=2047

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Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "Victory Obessed" Zamek, Poland

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will participate in a group exhibition “Victory Obessed″ from 7th September to 10th October at Zamek Culture Center.

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi
“Victory Obessed”
Dates: 07.09. – 10.10.2013
Venue: Zamek Culture Center, Poland
For more info, please visit the following link.
http://www.zamek.poznan.pl/news,en,153,2390.html

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Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "Why not live for Art? Ⅱ" Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will participate in a group show in this summer at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery.

“Why not live for Art? Ⅱ”
Dates: July 13 (Sat) – September 23 (Mon), 2013
Venue: Gallery1&2, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
http://www.operacity.jp/ag/exh154/index_e.html

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Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "Super8" MAM, Rio

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi’s “Dogsled” will be screened on April 26 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

“Super8″
Date: April 26 – June 2, 2013
Venue: Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
For more information
http://mamrio.org.br/exposicoes/super-8/

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Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "WORKS ON PAPER" DAIKANYAMA T-SITE, Tokyo

A exhibition by Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will be held at DAIKANYAMA T-SITE in Tokyo.For more information, please visit the following website.
http://tsite.jp/daikanyama/event/001573.html

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi
“WORKS ON PAPER”
Dates: February 19 – March 3, 2013
Venue: DAIKANYAMA T-SITE 1F Book Floor

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Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "Kashiwa City Jack -Asia Pacific Contemporary Media Arts from Daisuke Miyatsu Collection-" Art Line Kashiwa 2012

“Candy” by Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will be shown on 3 and 4 November at Art Line Kashiwa 2012 “Kashiwa City Jack” program in Japan.

Art Line Kashiwa 2012
“Kashiwa City Jack” -Asia Pacific Contemporary Media Arts from Daisuke Miyatsu Collection-
Dates: 27.10. – 04.11.2012
Venue: Kashiwa city, Chiba, Japan
Direction: Daisuke Miyatsu
For more info, please look the following link.
Art Line Kashiwa
Kashiwa City Jack

Artist

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "MEDIATED VISIONS" Galerie Wedding

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi are now participating in a group exhibition “MEDIATED VISIONS″ on 29 September to 10 November at Galerie Wedding in Berlin.They present two video pieces, “infinity” is their early masterpiece and “Unfortunately, impossible” which have had a few presentation opportunity ever so is a precious work.

Dates: 29.09. – 10.11.2012
Venue: Galerie Wedding
Artists: Costantino Ciervo, Johann Büsen, Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi
For more info, please look the following link.
Galerie Wedding

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Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "SUPER 8 Part2" KÜNSTLERHAUS BETHANIEN

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will participate in video art exhibition “SUPER 8 Part2″ on 2nd and 15n September at KÜNSTLERHAUS BETHANIEN. Exhibition: 17.08. – 16.09.2012 Tue – Sun: 2 – 7pm Admission free For more info, please look the following link. http://www.bethanien.de/en/exhibitions/super-8-part-2/

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Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : Yokohama Triennale 2011

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will participate in Yokohama Triennale 2011.

Yokohama Triennale 2011
Dates: Sat, Aug 6th – Sun, Nov 6th 2011
Venue : Yokohama Museum of Art / NYK Waterfront Warehouse (BankART Studio NYK), Kanagawa

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Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : a new book "Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi　WORKS 2007-2011"

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi has published a new book.

Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi　WORKS 2007-2011
128×144mm（case size 187×200×25mm）
color text／ 96P
hardcover
with a case and a magnifying glass
Price : ¥4095 (tax included)
Design : Yoshihisa Tanaka
Publication : Takuro Someya Contemporary Art
Sold : Takuro Someya Contemporary Art
ISBN 978-4-9905988-00-8

For more information, please contact our gallery.

gallery@tsca.jp

Gallery

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "The Four Souvenirs and The Book" TSCA

NEW EXHIBITION

Mai Yamashita / Born in 1976 in Chiba, Japan, PhD Tokyo University of The Arts

Naoto Kobayashi / Born in 1974 in Chiba, Japan, M.A. Tokyo University of The Arts

Yamashita and Kobayashi met at high school and started working together in 2000. Since moving to Germany in 2004, they have been working and living in Berlin and have traveled the world working on their projects. They have had solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Gottingen (Germany, 2011) and Kunsthalle Lingen (Germany, 2007) among others. Group shows include ARS06 at The Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA (Helsinki, 2006); Re-imagining Asia at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2008); Things That Only An Artist Can Do at MARCO- Museo de Arte Contemporanea (Vigo, Spain, 2010); Aichi Triennale 2010; and Yokohama Triennale 2011.

Meandering thoughts and memories form a sort of consciousness that, through the artists’ simple actions, refreshes our own thoughts as real potential. “Major League Birdwatching” is a new piece based on stereotypical images of America and the contrasting reality found through their daily life experiences.

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi

The Four Souvenirs and The Book

August 6 (Sat) – September 17 (Sat), 2011

Opening reception for the artists : Saturday, 6th August, 6-8PM

Gallery

Gallery Collection

Gallery Collection

We proudly present our current ongoing exhibit, a group show featuring several representing artists. The show features works from each artist’s most memorable series, ranging from the delicate to the dynamic, and includes pieces on display in Japan for the first time, rare works, and pieces that were requested by many to be included in the show. We invite you to come experience the diverse terrain of this exciting exhibit.

Gallery Collection May 7 (Sat) – May 21 (Sat), 2011 Ryuta Iida, Naoki Honjo, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi and Nerhol

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Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi："Adventure, Courage, Love and Friendship" kunstvereingoettingen

Solo Exhibition

There will be solo exhibition of Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi
at kunstvereingoettingen in Germany.

Please visit the floor if you have chance to go to there.

“Adventure, Courage, Love and Friendship”

date : Feb 27 – Apr 17, 2011

venue : kunstvereingoettingen

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Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : ART STAGE SINGAPORE

Takuro Someya Contemporary Art will participate in ART STAGE SINGAPORE 2011.

We look forward to see you there.

ART STAGE SINGAPORE
Jan 12 (Wed) – Jan 16 (Sun), 2011
Venue : MARINA BAY SANDS
artist : Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi
Booth no. E9-01