Ryoichi Kurokawa
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Ryoichi Kurokawa | b. 1978 in Osaka (JP). Lives and works in Berlin. Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa is a true poet of transformative cinema, lyrically transfiguring analog representations of perceived nature into digital streams of vertiginous imagery & emotion. The architecturally crafted precision of his sensitively synched fragmentary images placed side by side on our retina, tends to displace the persistence of blurred memory under the effect of boundless luminosity. Audio and visual concordance is key in Kurokawa’s works. He considers both the audio and visual element as different vectors of a unique piece and insists that they have to flow together to enter a collision at the same time. As can be viewed from his works, Kurokawa states that nature is his principal source of inspiration. All of his works lie in this notion of hybridization. Between analog and digital, but also between time and space, the full and the fragmentary, the simple and the complex, the reactive and the contemplative, the auditory and visual. Whether the recordings of waterfalls obliterate into white noise while simultaneously forming an almost spiritual and reverential stillness around the viewer, or whether field recordings in combination with computer-generated structures like glitch minimalism coexist in harmony in an un-harmonious terrifying world of war and destruction: Ryoichi Kurokawa invents and presents an audiovisual language where complexity and simplicity alternate and combine in a fascinating synthesis. |
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Awards
2016 | Director, Kinetic Media Lab/ACT, ACC (Asia Cultural Center), Gwangju |
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2011-12 | Guset Professor/Invited Artist, Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing |
2010 | Golden Nica, Prix Ars Electronica, Digital Music & Sound Art category, Linz |
Solo Exhibitions
2022 | in s.asmbli, Sound Dome/Magyar Zene Háza, Budapest |
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2020 | Líthi, Kamu kanazawa, Kanazawa |
2019 | Special feature exhibition | Ryoichi Kurokawa, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
2018 | fluxes, K11, Wuhan al-jabr, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena objectum, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo unfold, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai |
2016 | A la llum de les idee, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona unfold, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool |
2015 | Ordered Disorder, Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Lima |
Group Exhibition
2022 | Future Shock, "re-assembli", 180 The Strand, London |
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2021-2022 | Group Show: 6 Artists, Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo |
2021 | Living Matter, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
2020 | attraper le JE / champs de JEU, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung |
2019 | Welcome! You Are Connected!, Suwon Ipark Museum of Art, Suwon Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo TSCA Collection | Foresights and Flow, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
2018 | Coder le monde, Centre Pompidou, Paris |
2017 | The Dream of Forms, Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
2016 | ACC_R, ACT/ACC (Asia Culture Center), Gwangju |
2015 | Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Festival Center, Adelaide |
2014 | BIAN, Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal |
2013 | Digitalife, Museum of Contemporary Arts of Rome Testaccio, Roma Elastic Reality, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijon |
2012 | Bozar Electronic Arts Festival, BOZAR (Palais des Beaux-Arts), Brussels Scopitone, e Liue Unique, Nantes Turbulences, Espace Culture Louis Vuitton, Paris Panorama, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing |
2011 | The 54th Venice Biennale, Arsenale Novissimo, Venice EXIT, Maison des Arts Créteil, Créteil |
2010 | ARS Electronica, Tabakfabrik, Linz Eye of the City, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei |
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2022 | New Rituals, "subassemblies", Barbican Centre, London |
2021 | L.E.V., "subassemblies", Teatro de la Laboral, Gijon Biennale Nemo, "subassemblies", Le CENTQUATRE, Paris |
2019 | MUTEK JP, "subassemblies", Line Cube Shibuya, Tokyo ARS Electronica, "subassemblies", Postcity, Linz |
2015 | ACT Festival, "syn_", ACT/ACC, Gwangju |
2014 | RCVM, "syn_", HARPA, Reykjavik |
2013 | NEMO, "syn_", Le CENTQUATRE, Paris MUTEK, "syn_", Metropolis, Montreal EMPAC, "syn_" EMPAC, Troy |
2012 | TodaysArt, "syn_","Lucent Danstheater, The Hague SonarSound Tokyo, "syn_", ageHa | Studio Coast, Tokyo |
2011 | YCAM | sound tectonics, "Rheo", YCAM, Yamaguchi |
2010 | Rencontres Internationales, "Rheo", REINA SOFIA National Museum, Madrid Lexus. Hybrid Art", "celeritas", Vetoshny, Moscow |
2009 | National Theater Concert Hall, Theatre piece "celeritas", National Theater Concert Hall, Taipei SONAR, "Parallel Head", Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona Transmediale/CTM, "Parallel Head", House of World Cultures, Berlin |
2008 | Sonic Acts, "Parallel Head", Paradiso, Amsterdam |
2007 | Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille", "cm: av_c", Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille synthesis, "cm: av_c", TATE MODERN, London |
2006 | ARS Electronica, "cm: av_c", Brucknerhaus, Linz MUTEK, "cm: av_c", Ex-Centris, Montreal |