Shinjuku Ruten Art Festival

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

Wine Rice Co., Ltd.

subsidy category

Life with Art Subsidy

Grant Type

single year

FY 2021 Life with Art Grant (newly established in FY 2021)

MATSUDA Masahide The Laughing Man Club (2022) Photo by Takehisa Naoki

Naoki Takehisa 2019_08_01_0007 (2022)

Shota Torii [17] (2021)

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Business Overview

Encounters based on desire day and night unfold in Shinjuku, where vague fantasies continue to wander. Even now, the ghost of "before" is blinking. In this exhibition, we express the city of Shinjuku and its ephemera and transience by circulating the solo exhibitions of three artists who are active in different fields in two venues, Shinjuku and Yoyogi. The participating writers are Naoki Takehisa, Shota Torii and Masahide Matsuda. Director Kurotaki Kiyoshi (Decameron) and curators Kazama Miki (TOKYO culture research) and Yoshidayama (FLTA SH/FLOATING ALPS LLC) serve as directors.

implementation period

April 29, 2022 - June 22 (Wed)

Place of implementation

Decameron (1 -12-4 Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo), TOH (1 B Daiichi Silver Bldg., 5-20-11 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)

Profile

Director Kurotaki Kiyoshi
Born in 1986. Artist, curator and director of Decameron, an art space in Kabukicho, Shinjuku. His past major exhibitions include (Tokyo University of the Arts Exhibition Hall, Tokyo, 2019) and (Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2018). His main curation and direction of exhibitions include (Decameron, Tokyo, 2022), "I understand the language, but I can't make myself understood." (Decameron, Tokyo, 2021), and (Decameron, Tokyo, 2020). He serves as a director in this project.