Takehito Koganezawa

Takehito Koganezawa (b. 1974 Tokyo, Japan) is an artist who makes drawings, videos, installations and performances. His conceptual and experimental works, in which he brings various media into dialogue with one another, revolve around questions of the perception of time and space. They seek to make the flow of time tangible, to explore the void, to intentionally generate an absence of meaning, and open up new spaces for the imagination and aesthetic perception. “One on Two, Two from One” shows new acquisitions from the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, supplemented by further works by the artist and loans.

In his work Double Sisters/Divided Brothers (2022 – ), for example, abstract drawings are created where two pieces of paper overlap. A rotating video camera films this, while the focussed image areas are in constant motion, shifting, rotating and reconnecting. Another work entitled Why We Build (2016) is an installation consisting of several sculptures made of unfired clay, which are made to rotate in the video installation of the same name. When sculpture often was perceived s as something static, perhaps monumental; here it is  set in motion.

Takehito Koganezawa’s works have been shown in numerous solo and group shows as well as biennials and triennials around the world and are represented in important collections of global art. Koganezawa was invited by the project “Das Kollaborative Museum” to spend several weeks in Berlin. In a workshop with students from the kunsthochschule weißensee berlin, he will creat new works that will be shown alongside his works from the collection of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst as well as drawings and sculptures specially created for the exhibition.

Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1974, the artist Takehito Koganezawa lives and works in Hiroshima. He lived in Berlin from 1999 to 2016.

A temporary exhibition organised by the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss in cooperation with the Museum für Asiatische Kunst of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz. The exhibition is curated by Kerstin Pinther, curator for modern and contemporary art at the Museum für Asiatisce Kunst and the Ethnologisches Museum in collaboration with the artist.