Yoshinori Niwa

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Yoshinori Niwa
Born1982
Aichi, Japan
NationalityJapanese

Yoshinori Niwa (born in 1982, Aichi Prefecture, Japan) [1] is a Japanese artist currently based in Vienna, Austria, [2] his self-explanatory work as social interventions realised through diverse media including performance, video and installation. [3]

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Biography

He was born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan and graduated from Tama Art University department of moving image and performing arts in 2005. [4] His career started as a performance artist in early 2000, and he has been making documentary style videos internationally such as in Europe and Asia. In early 2010, he started a series project which re-exams the history of communism in Eastern Europe in Bucharest, Romania, [5] and he did a project in which he was looking for people who still had something Lenin-related in their apartments for the group show Double Vision: Contemporary Art From Japan at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in 2012. [6] The series works had exhibited at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo [7] and Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana and Edel Assanti, London. [8]

As his project Selling the Right to Name a Pile of Garbage, he was actually running an auction to sell the rights to temporarily rename a part of huge garbage Landfill in Novaliches, the Philippines in collaboration with local landfill operation company WACUMAN Inc. and a lawyer in 2015. As of December 25, 2014, the highest bidding price was 4,600 Filipino Peso. The result of this auction had shown at the Vargas Museum, Metro-manila. [9]

Works

Tossing Socialists in the Air in Romania, 2010 [10] Exchanging between Turkish Lira and Euros in Istanbul until there is nothing left, 2011 [11] Looking for Vladimir Lenin at Moscow Apartments, 2012 Selling the Right to Name a Pile of Garbage, 2014 Paying a Courtesy Call on the Incumbent Mayor by All His Predecessors in History, 2016

Exhibitions

Double Vision: Contemporary Art From Japan, The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2012 Aichi Triennale 2013 Roppongi Crossing 2013: OUT OF DOUBT, Mori Art Museum, 2013 Setouchi Triennale 2016

Publications

Historically Historic Historical History of Communism, Art-Phil, 2015 [12] Reenacting Publicness. The Interventionist Projects, My Book Service, 2014 [13]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Biography Yoshinori Niwa - 1335MABINI". 1335MABINI. 1335MABINI. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  3. ↑ "Yoshinori Niwa FutureGreat 2014, selected by Mami Kataoka". FutureGreat 2014. ArtReview. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  4. ↑ "Yoshinori Niwa". HIAP. Helsinki International Artist Programme. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  5. ↑ Davie, William. "Yoshinori Niwa: Historically Historic Historical History of Communism". This is tomorrow. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  6. ↑ Ferris, Emily. "Japanese Artist Looks for Lenin in Russian Homes". The Moscow Times. The Moscow Times. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  7. ↑ "Roppongi Crossing 2013: OUT OF DOUBT". Roppongi Crossing 2013: OUT OF DOUBT. Mori Art Museum. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  8. ↑ "Yoshinori Niwa: Historically Historic Historical History of Communism". Edel Assanti - Exhibition. Edel Assanti. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  9. ↑ "Japanese artist offers: Rename this QC dumpsite, help save the environment". GMA news online. GMA Network. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  10. ↑ Bird, Michael. "Identity Games". The Diplomat Bucharest. The Diplomat Bucharest. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  11. ↑ "Yoshinori Niwa performance and film acquired by the Kadist Art Foundation". Edel Assanti news. Edel Assanti. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  12. ↑ Historically Historic Historical History of Communism. ASIN   4905037026.
  13. ↑ "Yoshinori Niwa - Reenacting Publicness". Idea Books. Idea Books. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
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