YAMADA Kenji

YAMADA, Kenji born in 1983 in Tokyo, Japan. Yamada is an artist whose approach edits ruins and rituals, documentary footage and materials, in order to capture the ways of modern society as our conceptually new experiences. His experiments in "how the facts of the ancient function in the present" are informed by the conceptual breakthroughs and new elds of modern society. His approach is coacted by his participation in local groups such as research installations and documentary film crews, which provided direction to the key to their activities, and the results of this participation are still being released in his experimental projects today.

At the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Yamada has organized the project that he will be running a what is called a "yukimuro", a kind of ancient traditional refrigerator used long ago in the mountainous regions, as an ice hotel, a facility that allows customers to stay as if they were food or hibernating, surrounded by massive piles of snow. At London's Crypt Gallery, he has exhibited that documentary footage of the "sky burial" ritual in Tibet, where the esh of the deceased is given up to the birds, will be played in reverse, so that seems as if the beaks of birds combine to form a human body.

He currently lives and works in Tokyo and London.

Slected CV

-Exhibition/Projects

2011-

• BSIM The BEPPU Subterranean Innards Museum, platform02, Beppu, Japan

Nov.5 - Nov.30, 2011 (solo show)

• Immediate Issue, Medamothi, Lausanne, Switzerland

Sep.4 - Dec.4, 2011 (group show)

• Trajector Art Fair,Hotel BLOOM!, Brussels, Belgium

Apr.30 - May.1, 2011 (group show)

• Arts Action 3331,3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

Apr.3, 2011 (group show)

• RE:DISCOVERING AKIYOSHIDAI,The Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan

Sleeping by Hibernation
Mar.5 -.16, 2011 (group show)

2010-

•Shiwaku_HONJIMA~Cultivate the fields , And arts~,HONJIMA, Kagawa, Japan

Sakutei-Kuketsu
Oct.10 - Nov.28, 2010 (group show)

• 3331 seacret auction,3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

Untitled(piece of “Booking Void Inn MATSUNOYAMA”)
Jun.26 - Aug.29, 2010 (group show)

2009-

• Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009,Mt. Amamizu, Niigata, Japan

Booking Void Inn MATSUNOYAMA

37° 2'23.53"N, 138°33'50.57"E
Jul.7 - Sept.15, 2009 (group show)

• RAIR#1, WDW63／Rotterdam Netherlands

Booking Void Inn AKIYAMAGOU Photo Archives

Feb. 5 - 20, 2009 (group show)

• Frozen Murmur, Stiching Kaus Australis, Netherlands
Frozen Murmur
Jan. 19 -25, 2009(solo show)

2008-

• Untitled, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Nov. 20 - Dec.25, 2008(solo project)

•Project the Projectors 2008, BankART NYK, YOKOHAMA

Booking Void Inn AKIYAMAGOU documentation
Jan. 19 - 27, 2008(group show)

2007-

• Booking Void Inn AKIYAMAGOU, Mt. Torikabuto, Nagano, Japan

37°2' 23.21"N, 180°33' 49.63"E
Jun. 16 - Aug. 27, 2007(solo project)

• Earth Work International 2007, Hillside Plaza／Tokyo
Another Booking Double Negative
Mar. 13 - 25, 2007(group show)

2006-

• Art path 2006, Ibaraki, Japan
Overtitled
Dec. 8 - 10, 2006(group show)

2003-

• Booking Void Inn, Mt. Amamizu, Niigata, Japan

37° 2'23.53"N, 138°33'50.57"E
Jun. 19 - Aug. 14, 2003(solo project)

2002-

• Untitled, Nechi, Niigata, Japan
36°58'16.33"N, 137°53'7.06"E
Jan. 3 - 31, 2002(solo project)

2001-

• Snow-road, Oumi-city, Niigata, Japan
37° 2'2.41"N, 137°49'24.50"E
Nov. 16 - Dec. 7, 2001(solo project)

-Award

• BEPPU ART AWARD 2011, BEPPU PROJECT, Beppu, Japan, 2011

• trans2010-2011 AIR, The Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi pref, Japan, 2010

• The Asahi Shimbun Foundation / Grants for artistic activities, Tokyo, Japan, 2010

• Stiching Kaus Australis AIR, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2009

• The Nomura Cultural Foundation / Grants for artistic activities, Tokyo, Japan, 2008

• KAWAMATA Prize, Yokohama, Japan, 2008

-Education

attended Tokyo University of the Arts from 2003 to 2007