Statement
The landscapes around us are filled with beautiful colours and shapes that stimulate our senses. The objects that I have collected and gathered from various familiar everyday landscapes range from being similar in appearance, discovered by chance, slightly tarnished, clashing, or indescribable. It is not just the shapes and colours of these things that fascinate me, but associated words, smells, and sounds as well.
Initially, I collected them simply because I was drawn to their shapes and colours. But as I analysed my collection, I found that a lot of them represent cookie-cutter human ideals or events. I take these symbolic objects and combine them with other shapes, wood, and clay to create landscapes that exist everywhere and nowhere.
CV
Asami TOGAWA
1985 Born in Chiba, Japan
2012.5-2020.9 lived in Berlin, Germany
2020.9- lives in Chiba, Japan
＜EDUCATION＞
2011.3 MA Fine Art (Sculpture), Musashino Art University / Tokyo, Japan
2009.3 BA Fine Art (Sculpture), Musashino Art University / Tokyo, Japan
＜SOLO EXHIBITIONS＞
2022.11 "To the forest -Hibernation-" Galleri Konstepidemin, Gothenburg
2022.3 "Tilescapes" Pottari, Tokyo
2019.3 “Hauslandschaft” UNIVERSO, Berlin
2016.10 “Shopping” Café Galerie Kohi, Berlin
2014.5 “EXPERIENCE IN RESIDENCE #1” CCI FABRICA, Moscow
2012.4 “Park” GALLERY45-8, Tokyo
2010.7 “certain scenes” SPIEL ART, Tokyo
2009.8 “collect the view” shop&gallery Horta, Tokyo
2007.9 “togawa exhibition” Tama Art University GALLERY SPACE 1/3, Tokyo
＜SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS＞
2022.3 "人間の家はソフトなまち/The Home of [Hu]Man is a Soft Town" (collaborated with Studio GROSS), Tokyo
2022.3 "KUGURU" #2, Ichikawa city, Chiba
2021.3 "KUGURU" #1, Ichikawa city, Chiba
2013.7 “Kunst am Spreeknie-Schöneweide Art Festival” , Atelieretage G59, Berlin
2013.4 “DIE KUNST INTERVENTION Ⅱ” , ratskeller Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
2013.3 “G59 offense Ateliers + gruppenaustellung” , gebäude im rahmen des atelierprogramms der Kulturverwaltungdes Landes berlin, Berlin
2011.2 “Joint Graduation Exhibition of 5 Art Universities” , The National Art Center, Tokyo
2011.1 “Musashino Art University Degree Show” , Musashino Art University, Tokyo
2010.9 “Open Call for Art Project Ideas Exhibition for Selected Works” , Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
2009.11 “Art Program Ome 2009 7th” , Tokyo
2009.10 “A Beautiful Misunderstanding” , Musashino Art University, Tokyo
2009.4 “tv asahi umu in WWWr9 Official Event - Art news week - ” , Tokyo
2009.3 “Art site IWAMURO 2009” , Niigata
2009.2 “Joint Graduation Exhibition of 5 Art Universities 2008” , The National Art Center, Tokyo
2009.1 “Musashino Art University Degree Show 2008” , Musashino Art University, Tokyo
2007.11 “KODAIRA Art Site ‘07” , Tokyo2007.8 “KOSHIKI Art Project” , Kagoshima
＜RESIDENCIES＞
2022.5-2022.9 Konstepidemin, Gothenburg (Sweden)
2014.5 CCI FABRIKA, Moscow (Russia)
2012.8 Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin (Germany)
＜PROJECTS＞
2021.12 "Playground" (Project concept) Kamedo Art Center, Tokyo
2021.11 "人間の家はソフトなまち/The Home of [Hu]Man is a Soft Town" (collaborated with Studio GROSS)
＜ART BOOK FAIR, EVENTS＞
2022.11 TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2022, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
2021.10 TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2021, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
2020.11 VIRTUAL ART BOOK FAIR (https://2020.virtualartbookfair.com/exhibitors/373)
2019.11 Onnshinn aus Berlin Zine Vorstellung #1, Polylogue, Leipzig
2020.10 Onnshinn Reading Event #2, Online
2011.6 art-ZINE: Booklet - type Art Communication, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
＜PRIZES, GRANTS＞
2022.5 Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation / Grant
2021.11 The 48th Nisshinkogyo Architectural Design Competition, Merit Prize (collaborated with Studio GROSS)
2019.4-2020.8 studio grant, cultural senate of Berlin
2011.1 Musashino Art University 80th Anniversary Master's Course Encouragement Scholarship
2010.9 “Open Call for Art Project Ideas 2010” Special jury's award (Yasumasa Morimura award) The Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art