Ken + Julia Yonetani 米谷健＋ジュリア

Ken + Julia Yonetani: To Be Human

By julia | July 4, 2022July 5, 2022 by julia

Solo exhibition at QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia Dates 5 July 2022 – 23 October 2022 To be human, so audacious it bears ill omen. —Taguchi Randy To Be Human is the first major survey exhibition of Australian-Japanese artist duo Ken + Julia Yonetani. Working together since 2008, the artists have built a collaborative practice that unearths and visualises hidden connections between people and their environment. Responding to environmental degradation and global economic systems, their work…

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Eco-Urgency Exhibition

By julia | December 9, 2021December 9, 2021 by julia

Ken + Julia Yonetani will participate in the exhibition “ECO-URGENCY / Now or Never” at Lehman College Art Gallery. Ken + Julia’s “Three Wishes” will be shown at the exhibition. <Date> Tuesday, 7th December 2021–Saturday, 23rd April 2022<Opening time> Tuesday–Thursday, 10:00–16:00<Venue> Lehman College Art Gallery(250 Bedford Park Blvd West, Fine Arts Building, Bronx, NY 10468)

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Times Art Museum Beijing

By julia | May 15, 2021May 15, 2021 by julia

We are showing our work Grape Chandelier and Urns with Grapes at a group show at Times Art Museum, Beijing. The show is titled “At the Moment”

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Tokyo Weekender

By julia | April 28, 2021April 28, 2021 by julia

Our exhibition at Kadokawa Culture Museum included as one of ten exhibitions to see in and around Tokyo. See link here

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Survey Show at the new Kadokawa Culture Museum, Japan

By julia | October 8, 2020May 15, 2021 by julia

We are pleased to announce that our first large survey show in Japan “Ken + Julia Yonetani: That is why I want to be saved” will be held at the new Kadokawa Culture Museum. This unique art museum was designed by Kengo Kuma one of the world renowned architects and will be ground opened with our show on 6th November 2020 at Kadokawa Culture Museum in Saitama, Japan.

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Asia Society Triennial NYC

By julia | October 8, 2020February 4, 2021 by julia

We are exhibiting our work “Three Wishes” in the Asia Society Triennial “We Do Not Dream Alone” NYC which will be opened on 27th October 2020 in the New York City. Over 40 individuals from 19 countries are set to participate.

books and reviews Exhibition Mizuma Art

New Japanese/English Monograph “Dysbiotica”

By julia | September 7, 2020February 4, 2021 by julia

Our monograph is now for sale at Mizuma Art Gallery here

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Exhibition at Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo “Dysbiotica: The Age of Imbalance”

By julia | September 7, 2020February 4, 2021 by julia

Ken + Julia Yonetani have been creating works inspired by environmental destruction and issues related to the global economic system. They say that their motivation comes from their own anxiety: catastrophe being their self-proclaimed “shtick.” This time around, they turn their attention to the world of microorganisms. Through farming, in the last several years Ken + Julia have held a strong interest in the microbes that lurk under the ground in soils, and came to…

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Exhibit in LA Craft Contemporary

By julia | September 24, 2019February 4, 2021 by julia

“RAW: Craft, Commodity, and Capitalism” We are showing our work Grape Chandelier in this really interesting exhibition at Craft Contemporary. Exhibition and Artist Statement below… RAW features nine contemporary artists who work with a range of commodities as artistic material to explore the historical and contemporary effects of global capitalism. Their deliberate use of these materials acknowledges the complex and enduring legacy of capitalistic structures, such as slavery, colonialism, and industrialization, and their human and environmental…

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Little Boy’s Luminous Legacies

By julia | May 16, 2019February 4, 2021 by julia

Our work The Three Wishes is currently showing in this exhibition at Lothringer13 in Munich, Germany. Benten Clay / Michael Danner / David Fathi / Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani / Cornelia Hesse-Honegger / Henrik Plenge Jakobsen / Soichiro Mihara / Pieter Laurens Mol / Volker Sattel & Stefan Stefanescu / Kota Takeuchi / Peter Tillessen / Robert Voit / Jane & Louise Wilson / Ken & Julia Yonetani / Anne Zeitz & David Boureau “The…