Exhibition – Page 2 – Ken + Julia Yonetani 米谷健＋ジュリア

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…

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Mori Art Museum Tokyo

By julia | December 20, 2018January 24, 2019 by julia

MAM COLLECTION 009: KEN + JULIA YONETANI What the Birds Knew 2019.2.9(Sat) – 5.26(Sun) Curated by: Kondo Kenichi (Curator, Mori Art Museum) Further information: Please visit to Museum’s website →Click here Artist Talk: “In Their Own Words” →Click here for further information 2019.2.10 (Sun) 17:00-18:30 Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available “MAM Collection 009” will present What the Birds Knew (2012), a sculpture in the form of a glowing green ant made using uranium glass and…

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Biennale of Australian Art

By julia | August 23, 2018 by julia

Our new site specific installation Golden Pyramid is exhibited in BOAA (The Biennale of Australian Art). “The Victoria Gold Trophy” was a central feature of the London International Exhibition of 1862, representing the volume of gold imported to London from Victoria during the gold rush years of 1851-61, over 800 tons. The “Golden Pyramid” recreates this in a pyramid form, made from approx. 3000 meters of 24carat gold thread. Gold and pyramids historically have great…

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Art/Science Collaboration

By julia | May 16, 2018May 16, 2018 by julia

Video on Welcome to the Anthropocene, featuring our collaboration with Dr. Julia Blanchard from the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania. Curated by Kira Ascroff and Video by Ninna Millikin

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The Armory Show 2018, New York

By julia | February 28, 2018 by julia

The Armory Show 2018 | New York 8 – 11 March 2018 Piers 92 & 94, 711 12th Avenue at 55th Street, New York City, U.S.A Booth 731 Mizuma Gallery is taking part in the upcoming The Armory Show 2018, from 8 to 11 March 2018. Visit our gallery at Booth 731. Presenting artworks by: Ken + Julia Yonetani Visitor’s Information   Venue: Piers 92 & 94, 711 12th Avenue at 55th Street, New York City,…

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Malmö Art Museum, Sweden

By julia | February 28, 2018 by julia

Perpetual Uncertainty – art and radioactivity Malmö Art Museum, Sweden February 24th – August 26th 2018 Opening February 23rd Perpetual Uncertainty brings together artists from Europe, Japan and the USA to investigate questions of nuclear technology, radiation and the transmission of knowledge over deep time futures. Artists: James Acord, Shuji Akagi, Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway, Erich Berger and Mari Keto, Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, Don’t Follow the Wind, Finger Pointing Worker, Dave Griffiths,…

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Upcoming New York Residency at ISCP

By julia | October 16, 2017October 16, 2017 by julia

We are looking forward to our upcoming residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program, NYC, from January 2018, funded by the Australia Council for the Arts.

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Art and Science collaboration with IMAS Tasmania Australia

By julia | October 16, 2017December 12, 2017 by julia

We are very excited to be working on a new work for the Welcome to the Anthroposcene Project in Hobart, Tasmania. This is an art-science collaboration and we are working with Ecology and Fisheries professor Julia Blanchard on this project, which focuses on food webs and marine ecology in the face of ecosystem crises. This exhibition will be opened until 9th February 2018 at IMAS Hobart, 20 Castray Esplanade, Battery Point, Tasmania, Australia. Title of work:…