New Japanese/English Monograph “Dysbiotica”
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”
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
“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
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
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
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
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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Armory Show Reviews
Our solo at Mizuma Gallery’s Booth in New York’s premier fair The Armory was in various features about the show. Click on each link to see the articles. Departures, “The 11 Must-See Works at This Weekend’s Armory Show” By Rachel Hurn on March 09, 2018 Philadelphia Style ART ADVENTURES: THE BEST AND MOST INSTAGRAMABLE OF THE ARMORY SHOW By Alexander Mason Hankin | March 8, 2018 | Lifestyle The Culture Trip “Highlights…
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The Armory Show 2018, New York
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
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,…