Selected Bibliography click to download
I Writings / Comments
[Book]
"Where our honesty leads us," When B-side become A-side, Daiwa Press co, ltd, Utrecht, 2009, pp. 92-97
The End of Summer: Koki Tanaka, Daiwa Press co, ltd, AKAAKA Art Publishing, Inc, 2008
[Exhibition Catalogues]
"Endlessness, our final position," Daiwa Press Vewing Room Vo.9, Daiwa Press, 2010, pp.152-153
"Approach to an old house," I have nothing to say and I am saying it, Platform seoul 2008, Samuso, 2009, pp. 208-211
"Artist Statement," Voyage Without Boundaries, Sea Art Festival, Busan Biennale 2008, The Busan Biennale Organizing Committee, 2008, pp. 140-141
"Maximal Manipulation, or Singing While Simultaneously Eating Soba and Udon Noodles," Peter Markli and Jun Aoki: Architectural Creation, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2008, pp. 130-135, tanaka_for_aoki.pdf,
Au Centre Pompidou, espace 315, Centre Pompidou, 2006, pp.68-69
all about all the nights, GALLERY CAPTION, 2004, pp.3,30
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003, Gendaikikakushitsu Publishers, 2004, p.60
Kumamoto International Art Exhibition: ATTITUDE 2002—One Truth in Your Heart, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, 2002, p.92
Screen Memories, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, 2002, p.52
SAP ART-ING Tokyo 2001: Space, Time, and Body Lived, vol.1, Saison Art Program, 2001, p.20
Naoyuki Takashima, Koki Tanaka, “Perruque=Underground Work,” Perruque=Underground Work, Gallery αM, 2001; Gallery αM ANNUAL 2001, GalleryαM, 2002, p.13
[Magazines & News Papers ]
interview, "Art Talk, Koki Tanaka," ARTCO, no.206, November, 2009, pp.164-168/chinese
talk, Yuki Kimura+Koki Tanaka, "Keeping it real with the complexities of the everyday," Art it, no.18,(winter/spring), 2008, pp.64-65, pp.80-83
interview, "Koki Tanaka," IW Magazine, no.59, 2008, pp.52-57
II Others
[Books]
Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Editions Cercle d'art, 2008, p.151, pp. 330-331
"Koki Tanaka, " Volume 1: From Yodeling to Quantum Physics..., Palais de Tokyo, Archibooks, 2008, p.196Midori
Gabriel Ritter, "From Endless to Everyday: The Video Work of Koki Tanaka," Jun Aoki, "Unexpected Things Happening As If Only Natural," Koki Tanaka Works 1997-2007, Akio Nagasawa Publishing Office, Tokyo, 2007, pp.10-13, pp.142-146, gabriel_ritter.pdf, jun_aoki.pdf
Midori Matsui, "Koki Tanaka," ICE CREAM, PHAIDON, 2007, midori_matsui.pdf
[Exhibition Catalogues]
Gavin Delahunty "thinking/ not thinking," Making is Thinking, Witte de With, 2011, pp. 58-64
"Koki Tanaka," Circus Hein / Imprint, Jeppe Hein, Studio, 2010, p.60
Midori Matsui "Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art, " The Japan foundation, 2009, p.
Kathryn Weir, "News from elsewhere: gesturing in another language," The view from elsewhere, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation and Queensland Art Gallery, 2009, p.20, p.34, p.92
"Insertions," Annual Report; A Year in Exhibitions, The 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Biennale Foundation, 2008, pp. 462-463
Fumihiko Sumitomo, "New Individualism," Kim Sunjung, "Koki Tanaka," Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan, 2007, p.18, pp. 69-71
Midori Matusi, "The Door into Summer," The Age of Micropop: New Generation of Japanese Artist, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Parco co., ltd, 2007, pp. 40-45, pp.57-59, pp.218-227
Mami Kataoka, "In Searching of Truth: Holes, Rubber Bands, Masks, Coyotes," Tamaki Saito, "Anonymous Irony, Formalistic Humor, " All about Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, 2007, p. 25, p. 39, pp.44-45, pp.51-52, pp.209-211
Yukie Kamiya, "Koki Tanaka," 2006 Taipei Biennial: Dirty Yoga, Taipei Fine Art Museum, 2006, p.192
Midori Matsui, "Regaining the plane of immanence: perceptual challenges of optical experience and flexible sculpture" Ecstasy, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2005, pp.174-175
Takayuki Hayashi, “Images on the Run,” Tatsuya Tanaka, “The World As It Is,” Tanaka Koki: Plastic Bags, Beer, Caviar to Pigeons, etc., The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, 2004, pp.5-14, pp.17-26
Satsuki Yamamoto, “From “all about all the nights” to “all about all the nights,”” all about all the nights, GALLERY CAPTION, 2004, pp.4-27
Tomoko Kuroiwa, “On fragmented absence,” Mediarena: contemporary art from Japan, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 2004, pp.27-31
Minoru Hatanaka, “The powers of the imagination at the crossing,” “Tanaka Koki,” Roppongi Crossing: New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art 2004, Mori Art Museum, 2004, pp.233-240, pp.249-252
Fumihiko Sumitomo, “Tanaka Koki,” Out the Window—Spaces of Distraction, The Japan Foundation Asia Center, 2004, p.37
Yuji Maeyama, “Location of the Spirit (Kokoro no Arika),” Kokoro no Arika, Location of the Spirit: Contemporary Japanese Art, The Japan Foundation, 2003, pp.6-12
Kazuhiro Yamamoto, “Tanaka Koki- Kunst ist lustig! (Art is merry!),” VOCA 2003: The Vision of Contemporary Art, The Ueno Royal Museum, 2003, p.108
Akiko Sakamoto, “How to get catharsis ?,” Kumamoto International Art Exhibition: ATTITUDE 2002—One Truth in Your Heart, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, 2002, p.97
Takayo Iida, “Screen Memories,” Screen Memories, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, 2002, pp.67-73
[Magazines, News Papers & Online]
Jessica Kraft, "Review: San Francisco, Koki Tanaka, Nothing related, but could be associated," Art Asia Pacific, Issue 72, March/April, 2011, p.136
Sharon Mizota, "Dog and Bus as an Artist's tools," Los Angeles Times (print), February 25, 2011, D18
Sharon Mizota, "Art review: Koki Tanaka at the box," Los Angeles Times(online), February 24, 2011(same article of above)
Catherine Taft, "Reviews, Koki Tanaka and Naotaka Hiro," ARTFORUM, February, 2011, p.237
Meredith Carty "Koki Tanaka's Playhouse," ARTslant(online), San Francisco, 11/10/2010, http://www.artslant.com/sf/articles/show/19909
Jonathan Curiel "The Merry Prankster ," SF Weekly, Volume 29, Number 39, October 20-26, 2010, p.30, http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-10-20/culture/koki-tanaka-s-prankster-video-art-pulls-you-in/
Glen Helfand "Critic's Pick: Koki Tanaka," ARTFORUM(online), 10/24/2010, http://www.artforum.com/ artforum.com : critics' picks.pdf
Doryun Chong "Observe, Ask, Suppose," Nothing Related, But Something Could be Associated(Brochure), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2010, YBCA_Brochure02.pdf
Julio Cesar Morales, "A note from the Curator," Nothing Related, But Something Could be Associated(Brochure), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2010, YBCA_Brochure01.pdf
James Donald "Whose Exhibition is This?," Frieze Magazine(online), 3/12/09, www.frieze.com/
Hu Fang "september 8," VISIONAIRE 2010, no.57, Visonarie Publishing LLC, 2009
"PPAPER Special Report Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Koki Tanaka," PPAPER, no.90, 2009, p.15(chinese)
Midori Matsui, "reviews, Koki Tanaka," ARTFORUM, summer no.10, 2009, pp. 359-360, for reading this article
Amarie Bergman, "Turning the lights on, Koki Tanaka," Whitehot Magazine of contemporary art, Vancouver, January, 2008, www.whitehotmagazine.com, amarie_bergman.pdf
Fumihiko Sumitomo, "Narrative-things of the Moving Image," Fun Palace, no.1, November, 2007pp. 61-64, sumitomo.pdf
Robin Laurence, "Koki Tanaka: Turing the lights on," The Georgia Straight, November 29-December 6, 2007, p76, robin_laurence.pdf
Midori Matsui, "Nothing Happens Suddenly," ARTFORUM, December, 2005, pp. 238-239
