Koki Tanaka’s art practice includes video, photography, site-specific installations, and interventional projects, in which he visualized and revealed the multiple contexts latent in the most simple of everyday acts. In his early object-oriented works, Tanaka experiments with ordinary objects to explore ways offering a possible escape from our everyday routine. Later in his works, Tanaka asked the participants to collectively navigate tasks that in and of themselves are out of the ordinary. He then documented behaviors that were unconsciously exhibited by people confronting unusual situations, seeking to reveal group dynamics in a micro-society and temporal community.
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Koki Tanaka
Born in Tochigi, Japan, 1975
Lives and works in Kyoto, Japan
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Studies and Residency Programs
2018 Cultural Envoy Program, the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan
2012 qwatz, Rome, Italy
2009-2012 Awarded the Fellowship of Overseas Study Programme for Artists by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japanese Government (recommended by Kazuhiro Yamamoto)
2007 Sommerakademie, at Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
2005-2006 Artist in Residence at Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris with supports of Pola Foundation and French government Scholarship
2005 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan(MFA)
2004 Artist in Residence at Location One, New York with a support of Asian Cultural Council (ACC) fellowship
2000 Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University, Japan(BFA)
1998 Studied at Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien, Austria, under exchange student program
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Awards
2015 Artist of the Year, Deutsche Bank
2013 Special Mention as National Participation(Japan Pavilion), the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Italy
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Film Festivals
Abstracted/Family: 70th Berlin International Film Festival 2020 (Wold Premiere)
Vulnerable Histories (A Road Movie): International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019 (Wold Premiere), Busan International Film Festival, 2019
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Solo Exhibitions
2023
Koki Tanaka, Kyoto Interchange, Kyoto
2020
Vulnerable Histories (A Road Movie), (Curator: Haeju Kim), Art Sonje Center, Seoul (cat.)
2019
A Poem Written by 5 Poets at Once (First Attempt), Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo
Precarious Tasks, Mirrored Garden/Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China
2018
Vulnerable Histories (A Road Movie), (Curator: Heike Munder), Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (cat.)
2017
Provisional Studies (Working Title), (Curator: Barbara Steiner), Kunsthaus Graz
Forms of time, the poiesis and the way – thinking from Koki Tanaka’s artworks and texts, (Curator: Kozuma Sekai), Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo
La Permanence, (Conceptualized with Melanie Bouteloup, Virginie Bobin), Villa Vassilieff, Paris
2016
“Poet and Potter,” (Curator: Karin Oen) Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
“Provisional Studies: Action #5 Conceiving the Past, Perceiving the Present”, (Curator: Emily Pethick) The Showroom, London (leaflet)
“Possibilities for being together. Their praxis.”, (Curator: Yuu Takehisa) Art Tower Mito, Japan
2015
“A Vulnerable Narrator, Deferred Rhythms”, MACRO, Rome, Italy
“A Vulnerable Narrator”, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
2014
“A Piano Played by Five Pianists at Once (First Attempt),” (Curator: Bernard Etienne), Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain, Brest, France
2013
“Abstract Speaking – Sharing Uncertainty and Collective Acts,” (Curator: Mika Kuraya), Japan Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Italy (cat.)
2012
“A Piano Played by Five Pianists at Once (First Attempt),” (Curator: Juli Carson), Room Gallery, University of California, Irvine, USA
2011
“In a place between snow balls and stones,” AOYAMA MEGURO, Tokyo
“Dog, Bus, Palm Tree,” The Box, Los Angeles, USA
2010
“Nothing Related, but Something could be Associated,” (Curator: Julio Cesar Morales) Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA (leaflet)
“Random Hours, Several Locations,” YYZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto, Canada
2009
“on a day to day basis,” Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China. (cat.)
“Simple Gesture and Temporary Sculpture, ” AOYAMA MEGURO, Tokyo
2008
“Here shows recent works in new installations, by the way.”(Curator: Tatsuya Tanaka) The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki
“The end of the summer: new paintings,” Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
2007
“Turning the Lights on,” (Curator: Makiko Hara), Centre A, Vancouver, Canada
“Sound Test, etc,” NADiff, Tokyo
“Everything is Everything,” Museum Studio, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan (leaflet)
“Past, Present, Future,” (Curator: Akemi Sakamoto), The Gallery of The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
“Setting up and Taking down,” (Curators: Marc-Olivier Wahler, Akiko Miki), Module, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2005
“Cause is Effect,” (3 solo shows at 3 different places) NADiff, Void+, AOYAMA MEGURO, Tokyo
“SAVE THE WORLD! @ MEGURO,” AOYAMA MEGURO, Tokyo
2004
“Kakusei in the air, RETURNS,” AOYAMA MEGURO, Tokyo
“Tanaka Koki: Plastic Bags, Beer, Caviar to Pigeons, etc.,” (Curator: Tatsuya Tanaka) The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki (cat.)
“Tanaka Koki: all about all the nights,” Gallery Caption, Gifu (cat.)
2002
“Kakusei in the air,” On Gallery, Osaka
“SAVE THE WORLD!,” Room, Gentilly, France
2001
“Perruque=Underground Work,” (Curator: Naoyuki Takashima) Gallery Alpha M, Tokyo (leaflet)
2000
“Koki Tanaka,” Nagamine Projects, Tokyo
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Selected Group Exhibitions and Events
2023
Before/After, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
2022
Ghost2565, (Curator: Christina Li) Ghost Foundation, Bangkok (Performance)
Where is the Planetary?, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (Event)
…and post-event study session, Theatre E9 Kyoto, Kyoto (Event)
2021
together for and against it, (Curator: Nana Tazuke-Steiniger) Museum Ludwig, Cologne
34th Bienal de São Paulo, (Chief Curator: Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Adjunct Curator: Paulo Miyada, Guest Curators: Carla Zaccagnini, Francesco Stocchi, and Ruth Estévez) Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
Diriyah Biennale: Feeling the Stones,(Director: Philip Tinari, curators; Wejdan Reda, Shixuan Luan, Neil Zhang), Diriyah Biennale Foundation, Saudi Arabia
Rule?, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo
2020
Anticorps [Antibodies], (Curators: Daria de Beauvais, Adélaïde Blanc, Cédric Fauq, Yoann Gourmel, Vittoria Matarrese, François Piron, Hugo Vitrani), Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Vento [Wind], (Chief Curator: Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Adjunct Curator: Paulo Miyada, Guest Curators: Carla Zaccagnini, Francesco Stocchi, and Ruth Estévez) Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
How to Survive – art as survival strategy, (Curator: Carina Plath) Sprengel Museum Hannover
2019
Every Step in the Right Direction, Singapore Biennale 2019, (Artistic Director: Patrick Flores, Curators: Andrea Fam, Renan Laru-an, Goh Sze Ying, Anca Verona Mihulet, Vipash Purichanont, John Tung), (cat.), Gillman Barracks and other sites (cat.)
Aomori Earth2019: Agrotopia –When Life Becomes Art Through Local Agriculture, (Curator: Takahiro Okuwaki), Aomori Museum of Art, Japan (cat.)
Taming Y/Our Passion – Aichi Triennale, (Artistic Director: Daisuke Tsuda, Curator: Chiaki Soma), Aichi Arts Center and other sites (cat.)
Jun Yang The Artist, the Work and the Exhibition, (Curator: Barbara Steiner), Kunsthaus Graz (cat.)
The D-Tale, Video Art from the Pearl River Delta, (Curators: Hou Hanru, Xi Bei), Times Art Center, Berlin
2018
Catastrophe and the Power of Art, (Curator: Kenichi Kondo), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (cat.)
WHITEuMENta, the 5th year of the White Man Film Festival, (Curator: James T. Hong), Taipei, Taiwan
Weather Report From Landscape via Earthworks to Neo-Cosmographia, (Curator: Kazuhiro Yamamoto), Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan
Dismantling The Scaffold, (Curator: Christina Li), Tai Kwun Contemporary
The Street. Where The World Is Made, (Curator: Hou Hanru), MAXXI_National Museum of XXI Century Art, Rome
2017
A Collective Present, (Curator: Christina Li), Spring Workshop, Hong Kong
Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, (Curator: Kasper König, Britta Peters, Marianne Wagner), Münster
57th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, VIVA ARTE VIVA, (Curator: Christine Macel), Venice
L’alternative, (Curator: Antoine Marchand), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
Action!, (Curator: Mirjam Varadinis), Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich
Propositions for Non-Fascist Living, “Propositions #1: What We Mean,” (Conceptualized by Maria Hlavajova and Matteo Lucchetti with Hidde van Greuningen, Wietske Maas, and Whitney Stark), BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
Reenacting History_Collective Actions and Everyday Gestures, (Curator: MyungJi Bae), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul
JAPANORAMA, (Curator: Yuko Hasegawa), Centre Pompidou Metz, France
2016
Liverpool Biennal 2016, (Curatorial Faculty: Sally Tallant, Dominic Willsdon, Francesco Manacorda, Raimundas Malasauskas, Joasia Krysa, Rosie Cooper, Polly Brannan, Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey, Ying Tan, Sandeep Parmar and Steven Cairns), Liverpool Biennal, UK (cat.)
“Tell Me a Story: Locality and Narrative,” (Curators: Amy Cheng, Hsieh Fong-Rong), Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
Ensemble sin órganos, (Curators: Blanca Victoria López and Victor Wang), Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana
“Trace of Existence,” (Curators: Philip Tinari and Guo Xi), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2015
“Nothing But Sounds,” (Curator: Arata Hasegawa), ARTZONE, Kyoto
“No Museum, No Life?,” National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo
“Mobile M+: Moving Images ,” (Curator: Yung Ma) M+, Midtown POP, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
“Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015,” (Artistic Director: Shinji Kohmoto), Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, others, Kyoto, Japan (cat.)
“Discordant Harmony: Critical Reflections on the Imagination of Asia,” (Curators: Chien-Hung Huang , Carol Yinghua Lu, Yukie Kamiya, Sunjung Kim), Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan.
2014
“Stolen Names,” Kyoto Art Center
“Play Time – Les Ateliers de Rennes – biennale d’art contemporain,” (Curator: Zoe Gray), Renne, Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes, Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France
“Positions,” (Curator: Nick Aikens), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
“Journal,” (Curator: Matt Williams), ICA, London
“The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else,” (A part of Moderation(s) by Heman Chong), Witte de With, Rotterdam
“Frieze Projects 2014,” (Curator: Cecilia Alemani), Frieze New York, New York
2013
“Reading Cinema, Finding Words: Art after Marcel Broodthaers,” (Curator: Chinatsu Makiguchi), The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo(cat.)
“Thermodynamics of The Sun,” (Curator: Kazuhiro Yamamoto), Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts(cat.)
“Unknown Forces,” (Curator: Kim Sunjung), Tophane i Amire Culture and Arts Center, Istanbul, Turkey(cat.)
“2013 California-Pacific Triennial,” (Curator: Dan Cameron), Orange County Museum of Art, CA, USA(cat.)
“Freak Out!,”Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
“Geometrie Variable,” Super Window Project, Domaine les Crayeres, Reims, France
“Re: Quest – Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s,” (Curators: Tohru Matsumoto, Masahiko Haito, Yukie Kamiya, Oh Jin-yee) Japan Foundation and Museum of Art, Seoul University, Korea (cat.)
2012
“MOT Annual 2012 Making Situations, Editing Landscapes,” (Curator: Mihoko Nishikawa) Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (cat.)
“Art Will Thrill You! : The Essence of Modern Japanese Art,” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (cat.)
“Made in L.A.” (Curators: Anne Ellegood, Ali Subotnick, Lauri Firstenberg, Cesar Garcia and Malik Gaines)Hammer Museum, LAXART and Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles (cat.)
“Human Factor,” (Curator: Beatrice Leanza) Museo Pietro Canonica, Rome, Italy (cat.)
“HIRATA ARAKAWA OKUMURA TANAKA,” Raster, Warsaw, Poland
“Ça & là / this and there” (Curator: Claude Closky) Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris (cat.)
“Sculpture by Other Means,”(Curator: Gabriel Ritter) ONE AND J. GALLERY, Seoul, Korea
“Sensory Training,” Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China
“Trading Futures,” (Curators: Meiya Cheng and Pauline J. Yao), Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taiwan
“Inside The Whale,” (Curator: Matteo Pollini), FaMa Gallery, Verona, Italy
2011
“La Fabrique Sonore, Expérience Pommery#9”, (Curators: Charles Carcopino & Claire Staebler), Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
“Une fenêtre japonaise : Soshi Matsunobe, Takashi Suzuki, Koki Tanaka”, (Curator: Baron Osuna), Super Window Project / GDM…, galerie de multiples, Paris
“Yokohama Triennial 2011- OUR MAGIC HOUR,” (Curator: Akiko Miki), Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama(cat.)
“Pictorial Theory of Evolution,” (Curator: Kazuhiro Yamamoto) , Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya (cat.)
“Support > System,” (Curators: Marco Rois, Gina Osterloh), Luckman Gallery, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Los Angeles. (cat.)
“The Wedding Banquet,” Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
“Conversation With Mathieu Mercier, Takaaki Izumi, Yuki Kimura, Soshi Matsunobe, Kaz Oshiro, Koki Tanaka About Abstract Objects,” Muzz Program Space, Super Window Project, Kyoto.
“Making is Thinking,” (Curator: Zoe Gray) Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands. (cat.)
2010
“Koki Tanaka & Naotaka Hiro / Kaz Oshiro / John Tottenham,” Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles
“A Rock That Was Taught It Was A Bird, ” (Curator: Emma Bugden), Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
“The Dictionary of Received Ideas, “(Curators: Matteo Pollini and the other 15 from Goldsmiths College MFA Curating Programme), Q, London
“Let’s Twist Again, The Archaeology of the Future,” Centre A, Vancouver, Canada
“One and J. Gallery at Pierre Koenig,” Case Study House #21, Los Angeles, USA (cat.)
“A journey to Niigata Region,” Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
“France / Japan: University Exchange Project, DOUBLE VISION, fiction/reality relationships in present-day images,” Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
2009
“Circus Hein,” (Curator: Jeppe Hein), Frac Centre, Orléans, Atelier Calder, Saché, France (cat.)
“EMPORIUM – A New Common Sense of Space,” (Curator: Beatrice Leanza)Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica Leonardo Da Vinci, Milano, Italy
“Just around the corner,” (Curators: Chen Shaoxiong and Pauline J. Yao), Arrow Factory, Beijing, China(leaflet)
“Whose exhibition is this?,” (Curator: Fang Wei Chang) Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan (cat.)
“Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art,” (Curator: Midori Matsui), Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (cat.)
“Curated by; Inside Job,” (Curators: Dan Cameron, Maria de Corral) Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
“Portrait of Self-Exile (part 1),” the shop/Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing, China
“The view from elsewhere,” (Curator: Kathryn Weir) Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney/Gallery of Modern Art/Australian Cinematheque, Brisbane, Australia (cat.)
“Incidental Affairs: Contemporary Art of Transient States,” (Curator: Santo Oshima) Suntory Museum, Osaka(cat.)
2008
“Platform Seoul 2008: I have nothing to say and I am saying it,”(Curator: Kim Sunjung), Samuso, Seoul, Korea
“The 7th Gwangju Biennale, Annual Report : A Year in Exhibitions,”(Director: Okwui Enwezor, Co-Curators: Hyunjin Kim, Ranjit Hoskote), Gwangju, Korea(cat.)
“Busan Biennale 2008; Sea Art Festival, Voyage Without Boundaries,”(Director: Jeon Seung-bo), Busan, Korea(cat.)
“Mode & Verzweiflung (Fashion & Despair),” (Curators: Brigitte Felderer, Eva Blimlinger), Freiraum, quartier21/MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria (cat.)
2007
“Still/Alive, Contemporary Art & Photography in Japan, ” (Curator: Tetsuro Ishida), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (cat.)
“Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan,” (Curators: Mami Kataoka, Fumihiro Sumitomo, Kim Sunjung), 798 Dashanzi Art District, Long March Space, Beijing / Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (cat.)
“Spectacle and Situation,” (Curators: Herbert Lachmayer, Brigitte Felderer), Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
“vol 4” Daiwa Radiator Factory Viewing Room, Hiroshima (cat.)
“La Chaine,” BankART1929, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama
“Re-trait,” (Curator: Claire Staebler), Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris
“The Door into Summer: The Age of Micropop,”(Curator: Midori Matsui), Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Mito (cat.)
“All about Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art,” (Curator: Mami Kataoka), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (cat.)
“Living in the Material World, things in Art of the 20th Century and Beyond,” (Curator: Yusuke Minami), The National Art Center, Tokyo(cat.)
2006
“2006 Taipei Biennial: Dirty Yoga,” (Curators: Dan Cameron, Jun-jieh Wang)Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
“Pawel Althamer, In the Centre Pompidou,” Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (cat.)
“Welcome to Heterotopia!” (work with Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Curator: Pascal Beausse) “Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006,” Echigo-Tsumari Region, Niigata (cat.)
“Fast Futures: Asian Video Art – New Works by Three Artists,” (Selected by Melissa Chiu, Barbara London, Yu Yoen Kim), Japan Society, New York, USA
“Le Cabane,” (Curator: Pascal Beausse), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
“Radio kills the video stars,” (Curators: Laurence Dreyfus and Francois Quintin), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
2005
“GUNDAM—Generating Futures,” (Curator: Takashi Azumaya) Suntory Museum, Osaka / The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo (cat.)
2004
“Officina Asia,” Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy(cat.)
“Artists in Residence 2004,” Location One, New York, USA
“Picture in Motion,” (Curator: Kazuhiro Yamamoto) , Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya (cat.)
“Roppongi Crossing: New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art 2004,” (Curators: Mami Kataoka, Minoru Hatanaka, Iida Takayo, Hisako Hara, Takashi Azumaya, Nobuko Shimuta), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (cat.)
“Out the Window—Spaces of Distraction,” (Curator: Li Zhenhua, Suh Jinsuk, Fumihiko Sumitomo) The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo (cat.)
2003
“Kokoro no Arika, Location of the Spirit: Contemporary Japanese Art,” (Curator: Yuji Maeyama) Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hungary / Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia (cat.)
“Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003,” Echigo-Tsumari Region, Niigata (cat.)
“VOCA 2003: The Vision of Contemporary Art,” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo (cat.)
“Double Positive 2,” (Curator: Tatsuo Majima) Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo (pamphlet)
2002
“Kumamoto International Art Exhibition: ATTITUDE 2002—One Truth in Your Heart,” (Curator: Hiroshi Minamishima) Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto (cat.)
“Aida Makoto+Tanaka Koki,” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
“Lost World,” (Curator: Tsuzuku Masatoshi) Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota
“Media Test Wall: SPINNING,” MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA
“Philip Morris K.K. Art Award 2002: The First Move,” Tokyo International Forum , Tokyo (cat.)
“Screen Memories,” (Curator: Iida Takayo) Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Mito (cat.)
“Tanakatachi—two solo shows,” Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya
2001
“SAP ART-ING Tokyo 2001: Space, Time, and Body Lived,” (Curator: Urara Nakamura) The former Ushigome-Haramachi Elementary School of Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo(cat.)
2000
“ZOKEI-Show,” Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo
1999
“peaceful misunderstanding,” Citizen’s Gallery of Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
“License to LOVE,” The Student Union at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo
1997
“Tokyo-Sentakuki,” Apartment Seiwa 1&2, Tokyo
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Collective acts
2017
8/26 – 27 Precarious Tasks #9: 24hrs Gathering (timeline), Spring Workshop, Hong Kong
7/15 – 16 Precarious Tasks #9: 24hrs Gathering (reconfiguration), Kunsthaus, Zürich
2016
4/29 – 6/18 Precarious Tasks #15: Exchange of Our Clothes and Books as Exchanging Our Body and Thoughts (Reconfiguration), The Showroom, London
2015
10/17 Precarious Tasks #15 “Exchange of our Clothes and Books as Exchanging our Body and Thoughts,” Transformation Marathon, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London
3/26-5/25 Precarious Tasks #14 “Collective knowledge for an equal society / Free Books, Free Knowledge,” Deutsche bank kunsthalle, Berlin and Everywhere
2014
12/20 Precarious tasks #13 “Exchange our used outfits with others” blanClass, Yokohama
10/5 Precarious tasks #12 “Walking with dogs” Play Time. Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d’art contemporain, Rennes, France
7/5 Precarious tasks #11 “Call out all names in a city” Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
7/4 Precarious tasks #10 “Go to a bar located over 20 km from a museum to drink, discuss and watch a film about nuclear power problem.” Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
6/27, 6/28 Precarious Tasks #9: “24hrs Gathering,” ICA, London
2013
8/30 Precarious Tasks #7: “Try to keep conscious about a specific social issue, in this case “anti-nuke,” as long as possible while you are wearing yellow color,” , Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo
4/19, 4/20 precarious tasks #6 “going up to a city building taller than 16.7m,” (A part of Moderation(s) by Heman Chong), Witte de With, Rotterdam
precarious tasks #5 burning books to make some food by the fire (not yet realized)
1/25 precarious tasks #4 “sharing dreams with others, and then making a collective story,” blanClass, Yokohama
1/9 “Painting to the Public (MOMAT to Gallery AlphaM), Gallery AlphaM, Tokyo
2012
precarious tasks #3 walk from a city center to its suburbs, Tokyo (private act)
11/9 precarious tasks #2 “talking about your name while eating emergency food,” blanClass, Yokohama
11/6 workshop “meetings within meetings – curation, education, future,” CSLAB, Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo
10/30 “dialogue to the public (JR Yamanote Line, Tokyo),” (Kajiya Kenji, Hu Fang, Atsushi Sugita, Koki Tanaka) , JR Yamanote Line, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
9/29 precarious tasks #1 “swinging a flash light while we walk at night,” blanClass, Yokohama
9/23 precarious tasks #0 “communal tea drinking,” too much magazine, Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo
3/24 “Painting to the Public (open-air),” (Meguro Museum of Art to Aoyama Meguro), self-organizing event, Tokyo
Video Screenings
2011
“Koki Tanaka: Buckets and Balls,” LIFT Projects, ArtHouse at the Jones Center, Texas
2010
“Videozoom Japan; Re-framing the Everyday: Japanese video art over the last decade,” (Curator: Kenichi Kondo), Sala1 International Center for Contemporary Art, Rome
“Roppongi Art Night 2010,” Roppongi Hills, Tokyo
2008
“In Between, Asian Video Art Weekend,” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
“Projeto Cinema de Corredor, Mostra Koki Tanaka,” (Curator: Wagner Morales), B_arco Brasil Arte Contemporanea, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2007
“Out of the Ordinary: New Video from Japan,” (Curator: Gabriel Ritter) The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angles, USA
2006
“Festival of Love: Video Art Series,” (Curator: Miwako Tezuka) Asia Society and Museum, New York, USA
2005
“Premieres,” (Curator: Barbara London) The Museum of Modern Art(MoMA), New York, USA
“Marking Time,” (Curator: Glenn Phillips) Getty Center, Los Angeles, USA
“Picture in Motion De Luxe,” (Curator: Kazuhiro Yamamoto) Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya
2002
“AIT HOUR MUSEUM,” The Former Sakuragawa Elementary School of Minato Ward, Tokyo
“Asian Comments,” Danish Center for Culture and Development, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Web Streaming
2021
Faraway, So Close, Artist Cinemas, e-flux (Curation)
https://www.e-flux.com/video/programs/389091/faraway-so-close
Returning – Chapter 1, Sydney Opera House
https://stream.sydneyoperahouse.com/koki-tanaka-returning-chapter-1
2006
“Theory of Everything,” (Curator: Yuki Okumura),
http://homepage.mac.com/m_plus_n/theory_of_everything/
2004
“City/Observer”, (Curator: Yukie Kamiya) Rhizome.Org and New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
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Performance
2006
“KOKI TANAKA SHOW,”(Talk show through Web Streaming), MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentine / Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Museum Collection Show
2019
Weavers of Worlds, A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern/Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
The Seven Lamps of the Art Museum, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan (cat.)
2015
When Documents Become Forms, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
2014
“MOT collection Chronicle 1995 – ,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2013
“CAMK collection vol.4 Veni, vidi, vici. Kumamoto!,” Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
2011
“Trans-Cool TOKYO, Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
“Invisibleness is Visibleness: International Contemporary Art Collection of a Salaryman- Daisuke Miyatsu,” MOCA Taipei, Taipei
2010
“Trans-Cool TOKYO, Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection”, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2009
“Merry-Go-Round,” Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
“Everyday/Everynight,”Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
“MOT collection Summer Playground,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
“MOT collection Field of Dreams,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2008
“MOT collection Survival Action,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
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Works in Public & Private Collections:
Orange County Museum, Newport Beach, USA
Artnow International Foundation, San Francisco, USA
Asian Society and Museum, New York, USA
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Daiwa Radiator Factory, Hiroshima, Japan
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Kadist Foundation, Paris, France
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
M+ West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong, China
Deutsche Bank, Germany
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster
