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[ 2025 ]
Exhibition
『KAWAKYU ART Exhibition 2025 Spring ‘Neighbor’s Presence’』
The Kawakyu Museum will host the exhibition ‘Neighbor’s Presence-’ from 1 April (Tue) to 11 May (Sun), 2025. The exhibition is directed and curated by Kinan Art Week.
For this exhibition, artist Shinjiro Watanabe created works during his stay in Kinan.
Watanabe projects himself onto nature, particularly plants, and through the act of rooting himself and standing still, he explores the moisture of the soil, the trembling of leaves, and the subtle whispers of nature, engaging in a dialogue with these elements. What does the nature of Kumano have to say to Watanabe, who has actually set foot in the diverse environments surrounding the Kawakyu Museum, such as Banjo-yama, home to the memorial hall of the renowned scholar Minakata Kumagusu, the coastline where the waves of the ocean crash against the shore, and the rock walls where rare plants and animals hide?
Immersing oneself in Watanabe’s works is an experience of touching the presence of nature, our unnoticed neighbour, and hearing the voice of nature that resides within us as human beings.
[ 2024 ]
Exhibition
『Igoku Tamaru: lives without boundaries』
For ten days from September 20 (Fri.) to September 29 (Sun.), the “Igoku Tamaru: lives without boundaries” exhibition was held at several locations in Tanabe City and Shirahama Town, Wakayama Prefecture, as well as related events.
The main theme of the exhibition is ‘Igoku Tamaru: Lives without boudaries’.
This means ‘moving (Igoku), gathering (Tamaru) and Igoku (moving) again’ in the dialect of the Kinan region of Wakayama.
The slime molds that Kumagusu Minakata, a great naturalist and the pride of the Kinan region, studied throughout his life have a habit of sometimes moving like animals, at other times remaining (gathering) like plants, and at other times becoming spores and moving to new locations.
The exhibition aims to help visitors discover through various experiences, including artists’ works and workshops, how to live flexibly without staying in a certain place, a certain point of view, or a certain sense of values, just like the way slime mold adapts to its environment, always dynamically changing its appearance. We have held this event.
Exhibition
『Genome Poetry – Collaboration with Fujimura Family』
06.15(SAT) to 07.15(MON) , 2024 @Kawakyu Museum
Kawakyu Museum invited Aya Ito, an artist unit consisting of artist Fujimura Family, artist Dai Fujimura, and poet Ajikatan, to hold a collaborative exhibition “Genome Poetry – Collaboration with Fujimura Family” at the Kawakyu Museum.
Kinan Art Week directed and curated the exhibition.
Exhibition
『Here they are, memories we don’t know』
03.15(FRI) to 06.02(SUN), 2024 ＠nongkrong
The exhibition planned by Production Zomia for the “Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival Vol.3” to be held in Osaka Prefecture in 2023 has been reconfigured to suit the Shinju Building/Nongkron.
[ 2023 ]
Exhibition
『Sensing a Mandarin Oranges (Mikankaku) : An Entangled World』
The “Sensing a Mandarin Oranges (Mikankaku) : An Entangled World” exhibition will be held over a period of about three weeks from Saturday, October 7th to Sunday, October 22nd (including the artist-in-residence period), with a focus on workshops at multiple locations in Tanabe City and Shirahama Town, Wakayama Prefecture.
“Mikankaku” is a combination of the words Mikan (mandarin oranges（蜜柑）, unfinished（未完）…. ) + Sensation (sensation（感覚）, space（間隔） )., and is a newly coined word created with the aim of thoroughly unraveling the diverse senses of humans, especially those other than sight.
It is said that 90% of the information humans obtain is visual, and art is also thought to be largely visual in nature. This time, instead of a typical “exhibition” where artworks are viewed, the exhibition will focus on workshops that appeal to the senses of smell, taste, touch, and time.
Exhibition
『Anarcho-Animism』
This exhibition was organized for the Reborn Art Festival 2021-2022 in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, as a response to the experience of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which has prompted a rethinking of the country’s ideas about life, memorialization and reconstruction, as well as humankind’s domination of nature.
[ 2022 ]
Exhibition
『Orange Manadara』
10.6 (Thu) to 16 (Sun),2022 @ Tanabe City, Wakayama Prefecture (multiple venues)
As part of the Orange Collective, an art project themed on citrus fruits, a local resource in the Kiinan region of Wakayama Prefecture, this project was held as an attempt to superimpose the cosmic expanse that Minakata Kumagusu found in the creatures of Kumano on the ideas he had developed through discussions and research on the cultivation of mikan, its ecology, and the surrounding environment.
Exhibition
『KAWAKYU ART Exhibition 2022 – A dream that exists-』
6.1 (Wed) to 30 (Thu).2022 @ Kawakyu Museum (Shirahama, Wakayama)
Kawakyu Museum’s first artist-in-residence exhibition. During the KINAN ART WEEK, a beta version of the VR artwork that is part of the 2022 program “Mikan Collective” will be presented as a special exhibition, along with a sound installation by AWAYA, a sound artist from Kinan.
Film Screening & Talk Event
『Apichatpong in Kumano』
6.5 (Sun) to 12 (Sun).2022 @ TANAMI Theatre (Tanami, Kushimoto-cho, Wakayama Pref.)
At TANAMI Theatre, the southernmost theatre in Honshu, two films of world-renowned filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul and a talk event with an expert on Apichatpong will be Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s films and a talk event with Apichatpong experts will be held over two weeks.
Exhibition
『< I > opprtunity』
4.15 (Fri) to 17 (Sun), 22 (Fri) to 24 (Sun).2022 @ Pearl Building (Shirahama, Wakayama)
At the Shinju Building in Shirahama, which was one of the exhibition venues of KINAN ART WEEK 2021, we exhibited new works by contemporary artist Ai Kawano, who also exhibited at the Pearl Building in 2021. During the exhibition, we held an artist talk and a dialogue with local residents, discussing the history and charm of the “Sanbashi” area where the artwork was set.
[ 2021 ]
International Art Festival
『KINAN ART WEEK 2021 – Muro, soulfully inward , Kinan, open to the world -』
11.18 (Thu) to 11.28 (Sun).2021 @ Tanabe City/Shirahama Town, Wakayama Prefecture
The first international art festival in the Kinan region of Wakayama Prefecture, “KINAN ART WEEK 2021 – Muro, soulfully inward , Kinan, open to the world – ” will be held from November 18 (Thu) to November 28 (Sun), 2021.
With Daisuke Miyatsu as artistic director, the exhibition will feature 18 works by 15 groups of contemporary artists who are active globally in various places and facilities in the Kinan region of Wakayama Prefecture.
The exhibition also included talk sessions on culture and local resources as well as art in Kinan, various workshops and events, and discussions with people working in various industries.