Kouichi Tabata

JOYCE gallery
“Interior/pare/exterior”
June 11 - July 25
Beijing
http://www.joyce.com/gallery/

Art Basel
June13-16th
Basel
https://www.artbasel.com/en/Basel

1979  Born in Tochigi, Japan

2004  B.A., Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo University of the Arts)

Received the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Salon de Printemps Prize

2006  M.A., Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo University of the Arts)

2011 Residency in Berlin, Grant for Overseas Research, Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation

2012 Residency in Berlin, Grant for Overseas Study, Pola Art Foundation

Solo exhibitions

2013 G-tokyo2013 “interior /pare/ exterior,” Tokyo Midtown Hall, Tokyo

2011 “trace of images,” Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo

2007 “Night Projection Window: Kouichi Tabata Selected Works,” Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Australia

“no lemon, no melon,” Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo

Group exhibitions

2013 “one build one gild” (by FUTABA: Futo Akiyoshi + Kouichi Tabata), CAPSULE, Tokyo

2012 The Echo “THE ECHO -Although I am still alive-,” Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanian, Berlin

“Power of a Painting,” Nadiff Gallery, Tokyo

“COMMONALITIES,” Altes Finanzamt, Berlin

2011  “Creative Adventures,” Atelier Überall, Berlin

“Trans-Cool Tokyo Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection,” Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei

“Art in an Office,” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi

2010  “Trans-Cool TOKYO Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection,” Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

“Power of a Painting,” island, Chiba, Japan

“Group show,” Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo

“Trans-Cool TOKYO Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection,” Bangkok Art and

Culture Centre, Thailand

2009 “NO MAN’S LAND,” Ambassde de France au Japon, Tokyo

“Scanned and Drawn,” Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria, Australia

“MOT Collection Field of Dreams,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

2008 “Beaming Arts #001,” International Gallery BEAMS, Tokyo

“THE ECHO,” ZAIM Annex, Kanagawa

“Scanned and Drawn,”（Produced by the Centre for Contemporary Photography）, 2008 Melbourne Art Fai, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, Australia

“fly,” con tempo, Tokyo

“Jungju An, Kengo Kito, Kae Masuda, Hiroharu Mori, Robert Platt, Ataru Sato,

Kouichi Tabata,” Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
“Vivid Material,” Tokyo University of Arts, Tokyo

2007 “Video Art Night: More Than Nature,” Japan Society, New York

“Collector’s Choice: Collection2,” Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul

2006 “Trial Balloons,” Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain

“Kengo Kito + Kouichi Tabata,” Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo

2005 “Group Show,” Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo

“J’en rêve,” Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris

2004 “Project the Projectors,” Graduation Exhibition of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Former Sakuragawa Elementary School, Tokyo

2003 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music + Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Munchen “PresentA’03”, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo

2002 “GARDEN,” Gallery, SUZUKI, Kyoto, Japan (Curated by Yuko Hasegawa)

Public Collection

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo

Toyota Art Collection, Aichi, Japan

My expressions are very quiet, subtle and simple. Animations constructed by repetitive drawings; and some are only of endless flashings of sensitive pencil-drawn lines. When one is viewing my work, it`s almost like getting closer and trying hard to listen to someone’s whispering voice. My works can only be seen by those who are patient enough to see what they are able to see, curious enough to see beyond what they can see. This attitude that I bring to the creation of my works may have been influenced by those over-expressive self-centered pieces, those that were quite the opposite and often autistic-like works. These I saw in the scene of Japanese art whilst I was growing up during the 80`s and 90`s.
In the process of creating my work, I believe it is more important to express my ideas, concepts and the rules I create, rather than expressing my inner self or my objective sensations.
My attempt at making art is to seek ways to create pieces that are both `painting-like` and `animation-like`. Converting `painting` to animations - converting back from animations to `painting` and `drawing`. The role of my work in the contemporary art scene is to go beyond and to go back and forth between two boundaries - `painting` and animation. In order to achieve my role, I must pursue the meaning of the material things and find out how they are related to each other. By finding out the very core of the `way of seeing things`, I will be able to simplify things to the very core.
I believe that my works should contain new mental and physical sensational experiences for the audience.