{"id":5218,"date":"2014-07-07T11:03:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T03:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vitamincreativespace.com\/en\/?p=5218"},"modified":"2014-07-07T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T03:20:10","slug":"deutsche-bank-honors-koki-tanaka-as-its-artist-of-the-year-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitamincreativespace.com\/en\/?p=5218","title":{"rendered":"Deutsche Bank honors Koki Tanaka as its \u201cArtist of the Year\u201d 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\u9996\u9875\u56fe\"<\/a> Koki Tanaka, Precarious Tasks #9, 24hrs Gathering, 2014<\/span>
\n Collective acts<\/span>
\n Commissioned by ICA London<\/span><\/p>\n

Deutsche Bank has announced its \u201cArtist of the Year\u201d 2015: The Japanese Koki Tanaka follows Wangechi Mutu (Kenya), Yto Barrada (France\/Morocco), Roman Ond\u00e1k (Slovakia), Imran Qureshi (Pakistan), and Victor Man (Romania) as the sixth international artist to be honored with this award. In 2015, the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle in Berlin presents Tanaka\u2019s first major solo show in Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cKoki Tanaka is one of the most original artists of his generation to emerge on the global art scene in the last decade. A shrewd observer of the most \u2018indifferent\u2019 matters of the everyday, he always manages to magically transform them into fantastic events with a sense of humor, offering open but pungent implications that reveal the uncanniness of existence,\u201d writes Hou Hanru, artistic director of the MAXXI in Rome, in a statement on the jury\u2019s selection. \u201cOn the other hand, Tanaka, a global trotter, is also a savvy mobilizer of collective actions and encourages sharing and exchange among participants to produce a common sense of creativity and imagination while probing new rules of negotiation and collaboration. Tanaka’s work represents an inventive approach toward exploring the question of community making\u2014a truly important issue in today’s aesthetic and political experiments across the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The award was given on the recommendation of the Deutsche Bank Global Art Advisory Council, comprised, along with Hou Hanru, of the renowned curators Okwui Enwezor, Udo Kittelmann, and Victoria Noorthoorn.<\/p>\n

Stefan Krause, the Deutsche Bank board member in charge of the global art program, explains: \u201cKoki Tanaka forces us to see everyday things with new eyes. He represents a new generation of artists who connect their aesthetic concerns to social issues. This corresponds perfectly to Deutsche Bank\u2019s commitment to art.\u201d<\/p>\n

Koki Tanaka, born 1975 in Tochigi, Japan, lives and works in Los Angeles. He became known through installations and actions in which he implements everyday objects and material found on site. A major part of his work consists of participatory projects that incorporate actors and exhibition viewers.<\/p>\n

Tanaka represented Japan at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, where his unsettlingly simple experiments proved that collaborations can pose a huge challenge: how do we treat one another, how do we treat things? What happens when nine hairdressers cut a woman\u2019s hair all at once, or five potters craft a ceramic vase together? The experimental teamwork also reflected on theFukushima catastrophe, which forced people to band together and form communities. Tanaka is interested in communication, power, and ethics\u2014but also in the aesthetic quality and form of the collaboratively produced work of art.<\/p>\n

In his early works, Tanaka was involved as an active participant and still defined the general parameters of his work. Now, however, he leaves the making of the artwork up to the participants, whose actions and decisions dictate the result\u2014without the artist\u2019s input. He described his Biennale works as follows: \u201cYou might say that these are proposals for an ideal situation in which an artist accomplishes his work thanks to the kindness of others. They are invitations to people to step out of their daily routines and participate in an orchestrated situation where you can experience what it means to fruitfully engage with \u2018strangers.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\"001compressed\"<\/a> A Behavioral Statement (or an Unconscious Protest)<\/span>
\n 2013<\/span>
\n collective acts, video documentation (8min)<\/span>
\n commissioned by The Japan Foundation<\/span>
\n Equipment support: ARTISTS’ GUILD<\/span><\/p>\n

\"002compressed\"<\/a> precarious tasks #4 sharing dreams with others, and then making a collective story<\/span>
\n 2013<\/span>
\n collective acts<\/span>
\n created with blanClass, Yokohama and supported by The Japan Foundation<\/span><\/p>\n

\"003<\/a> A Poem Written by 5 Poets at Once (First Attempt)<\/span>
\n 2013<\/span>
\n HD video (68 min 30 sec), 4 framed papers written by participating poets<\/span>
\n commissioned by The Japan Foundation<\/span>
\n Equipment support: ARTISTS’ GUILD<\/span><\/p>\n

\"004<\/a> abstract speaking – sharing uncertainty and collective acts<\/span>
\n The Japan Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, 2013<\/span>
\n curator: Mika Kuraya<\/span>
\n organized by Japan Foundation<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently, works by Koki Tanaka can be seen in group exhibitions at the LondonICA and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.<\/p>\n

Positions \u2013 Five projects in dialogue
\nVan Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
\n7\/5 \u2013 10\/12\/2014
\nhttp:\/\/vanabbemuseum.nl\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Journal
\nInstitute of Contemporary Arts, London
\n6\/25 \u2013 9\/7\/2014
\nhttps:\/\/www.ica.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Please find more on the official website of ArtMag by Deutsche Bank:
\nhttp:\/\/db-artmag.com\/en\/81\/news\/deutsche-bank-honors-koki-tanaka-as-its-artist-of-the-year-2015\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Text Resource: http:\/\/db-artmag.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/span>
\n Courtesy of the artist, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou and Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo.<\/span><\/p>\n

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