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2020









 

solo exhibition
Masakatsu Takagi 'Kairos'
2020 November 7 - dEcember 13

Venue: ALTIUM, Fukuoka

video installation :














 

group exhibition
Saitama Triennale
https://art-sightama.jp/jp/  
2020 October 17 - November 15

Venue : Saitama

installation :
Marignalia Module

 












2017






 

group exhibition
Takahashi Collection

2017 April 8 - June 11

Comtemporary Art Museum Kumamoto (Kumamoto, Japan)

Video Installation :
Utagaki (2013)
, 'NIHITI' (2008)
'Ymene' (2010)
Tidal (2007)













 


Screening

Takagi Masakatsu VIDEO WORKS


2017 September 30
Venue: The National Art Center, Tokyo

http://www.nact.jp/ran2017/















2016






 

group exhibition
All Living Things

2016 July 24 - Nov. 29

Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum (Shizuoka, Japan)

Video Installation :
Utagaki (2013)







 

group exhibition
Animated ! :
Explorations into Moving Pictures

2016 April

Palmer Museum of Art (Pennsylvania, USA)

Video Installation :
Birdland (2001) Birdland#2 (2002) Birdland#3 (2003)





 

group exhibition
The Need for My Care

2016 Feb. 4 - April. 20
Waterfall Mansion & Gallery (New York)

Video Installation :
Bloomy Girls (2005)






2014






 

group exhibition
Twentieth Anniversary Special MOT Collection
Chronicle 1995-


2014. June. 7 - August. 31

MOT: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

Video Installation :
Bloomy Girls (2005)





 

group exhibition
Bishojo:
Young Pretty Girls in Art History
– 16 Perspectives for Studying the Idea of the bishojo


2014. July. 12 - September. 7

Aomori Museum of Art (Aomori, Japan)

Video Installation :
girls (2003) Bloomy Girls (2005
)







2014. Utagaki at Media Ambition Tokyo 2014 (Tokyo, Japan)





 

group exhibition
Media Ambition Tokyo 2014

2014. Feb. 7 - Mar. 30

Venue: Roppongi hills 52F Tokyo City View

Video Installation :
'Utagaki' (2013)













 


Screening

Nuit Blanche KYOTO 2014
MACHIDECO international


2014. October. 4

Venue : Kyoto International Manga Museum


http://www.artcomplex.net/machideco/

Scrreening:
'Momoiro no Hoho' (2013)
'Utagaki' (2013)



 


Screening

Screening Film' CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS' (directed by Werner Herzog)
+ Screening Video works by Takagi Masakatsu
& Talk Show : Takagi Masakatsu x Sakamoto Daizaburo


2014. October.12

Venue: Forum Yamagata

http://www.forum-movie.net/yamagata



Scrreening: :
'NIHITI' (2008)
'Ymene' (2010)
'Momoiro no Hoho' (2013)
'Utagaki' (2013)



 


Screening

Penetraiting Surfaces

2014年6月12日

Venue : Spectacle (New York, USA)

Scrreening: :
'Utagaki' (2013)
'El Viento
' (2006)
'Bloomy Girls' (2005)



 


Screening

Penetraiting Surfaces

2014. May.24
Venue : Austrian Film Museum (Vienna, Austria)


Scrreening: ::
'Utagaki' (2013)
'El Viento' (2006)
'Bloomy Girls' (2005)



 


Screening

EMAP (Ewha Media Art Presentation)

2014. May

Venue : LOOP (Seoul, Korea)


Scrreening: ::
'Momoiro no Hoho' (2013)















2013








 

group exhibition
DAYDREAMS

2013.Oct.26 - Dec.1

Venue :Takamatsu City Museum of Art (Kagawa, Japan)

Takagi Masakatsu video :
[Utagaki (2013)]
[ Ymene: 0. Euran (2010] [ Ymene: 1. Idu_mi (2010) ]
etc.









 

solo exhibition
Hatsugasai

2013.Aug.31 - Sep.21

Venue: Yamamoto Gendai

Takagi Masakatsu video :
[Anyura (2011)]
[Utagaki (2013)]
[Nurse them, Make a fire, Feed yourself, Express your mirth (2013)]







 

solo exhibition
Utagaki

2013. May 25th - June 9th
venue : YCC

http://www.novusaxis.com/utagaki.html


Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ Utagaki (2013)]











2013. Utagaki at YCC (Kanagawa, Japan)











 


Screening

Nuit Blanche KYOTO 2013
MACHIDECO international


2013. October. 5

Venue : Kyoto International Manga Museum


http://www.artcomplex.net/machideco/

Scrreening:
Utagaki」(2013)



 


Screening

SNIFF OUT 2013

2013. July. 20
Venue: Intex Osaka


http://sniff-out.com


Screening:
「Ymene:0. euran」 (2010)
「Ymene: 1. i_dumi」 (2010)























2012




2012. Anura / Cosmic Travellersi at espace louis vuitton (Tokyo, Japan)





 

group exhibition
Cosmic Travellers
- toward the unknown

2012. January 20th - May 6th
venue : Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo

http://espacelouisvuittontokyo.com/


Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ Anyura (2011]



















 


Screening

Nuit Blanche KYOTO 2012
MACHIDECO international


2012. October. 5

Venue : Kyoto International Manga Museum


http://www.artcomplex.net/machideco/

Screening:
Girls」(2003)
「1
8 Portraits of Atlas」(2006)








2012. マチデコ・インターナショナル (京都)












2011. Ayuchi at Kasugai Civic Cultural Foundation (Aichi, Japan)





2011








 

solo exhibition
Ayuti

2011 December 3 - December 25

Kasugai Civic Cultural Foundation (Aichi, Japan)


Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ Ymene: 0. Euran (2010] [ Ymene: 1. Idu_mi (2010) ]








2010. Ymene: 0. euran






 

solo exhibition
Ymene

2011Novermber 28 - December 31

Agora Art (Taipei, Taiwan)


Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ Ymene: 0. Euran (2010] [ Ymene: 1. Idu_mi (2010) ]









 

group exhibition
CAFE in Mito 2011

2011 July 30 - October 16

Art Tower Mito (Miyagi, Japan)


Takagi Masakatsu video :
[[ Bloomy Girls (2005) ]









 

group exhibition
Trans-Cool Tokyo

2011 July 2 - September 25

Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taipei, Taiwan)


Takagi Masakatsu video :
[[ Bloomy Girls (2005) ]








 

group exhibition
Invisibleness is visibleness

2011July 9 - Septmeber 4

MOCA Taipei (Taipei, Taiwan)


Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ Tidal (2007) ]











2010. Ymene:1. i_dumi
















 


Screening

Nuit Blanche KYOTO 2011
MACHIDECO international


2012. October. 1

Venue : Kyoto International Manga Museum


http://www.kyotomm.jp/

http://www.artcomplex.net/machideco/


Screening :
Girls」(2003)
「1
8 Portraits of Atlas」(2006)















2010








 

group exhibition
Transformation

29 October 2010 - 30 January 2011

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo, Japna)


Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ Ymene:0 euran (2010) ][ Ymene: 1 i_dumi (2010) ]








2010. Ymene at 山本現代 (東京)




 

solo exhibition
Ymene

25 September 2010 - 16 October 2010

Ymamoto Gendai


Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ Ymene: 1 i_dumi (2010) ]






 

2010. Ymene at 山本現代 (東京)









 



Screening

Documentary Film [ARUONGAKU]

27 November 2010 - 2 December 2010
KINOTAYO - FESTIVAL DU FILM JAPONAIS CONTEMPORAIN (France)

1 December 2010
Art Film Festival (Nagoya Japan)

26 August 2010
Nara International Film Festival (Nara Japan)

23 -24 July 2010
Shizuoka City Museum of Art (Shizuoka, Japan)

8 May 2010
Theater Kino (Sapporo, Japan)

18 April 2010
Festival Centre (Frankfurt, Germany)

1 - 6 March 2010
Shimotakaido Cinema (Tokyo, Japan)

13 - 20 November 2009
Sakurazaka Theater (Okinawa, Japan)

17 - 30 October 2009
BAUS Theater (Tokyo, Japan)

9 - 22 October 2009
Kyoto Minami-Kaikan (Kyoto, Japan)

19 - 23 September 2009
Kobe Art Village Center (Kobe, Japan)

5 September 2009
Fukushima Forum (Fukushima, Japan)

5 September 2009
Sendai Forum (Sendai, Japan)

4 September 2009
Yamagata Forum (Yamagata, Japan)

21 - 23 August 2009
SHINSEDAI Cinema Festival at Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (Tront, Canada)

18 - 24 July 2009
Nagoya Cinematheque (Nagoya, Japan)

4 - 24 July 2009
Eurospace (Tokyo, Japan)










2009









 

group exhibition
MOT Collection 2009

2009. March.21 - June.28

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo, Japna)

Takagi Masakatsu video :

[ El Viento (2006) ][ Bloomy Girls (2005) ]





2008.Homicevalo




 

group exhibition
Dorodoro, Doron--The Uncanny World in Folk and Contemporary Art in Asia

2009. May.14 - May.10

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Hiroshima, Japan)


Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ Homicevalo (2008) ]












 

Screening
Yokohama International Film Festival 2009 CREAM

31 October - 29th November 2009
at BankART Studio NYK (Yokohama, Japan)

http://www.ifamy.jp/

 













2008







2008.NIHITI




 

group exhibition
"Double Chronos"

15th October - 24th October 2008
Place : Zuishoji Art Projects (Tokyo, Japan)

Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ NIHITI (2008) ][ Lava (2008) ]








 

group exhibition
"Art Through Nature"

16th October - 6th December 2008
Place : Coreana Art Center (Soul, Korea)

Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ Philharmony (2007) ][ Bloomy Girls (2005) ]









2008.Itako aat Yamamoto Gendai (Tokyo, Japan)










 

solo exhibition
Takagi Masakatsu "ITAKO"

30th Aug. - 27th Sep 2008
at YAMAMOTO GENDAI
(Tokyo, Japan)

Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ Tidal (2007) ][Lava (2008)]









 

group exhibition
Dual Points

13th Sep - 13th Oct, 2008
at Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto, Japan)

Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ Tidal (2007) ][Lava (2008)]









 

group exhibition
KITA; Japanese artists meet Indonesia

19th April - 18th May 2008
at Jogja National Museum
(Jogjakarta, Indonesia)

Takagi Masakatsu video :
[Lava (2008)] [ Tidal (2007) ][ el viento (2006) ][ Bloomy Girls (2005) ]









 

group exhibition
QUANDO VIDAS SE TORNAM FORMA: DIA´LOGO COM O FUTURO

10th April - 22nd June 2008
Place : Museu de Arte Moderna De Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

14th September - 30th November 2008
Place : Museu Oscar Niemeyer (Curitiba, Brazil)

Takagi Masakatsu video :
[[18 portraits of Atlas (2006)] Bloomy Girls (2005) ]







2008.Dual Points at Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto, Japan)










 

Screening
13th Art Animation Festival

18th - 29th November 2008
at Aichi Arts Center (nagoya, Japan)

 










2007








 

group exhibition
In the forest

28th July - 24th Sep 2007
at Tanabe City Museum of Art
20th Oct - 9th Dec 2007
at The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
 

Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ Tidal (2007) ][ el viento (2006) ][ Bloomy Girls (2005) ]







 

group exhibition
MOT collection 2007

27th April - 30st September, 2007
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo


Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ Bloomy Girls (2005) ]






2007 El Viento













 

Screening
Art Animation Festival

26th July 2007 - 5th Augusut 2007
at Aichi Arts Center



 


 

Screening
Lovebytes 2007
international festival of digital art and media


18th May 2007

at Showroom Cinema 3, Sheffield, UK



 


 

Screening
OFFF Festival
International Festival for the Post-Digital Creation Culture

> www.offf.ws

May 10,11,12 2007
at Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona



 


 

Screening
Onedotzero

le cinema des cineastes

25th Apr - 05 May 2007

at nemo



 


 

Screening
Yokohama Museum of Art

"Animation - Adventures of Moving Picture"
2007. March 3rd, 4th, 10th
Venue: Yokohama Museum of Art



 












2006








 

group exhibition
Gardens

Sep.30 - Dec.24, 2006
Venue: Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (Nagoya, Japan)


Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ el viento (2006) ]







 

group exhibition
Context Series, Part I
Fresh! Contemporary Takes on Nature & Allegory


July 1 - December 31, 2006
Venue: the Museum of Glass (Seattle, USA)

Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ The Color of empty sky (2005) ]









 

group exhbition
Tokimeki encounter

Dec. 21 - Dec. 23, 2006
AKIBA_SQUARE


Takagi Masakatsu video :
:
[ light pool (2004) ] [ Bloomy Girls (2005) ] [ el viento (2006) ]








2007 El Viento









 

group exhbition
Trial Balloons
A proposal by
Yuko Hasegawa, Agustin Perez Rubio and Octavio Zaya


May 6 - September 10, 2006
at MUSAC (Leon, Spain)


Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ EL VIENTO (2006) ] [ Bloomy Girls (2005) ] etc.
 








 

solo exhbition
TAKAGI
(Collaboration with Saeko Takagi)


Dates: May 11, 2006 - July 29, 2006
at Byblos Gallery (Verona, Italy)


Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ EL VIENTO (2006) ] [ Bloomy Girls (2005) ] etc.
 








 

group exhbition
My heart belongs to... Tokyo
La jeune creation japonaise


March 21, 2006 - July 22, 2006
at Le Cube (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France)


Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ Bloomy Girls (2005) ] etc.








 

group exhbition
RTA Travel COLLECTION 2006

May 19, 2006 - May 28, 2006
at SPIRAL (Tokyo, Japan)


Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ EL VIENTO (2006) ]







2005 Bloomy Girls














 

Screening
resfest 10

http://www.resfest.com



 


 

Screening
One dot zero 200
6

http://www.onedotzero.com



 


 

Screening
Kaleidoscope

Fri 11 August 2006
at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London



 


 

Screening
Pulse in brain

10. Feb. 2006 - 13. Feb. 2006
at Sendai Media Theque (Sendai, Japan)



 

 














2005










 

group exhbition
Sweet Memories

14. Dec. 2005 - 29. Jan. 2006
at Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo, Japan)


Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ Light Park (2001-2002) ]
 








 

group exhbition
Plaza of Light

13. Dec. 2005 - 24. Dec. 2005
at Sendai Mediatheche (Sendai, Japan)

Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ Light Pool (2004) ]
 








 

group exhbition
Playing John Cage

5. Nov. 2005 - 15. Jan. 2006
at
ARNOLFINI GALLERY (Bristol, UK)

Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ New Ryoanji (2005)]
 
Music : Ryoji Ikeda, Carsten Nicolai
Video : Takagi Masakatsu








 

group exhbition
Lido
A Project by Anny and Sibel Ozturk
As a part of [Der neue Orient] (The New Orient)

3 - 27 November 2005
at KUNSTHALLE (Dusseldorf, Germany)








 

group exhbition
NEO / Braroque
Curata da Micaela Giovannotti e Joyce B. Korotkin

13. Oct. 2005 - 14. Jan. 2006
at Galleria: Byblos Art Gallery
(Verona, Italy)

Takagi Masakatsu video :
title: [ The clolor of empty sky (2005) ]







 

group exhbition
Arts Plaza Opening Celebration

25. Oct. 2005 - 3. Jan. 2006
at University of California [Art Plaza]


http://www.arts.uci.edu







 

group exhbition
B!AS
International Sound Art Exhibition

24 September-20 November 2005
at Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taipei / Taiwan)

B!AS >> http://www.etat.com/bias
Taipei Fine Arts Museum >> www.tfam.gov.tw

Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ Bloomy Girls (2005) ]
 







 

group exhbition
The Evening Traveling:
animazioni, sogni e visioni dal Giappone contemporaneo.

poltoree (Pescara, Italy)
from 20 to 28 August. 2005

http://www.elcuervohq.com/events.html

Takagi Masakatsu video :
[ The color of empty sky (2005 / Takagi Masakatsu + Saeko Takagi) ] [ Magiie's Trip (2003) ]
 






 

solo exhbition
Recent Works
Takagi Masakatsu

2005. July 16 - 30

at Mixed Media (Shizuoka, Japan)


Takagi Masakatsu video :
title: [ Bloomy Girls (2005) ] [ Pia Flies (2004) ] [ Light Pool (2004) ] [ WAVE (2004) ]







 

solo exhbition
Color of Empty Sky
Takagi Masakatsu + Saeko Takagi, music by UA

2005. April - May

at Transplant Gallery (NewYork, USA)  

Takagi Masakatsu video :
title: [ The clolor of empty sky (2005) ] [ Lightning (2004) ]








 

group exhbition
Express
at Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art (Shanghai, Chaina)

2005. April. 9th - 24th

Venue: Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art

Presented by Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art / Hexa Project

http://www.duolunart.com/
http://www.hexaproject.com/


Takagi Masakatsu video :
title: [ Bloomy Girls (2005) ]








 

group exhbition
Shibaura Block Renovation Project
at SPIRAL Garden (SPIRAL 1F)
(Tokyo / Japan)


29th March - 6th April 2005

Venue: SPIRAL Garden (SPIRAL 1F)
 http://shibaura-br.com/ / http://shibaura-island.com/

Takagi Masakatsu video :
title: [ Bloomy Girls (2005) ]







 

group exhbition
Crusing Landscapes
at Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (Kagawa, Japan)


2005. March. 13th - June. 12th







 

group exhbition
Osaka Art Kaleidoscope 05
at CASO Gallery (Osaka, Japan)


2005. March. 3rd -24th

Takagi Masakatsu video :
title: [ Bloomy Girls (2005) ]






2004.Osaka Art Kaleidoscope 05 at CASO (Osaka, Japan)












 

Screening
resfest 2005

http://www.resfest.com



 


 

Screening
One dot zero 2005

http://www.onedotzero.com



 


 

Screening
EXPERIMENTA : Vanishing Point
(Melbourne, Australia)


15. Sep. 2006
http://www.onedotzero.com



 


 

Screening
Takagi Masakatsu Screening & Talk

AS SOON AS, Pick up, Barns, Record SAKUMA, OPTICAL YABUUCHI
present [ 05 ]
2005. Sep. 4 (Sun) 15:00-17:00

at Fukushima Forum
http://www.forum-cinema.com  



 

 


 

Screening
SynthFest:
A Festival of New Media Art Direction and Global Pop Culture


March 17, 2005

at Transplant Gallery (NewYork, USA)  


Baron Maye | ATL
Mogollon | NY
Off-Nibroll | Tokyo
Takagi Masakatsu | Kyoto
Valentina Loi | Milan


press release >
http://www.transplantny.com/bio/synth.html



 


 

Screening
Art Video Program, start at 21st century museum of contemporary art, Kanazawa, Japan

date : 2005. Feb. every Sundays. (2/6, 13, 20, 27)
Place : Lecture Hall at 21st century museum of contemporary art, Kanazawa, Japan
http://www.kanazawa21.jp/



 

 













2004









 

group exhbition
the gallery at night


Takagi Masakatsu video :
world is so beautiful


2004.2.23 ~ 3.13

at sketch gallery
( 9 Conduit Street, London W1S 2XG)














 

Screening
resfest 2004

http://www.resfest.com



 


 

Screening
SOUND X VISION 2004

Video Screening [ light park / Takagi Masakatsu ]

OSAKA::: graf media gm
Sep.11 (sat) - Oct. 3 (sun)

SENDAI ::: Sendai Media Tech
Oct. 8 (fri) - Oct. 17 (sun)

YAMAGATA ::: YCAM
Nov. 3 (wed) - Nov. 23 (Tue)

TOKYO ::: Raforet Harajyuku
Dec. 3 (fri) - Dec. 12 (sun)


http://www.soundxvision.com/



 


 

Screening
sonarsound tokyo 2004

Video Screening

9-10 October 2004
Yebisu The Garden Hall, etc (Tokyo)

http://www.sonarsound.jp



 


 

Screening
Video and Sound show by takagi masakatsu
Produced by Herman Miller Japan

2004. Oct. 7th - 20th
Tokyo Design Center 1F / Herman Mller Space
contact ::: 03-3444-7608 ::: http://www.hermanmiller.com/japan

Special thanks to ECLIPSE TD



 

 


 

Screening
Amoda Digital Showcase 26

16th Mar. 2004

Selected Works Film
Various films from Silicom, Journal for People, and World is So Beautiful.


http://www.amoda.org



 













2003





2002.Rama







 

solo exhbition
World is so beautiful


Takagi Masakatsu video :
world is so beautiful


at CAI gallery
( Hamburg, Germany)









 

group exhbition
INTERRUPT

Singapore Art Museum

Takagi Masakatsu video :
world is so beautiful


- 26 June 2003 - 25 April 2004


Singapore Art Museum i71 Bras Basah Road Singapore 189555
http://www.nhb.gov.sg/SAM
supported by agnes b.









 

group exhbition
MOT anual 2003

Takagi Masakatsu video :
world is so beautiful

2003 JAN.11 - MAR.23
@ Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
tokyo, japan







2003.MOT anual at MOT (Tokyo, Japan)










 

Screening
One dot zero 2003

http://www.onedotzero.com



 


 

Screening
Amoda Digital Showcase 19

21th Jan. 2003

Selected Works Film
Various films from Silicom, Journal for People, and World is So Beautiful.


http://www.amoda.org



 


 

Screening
Sonar 2003
sonar cinema


Jan. 2003
@Sonar Lab, spain
spain (barcelona)
http://www.sonar.es/



 













2002.Cafe in MITO at Mito Contemporary Gallery (Mito, Japan)



2002










 

group exhbition
CAFE in Mito
(Communicable Action for Everybody)

Takagi Masakatsu video :
Light Park

2002 AUG.10 - SEP.23
@ MITO contemporary gallery
mito , japan








 

solo exhbition
world is so beautiful


2002 AUG.22 - OCT.31
@ agnes b shops in japan









 

solo exhbition
JOURANAL FOR PEOPLE
 

2002. MAR.15 - APR.7
@ Gallery SOAP
Fukuoka, Japan








2001









 

solo exhbition
JOURANAL FOR PEOPLE


2001.OCT. 11 .12
@ Tokyo Think ZONE
Tokyo, Japan









 

solo exhbition
pia
 
curated by Minoru Hatanaka (ICC gallery)

2001. JLY. 30 - AUG. 4
@ Pepper's Gallery
Tokyo, Japan










2001.pia at peppers gallery (Tokyo, Japan)














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