Yamashita + Kobayashi

Mai Yamashita

Chiba (Japan) 1976

Naoto Kobayashi

Chiba (Japan) 1974

Live and work in Uster, Switzerland

Works in Madrid Abierto

Candy

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2007
  • Vor Ort, Villa am Aabach, Uster, Switzerland
2006
  • LichtRouten Lüdenscheid, Lüdenscheid, Germany
  • ARS 06, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
  • ArtSway Open 06, ArtSway, Hampshire, UK
  • O.V. L by REC, MIACA, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
  • Small mischiefs, Pump House Gallery, London, UK
  • Shrewsbury Open 2006 – Unnatural Selection, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, UK
  • badmeister kunst und sport teil 2, Hallenbad Wald (swimming-pool), Wald, Switzerland
  • tank.tv, on-line video exhibition, UK
  • transmediale.06, Akademie der Künste, Gallery ZERO (solo), Berlin, Germany
  • EMAF:European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
2005
  • EMERGENCY 2, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
  • Rosa!:the Exposed Colour Pink, Chinretsukan Gallery of The University Art Museum,Tokyo
  • Der Wettbewerb / The competition, Erfurt Station, Germany
2004
  • The World is Mine, Hiromi Yoshii Five, Tokyo, Japan
  • Voice of Site-Tokyo-Chicago-New York-, Former Sakamoto Elementary School, Tokyo
2003
  • Green Space 2_licht/schatten, Haus am Horn, Weimar, Germany
2002
  • Green Space, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Ibaraki, Japan
  • >, Chiba, Japan
  • Philip Morris K.K. Art Award 2002 -The First Move, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
2001
  • dam has broken, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
 
  • Selected screenings
2007
  • tank.tv: I Am Future Melancholic, Tate Modern, London
  • Madrid Abierto 2007, Canal Metro, Madrid, Spain
2006
  • Staring into Space, The Temps d'Images Festival, Trafó-House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest
  • Fair Play 2006, play - gallery for still and motion pictures, Berlin
  • Trans_vision, V&A Friday Late, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
  • PHOTOESPAÑA 2006, Madrid, Spain, as a part of video program “Pixapins”
  • Indblik, Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark / Heine Onstad Kunstcenter, Norway
  • Theory of Everything, LocationOne, NY, USA / Workstation Arts Center, Beijing, China
  • /www.tank.tv/Einstain Auditorium,New York University,NY
  • The Peninsula, Singapore History Museum, Singapore
  • isfilmu Nakts #1, kSuns, Latvia
  • 12˚canariasmediafest 2006, Gran Canaria, Spain
  • VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain
  • shnit Kurzfilm Festival, Bern, Switzerland
  • Media Art Friesland, Friesland, the Netherlands
  • CYNETart_06 humane, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
  • Ars Electronica Animation Festival, Linz, Austria
  • Gstaad Film Festival 2006, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • 7th Media Forum of MIFF, Moscow, Russia
  • International Portfolio Review, Kaufleuten, Zürich, as a part of tank.tv's Showreel
  • transmediale.06–video selection, touring events, tesla, Berlin, Gemany / transit_06.by,
  • minsk, Russia / [plug-in] Basel, Switzerland / Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece etc.
  • 2005Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, Kassel, Germany
  • LOOP :THE PLACE FOR VIDEO ART LOVERS, Barcelona, Spain

EDUCATION

 
  • MAI YAMASHITA
2004
  • M.A.Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Oil painting
2001
  • B.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Oil Painting
  • NAOTO KOBAYASHI
2002
  • M.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Oil painting
1999
  • B.A. The University of Tsukuba, School of Art and Design, Oil painting

PRIZES AND GRANTS

2007
  • Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstlerhaus, Stipendium, Germany
2006
  • The Asahi Shimbun Foundation, Stipend, Japan
  • The Nomura Cultural Foundation, Stipend, Japan
  • Special Prize of VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain
  • 2nd Prize of Gstaad Film Festival 2006, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • Künstler Atelier AKKU Uster, Atelierstipendium, Uster, Switzerland
  • Honorable Mention of transmediale.06, Berlin, Germany

RESIDENCY AND WORKSHOP

2007
  • Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstlerhaus, Eckernförde, Germany
2006
  • Residency in Künstler Atelier AKKU Uster, Uster, Switzerland
  • Workshop “Shooting Star Party”, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
2005
  • Workshop, Academy of Fine Art, Poznan, Poland

PUBLICATIONS

2006
  • ARS 06, catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Finland
  • KIASMA MAGAZINE 30-06, magazine, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Finland
  • LichtRouten Lüdenscheid, catalogue, Lüdenscheid, Germany
  • Lüdenscheider Rundschau, newspaper, 23 Sep. 2006
  • Elisabeth Davies “When I wish”, area revues, special issue [art et nuits], P.166
  • VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, catalogue, Girona, Spain, P.42
  • CYNETart_humane, catalogue, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany, P.44
  • EMAF:European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, catalogue, Germany
  • transmediale.06, catalogue, Germany
  • Shrewsbury Open 2006 – Unnatural Selection, catalogue, UK
  • Pink The Exposed Color in Contemporary Art and Culture, Edited by Barbara Nemitz,
  • Published by Hatje Cantz, P.310-311
2005
  • Helsingun Sanomat, newspaper Finland
  • Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, catalogue, Germany, P.40
2004
  • The World is Mine, catalogue, Japan, P.4-7
2002
  • PHILLIP MORRIS K.K. ART AWARD 2002-THE FIRST MOVE, catalogue, Japan, P.124-125