Keiji UEMATSU
Introduction
« What I want to do is to make visible existence, visible connections et visible relations appear more clearly. And to cause non-visible existence, non-visible connections and non-visible relations to appear.
And to cause visible existence, visible connections, and visible relations not to appear.
What shall I now do with the world (cosmos) which denies man understanding and where these three relations comprise on antinomies ?
How and what shall I discover in the world ?
Shall I find a new meaning in the world ?
How to shape relations between people ?
These are questions which deeply concern me. »
Keiji Uematsu.
« My desire is to create a work in which a lack of a single element will cause the entire structure, the invisible existence of things and their relationships, to collapse like a cosmos. »
Keiji Uematsu.
Biography
Solo exhibitions (selected)
2022
- An Invitation to a Nonsensical Journey - Dreams of Seeing, Kirishima Open Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
 
2021
- Way of Touching the Invisible-Intuition, Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Ashiya
 
2019
- Invisible Force , Simon Lee Gallery, New York
 - Look back on the future-Hypothesis , Gallery Nomart , Osaka
 - Invisible Force and Floating , Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku, Tokyo
 
2018
- Spotlight, Frieze New York,New York (Solo presentation from Arario Gallery)
 - Invisible Force, Galerie Loehrl, Monchengladbach
 
2017
- Beyond Sculpture:Drawing as Object, Object as Drawings, BB Plaza Museum of Art, Kobe
 - Invisible Gravity, Gallery Nomart, Osaka
 
2016
- Invisible Force, Simon Lee, London, United Kingdom
 - Invisible Force, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Dusseldorf, Germany
 - Seing / measuring / ?., baudoin lebon, Paris, France
 
2015
- Arario Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
 
2014
- In / Between, with Nobuko Watanabe, baudoin lebon, Paris, France
 - Invisible axis - distance and angle, Nomart Gallery, Osaka, Japan
 
2013
- Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
 
2012
- Nomart Porject Space, Osaka, Japan
 - Gallery 16, Kyoto, Japan
 - Parallèles dans l?espace-temps, with Vladimir Skoda, baudoin lebon, Paris, France
 
2011
- Yumiko Chiba Associates, Viewingroom Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
 - Keumsan Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
 
2010
- Yamaki Fine Art Gallery, Kobe, Japan
 
2009
- Le Café Français Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
 - Nomart Gallery, Osaka, Japan
 
2006   
- The Garden of Time, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan
 
2005
- Kunstlerverein Marlkasen, Dusseldorf, Germany
 
2004
- Inclination of the Earth's Axis, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan
 
2003
- Eyes under physical consideration, photographies, video and films
 - Municipal Museum of Art Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan (1972-2003)
 
2001
- baudoin lebon, Paris, France
 - Löhrl Gallery, Mönxhengladbach, Germany
 
1999
- Kansai Contemporary Art Laboratory, Amagashi, Japan
 - Kuranuki Gallery, Osaka, Japan
 
1997
- Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan
 - Kuranuki Gallery, Osaka, Japan
 - APA Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
 - Edwin-Scharff-Haus, Ulm, Germany
 
1996
- Axis-Latitude-Longitude, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 
1995
- Invisible Structure, Béatrice Wabermann Gallery, Munich, Germany
 - Axis-Latitude-Longitude, Gallery 16, Kyoto, Japan
 
1994
- Touch of Spiral, Galerie Kuranuki, Osaka, Japon
 - It?s possible -Skulpturen und Zeinchnungen, Stadtmuseum Siegbur, Germany
 
1993
- The Breathing Space, Wabermann Gallery, Munich, Germany
 - Kasahara Gallery, Osaka, Japan
 - APA Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
 
1992
- The Breathing Small Cosmos, with baudoin lebon, FIAC, Paris, France
 - baudoin lebon, Paris, France
 
Group exhibitions (selected)
2022
- Your view, everyone`s view Saporo Art Park, Hokkaido, Japan
 
- Five Topics on Museum Collection, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya city, Hyogo, Japan
 
- Hello Super Collection, Nakanoshima Museum of Art , Osaka, Japan
 
- 50 Jahre Galerie Loehrl, Galerie Loehrl, Monchengladgach, Germany
 
- Collection Room Spring term, Kyoto city KYOCERA MUSEUM of ART, Kyoto, Japan
 
- DialogueーThe power of form -Works from the collection of Otani Memorial Museum of Art, Nishinomiya City, Japan.
 
- Back to 1972, Otani memorial Museum of Art, Nishinomiya City, Japan
 
- Permanent exhibition -Focusing on new collections while the museum is closed, Shiga Museum of Art. Shiga, Japan
 
- Since 1989 Nomart- Artists x Workshop, Ginza Atrium, Tokyo, Japan
 
- Tanaka Tsuneko Collection, The Museum of Modern Art Wakayama, Japan
 
2021
- Teijirou Nakahara Award 50th Anniversary Special Exhibition, Asahigawa city?Museum of Sculpture
 
2020
- Collection : the Aesthetics of Contemporary Japan, The National Museum of Japan, Osaka
 - 250 Years of kyoto Art Masterpieces, from Edo to Today, The Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art
 - Deutsche kunst im 20jahrhundert, the Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima
 
2019
- Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s-1990s, MMCA, Republic of Korea, National Gallery Singapore,
 - Dave HARDY?Keiji UEMATSU?Letha WILSON, g??,?N.kg-1, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris
 - Inside Out: Jiro Takamatsu and Keiji Uematsu in Conversation, Royal Society of Sculptors, Dora House , London
 - La mesure du monde, Musee regional d'art contemporain Octitanie, France
 
2018
- Travelers:Stepping into the Unknown, The national Museum of Art, Osaka
 - Towards Infinity :1965-1980 , Simon Lee Gallery , New York
 - Awakenings : Art and Society in Asia 1960s-1990s, The National Museum of Art, Tokyo
 - Pretty Good Privacy, China Art Academy of Art, CAA Museum, Hanzhou, Zheijiang, China
 
2017
- Schwarz Weiss, Galerie Loehrl, Monchengladbach, Germany
 - Voice of Asia, Arario Gallery, Shanghai
 - Out of Real, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo
 
2016
- Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern Gallery, London, UK
 - Sculptures Gathering, Prefectural museum of art of Hyogo, Japan
 
2015
- Art Can, with Nomart Gallery, Jahresgaben 2015, Osaka, Japan
 - KIAF, with baudoin lebon, Seoul, South Korea
 
2014
- Image and Matter in Japanese Photography from the 1970?s, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
 
2013
- Ohara Contemporary, Ohara Museum, Kurashiki, Japan
 - India Art Fair, New Delhi, India
 - Art Show Busan, Busan, South Korea
 
2012
- Acte V, Réattu Museum, Arles, France
 - Artisic Interaction: Avant-garde Kansai, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan
 - Zauber spiegel, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
 
2011
- To the 1970?s, Turnigpoint of Photography & Art, Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
 - The men challenge to Iron, BB Plaza Art Museum, Kobe, Japan
 
2010
- Ohara Best, Ohara Museum, Kurashiki, Japan
 - Seeing - Photography in 1970?s by six artists, Fuji Xerox Art Space, Yokohama, Japan
 - Collection 2, National Museum of Osaka, Osaka, Japan
 
2009
- Waiting for Video - works from the1960s to today, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
 - Kobe Biennale 2009, Kobe, Japan
 - Bit.fall - Wasserfall, Doutonbori, Osaka, Japan
 
2008
- Art of Photography - Phography as Art, Osaka Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Japan
 - Ab in den Suden... Meierhof project, Dusseldorf, Germany
 
2007
- Japanese Contemporary Art Festival, Heyri Art Valley, South Korea
 - Beauty of Heavenly Bodies and Universe, The Museum of Modern Art Shiga, Japan
 - 24 hours 7 days a week, Artversum, Dusseldorf, Germany
 
2006
- Gold Rush, Takuma +1+1, Keumsan Gallery, Heyri Art Valley, Paju, South Korea
 - Public Art in Japan, Museum of Contemporary art, Sapporo, Setagaya Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
 
2005
- Pocheon International Sculpture Symposium, Pocheon, South Korea
 
2004
- Kraftfeld 3, Kulturforum Schlossmeierhof, Dusseldorf, Germany
 - Museum fort Concrete Art, Ingolstadt, Germany
 - 20th Anniversary of Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany
 
2003
- Les matériaux de la sculpture, Hôtel du Département, Marseille, France
 
2000
- Year Exhibition, Travel to Art, Kuranuki Gallery, Japan
 - Helsinki 2000 Art Garden, Töölöahti Bay, Helsinki, Finland
 - Yoshio Kono and his Comrade, ABC Gallery, Osaka, Japan
 - BILD Objekte, Löhrl Gallery, Mönchenglabach, Germany
 
1997
- Print & Multiple, Minami Gallery, Moriyama, Japan
 - Kansai Contemporary Art Laboratory, Amagasaki, Japan
 - Haus Kasuya Museum, Yokosuka, Japan
 - Compact Disc V.A., Kobe Art Village Center, Kobe, Japan
 - One tsubo art, Kuranuki Gallery, Osaka, Japan
 - Sanctuary of Art, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan
 - Collection and exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Japan
 
1996
- Fascinating Cotemporary, Prints by 14 Artists, Kobe Art Village Center, Kobe, Japan
 - Tuch Fühlung Object aus Stoff, Flottmann-Hallen, Herne, Germany
 - Faret Tashikawa : The presence of Metropolis and Art, Technical National Museum, Praha, Czech Republic
 - Body and Object, Kuranuki Gallery, Osaka, Japan
 
1995
- Museum of Contemporary Art of Hiroshima, Japan
 - Prefectural Museum of Art of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan
 - Prefectural Museum of Fukuoka, Japan
 - Round-About, Béatrice Wabermenn Gallery, Munichen, Germany
 - Sculptures, Löhrl Gallery, Mönchengladbach, Germany
 - Art Helmet, Gallery 16, Kyoto, Japan
 - Drawings and Sculptures, Schüppenhauer Gallery, Köln, Germany
 
1994
- Wood, Maier-Hann Gallery, Düsselsorf, Germany
 - A Walk Around Sculpture, Water and Green, Kurashiki, Japan
 - Drawings Today, Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
 - Drawings Part I, Kuranuki Gallery, Osaka, Japan
 - Reliefs, Kuranuki Gallery, Osaka, Japan
 
public collections
- Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
 - The National Museum of Art, Osaka
 - Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
 - Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City
 - The National Museum of Art, Osaka
 - The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama
 - Ohara Museum of Art
 - Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art
 - Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
 - Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture
 - Moderna Musset, Stockholm
 - Staditsche Galerie im Lenbachhaus
 - Kunsthalle Bremen
 - Staditsche Museum Wiesbaden
 - Museum of Modern Art, NY
 





                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        
                            
                        