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