This exhibition invites international artists from Japan, Thailand, and Serbia, who are connected through the Choja-machi School of Arts, a 'creative playground' designed in Nagoya, Japan. Under the theme 'Our Imaginative Boundaries,' this platform forms a playground that facilitates artistic interactions and exchanges across national borders.
นิทรรศการนี้เชิญศิลปินระหว่างประเทศจากญี่ปุ่น ไทย และเซอร์เบีย ซึ่งมีความเชื่อมโยงกันผ่าน Choja-machi School of Arts ซึ่งเป็น 'สนามเด็กเล่นแห่งความคิดสร้างสรรค์' ที่ถูกออกแบบขึ้นในนาโกย่า ประเทศญี่ปุ่น ภายใต้ธีม 'ขอบเขตจินตนาการของเรา' แพลตฟอร์มนี้ได้สร้างสนามเด็กเล่นที่ช่วยให้เกิดการโต้ตอบและแลกเปลี่ยนทางศิลปะข้ามพรมแดนระหว่างประเทศ
Artists for the exhibition:
Japan: Harada Aiko, Hasegawa Hitomi, Moriya Ken, Murakami Masakuni, Murata Jin, Oki Keisuke, Yamada Ko
Thailand: Sitthidham Rohitasuk, Supoj Siriratchaneekorn, Somsak Hemarak, Preyawit Nilachulaka, Satit Raksasri, Thanom Chapakdee
Serbia: Dejan Ilic, Marko Jozić
Japan
原田 愛子 Born in Shizuoka, currently living in Nagoya-city, Aichi, Japan.
She graduated from Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, (Bachelor of Arts).
She is working as an artist “Harada Little Photography”.
Her recent exhibitions are
“1st MIMOCA EYE” at Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (Kagawa, Japan),
“The 24th Exhibition of Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art” at Taro Okamoto Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan),
“The New Cosmos of Photography 2019” at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan),
“Designmonat Graz” at Universalmuseum Joanneum (Graz, Austria),
AICAD ART EXHIBITION 2018 at National Art Gallery Langkawi Branch (Langkawi, Malaysia), and [ I am home. ] at Gallery of University of Kragujevac (Kragujevac, Serbia).
Website: https://chiisai-shasin.jimdo.com/
Japanese photography and illustration artist who has resided in Bangkok since 2021. Some of her projects are forced on people on a margin of society̶those who do not have a home and who are trying to go somewhere. Recently she has done crucial solo documentary photography exhibitions about social issues in a rural area in Thailand.
Curated Group Exhibitions:
Mar,2023 「Atavism」FOFA Gallery Srinakharinwirot University
Oct,2021 Liminal Terrestrial Mnemonic Master Class exhibition,FOTORAMA FESTIVAL 11 University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
May 2019「A Double Helix of Kinsey」(Designmonat Graz - UNESCO City of Design/Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Oct2018 AICAD 2nd Asia International Conference of Art and Design. Art Exhibition National Art Gallery Langkawi, Malaysia
Aug 2017” I am home” Reciprocal photography Project(Japanese and Serbian emerging photographers)University of Kragujevac,Serbia
Solo Exhibision&Lecture
2022 “Dog eat Dog” National Museum Kragujevac for FOTORAMA FESTIVAL (International Photography Festival) Kragujevac, Serbia Aug.
2022 “Dog eat Dog” Exhibition as a collaborative project of Aichi Triennale 2022 Aichi, Japan
2022 Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences Guest Artist lecture 2022
Awards
TIFA 2018 book category 2nd
PX3 2020 documentary category 3rd
2021 Newyorkphotographyawards Photojounalism 1st
2022 Juria Margaret Cameron Awards honorable mention
Born in 1968 in Japan
He is a corporate photographer and video producer.
He worked for an advertising agency before going freelance.
He also works as a director and videographer.
He aims to create corporate productions that are easy to understand for everyone because they are commercials.
Recently, he has been working on picture books and videos to support medical professionals.
He concerns about the gap between victims and medical care at disaster sites.
He hopes that VR360, drone AI, and the latest technology of science can bridge this gap, even if only a little.
Based in Nagoya, Japan.
Associate Professor at Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences, School
of Media and Design, Department of Visual Media.
MFA, Aichi University of the Arts.
Guest student, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Heidi Specker class.
He attempts to record the scenes by photograph as a diverse
visuality brought about by human activity, which cannot be covered by the word "landscape" alone.
http://www.masakunimurakami.com/Murakami%20Masakuni_en.html
Poet
Born in Mie, Japan in 1979.
He leaves behind "poetry" through iconography, space, and action.
He pays close attention to what he can and cannot understand with others.
He presents poetry workshops, installations, and performances.
He wants a slow, improvisatory quiver of words.
2004 MFA, Contemporary Arts, Nagoya University of Arts, Aichi Japan
2002 BFA, Painting, Nagoya University of Art, Aichi, Japan
Exhibitions
2023 [Art in the darkness] Komaki Library Gallery Aichi,
2017 [The frog song. Beautiful Young Generations] KASUGAI Culture Forum Gallery Aichi,
2016年 [Group works and Collaborations] By “Blue Mayonnaise” with Ryoichi Komatsu. Art Labo Aichi, Nagoya,
[Through the Window] KASUGAI Culture Forum Aichi,
2011[KODOMO ART in MIE -Draw a Hart-] Mie Pref Art Museum,
2009 [5th Anniversary Exhibition: Hundred Stories about Love.]
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Ishikawa,
2006-5[site scenes] Bremen Nagoya Art Project Ehemaliges Polizeirevier Bremen, Germany - MISOKURA KANESEI, Aichi, Japan
2003 [The Constellating Recollections] with Mr.Ko Yamda Artist Photographer
Mount Holyok University MA United States
Projects
Present-1999 [Blue Mayonnaise] (collaboration of poetly readings,performance with Mr.Ryoichi Komatsu)
Present – 2012 [Art Center Yojo-Han] Projects, are (Takuji Okagawa, Jin Murata, Hirotaka Yasuhara, Ko Yamada) Poetry class “SIKARA (From Poem)” in Yojo-Han
Present – 2020 [ART FARMingTV] Projects.
Artist, Musician, Coder
Lives and works in Tokyo.
He started out creating post-minimalist and conceptual art works, but eventually began using video, computers, and synthesizers to create visual and aural digital art works. His work focuses on the cultural positioning of the body, brain, and intelligence. The work in this exhibition is an installation of his own brain scanned by MRT.
Born and raised in Japan. Graduated from Ohio University (BFA and MFA in photography),
Representative of PAC and Chojamachi School of Arts.
His artworks include photography, sound installations, book projects, newspaper projects, and
performances. After he was presented as an international artist for Aichi Triennale 2016, he
concentrated more on art projects and established an art collective called Chojamachi School of
Arts. His artworks and projects are widely exhibited internationally. He also teaches at art
colleges and graduate schools in Aichi prefecture, Japan.
Recent Exhibitions: 2016 [Specimen of Good-byes] FOTORAMA06 (Serbia), [Greater Aichi Naruheso
Newspaper]Aichi Triennale (Japan), 2017[coucou, Je suis revenue]Saint-Etienne International
Design Festival(France), 2019 [A Double Helix of Kinsey] Graz Design Month (Austria),
2019-Present [ART FARMing & ART FARMing TV] project representative.
Thailand
Sitthidham Rohitasuk
Assistant Professor in the Visual Art Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand.
He holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from Srinakharinwirot University, and a Ph.D. (History) from Chulalongkorn University for his dissertation titled “History of Art Competitions in Thailand from the Late 1930s to 1980s” (2014). He has published Three books in Thai: Art and Culture Groups in Thailand: The Survey of Status and Movement 1973–1987 (2009), Modern Art in Thailand: Looking Through the Movement of Private Art Galleries and Commercial Art Trading in Bangkok, BE. 2500 to decade BE. 2530 (2017), and Development of Concept and Creation in Thai Contemporary Art (2021). He had published art article in various media continuously.
He is also an artist. Since 2002, he had participated more than 100 Group Show both in Thailand and International Exhibition. Sitthidham Rohitasuk devoted his life for create Abstract Expressionist and Expression Painting. He used Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor and Mixed Technique for reflex his emotion and feeling from outside and inner world.
Solo Exhibition Äb0
2Äb0023 Äb0- Äb0Traces of Solitude Äb0Painting Exhibition at XSPACE Gallery, BKK.
2Äb0022 Äb0- Äb0Spontaneous and Interlace Äb0at Kinokuniya Book Shop, Siam Paragon, BKK.
2Äb0021 Äb0- Äb0Broken Silence Reminiscence Äb0Painting Exhibition at Kalwit Studio and Gallery, BKK.
2Äb0020 Äb0- Äb0IMPROVIBRATION Äb0Painting Exhibition at Palette Artspace, BKK.
2Äb0011 Äb0- Äb0The Reflection of Nature Äb0at Gallery Project 151, NAN Thailand
2003 Äb0- Äb0More than I can say: Collages and Assemblage 2002Äb0-Äb02003 Äb0at Es@Space Seameo- Spafaa, BKK.
2002 - Move to Sensitive Space Äb0(Äb0Conceptual PhotographyÄb0, IÄb0nstallation and Äb0VideoÄb0) Äb0at
Space Contemporary Art Bangkok
Supoj Siriratchaneekorn
Art Lecturer in the Visual Art Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Srinakharinwirot University.
He holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from Rangsit University and Srinakharinwirot University.
He has published books in Thai: Various Perspective of Art (2022), Perception and Expression in Contemporary Painting (2022)
He is also an artist and exhibiting painting works together with published art article in various media continuously.
Somsak Hemarak
Art Lecturer in the Visual Art Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Srinakharinwirot University.
He holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from Srinakharinwirot University and a Ph.D. (Arts and Design) from Burapha University.
He is also an Ceramic artist and Ceramic Product Designer.
Preyawit Nilachulaka
Preyawit Nilachulaka was born in 1977 in Bangkok, also known as Mr. Sexman, is a Thai artist, whose work observes and questions the relationship between the society and the roles we play as citizens. Having been influenced in his teen years by living in Japan, his works are often described as carrying the manga-esque aesthetics of storytelling and composition associated with Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball.
In the Death of Bob, the artist’s most recent body of works, Nilachulaka explores the theme of death and loneliness. Combining the Buddhist ideology with the consciousness to memento mori, the artist uses satire as a way to mentally come to terms with the inevitable truth: that one day we all must die. This is especially relevant in today’s battle with the global pandemic, which forces many families to be apart, through quarantine and social distancing, to the point that some even dub the infection, “the lonely disease”.
Nilachulaka has created “Bob”, a man who finds himself immortal after surviving his first death. The Death of Bob follows the man with a mask and his current existence suspended between life and what lies beyond. Bob places himself in increasingly dangerous situations, finding that the only way for the immortal to feel truly alive is to be in close proximity to oblivion.
Satit Raksasri
He was born and raised in a most densed and biggest slum Klongtoey, Bangkok. He graduated in Visual Art: Imaging Art from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Srinakharinwirot University.
Now he is independently work in the field of art namely painting, mixed media, and live performance art by applying it in creating installation, illustration, teaching children art,etc.
Latey he has chances work charity project with many communities including Klongtoey slum and soi Latya 15 with Muzina (Japanese shoes brand based in the area).
His Abstract work uses various of medium a lot of it including trashes from the sea or waste from factories to reflect awareness of how we lives life impact our world.
His works participated international art events such as: Wonderfruit Festival(Pattaya Thailand,Matsumoto and Asian Art (Nagano Japan), Guys Action Xi'an China), Unstable media art festival (Taipei, Taiwan), Community Art Project (Dawei, Myanmar] and Multiple solos in Poland.
Thanom Chapakdee
Thai artist, activist, and lecturer. Born in 1958 in Sisaket, northeastern Thailand, he was of Laotian heritage. Thanom was a well-known arts lecturer at Srinakharinwirot University and held degrees from the University of Kent and Chulalongkorn University. He was a prominent figure in art criticism, theory, and activism.
Starting his career in print media in 1977, Thanom was a sharp critic, contributing to Thai magazines like the Nation Weekend Magazine and The Isaan Record. He believed strongly in the "aesthetics of resistance" and the connection between art, democracy, and freedom. Post-2014, following Prayut Chan-o-cha’s military coup, Thanom actively protested against censorship and political repression.
Thanom co-founded the U-Kabat performance art group in 1995 and co-organized the Asiatopia performance art festival. He was involved in various cultural committees and festivals, including the Southeast Asia Cultural Committee to the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, and the Biennale Jogja.
In 2018, he retired and founded the Khon Kaen Manifesto, a biennial focusing on decentralizing Thai contemporary art. He also co-founded The Manifesto by MAIELIE, an independent art space in Khon Kaen, to promote independent art and activism in Thailand's northeastern region. Thanom's work significantly influenced the art and activism scenes in Thailand, leaving a lasting legacy.
He passed away on June 27, 2022, at 64 years old.
Serbia
Multi-media artist with a Ph.D. in the field of Applied Art and Design. He believes in unique and powerful visual identities. Preferred tools are concepts, communication, and comradery. In the early stages of his career, he becomes a teaching assistant at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.
After winning the award for experiment poster design “Dualism” he goes to Norway to work with popular Pop-Art artist Hariton Pushwagner, as a buffer for international relations as a creative director to execute visual assets and powerful narratives across platforms. While in Scandinavia he was hired as an art director by “Made in America Production” company from Oslo, Norway, and “Showup! Entertainment” from Stockholm, Sweden. Upon return from Scandinavia, he started working in a design school “Bodan Suput” where he taught and mentored young students in the field of graphic design. He is a Co-Founder of a digital art space platform called Metroplex 2022.2122, which creates a symbiosis of art and culture through a digital platform with curators from Serbia and Japan.
So far, he has completed over fifty projects in the sphere of graphic communications and media art with various artists, clients, and companies from all over the world. International exhibitions in countries such as Japan, USA, Norway, Austria, Turkey, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus...and more.
Recent Exhibitions:
- Art On Loop | New York, USA.
- Metroplex 2023.2122 | Hiroshima Chapter - Novi Sad, Serbia.
- Večno mladi Šuput 75 | Academy of Arts Gallery - Novi Sad, Serbia.
- Stripolis | Comic-Con - Zrenjanin, Serbia.
- K4LE/ДО5KOP 2023 | District - Novi Sad, Serbia.
- Metroplex 2023.2122 | Nagoya University of Arts & Science - Nisshin Aichi, Japan.
- Metroplex 2023.2122 | Nishinari Ward - Osaka, Japan.
- Metroplex 2023.2122 | Cotton Building - Nagoya, Japan.
- Metroplex 2023.2122 | Private Exhibition - Tokyo, Japan.
- Forma 25 | Academy of Arts Gallery - Novi Sad, Serbia.
- Metroplex 2022.2122 | Novi Sad, Serbia.
- “Zeniteum :: 2022” | City center - Novi Sad, Serbia.
- STG | Los Angeles Center For Digital Art - Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- K4LE/ДО5KOP 2022 | District - Novi Sad, Serbia.
- Crystal Community Showcase | Crystal Dynamics - Redwood City, CA, USA.
Marko Jozić
Marko Jozić was born in 1987. He is the founder and producer of the organization Novo kulturno naselje from Novi Sad, Serbia. He is currently studying for a PhD in the Drama and Audiovisual Arts module at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.
He is the producer of a large number of festivals, art programs, exhibitions, films, plays, radio and TV shows, music videos and various other cultural, educational and humanitarian programs. He has been engaged in social activism since 2014, where he combines his knowledge and experience in the field of artistic production with socially responsible and useful work, as well as work in the community with citizens.
He is currently working on several different art and film projects, and one of the most prominent is the digital art platform Metroplex 2022.2122, which he is developing together with artists and curators from Japan and Serbia.