Takehiro Iikawa

Based in Kobe, Japan; in Milan, Italy, from November 2026

Current & Upcoming

Art that Moves! Kinetic Art Exhibition—The Art of Light, Sound and Movement

Group Exhibition
Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
October 10 – November 29, 2026

Even Where We Cannot See, Something Is Always Happening

Group Exhibition
Tenjishitsu Project
Chofu City Cultural Hall Tazukuri, Tokyo, Japan  
October 15, 2026 – January 24, 2027

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Decorator Crab (2007–ongoing)

Since 2007, Decorator Crab has evolved as a long-term project that transforms ordinary spaces through elusive and unexpected interventions.

Inspired by a marine creature that camouflages itself with fragments of its surroundings, the works often remain hidden, revealing themselves only through chance encounters.

The works appear as traces—drawings, sculptures, videos, and installations—resisting fixed interpretation and complete understanding.

By staging presences that are at once fragile and uncanny, Decorator Crab emphasizes contingency, unpredictability, and the impossibility of fully sharing experience.

The project has unfolded across galleries, museums, city streets, and landscapes, inviting audiences to discover new ways of perceiving space and relationality.