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Yuko Hasegawa

Directora artística de la 2a Bienal de Tailandia en Korat

Yuko Hasegawa


Yuko Hasegawa is the Director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (April 2021–present), Professor in Curatorial Studies at the Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts (2016–present) and Artistic Director of Inujima Art House Project (2011–present). She was Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2016–March 2021).

She has curated numerous exhibitions, including the second Thailand Biennale (2021); rhizomatiks_multiplex (2021) and Olafur Eliasson: Sometimes the river is the bridge (2020), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Inter-Resonance: Inter-Organics, Japanese Performance and Sound Art, Sharjah Art Foundation (2019–2020); Dumb Type | Actions + Reflections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2019–2020); Desire: A Revision from the 20th Century to the Digital Age, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2019–2020); Sharjapan: The Poetics of Space, Sharjah Art Foundation (2019); Intimate distance. Masterpieces of the Ishikawa Collection, Montpellier Contemporain, France (2019); Fukami: A Plunge into the Japanese Aesthetic, Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, Paris (2018); 7th International Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2017); Sharjah Biennial 11 (2013); Hussein Chalayan - from fashion and back (Touring exhibition from the Design Museum London), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2010); and A Tokyo Culture Creation Project: Luxury in fashion Reconsidered: Special Exhibition (Kazuyo Sejima Spatial Design for Comme des Garçons), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2009-2010).

Her publications include the essays A New Ecology and Art: on the Clouds⇄Forests exhibition (Journal of Global Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices vol. 1, Tokyo University of the Arts, 2020); Grotesque and cruel imagery in Japanese gender expression: Nobuyoshi Araki, Makoto Aida and Fuyuko Matsui (The Persistence of Taste: Art, Museums and Everyday Life After Bourdieu, Routledge, 2018); Japanorama: Un Archipel en Perpétuel Changement (Japanorama, Centre Pompidou-Metz Editions, 2017); and Performativity in the Work of Female Japanese Artists in the 1950s–1960s and the 1990s (Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, 2010). JAPANORAMA: New Vision on Art Since 1970, the book version of the catalogue for the Japanorama exhibition at at the Centre Pompidou-Metz is published this year.

Hasegawa is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Istanbul Biennial (2017–present) and has previously served on the Advisory Committee of the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2014–2018), and the Asian Art Council at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2008–2012).

Hasegawa has been honored with Japan Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Award, the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan (2020), the Ordem de Rio Branco, Brazil (2017), and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France (2015).

She completed a BA in Law from Kyoto University and an MFA in Art History from Tokyo University of the Arts.

Hasegawa currently lives and works in Tokyo.


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Bienal de Tailandia Korat 2021

18 diciembre 2021 - 31 marzo 2022
Korat, Provincia Nakhon Ratchasima, Tailandia

Título: Butterflies Frolicking on the Mud: Engendering Sensible Capital
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Directora artística: Yuko Hasegawa

Co-curadores:
Tawatchai Somkong, Vipash Purichanont, Seiha Kurosawa

56 participantes

Organizador: Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture (OCAC)

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