Mai born in 1976 in Chiba, Japan and Naoto born there in 1974 both gained a degree at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music before they studied at the Universität der Künste in Berlin as guest students. Together they realized a high number of solo and group exhibitions.
Education: Mai Yamashita
2001 B.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
2004 M.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
2005 Universität der Künste Berlin, Class Stan Douglas, Guest student
Education: Naoto Kobayashi
1999 B.A. The University of Tsukuba, School of Art and Design
2002 M.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
2005 Universität der Künste Berlin, Class Stan Douglas, Guest student
Prizes
2006 The Asahi Shimbun Foundation, Stipend, Japan
The Nomura Cultural Foundation, Stipend, Japan
Honorable Mention of transmediale.06, Berlin
Special Prize of VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain
2nd Prize of Gstaad Film Festival 2006, Gstaad, Switzerland
2007 The Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists, Japan
Special Prize of VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain
Residencies
2006 Künstler Atelier AKKU Uster, Uster, Switzerland
2007 Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstlerhaus, Eckernförde, Germany
Solo exhibitions
2001 dam has broken, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo
2007 1000 Waves, Kunsthalle Lingen cabinet, Germany
infinity, ZAIM Annex 304, Yokohama, Japan
Yamashita Kobayahshi Repeast Playback@Maruya, Naoshima, Japan
2008 INUZORI, Rasche Ripken Berlin, Germany
Group exhibitions (selection)
2002 Philip Morris K.K. Art Award 2002 -The First Move, Tokyo International Forum
Green Space, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Ibaraki, Japan
2003 Green Space 2_licht/schatten, Haus am Horn, Weimar, Germany
2004 The World is Mine, Hiromi Yoshii Five, Tokyo
2005 EMERGENCY 2, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
2006 ARS 06-Sense of the Real, The Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki
LichtRouten Lüdenscheid, Lüdenscheid, Germany
Small mischiefs, Pump House Gallery, London
Indblik, Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark
O.V. L by REC, MIACA, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
Staring into Space, Trafó-House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest
It is strange to be so many women, Ellen de Bruijne Projects
2007 I Am Future Melancholic, Tate Modern, London*
I Am Future Melancholic, GoGallery, Milan, Italy
Crawford Open 2007, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Works by Emerging Video Artists, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN, US
Theory of Everything, DongFang The Cinema of the Far East, Napoli
Museumsnacht, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany
2008 Yokohama Art & Home Collection, Kanagawa, Japan
The Doctoral Program Final Exhibition, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
GOING TO OUESSANT-Video on the island, Ouessant, France*
Re-imagining Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
When I wish upon a star + Infinity, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium
BACKLIGHT 08, 8th International Photographic Triennial, Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Tampere, Finland
Performance
2008 “infinity”, Re-imagining Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Workshops
2006 “Shooting Star Party”, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki
“It’s a small world”, Japanese School in Zürich
Website
www.yamashita-kobayashi.com
