Through his installation-based video and photography, Youki Hirakawa explores an unmeasurable sense of time and longing. His almost monochrome imagery is touched with a melancholic quality, reconnecting the past with a vivid present. Deftly contrasting still imagery and moving footage, his work recalls its basis in frames per second.

Prior to his move to Germany for several residency programmes, Hirakawa expanded his practice through the investigation of unofficial history. He constructs films as if to reveal the hidden memories or narratives of their settings. Capturing a scene, his subjects become a vernacular landscapes inside the exhibition space, resuscitating sensibilities that may have been obscured through human activity.


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Born in 1983 in Nagoya, Japan. Lives and works in Berlin and Toyota, Japan.


15-16 - Overseas Research Fellow | Japanese Government Oversea Research Program, Agency for Cultural Affairs, JP
14-15 - Resident Artist | Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, DE
13-14 - Overseas Research Fellow | Pola Art Foundation, JP
11-12 - Fellow | Akademie Schloss Solitude, DE
09-11 - Research Associate | Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences, JP
08 - M.A | Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences, Cinema and Installation, JP


Selected Solo Exhibitions

15 - Into a Horizon | White Rainbow, London, UK
15 - Close Your Eyes | Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
15 - Same Places, Different Phases -Energy, Matter and Time | Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, DE
15 - Unseen/Unscene | Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel, Wolfenbüttel, DE
14 - In remembrance of Disappearance | MOT/ARTS, TW
14 - Event Horizon | Standing Pine, JP
14 - Solo Project "Sculpting the Disappearance" Art Basel Hong Kong | HKCEC, HK
13 - Until You Fall into a Deep Sleep | Minokamo City Museum, JP?
13 - Silence of Nature / Nature of Silence | Akademie Schloss Solitude, DE?
12 - Timeless and Silentness | Standing Pine, JP
12 - Mute Time | Kyoto Arts Center, JP
11 - Slight Signs of Something | Standing Pine, jp
09 - Unlinked Images | Standing Pine, jp


Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings

15 - Transient Visions | Spool Mfg, New York, USA
15 - Maybe We Are the Waves | Archive Kabinett and Glogauair, Berlin, DE
15 - il Fiume | Case Sparse, Malonno-BS, IT
15 - Our Eyes | Double Square Gallery, Taipei, TW
14 - Nuit Blanche London | White Rainbow, London, UK
14 - Sapporo International Art Festival | Sapporo, JP
14 - Bildhauen | Dominik Mersch Gallery, AUS
14 - aily Reflections | Total Museum of Contemporary Art, KR
13 - Aichi Triennale 2013 | Nagoya and Okazaki, JP
13 - Survival 11 | Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw , PL
13 - Stranger | National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, TW
13 - Subterranean Echoes | Center for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin, DE
13 - Festival Miden | Histric Center of Kalamata, GR
13 - Twilight, and we have something in mind | Hsin chu Art Museum the Art Park, TW
12 - Aichi Art Program | Okazaki-city, JP
12 - Moving | Kyoto Cinema, JP
1 2- Ko-in -lights,shadows,time | Okazaki Mind-scape Museum, Okazaki, JP
12 - In Our Backyards | Werkschau/Spinnerei, Leipzig, DE
12 - Now&After | Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Vyatka Art Museum, RU
11 - Moving | Kyoto Cinema, JP
11 - Outer's Void | Nagoya City Archives, JP
11 - 8th Busan International Video Art Festival | Space Bandee, KR
11 - Media Art Biennale WRO "Nippon Conception" | Wro Art Center, PL
11 European Media Art Festival "Nippon Conception” | Filmtheater Hasetor, Osnabrueck, DE
10 - Raster Noton Japan Tour | Club Mago, Nagoya, JP
10 - Aichi Triennale 2010 "The Nakagawa Canal" | Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, JP
10 - Cinesonika | Simon Fraser University Surrey Theatre, CA
09 - Electrofringe | Playhouse, Newcastle, AU
08 - Day Dream | Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, JP
08 - 12th Japan Media Art Festival | Nationla Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo, JP





Selected Awards and Grants

15 - Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation | Exhibition Grant
14 - Nominee of Hector Preis 2015 der Kunsthalle Manheim
14 - Nomura Foundation | Grant
13 - Pola Art Foundation | Overseas Research Fellowship
12 - 16th Japan Media Art Festival | Jury Selections for Art Division
12 - Now & After, International Video Art Festival Moscow | 2nd Prize
12 - Nomura Foundation | Exhibition Grant
11 - Akademie Schloss Solitude | Fellowship
10 - Allotment Travel Award | Grant
10 - Cinesonika | Grand Prize
08 - 12th Japan Media Art Festival | Jury Selections for Art Division
08 - Aigin Education and Cultural Foundation | Grant
07 - Toyota Art Competition | Excellent Prize of Sculpture Division



Residency Program
15 - Case Sparse | Malonno, IT
14-15 - Kunstlerhaus Bethanien | Berlin, DE
12-13 - ZK/U, Center for Art and Urbanistics | Berlin, DE
12 - United Residencies (L.I.A, Pilothenkueche, Fugitif) as an Exchange Program | Leipzig, DE
11-12 - Akademie Schloss Solitude | Stuttgart, DE


Bibliography

Our Eyes | Double Square Gallery, 136P, EN/CN, ISBN:9789869186704
"Youki Hirakawa, Repository of Time, Jens Asthoff" BE 22 | Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, EN/DE
"Youki Hirakawaa, Into a Horizon, Emily Steer" | Elephant Magazine, EN
"Youki Hirakawa, A Glass Made of Water" PIPLINE Issue 47 - Dreams | Pipeline Magazine, EN/CN
"How to Escape from the Disappearance of Memory and the Death of Consciousness: Youki Hirakawa’s Object-oriented Videos. Po-Wei Wang" | MOT/ARTS, EN/CN
ARTITUDE 60 | Yamore Books, CN
SIAF 2014 - Echoes of Urban Form: People | Heibonsha, A5, 224P, ISBN:9784582206784
Aichi Triennale 2013 Official Catalogue | A4, 300P, EN/JP
Technology and Desire | Rania Gaafar, Martin Shulz | Intellect, 350P, ISBN:1841504610
Until You Fall into a Deep Sleep | A5, 34P, EN/JP | Minokamo City Museum, JP
Because of Solitude | A5, 1200P | Edition Solitude, EN/DE
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