A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection
Road(Retina)/Constellation #41 will be shown
venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
dates: Saturday, 3 August – Sunday, 10 November
opening hours: 10 AM – 6 PM (Tickets available until 30 minutes before closing.)
*Open until 9 PM on Fridays in August
closed: Mondays (except 12 Aug., 16 Sep., 23 Sep., 14 Oct.)
13 Aug., 17 Sep., 24 Sep., 15 Oct., 5 Nov.（8/12、9/16、9/23、10/14、11/4は開館）、8/13、9/17、9/24、10/15、11/5
Evidence of ABSENCE
venue: Geppart ASP Wroclaw Gallery (Poland)
dates: 4(Sun) – 27(Sat) July, 2024
Organizer: Department of Art Mediation, Faculty of Sculpture and Art Mediation, The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw (Poland).
curators: PhD Monika Aleksandrowicz and PhD Hab. Małgorzata Kaczmarska
Works on Paper
Exhibition to commemorate the publication of “DRAWING – Point and Line and Plane to Tube” and “Excavation Today”
venue: NADiff a/p/a/r/t Tokyo
dates: February 29(Thu) – March 24(Sun)
open hours: 12 PM to 8 PM | closed on Monday | close at 7 PM on Mar.1, 7, and 15
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March 15 (Fri) 19:30-21:00
Talk Session with Yusuke Asai (Artist)
Drawing Dialogue by Tim Ingold (Anthropologist) and Hiraku Suzuki
date: October 30(Mon), 2023
venue: Lecture Room 1, Fine Arts Department, Tokyo University of the Arts
Organized by: Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts; Global Art Practice, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
Excavation Today
venue: The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Gallery 4, 5
dates: September 16(Sat) – December 19(Tue)
closed on Mondays (except Sept. 18, Oct.9, Nov. 27, Dec. 11, 18), Sept. 19, Oct. 10, Nov. 13-23, Dec. 4-8, 14
open hours: 9:30-17:00 (tickets available until 16:30)
sponsored by JINS HOLDINGS Inc., agnès b. Japan Inc., YAMATO CORPORATION
cooperated by SHIROIYA HOTEL, rin art association
Solo Live Drawing + Talk
September 16(Sat) 15:30-16:00
Cross Talk: Meruro Washida (Director, Towada Art Center / Associate Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts) x Hiraku Suzuki
November 4(Sat) 14:00-15:30
Live Drawing with FUJI|||||||||||TA (Sound Artist)
December 2(Sat) 15:30-16:30
Gallery Talk by Curator
October 8(Sun), November 8(Wed) 14:00-15:00
DRAWING – Point and Line and Plane to Tube
Hiraku Suzuki’s first essay (in Japanese) published by Sayusha
“By thinking of drawn lines as tubes, Hiraku Suzuki revolutionises our understanding of the entangled world we live in.” Tim Ingold
Publication date: September 20, 2023
Hardcover, 284 pages
Design: Yukimasa Matsuda + Shoji Sugimoto, Cover: Hiraku Suzuki
ISBN978-4-86528-384-6 C0071
price: ¥2,400+TAX
Buy on Amazon：https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4865283846
Interconnection
Hiraku Suzuki and Keita Mori duo exhibition
venue: Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery (Tokyo)
dates: July 12 (Wed) – July 24 (Mon) 2023
10:00-19:00
※Close at 5:00 pm on July 24
CORRESPONDENCE: DRAWING SYMPOSIUM 2023
Presented by The National Centre for Drawing
venue: National Art School (Sydney) / Online
date: April 1 (Sat) 2023, AEST 9:30-5:00pm
Hiraku Suzuki will have a dialogue with Mr. Gary Warner at JST 1:15pm
SPEAKERS
Vernon Ah Kee (QLD) and Brian Martin (VIC)
Sera Waters (SA) and Kay Lawrence (SA)
Carolyn Craig (NSW) and Joan Ross (NSW)
Hiraku Suzuki (Japan) and Gary Warner (NSW)
Mural at the Towada Community Center – Stones Playing with Lights
The permanent mural “Stones Playing with Lights” has been completed at the Towada Community Center (designed by Sou Fujimoto), which opened in September 2022.
To commemorate the unveiling of the mural, a dialogue between Hiraku Suzuki and Sou Fujimoto will be held at the Towada Art Center. The event will be moderated by Meruro Washida, Director of the Towada Art Center.
Online streaming of a dialogue between Hiraku Suzuki (artist) and Sou Fujimoto (architect)
venue: Towada Art Center, Aomori (Japan)
dates: December 11(Sun), 2022 16:00 – 17:00
ROOTS & ARTS SHIRAOI
venue: Former Shiraoi Hakkutsudo (Hokkaido)
dates: August 27(Sat) – October 10(Mon)
video archive: Hiraku Suzuki x Rekpo (MAREWREW) Shiraoi Session 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh3lYWQl9es
Art Front Selection 2022 summer
Art Front Selection 2022 summer
venue: Art Front Gallery (Tokyo)
dates: August 5(Fri) – 28(Sun)
12:00-19:00
※Closed on Mon/Tue
Signals – Drawing Tube
Published by Drawing Tube (Hiraku Suzuki, Kazuki Nakahara, Tommaso Gorla, Nicole Lenzi)
Text by Jan-Philipp Fruehsorge (Curator)
Price: 15 Euros
Size: 285x210mm (108 pages)
Japanese/English Printed by KOPA (Lithuania)
ISBN: 978-4-9909559-1-5
http://www.nadiff-online.com/?pid=168912354
Book Launching Exhibition
http://www.nadiff.com/?p=27750
Title of the exhibition: “Signals” Drawing Tube
venue: NADiff a/p/a/r/t 1F (1-18-4 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
dates: July 7 (Thu) – July 31 (Sun) 2022
MOT Collection – Garden of Light / Continuing Whispers
venue: The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan), Collection Gallery 1F / 3F
dates: March 19(Sat) -July 19(Sun) 2022
opening hours: 10:00-18:00 (Tickets available until 30 minutes before closing.)
N/world
venue: MtK Contemporary Art (Kyoto)
dates: March 3(Thu) – April 3(Sun) 2022
10:00-18:00
Closed on Monday
Drawings – Plurality
artists: Hiraku Suzuki, Goro Murayama, yang02
venue: PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO (Shibuya)
dates: January 21(Fri) – February 7(Mon) 2022
Traces of Life
venue: Arts Maebashi (Gunma)
dates: November 13(Sat)2021 – March 6(Sun) 2022
NEW HORIZON – with Sohei Nishino
venue: EACH MODERN (Taipei)
38 Lane 79 Sec. 2 Xinyi Rd. Taipei 100 Taiwan；Postal Address｜7F 12 Sec. 2 Ren’ai Rd. Taipei 100 Taiwan / Tuesday – Saturday 12 p.m.- 7 p.m.
dates: October 22(Fri) – November 20(Sat) 2021
EXPOSITION GRAFFITI ET LA GALERIE DU JOUR AGNÈS B. 1985 – 2021
dates: September 24(Fri) – October 23(Sat)
“Wavering Light / Diffusing Color” Collection exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
venue: The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
dates: September 11(Sat) – November 7(Sun)2021
AGNÈS B. × HIRAKU SUZUKI COLLABORATION
“SIGNES SAUVAGE”
Summer Selection：Drawing Nature
venue: ART FRONT GALLERY
dates: August 6(Fri) – September 5(Sun) 2021
constellation #02
venue: rin art association
dates: Jun 20(Sun) – August 15(Sun) 2021
Next World – Taguchi Art Collection x Iwaki City Art Museum
venue: Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan
dates: April 3(Sat) – May 16(Sun) 2021
TOKYO CANAL LINKS 2021 “Drawing Orchestra featuring Abdelkader Benchamma”
date: March 12(Fri) 2021 19:30 – 21:00
venue: TERRADA ART COMPLEX Ⅱ 4F
drawers: Hiraku Suzuki, Daijiro Ohara, Abdelkader Benchamma, Kasetsu, Akiko Nakayama, Sohei Nishino, Mineki Murata, Yang02
visual technical support: Tomoya Kishimoto
sound design: Toshihiko Kasai
Archive Full ver. : https://youtu.be/IJABQB_-iQs
Space Shower TV Special : https://youtu.be/1Q_uAVaShIM
SILVER MARKER—Drawing as Excavating
Publication Information
Title: SILVER MARKER—Drawing as Excavating
Artworks and Text: Hiraku Suzuki
Design: Yuri Suyama
Essays: Simon Kaner (Archaeologist / Executive Director and Head of Centre for Archaeology and Heritage, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures), Ryuta Imafuku (Anthropologist), Tomoko Yabumae (Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)
Published by HeHe
Special Support: agnés b.
Price: 8,900 yen (excl. VAT)
Size: 285 x 210 mm / 144 pages / Codex binding / Slipcase
*The back cover of each book is customized by the artist’s hand-inscribed lines (traces).
Languages: Japanese / English
ISBN978-4-908062-30-8 C0071
Released in January 2020
—INSIDE THE COLLECTOR’S VAULT, VOL.1—
venue: WHAT, Tokyo
dates: 12 December, 2020–30 May, 2021
Intermedia Art 2020 APPARATION
venue: The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts
dates: September 20(Sun) -October 3(Sat)2020
Closed on Mondays and September 23(Wed)
YAMAGATA BIENNALE 2020
“Recollecting the new lines”
date: September 19(Sat)2020
online streaming
Silver Marker and Some Stones
“SILVER MARKER—Drawing as Excavating” Publication Commemorative Exhibition
venue: agnès b. galerie boutique (Tokyo)
Minamiaoyama 5-7-25, Minato-ku, Tokyo, agnès b. Aoyama 2F
dates：January 18 (Sat) – March 15 (Sun)
opening reception: January 17 (Fri) 18:00–20:00
MOT Annual 2019 Echo after Echo : Summoned voices, new shadows
venue: The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
dates: November 16(Sat) 2019 -February 16(Sun) 2020
events:
December 8(Sun) 2019, 14:00－15:30
Artists’ Talk/ Gozo Yoshimasu × Yoi Suzuki × Hiraku Suzuki
December 15(Sun) 2019, 15:00－16:30
Performance Session/ Hiraku Suzuki × Akio Suzuki
February 2(Sun) 2020, 15:00－16:30
Drawing Orchestra/ Hiraku Suzuki, Daijiro Ohara, Naha Kanie, Sohei Nishino, Saori Hala, Mineki Murata, Yang02, BIEN
Excavating Reflections
venue: Galerie chantiers Boîte Noire (Montpellier, France)
Hôtel Baudon de Mauny, 1 rue carbonnerie F-34000 Montpellier
dates: September 6(Fri) 2019 -November 9(Sat) 2019
BOOM
venue: MO.CO. Panacée
14 Rue de l’École de Pharmacie, 34000 Montpellier, France
dates: September 5(Thu) -September 8(Sun) 2019
Globe as a Palette ; Contemporary Art from The Taguchi Art Collection
venue: Sapporo Art Museum and others, Hokkaido, Japan
dates:
November 19 (Tue) 2019–January 13 (Mon) 2020 Sapporo Art Museum
September 7 (Sat) 2019 –November 10 (Sun) 2019 Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido
June 28 (Fri) 2019 –August 29 (Thu) 2019 Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido
April 16 (Tue) 2019–June 19 (Wed) 2019 Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art
The WALL 01 – SUZUKI Hiraku
venue: Sapporo Odori 500-m Underground Walkway Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan
dates: July 13(Sat) 2019 -January 14(Tue) 2020
Opening Hours: 7:30-22:00
ART MIYAGI 2019
venue: The Miyagi Museum of Art
dates: February 23(Sat) 2019 -April 7(Sun) 2019
hours: 9:30–17:00 (last admission at 16:30)
closed on Mondays
Talk event on March 30(Sat) 2019
Arawashi No Uta
venue: Hajimari Art Center
dates: November 10(Sat) 2018 -January 20(Sun) 2019
closed on Tuesdays and December 31 -January 4
The Writing of Meteors – Hiraku Suzuki Solo Exhibition
venue: EACH MODERN (Taipei, Taiwan)
address: 156 Sec. 4 Xinyi Road Taipei 106 Taiwan
dates: October 6(Sat) – November 7(Wed) 2018
hours: 12:00 – 19:00 (closed on Mondays)
opening reception: October 6(Sat) 15:00 – 18:00
Traffic – Hiraku Suzuki Solo Exhibition
venue: Art Front Gallery
address: Hillside Terrace A, 29-18 Sarugaku-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0033
dates: April 27(Fri) – May 27(Sun) 2018
hours: 11:00 – 19:00 (closed on Mondays, May 3-5)
opening reception: April 27(Fri) 18:00 – 20:00
Contemporary Art of the 21st Century – Taguchi Art Collection
venue: Hiratsuka Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan)
dates: April 21 (Sat) – June 17 (Sun) 2018
hours: 9:30-17:00 (admission until 16:30)
closed day: Every Monday (open on Monday April 30)
Drawing Now Paris – Le salon du dessin contemporain
venue: CARREAU DU TEMPLE / STAND B19
4 rue Eugène Spuller 75003 Paris
dates: March 22(Thu) – 25(Sun) 2018
hours: 11:00 – 20:00 (19:00 on Sunday)
Adventure in “Seeing”
venue: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
dates: January 27 (Sat) -June 24 (Sun)2018
hours: 10:00 – 18:00 (until 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays)
closed on Mondays (Open on Feb 12), and Feb 13 (Tue)
The Riddle of Art: Takahashi Collection
venue: Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
dates: December 23(Sat)2017 -February 28(Wed)2018
hours: 10:00–17:30 (last admission at 17:00)
closed on Mondays
Drawing Tube vol.03
Abdelkader Benchamma x Hiraku Suzuki Drawing＋Talk
dates: November 12 (Sun) 2017, 14:00-16:00
Venue: Tokyo Arts and Space Residency
Address: Arts Kikukawa 1F, 2-14-7 Tatekawa, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 130-0023
Abdelkader Benchamma, who is one of the world’s leading artists in contemporary drawing scene and has shown works at 54th Venice Biennale (2011), The Drawing Center (New York, 2015) and Sharjah Biennial 13 (2017), will have an experimental dialogue (Drawing+Talk) with Hiraku Suzuki who explores and seeks to expand the realm of drawing focusing on the relation between picturing and writing.
> http://www.tokyoartsandspace.jp/english/archive/2017/10/r1010.shtml
<related exhibition> Wall Art Project “Point To Line No.2 / Abdelkader Benchamma“
October 27 (Fri) 2017 -February 28 (Wed) 2018
venue: Agnes b. Ginza (Tokyo)
> http://www.agnesb.co.jp/
Flap-flop, Clap-clop: A Place Where Words Are Born
dates: October 20 (Fri) 2017 – January 16 (Tue) 2018
venue: Arts Maebashi (Gumma, Japan)
■“Genesis of Writing”- A dialogue with Kyuyo Ishikawa (calligrapher) is included in the exhibition catalogue published by SAYUSHA Inc.
■Hiraku Suzuki Live Drawing Performance / Dialogue with Ryuta Imafuku (a professor of Anthropology and Communication at the Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)will be held on December 9(Sat) 2017.