Publishing information;

The Setouchi International Art Festival 2010 that Yanagi participates in is now open on the stage provided by the Seto Inland Sea, and made possible by the contemporary art born of the history and culture of these islands.

Yanagi exhibits three art works of him as a Art House Project in Inujima.

For more information, please visit the web site of this project.

Setouchi International Art Festival 2010 official web-site

http://setouchi-artfest.jp/en/

Yanagi will participate as a panelist in the first symposium of Setouchi International Art Festival 2010 that will be held in this summer.

date: July 4(Sun),2010. 14:00 - 16:00
Venue: Okayama International Center

chairman: Wakato Ohnishi.

panelists: Fram Kitagawa, Yukinori Yanagi, Kazuyo Sejima, Yuko Hasegawa.

video chat: Soichiro Fukutake.

Kiyoko Mitsuyama writes about the artist's 1995 installation at Guggenheim Museum, New York, in  "Hinomaru Illumination‐Amaterasu and Haniwa‐" , in her recent publication  "The contemporary art from Japan -The History of exhibition in the Occident 1945～95"( pp.166-171).  

"The contemporary art from Japan -The History of exhibition in the Occident 1945～95"

The author / Kiyoko Mitsuyama

Keiso Shobo, 2009

For more information about this publication, please visit

http://www.keisoshobo.co.jp/book/b51624.html

"Visual Arts Forum 2006 2007 2008"

is the collection of lectures presented in "Visual Arts Forum" held in Korea in 2006-2008.  Yanagi delivered the presentation on his Inujima Project in this symposium (pp262-271).

 "One Firm, Many Faces / Weil Gotshal Art Collection, 2009 Brochure" introduces "Hinomaru"( 1991, Peter Blum Edition).

For more information, please visit

http://www.weil.com/files/upload/Diversity_2009.pdf

For more information about this program,  please visit

http://www.yaf.or.jp/yma/friends/010/

”Boundary”

Yanagi's work "The World Flag Ant Farm 1991 - Asia - " is exhibited in the exhibition.

Date: December 23 , 2009 − April 11, 2010

Venue: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

For more information, please visit 
http://www.hcmca.cf.city.hiroshima.jp/web/main_e/exhibitions.html

(November 15, 2009 No. 256 / P.42 - 45 )

For more information, please visit 
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-language/product/B002T54NJI/ref=dp_change_lang?ie=UTF8&language=en%5FJP

(October 24, 2009 No. 668 / P.119-121)

For more information, please visit
http://periodici.repubblica.it/d/?num=668

"Setouchi International Art Festival in 2010"

The poster for the project "Setouchi International Art Festival 2010" in which Yanagi will be participating has been completed.

http://www.bk1.jp/product/03155311

from Yanagi's finding Inujima to the completion of Inujima art project "SEIRENSHO".

Participating artist Lee U-Fan, Rei Naito, Noe Aoki, and Yukinori Yanagi show the plan of their works.

Date: April 17, 2009 11:00-13:00

Venue: Hillside Plaza,Tokyo
http://setouchi-artfest.jp/en/news/post/53/Presentation+of+%22Setouchi+International+Art+Festival%22+for+the+Press/

"Yukinori Yanagi MONEY on view"
Yanagi Yukinori's solo exhibition is held in MIYAKE FINE ART.

This gallery is located in Kiyosumi-shirakawa, Japan.

Date: April 11(Sat) – May 23(Sat), 2009

Opening time: 13:00 – 19:00 (Closed: Sunday, Monday and national holiday)

Venue: MIYAKE FINE ART

For more information, please visit

Editing: Chim↑Pom, Kenichi Abe

Contribution: Yuko Hasegawa, Noe Sawaragi, Ren Fukuzumi, Kiyoshi Kusumi, Shinya Watanabe and others.

Special symposium: Ichiro Hariu, Makoto Aida, Yukinori Yanagi.

This exhibition has been held in New York, and Tokyo before.

Yanagi exhibits these three works "The Forbidden Box", "Article 9," "Banzai Corner" in this exhibition.

Date: April 11 – May 17, 2009

Venue: Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Exhibition Gallery 1, 2

http://www.museums.pref.okinawa.jp/english/art/index.html

Date: April 11, 2009 18:30-

Venue: Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum

Coordinator: Shinya Watanabe

Panelist: Yukinori Yanagi, Yuken Teruya, Tsutomu Makishi, Mao Ishikawa, Toyomitsu Higa
http://www.spikyart.org/atomicsunshine/okinawa/indexen.html

Date:April 25 – July 5, 2009

Venue: The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

This event is running by Yokohama AAN (Art Autonomy Network) and it's about the presentation for professional.

Date:March 15, 2009 14:00-18:00

Venue:NOGE Hana＊Hana（1-42-2 Hanasaki-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 231-0063 Japan）

January 31, 2009 14:00-

Key-note address: IMAFUKU Ryuta

Coordinator: MAETAKENISHI Kazuma

Venue:Hill side terrace annex-A (Daikanyama)
HILLSIDE TERRACE
YANAGI Yukinori, etc.
For more information, please visit
http://a-i-t.net/index.php






John Ravenal who is the contemporary art curator of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts which is in Richmond, US writes about the works of YANAGI Yukinori.

For more information, please visit

Symposium
November 15, 2008

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Yanagi is the director of Hiroshima Art Project 2008, "Brackish Water Area", scheduled to open in this upcoming November.
For more information, please visit
http://www.hiroshima-ap.jpn.org/project/index.cgi/JA/HAP2008

"Into the Atomic Sunshine - Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9"

Symposium

August 6, 2008

Hillside Forum, Tokyo

YANAGI Yukinori (Artist), KAJIYA Kenji (Writer), etc.
http://www.spikyart.org/atomicsunshine/indexj.html

"Four Views of the Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art"

Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa

YANAGI Yukinori, etc. (Curator: MOGI Kenichiro)

http://www.jiu.ac.jp/yma/2008/fourviews/

"Into the Atomic Sunshine - Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9"+"Four Views of the Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art" Event

MOGI KEnichiro and TERUYA Yuken

Moderator: WATANABE Shinya

July 4, 2008 16:30-18:00

Venue: Yokohama Museum of Art

June 6, 2008

"Hiroshima Art Management Laboratory"

Lecturer: YANAGI Yukinori, KITAGAWA Furamu






2008.4.29 update

“Inujima Art Project” is now on view!

By appointment only. For more information, please visit

http://www.inujima-ap.jp/e/index.html

2008.4.16 update

Inujima Art Project will be open to public on April 27, 2008!
Yanagi's site-specific artworks will be permanently on view in this epoch-making art project.
For more information, please visit the project's official web-site;
http://www.inujima-ap.jp/e/index.html

Publication
2008.1.30 update
"Hiroshima Art Project 2007"

Exhibition Catalogue "Hiroshima Art Project 2007" (general director: Yukinori Yanagi) will be published in late January, 2008.
257x182x20mm, 278pages with DVD. \3,000yen.

Exhibition
2008.1.10 update
"Into the Atomic Sunshine - Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9"

Yanagi's work is exhibited in the exhibition "Into the Atomic Sunshine - Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9" in New York.
This exhibition is on view from Saturday, January 12, 2008 - Sunday, February 10, 2008

at: Puffin Room (SOHO, New York) 435 Broome St New York, NY 10013
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 12th, 2008 6-8PM

Exhibiting Artists (Alphabetical Order):
Vanessa Albury, Allora ＆ Calzadilla, Kota Ezawa, Eric van Hove, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Yasumasa Morimura, Nobuyuki Ohura, Yoko Ono, Motoyuki Shitamichi, Yuken
Teruya, Yukinori Yanagi

For more information, please visit
http://spikyart.org/atomicsunshine/atomicsunshineexhibitione.html

2007.10.24 update

At Benesse Art Site Naoshima (Kagawa, Japan), the symposium "History and Art in the (Seto) Inland Sea" will be held at 12:00-13:15 on November 24th, 2007.

Panelists: Okaichi Tomotoshi (Professor, Kagawa University), Furamu Kitagawa (Director, Chichu Museum), Soichiro Fukutake (President, Naoshima Fukutake Art Foundation) and Yukinori Yanagi (Artist)

For more information please contact Benesse Art Site Naoshima.
Tel. 087-892-3755
Fax. 087-840-8285
E-mail. garden@chichu.jp

2007.10.24 update

Yanagi's work will be on view at Hillside Forum, Daikanyama, Tokyo , from November 6, to November 18, 2007.

Hillside Forum; 18-8 Hillside Terrace F, Sarugaku-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (closed on Monday).
For more information, please call Hillside Forum at .03-3476-4868

2007.10.24 update

Yanagi's work "Hinomaru Container" (1992) is now on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo through April 13, 2008.
For more information please visit
http://www.mot-art-museum.jp/jyosetu/

2007.6.11 update

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts recently published a catalogue of their contemporary collection.
Yanagi's work "Dollar Pyramid" (2000) is introduced in this beautiful catalogue.

 

 

 

For more information, visit VMFA's web-site. http://www.vmfa.museum/moderncat.html
For more information of the work "Dollar Pyramid", collection of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, please visit http://www.vmfa.museum/collections/2000_81.html

2007.4.17 update

Yanagi's exhibition update

Yanagi's past works are on view in the following exhibitions;

☆　"Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Ueda" at Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo dates: April 21 to June 3, 2007 for more information please call 03-3577-1821 or visit http://www.city.nerima.tokyo.jp/museum/tenji/ueda_ten.html 　(Japanese site)

☆　"Simply Red" at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, US dates: April 7 to April 28, 2007

http://www.fabricworkshop.org/exhibitions/simplyred.php

☆　" SCENES AND SEQUENCES " at Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland dates: May 3 to July 22, 2007 http://karaart.com/events/switzerland/aargau/galleries/aargau-galleries.html

2007.1.5 update

Inujima Project's on-site explanatory meeting for local residents was held at Inujima Community Center

December 10, 2006 Inujima Project's on-site explanatory meeting for local residents was held at Inujima Community Center. Mr. Soichiro Fukutake, project's general director, talked about what Inujima Project was aiming at, then followed by the presentations of Mr. Hiroshi Sambuichi, the architect, and Yanagi, the artist. Yanagi emphasized how the "art" would play a role in this project, as he also presented his recent project called "Kyu-Naka-Kojo Project" in which the ruined waste incineration plant in Hiroshima would be transformed into a contemporary art center by Yanagi's direction. Local residents, mostly elderly people, then participated actively in the discussion, whose serious concern is population decrease in Inujima and its aging society. TV Asahi, one of the Japanese major tv networks, sent its camera crew to this meeting in Inujima, for the purpose of making a documentary of this project. The construction is scheduled to start in February 2007 in Inujima.

2006.11.8 update

Yanagi's work is on view in "In Focus: Living History" at Tate Modern, London, UK.

Yanagi's 1996 work "Pacific" is now on view in the exhibition "In Focus: Living History" at Tate Modern, London. This exhibition features 25 artists whose works refer to the most historic events of the last 100 years.

Exhibition opens on November 11, 2006 through April 1, 2007.
click here for more information http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/livinghistory/default.shtm

2006.11.8 update

Yanagi's early 90's works are now on view in Yokohama and Sapporo, Japan.

Exhibitions' information is as follows;

"Collection from Yokohama Museum of Art"

at Yokohama Citizen's Gallery in Azamino, Yokohama, from November 1, through November 12, 2006. (contact: 045-910-5656)

"Twenty Artworks in Recent Twenty Years; from the collection of Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art"

at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, from November 3, 2006, through January 14, 2007. (contact: 011-591-0000)

2006.7.20 update

KNK Project's web-site is now open.

The former waste incineration plant in Hiroshima, called Kyu- Naka-Kohjo, is to be regenerated by the means of "art." The department of Contemporary Art and Theory at Hiroshima City University where Yanagi teaches initiates the project. (The site is only in Japanese.) 　 http://nakakoujou.jugem.jp/

2006.6.30 update

　　　　

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, owns all completed portfolios, single prints, and books produced by the Peter Blum Edition from the time it was founded in 1980 through June 1994, and houses all existing preparatory drawings, maquettes, working and trial proofs, and printing blocks or plates, as well as unique and unpublished works. The total number of pieces in the archives is over 1,000. Yanagi's portfolio "Hinomaru" (1990) is on view in this exhibition. The exhibition catalogue " Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Edition Archive, 1980-1994 " has been published on the occation of this exhibition.

at: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX 77005 USA)

2006.2.27 update

An exhibition catalogue "Icarus Project" has been published.

This exhibition catalogue consists of three parts; vol.1: curator's essay and artist's profile vol.2: exhibition catalogue with photo documentation and artist's statement and essays vol.3: DVD "Icarus Project" The catalogue will soon be available from this web-site.
click here for the photos of Icarus Project at Fukuoka City Museum of Art

2005.12.22 update

The exhibition "Swarm" (Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA) is now on view through March 18, 2006.

exhibition date: December 5, 2005 to March 18, 2006
place: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, 1315 Cherry Street 5th floor, Philadelphia, USA
contact: info@fabricworkshopandmuseum.org
www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org

Yanagi exhibits "America"(1994) and the commissioned piece "One Dollar"(2005) in this exhibition. Live ants' performance is shown in "One Dollar"through the exhibition. Besides Yanagi, artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Paul Pfeiffer and Fred Tomaselli are in the show.

2005.12.14 update

Symposium about "Soaring" was held at Fukuoka Art Museum on November 19, 2005.
Panelists are: Kazuhiko Hachiya (artist), Hiroshi Fuji (artist) and Yukinori Yanagi. Three artists enthusiastically spoke about their dream of "soaring". On December 15th, Yanagi gave a lecture on his "Icarus Project" in the museum to art history major students of Kyushu University.

2005.9.28 update

UPCOMING EXHIBITION
"Icarus Project" will be on view at Fukuoka City Museum
"Icarus Project" is Yanagi's solo exhibition at Fukuoka City Museum which runs from October 5th through December 27th, 2005.

Fukuoka City Museum (closed on Mondays)
address: 1-6 Ohori Koen, Chuoku, Fukuoka, Japan
contact: 092-714-6051

related events
-artist talk, November 5th (Sat), 13:30～

-conversation on "dream of soaring", Yukinori Yanagi with Kazuhiko Hachiya (media artist) and Hiroshi Fuji (artist), November 19th (Sat), 13:30～

2004.12.2 update

Yanagi's presentation on Inujima Project at Naoshima Meeting #7 at Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum (Benesse House) on November 25, 2005.

2004.4.15 update

UPCOMING EXHIBITION
"20th Anniversary Exhibition: Copy Age From Duchamp through Warhol to Morimura"
at The Museum of Modern Art, Shigafrom June 5 through September 9, 2004

Exhibited are Study for American Art -192 One Dollar Bills (2000), Yukichi KV644955H(2002) Money Crane Blinds(2002), and Banzai Corner(1991).
Click here

For more information
place:contact Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, at 077-543-2111 (phone), or visit http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~sg-kinbi/index.html

2003.11 update

January 18, 2004
Yanagi gives a lecture on Inujima Project at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.

Yanagi gives a lecture on Inujima Project at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art on January 18, 2004 (in Japanese). He also shows computer graphics movie and slides of Inujima Project.

Yukinori Yanagi Artist Talk
place: Museum Studio at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (1-1 Hijiyama Koen, Minami-ku, Hiroshima City)
date: January 18 (Sunday), 2004, pm2:00
admission: free
contact: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, phone 082-264-1121 http://www.hcmca.cf.city.hiroshima.jp/

2003.10.3　Yanagi Studio opened its Okayama administrative office on October 3, 2003.

2003.9.29　Inujima Project Official web-site is opened on September 29, 2003.　　click here

2008 Yanagi Studio