Fluid
Haruka Hirai exhibition
20th May – 20th June 2021
The medium becomes subject and the subject becomes medium. All climate presupposes this constant topological inversion, this oscillation that undoes the border between subject and environment, a role-reversing oscillation. Mixture is not simply the composition of elements but this precise relationship of topological exchange. Mixture is what defines the state of fluidity. […] The structure of universal circulation is fluid, the place where everything comes into contact with everything else and comes to mix with it without losing its form and its own substance.
EMANUELE COCCIA (2019). The Life of Plants
In my paintings, these elements of the thoughts and bodies, ideas and matter, oblivion and phenomena, blind spots and visual perception, and pages and space are not in a relationship of contiguity but in a mutual compenetration. Like the atmosphere (=fluid) that surrounds plants, the whole environment in which the painting is placed can merge with the painting itself, and the painting creates the space (=fluid).
Profile
1985 Born in Aichi, Japan
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
［Education］
2014-2016 the State Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe
2010 MFA, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
2008 BFA, Aichi University of the Arts, Aichi
［Solo exhibitions］
2018 Part2:Bookmark, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin
Part1:Superimpose, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin
Pagination, Luis Leu, Karlsruhe
2013 Gallery Anri, Aichi
2011 Close in Pages, Gallery Anri, Aichi
Paper on Paper, florlist_gallery N, Aichi
［Group exhibitions］
2019 fun with flowers, Orgelfabrik Durlach, Karlsruhe
Chronicle, Projektraum (Kunstquartier Bethanien), Berlin
2018 13+13 warten wechseln warten wechseln, EP contemporary, Berlin
2016 Mädchen 62, Villa Kolb, Karlsruhe
Sommer Exhibition 2016, the State Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe
2015 Inner History, iGallery, Tokyo
JDJHH, Mucharaum (the State Academy of Fine Arts), Karlsruhe
2014 Mother and Father, TALION GALLERY, Tokyo
2013 KAIGA-NO-HADO 2013 -Part2-, Art Gallery in Mitsukoshi LTD, Aichi
2012 KAIGA-NO-HADO 2012 -Part2-, Art Gallery in Mitsukoshi LTD, Aichi
DAIGAKU-KAIGA, Akibatamabi 21, Tokyo
The 11th Gunma Biennale for Young Artists, The Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Gunma
N-TEN (Exhibition N), Art Space X, Aichi Art Center, Aichi
SCENE 2, TIME & STYLE MIDTOWN, Tokyo
2011 KAIGA-NO-HADO 2011 -Part2-, Art Gallery in Mitsukoshi LTD, Aichi
Outline 2, KAGIYA Buiding, Shizuoka / florlist_gallery N, Aichi
2010 Kiryu Saien 16, Bakery Cafe RENGA in the Former Kanaya Residence, Gunma
Art Award Tokyo Morunouchi 2010, Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery, Tokyo
2009 International Workshop of Contemporary Art “Contemporary Drawing Exhibition -Views-“,
Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
YUKASHITA Electric, GENDAI-HEIGHTS Gallery Den, Tokyo
7 LAB., University Hall 2F Gallery, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
2007 The 5th Haruhi Painting Biennale, Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum, Aichi
［Award and Grants］
2017 Overseas Study Program for Artists, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japanese Government
2014 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship
2009 HOLBEIN Scholarship, HOLBEIN Works, Ltd., Japan
2007 Incentive prize, The 5th Haruhi Painting Biennale
［The Others］
2015 Jens 15AW “LAYERING BLUE”
2014 Jens 15SS “LAYERING BLUE”
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