Keiji Uematsu
Introduction
« What I want to do is to make visible existence, visible connections et visible relations appear more clearly.
And to cause non-visible existence, non-visible connections and non-visible relations to appear.
And to cause visible existence, visible connections, and visible relations not to appear.
What shall I now do with the world (cosmos) which denies man understanding and where these three relations comprise on antinomies ?
How and what shall I discover in the world ?
Shall I find a new meaning in the world ?
How to shape relations between people ?
These are questions which deeply concern me. »
Keiji Uematsu.
« My desire is to create a work in which a lack of a single element will cause the entire structure, the invisible existence of things and their relationships, to collapse like a cosmos. »
Keiji Uematsu.
Biography
1947 Born in Kobe, Japan
1969 Received B.A from Department of Education, Fine Art, Kobe University
1975 Lived in Dusseldorf
1986 Lived in Dusseldorf and Nishinomiya, Japan
1995 Lives in Minoh, Japan and Dusseldorf
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1976-77 Skulptur-Foto-Video-Film, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Sweden
1977 Plastik und Foto, Stadtisches Museum Wiesbaden
Ausschnitte 1, Stadtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf
1979 Skulptur, Foto, Heidelberger Kunstverein
1980 I.C.C. (International Cultureel Centrum), Antwerpen, Belgium
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munchen / Kunstform,
Munchen
1980-81 Installation Axis-Latitude-Longitude, P.S.1, New York
1981 Installation and Photo, Osaka Prefectural Contemporary Art
Center
1984 Structures-Cloth/branch, Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam
1991 Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund
Breakaway Time/Space, Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo
1992 Ursula Blickle-Stiftung, Kraichtal
1994 It's possible-Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Stadtmuseum
Siegburg
1997 Behind the Perception, Otani Memorial Art Museum,
Nishinomiya City
2003 Eyes under physical consideration, photographs, video and films,
1972-2003, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka
2003-04 Inclination of the Earth's Axis, Aomori Contemporary Art Center,
Aomori
2005 Kunstlerverein Marlkasen, Dusseldorf
2006? The Garden of Time, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya
City
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1969,70,71,73,74,75,79,84,95, Galerie 16, Kyoto
1974,88,90,00,01,O4,05,O6, O7,O8,10 Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka
1981,83,86,91,92,o1,01,04,08, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris
1981,85,89,93, Galerie Lohrl, Monchengladbach
1984,87,97,03 , INAX Gallery,Tokyo
1989,93, Gallery Kasahara,Osaka
1989,Galerie Kiki Maier-Hahn, Dusseldorf
1990,91,93,97,03, Wassermann Galerie, Munchen
1992,94,97,99, Gallery Kuranuki,Osaka
1996,Hillside Gallery,Tokyo
1999,00, KCAL-Kansai Contemporary Art Laboratory, Amagasaki
1999,02,05,07,09 Nomart Project Space,Osaka
2009 Le Cafe Francais Art Gallery, Brusseles
Gallery Nomart, Osaka
Selected Recent Group Exhibition.
1985-86 Sculptures, Fondation Cartier pour L'Art Contemporain,
Jouy-en-Josas, France
1987 Fabric in Space-form of fabric, thread, Tokyo Metropolitan Art
Museum
1988 XLIII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte la Biennale di Venezia,
Giardini di Castello, Venezia
1989 Setoda Biennale, Setoda-Cho, Hiroshima
1990 Von der Natur in der Kunst, Wiener Festwochen, Messepalast
Wien
Arte Lago '90, Lago di Monate, Verese, Italy
The 12th Contemporary ScuIpture Exhibition,
Suma Detached Palace Garden, Kobe
1991 Movement of Contemporary Art-Sculpture,
Museum of Modern Art Toyama
1993 The 15th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture,
Ube Outdoor Sculpture Museum ('95, '97)
1994 Art in Kansai 1950's-70's,
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe
3rd Kitakyushu Biennale, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art
1995 Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years,
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo /
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art /
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe /
Fukuoka Prefectural Museum
1996 A Presentiment of the 21st Century - An Exhibition of
50 Contemporary Japanese Artists, Navio Museum, Osaka
1997 GRAVITY - Axis of Contemporary Art, The National Museum of
Art, Osaka
1999 Nakahara Teijiro Prize Exhibition,
Asahigawa Sculpture Museum, Asahigawa
2000 Helsinki 2000 Art Gardens, Toolonlahti Bay, Helsinki
Echigotsumari Art Triennial 2000, Echigotsumari, Niigata
Times are Changing, Auf dem Wege! Aus dem 20. Jahrhundert,
Kunsthalle Bremen
Kirishima Open - Air Museum, Kirishima, Kagoshima
2003 Les materiaux de la sculpture, Hotel du Departement,
Marseille
2004 Kraftfeld 3.Kulturforum Schlossmeierhof, Dusseldorf
Leben mit Kunst, Sammlung Maximillian und Agathe Weishaup
Museum fur Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt
20 Jahre Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmunder Kunstverein
2005 Pocheon International Sculpture Symposium, Pocheon City,
Republic of Korea
2006 Gold Rush, Takuma+1+1, Keumsan Gallery, Heyri Art Vallery,
Paju City,
Republic of Korea
Public Art in Japan, Museum of Contemporary art, Sapporo,
Setagaya Art
Museum, Tokyo
2007 Communicatin : Japanese Video Art 1968-1988, The getty
Research
Institute, Los Angeles
Japanese Contemporary Art Festival, Heyri Art Vallery, Republic
of Korea
Beauty of Heavenly Bodies and Universe, The Museum of
Modern Art Shiga, Shiga
24 hours 7 days a week, Artversum, Dusseldorf
2008 Art of Photography Phography as Art, Osaka Municipal Museum
of Modern Art, Osaka
Ab in den Suden....Meierhof project, Dusseldorf
2009 Waiting for Video - works from the1960s to today, The National
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Kobe Biennale 2009, Kobe
Bit.fall- Wasserfall, Doutonbori, Osaka
2010 Ohara Best, Ohara museum, Kurashiki
Seeing - Photography in 1970s by six artists-, Fuji Xerox Art
Space, Yokohama
Collection 2 National Museum Osaka, Osaka
2011 Art Elysées Fair ? baudoin lebon, Paris
Parallèles dans l?espace-temps, Skoda et Uematsu, baudoin lebon
gallery, Paris
Prize
1973
The 8th Japan Art Festival Excellent Prize
1974
The Kobe City Cultural Encouragement Prize
1990
The 12th Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Grand Prize
1993
The 15th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture,
Ube-Industry.Ltd, Prize Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa Prize
1995
The 16th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture,
Ube-Industry.Ltd, Prize
1996
The 23rd Open Air Sculpture of Nagano City, Prize
1997
The 28th Nakahara Teijiro Excellent Prize
The 17th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture,
Ube-Industry .Ltd, Prize Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Prize
1998 The 22nd Iue Culture Prize
1999 The 6th Asago 2001 Outdoor Sculpture in Tataragi '99, Grand
Prize
2010 The Kobe city Cultural Prize
BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Keiji Uematsu, 1969 ? 1991, Nomart Editions, 1991
Keiji Uematsu, Arles, Salles romanes du cloître Saint ?Trophime, juillet ? septembre 1982, Keiji Uematsu, 1982.
Keiji Uematsu, skulptur foto video film, Moderna Museet, Stockholm 11 décembre 1976 - 23 janvier 1977.
Keiji Uematsu, Cultuur en ontmoetings centrum de Warande, Turnhout, 15 april - 5 mai 1980, International Cultureel Centrum, Antwerpen, Anvers Belgique, 1980.
public collections
Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris