The South Gallery will feature new sculptural, video and paper works done by Takehito
Koganezawa, during his residency at the Villa Aurora. This prestigious residency is awarded to German based artists in a variety of disciplines. Known for his performances turned into multimedia installations, his neon works and silent videos inspired by an oriental approach to the moving image, Koganezawa’s drawings and collages find their roots in surrealism’s automatic writing as well as in the 1980s new figuration in painting. They are characterized by an unconventional use of space, coupling representational elements (human figures, animals) with abstract motifs and shapes, and playing with discrepancies in scale and geometries.

Koganezawa was born in Tokyo in 1974 and has lived in Berlin since 1998. He has shown his work internationally at institutions such as the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; Institute of Visual Art, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery; Institute for Contemporary Art, London; Internationales Filmfest, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; La Biennale de Montreal, Canada; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Queens Museum, New York; the Mori Art Center, Tokyo; and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.