exhibitions
I Hear Music (Solo)
4 July – 23 September 2024
BankART Station, Yokohama
https://www.bankart1929.com/shimabuku/en/
“Octopus, Citrus, Human” (Solo)
5 October 2024 – 9 March 2025
Centro Botin, Santander, Spain
https://www.centrobotin.org/en/exposicion/shimabuku/
past exhibitions
OPEN WORLD
Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai 2023
9th December 2023 – 30th April 2024
https://www.thailandbiennale.org
Steirischerherbst ’23 – Humans and Demons
21 September – 15 October 2023
Graz, Austria
https://www.steirischerherbst.at/en/
Biennale Son
16 September to 29 October 2023
Martigny, Switzerland
https://www.biennaleson.ch
“Moon, Potato, Swan and Sounds” (solo)
1 June – 21 July 2023
Galleria Zero…, Milano, Italy
Me, We (solo)
6 May – 3 September 2023
Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Dans l’air
21 March – 11 September 2023
Hanger Y, Meudon, France
Instrumental (solo)
9 September 2022 – 8 January, 2023
Wiels, Brussels
Les Eaux Composées
14 – 31 December 2022
École européenne supérieure d’art de Bretagne
Swan Goes to the Sea / Let’s Make Cows Fly! (solo)
11 September – 19 November, 2022
Air de Paris, Romainville (Grand Paris)
Instrumental (solo)
9 September 2022 – 8 January, 2023
Wiels, Brussels
もうひとつの京都 ALTERNATIVE KYOTO
1 October – 7 November, 2021
Tongu, Iwashimizu Hachimangu, Kyoto
Cinema Galleggiante
24 & 27 August, 2021
Cinema Galleggiante, Giudecca, Laguna di Venezia, Italy
July, August, September
14 August – 24 September, 2021
http://julyaugustseptember.net, St. Apernstrasse 13, Cologne, Germany
Some things Happen Twice: Elephant comes from the Sea
15 July – 12 September, 2021
Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki
The Imaginary Sea
20 May – 18 October, 2021
Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles Island, France
The 165-metre Mermaid and Other Stories (solo)
19 February – 3 October, 2021
NMNM New National Museum of Monaco, Villa Paloma
I Love Art 15 – Living Tokyo
5 September, 2020 – 31 January, 2021
The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
gerlach en koop Was machen Sie um zwei? Ich schlafe.
19 September – 20 December, 2020
GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
La Mer Imaginaire (The Imaginary Sea)
25 April – 4 October, 2020
Foundation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France
Playmode
10 September, 2019 – 17 February, 2020
MAAT Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia | Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon
Sensing Nature From Within
28 September, 2019 – 8 March, 2020
Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden
Amuse-bouche: The Taste of Art
19 February – 17 May, 2020
Museum Tinguely Basell, Switzerland
The Sorcerer’ Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn
14 September 2019 – 2 February, 2020
The Contemporary Austin, U.S.A.
Sur les ailes du désir – on flying artistic objects
12 October to 10 November, 2019
Le 19, Centre régional d’art contemporain, Montbéliard
Creatures
10 May – 18 August, 2019
The CAC, Cincinnati, U.S.A.
Texture of Life
3 August – 29 September, 2019
Reborn Art Festival 2019, Ishinomaki, Japan
Sculptures for an octopus – What colour does an octopus like?
13 July – 1 September, 2019
Suma Aqualife Park in Kobe
タコのための彫刻 ー タコは何色が好きか?
13 June – 1 September, 2019
Suma Aqualife Paek Kobe
国立国際美術館コレクション:美術のみかた自由自在
18 December,2018 – 5 February, 2019
Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka
Pour les pieuvres, les singes et les Hommes (solo)
13 September – 16 December, 2018
Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac, France
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale
29 July – 17 September, 2018
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale
Take Off
14 June – 28 October, 2018
Maison Rouge, Paris
Looking at Animals
25 May – 30 September, 2018
Turner Contemporary, Kent, U.K.
In Tune with the World
11 April – 27 August, 2018
Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Bow to Bow (solo)
30 May – 30 June, 2018
Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London
Kodomo No Kuni
7 April – 30 June, 2018
L’Onde, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
AQUARIA
9 – 31 March, 2018
DAAD Galerie, Berlin
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
2 December, 2017 – February, 2018
11 Columbia, Monaco
Reborn Art Festival in Tokyo
20 October – 30 December, 2017
WATARI-UM: The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
The Show Must Go On
22 September, 2017 – 21 January, 2018
Kunst Museum Bern, Switzerland
FLOATING WORLDS
20 September, 2017 – 7 January, 2018
14th La Biennale de Lyon, France
Reborn-Art Festival
22 July – 10 September, 2017
Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan
VIVA ARTE VIVA
13 May – 26 November, 2017
57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale de Venezia, Italy
“Offshore: artist explore the sea”
1 April – 28 August, 2017
Ferns Art Gallery & Hull Maritime Museum, U.K.
AQUA: ART for the World
22 March – 2 July, 2017
Ile Rousseau & château de Penthes, Geneva, Switzerland
Futures
14 April – 28 May, 2017
CAC: Contemporary Art Center, Lithuania
Bow to Bow (solo)
3 March – 13 April, 2017
Barbara Wien Gallery, Berlin, Germany
While I was also Listening To …
13 January – 5 March, 2017
La criée – centre d‘art contemporain, Rennes, France
The Animal Mirror
until January 27, 2017
ISCP, New York
Development
9 October – 27 November, 2016
Okayama Art Summit 2016, Japan
FOOD–Ecologies of the Everyday
11 June – 2 October, 2016
13th Triennial of Small-Scale Sculpture, Fellbach, Germany
The Snow Monkeys of Texas
22 May – 23 July, 2016
Solo show at Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Cuban Samba
7 May – 23 July, 2016
Solo show at Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid, Spain
Echo of untouched matter
15 January – 20 March, 2016
Lothringer 13, Munich, Germany
Äppärät
25 September – 14 February, 2016
The Ballroom Marfa, Texas, U.S.A.
A History
2 July, 2014 – 7 March, 2016
Pompidou Centre, Paris
Dojima River Biennale 2015 Take Me To The River
25 July – 30 August, 2015
Dojima River Forum
MOUNTAINS WITH A BROKEN EDGE
22 May – 22 June, 2015
Bienal de la Havana
#catcontent
18 April – 21 June, 2015
Kunstpalais, Erlangen
Exchange a mobile phone for a stone tool (solo)
16 April – 17 May, 2015
Wilkinson Gallery, London
A Climate Fictionalism
21 March – 17 May, 2015
Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei
The Way Things Go
13 February – 24 May, 2015
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
A History
2 July 2014 – 7 March, 2016
Pompidou Centre, Paris
When Sky was Sea (Solo)
21 November, 2014 – 11 January, 2015
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Taipei Biennial
13 September, 2014 – 4 January, 2015
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Imagineering: Okayama Art Project
2 November – 25 December, 2014
Okayama Art Project
Sea and Flowers (Solo)
3 September – 31 October, 2014
Wien Lukatch
Sapporo International Art Festival 2014
19 July – 28 September, 2014
Sapporo International Art Festival 2014
Manners of Matter
1 May – 13 July, 2014
The Salzburg Kunstverein, Austria
Will Happiness Find Me?
19 April – 29 June 2014
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Flying Me (Solo)
4 April – 25 May, 2014
Kunsthalle Bern, Swiss
City in the Sea (Solo)
21 March – 10 May, 2014
Air de Paris, France
Noto (solo show)
27 April, 2013 – 2 March, 2014
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Aquatopia: The imaginary of the ocean deep
12 October, 2013 – 18 January, 2014
Tate St Ives, U.K.
Le Pont
25 May – 20 October, 2013
Musée d’art contemporain, Marseille, France
Aquatopia: The imaginary of the ocean deep
20 July – 22 September, 2013
Nottingham Contemporary, U.K.
Something that Floats / Something that Sinks (Solo Show)
24 July – 15 September, 2013
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, U.K.
この星のうえで(コレクション展)
4 April – 26 May, 2013
Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum
Sharjah Biennial 11
13 March – 13 May, 2013
Sharjah, UAE
how to write 1
26 January – 13 April, 2013
Wien Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany
FOOD
19 December, 2012 – 24 February, 2013
Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland
ABC: art berlin contemporary
13 – 16 September, 2012
Station-Berlin
The Okayama Art Corridor
3 November – 2 December, 2012
Korakuen, Okayama, Japan
Art Unlimited Art | 43 | Basel
14 – 17 June, 2012
http://www.artbasel.com/go/id/elj/
Le Mont Fuji n’existe pas / Mount Fuji does not exist
7 June – 29 July, 2012
Le Plateau / Frac Ile-de-France, Paris
Il vaut mieux eviter tout contact avec les formes de vie extra-terrestres (Solo Show)
13 November, 2011 – 24 June, 2012
Le Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’ile de Vassiviere
Leaves Swim(Solo Show)
28 March – 15 May, 2012
Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona, Spain
Sur l’eau (Solo Show)
9 November, 2011 – 5 February, 2012
CAPC musee d’art contemporain de Bordeaux
Shimabuku (Solo Show)
20 November, 2011 – 15 January, 2012
Overbeck-Gesellschaft : Kunstverein Lubeck
Impossible Community
8 September – 6 November, 2011
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Our Magic Hour Yokohama Triennale 2011
6 August – 6 November, 2011
Yokohama Museum of Art
Somewhere Else
9 June – 28 July, 2011
Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona, Spain
http://www.noguerasblanchard.com/
My Teacher Tortoise
6 May – 5 June, 2011
Wilkinson Gallery, London
http://www.wilkinsongallery.com/exhibitions/58-Shimabuku.html
Kaza Ana / Air Hole: Another Conceptualism from Asia
8 March – 5 June, 2011
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
http://www.nmao.go.jp/exhibition/index.html
Aichi Triennale 2010
21 August – 31 October, 2010
Nagoya City Art Museum (Exhibition venue of Shimabuku)
http://aichitriennale.jp/
Negotiations: The 2nd Today’s Document 2010
18 September – 24 October, 2010
Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
http://www.todayartmuseum.com/EN/visit/visit.html
Extra Ordinary
26 June – 11 September, 2010
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, U.K.
http://www.grundyartgallery.com/
Still Vast Reserves
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
30 July – 28 August, 2010
http://www.gertrude.org.au
Pierre Joseph From Apple Core to Glass
Shimabuku “Kaki and Tomato”
27 March – 1 May, 2010
Air de Paris, Paris, France
http://www.airdeparis.com/
NEANDERTHALIAN NIGHTS: The world is not at home
(Giorgio Andreotta Calo / Juliette Blightman / Anthony Burdin / Shimabuku)
11 March – 14 April, 2010
Galleria ZERO…, Milano, Italy
http://www.galleriazero.it
Eating the Universe. Food in Art
28 November, 2009 – 28 February, 2010
Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany
KOBE Biennale 2009 LINK - Flexible Deviation
3 October – 23 November, 2009
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo
Platform
3 – 25 September, 2009
Kimusa, Seoul
Summer Playground
18 July – 4 October, 2009
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
FID MARSEILLE
8 – 13 July, 2009
La Galerie Montgrand – Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille
Hundred Stories about Love
29 April – 30 August, 2009
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Rirkrit Tiravanija: THE HOUSE THE CAT BUILT
13 February – 30 April, 2009
Galeria Salvador Diaz, Madrid, Spain
The Grand Illusion
17 January – 18 April, 2009
National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Mash Up
7 – 21 March, 2009
ARTSPACE, Auckland, New Zealand
New Works (Solo Show)
12 December, 2008 – 15 March, 2009
The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Experimenta FOLKLORE
12 December, 2008 – 1 March, 2009
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany
Between Art and Life
28 November, 2008 – 1 February, 2009
Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve, Switzerland
Survival Action
22 October, 2008 – 12 January, 2009
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Sea, Sky, Language and so on (Solo Show)
5 September – 11 October
DAAD gallery
Florescendo: Brasil – Japao O seu lugar
5 July – 21 September, 2008
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Album (Solo Show)
17 July – 7 September, 2008
The Street
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, U.K.
All Our Everydays
22 May – 6 July, 2008
Gallery VER, Bangkok, Thailand
Shimabuku’s Fish & Chips(Solo Show)
10 April – 24 May, 2008
Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona, Spain
Laughing in a Foreign Language
25 January – 13 April, 2008
Hayward Gallery, London, U.K.
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/minisites/laughing/
Tracks of Okinawan Culture 1872-2007
Tracks of Okinawan Culture 1872-2007
1 November, 2007 – 24 February, 2008
Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum
Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan
25 December, 2007 – 20 January, 2008
Guangdong Museum of Art
Shimabuku’s Fish & Chips(Solo Show)
11 October – 18 November, 2007
Wilkinson Gallery, London, U.K.
Swansea Jack Memorial Dog Swimming Competition?(Solo Show)
5 October – 1 November, 2007
Collector’s Space 127-3, Seoul, Korea
Tomorrow
4 October – 4 November, 2007
Artsonje Center + Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
http://istomorrowabetterday.wordpress.com/
http://istomorrowabetterday.wordpress.com/artists/shimabuku/
Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan
25 September – 22 October, 2007
Long March Project + B.T.A.P + Inter Arts Center, Beijing, China
The Story So Far 2
12 July – 11 August, 2007
SHUGOARTS,Tokyo, Japan
Oriente e tropico
14 May – 1 July, 2007
Instituto Cultural Usiminas, Ipatinga, Brazil+
How to live together
26 April – 1 July, 2007
MAC: Museo de Arte Contempora´neo,?Santiago,?Chile?
Oriente e tropico
20 March – 29 April, 2007
Pala´cio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
The Door into Summer: The Age of Micropop
3 February – 6 May, 2007
Art Tower Mito, Japan