Thursday 30 September – Wednesday 16 March 2011
Kengo Kito in conversation with Dr Marcus Verhagen
Drinks reception from 6:00pm
Daiwa Foundation Japan House
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
About the contributors
Kengo Kito
Kengo Kito currently lives and works in Berlin. He is renowned for his usage of common industrial materials in large installations. In 2007 he was commissioned to two major venues: the Bloomberg Japan-sponsored PUBLIC ‘SPACE’ PROJECT at Tokyo’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT), and at ‘Roppongi Crossing ’07’, a showcase on leading Japanese artists at Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum. Kito was recently awarded the ‘Gotoh Memorial Award’ and short-listed for the VOCA Award for his paintings and has become one of the leaders of a new generation of Japanese artists.
Dr Marcus Verhagen
Dr Marcus Verhagen is a Lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and has taught at universities in both the States and Britain. His current research revolves mostly around globalisation and its effects on contemporary art. He has recently published articles on the rise of the biennial, on travel and migration as recurrent concerns in contemporary art and on the global city as is described and understood by artists. He has also contributed essays, reviews and interviews to magazines such as Art Monthly, Modern Painters, frieze and Art Review. In recent years he has worked as a tutor at a number of art colleges, including Chelsea College of Art and Design and the Ruskin School of Art at Oxford University.