GALLERY TRIWIZART

ARTISTS (Takafumi Hara/Yasushi Ebihara/Hiroshi Ohashi)                               

 

 Takafumi Hara

Gallery Triwizart strongly supports Takafumi Hara Project. If you have any inquiry about his projects.

 

1968　Born in Tokyo
Education
2002-2003 Scholarship of the cosmetics company “Pola Art Foundation” [Berlin]
2000-2002 Art university Berlin-kunst hochschule Berlin -weissensee hochschule guest student
2000-2001 Obtained a Scholarship for one year in Berlin of the Overseas Study Programme
for Artists of Japanese Government’s agency for Cultural Affairs
1992 Obtained Masters Degree in Painting at Tama Art University, Tokyo
Solo Exhibitions　
2008 Y++ (Beijing/China)

2007 Wada Fine Arts (Tokyo/Japan), DNA Gallery (Berlin/Germany)
2005 GALLERY ISEYOSHI/Wada Fine Arts (Tokyo/Japan)
2004 DNAgallery (Germany/Berlin), Galleria Grafica (Tokyo/Japan)
1992-2002 Many other Exhibitions (Tokyo/Japan)
Group Exhibitions
2007 Das abc der Bilder, Pergamonmuseum, Museumsinsel (Berlin/Germany)
Projects
2006 Singapore Biennale 2006　CITY HALL / HDB / International Monetary Fund 2006 (Singapore)
ECHIGO-TSUMARI ART TRIENNIAL (Niigata/Japan)
Kunst Sommer DB/Wiesbaden central station and Wassertums (Wiesbaden/Germany)
Sign Kunstverein Wiesbaden – NKV (Wiesbaden/Garmany)
2005 HYUNDAI×TAKAFUMI HARA Art collaboration soul （Seoul/Korea）
ECHIGO-TSUMARI ART TRIENNIAL 10days Work shop Small Massage Noren
130 of sheet in Tokamachi city (Niigata /Japan)
2004 Signs of Memory project　『Projekt im Hafenviertel』 heute hier,morgen dort....,
Ausstellungshalle,in Munster (Munster/Germany)
Signs of Memory project Arisima Shopping arcade windows (Niigata/Japan)
All about....Berlin2 White Box in München (München /Germany)
Projektausstellung, DNA in Berlin (Berlin/Germany)
Signs of Memory project Auguststreet (Berlin/Germany)
2002-2003SPACE.TIME.ARCHITECTURE “Cake House Project1/2/ 3” Aschermittwoch Arx Art Gallery(Berlin/Garmany)
2002Signs of Memory Project 51 pages of a pocket book of Yokozumi Uragawara village
public art of 1500 designed panels (Niigata/Japan)
2001 Signs of Memory Project Yokozumi Uragawara village with 888 windows (Niigata Japan)
Dank an Berlin 2”(“Thanks to Berlin 2”): Torstr.111 with 36 windows (Berlin/Garmany)　　　　　　　
Dank an Berlin 1”(“Thanks to Berlin 1”): 5 windows for Professor Inge Mahn (Berlin/Garmany)　　　　　　　　　　　
2000Communication Box (Niigata/Japan)
Chair of School Project (Niigata/Japan)
1998Art now 98 Sakura Museum (Chiba/Japan)

Awards
1993 grand prize, 93 Art Box
1992j ury's special award, The 11th Izu Art Festival Exhibition
1992 honorable mention, The 7th Tama Syu-saku Art Exhibition
Public
national road 253, Uragawara Symbol Tower (Niigata/Japan)
Communication Box (Niigata/Japan)
Yokozumi Symbol Tower (Niigata/Japan)
permanent installation 11 sculptures in Uragawara Park (Niigata/Japan)
                                                                                       *Wada Fine Arts was called GALLERY ISEYOSHI until March 2007. 

Das abc der Bilder
Exhibition: 27 June 2007 – 9 September 2007  Opening: 26 June 2007, 8 p.m.                            

Participation of Takafumi Hara in the exhibition “Das abc der Bilder”
at Pergamonmuseum, Museumsinsel Berlin, curated by Moritz Wullen.
www.smb.museum

“Das abc der Bilder” is the central contribution of the State museums of Berlin to the official year of the humanities 2007. The exhibition creates new perspectives for the function of scripture in the visual media, beginning with the early civilisations up to the 21st century. It is a journey through the world of pictures along the shores of written culture.
An exhibition of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in cooperation with Humboldt University Berlin on the occasion of the “Jahr der Geisteswissenschaften“.


Takafumi Hara Exhibition -signs of memory pink windows
20 Mar (Tue) -28 Apr. (Sat) 2007　11:00a.m.-19:00p.m.
Closed on Sun., Mon., National holiday, and 9-12Apr.


Signs of Memory in Singapore Biennale 2006
1st September to 12th November 2006
www.singaporebiennale.org
The first biennale in Singapore opened on the 1st September. The works by 95 artists from 38 countries, working together with the artistic director, Mr. Fumio Nanjo, have been shown in 19 sites in Singapore.

1 INTERVIEWING

2 SELECTING WORDS

3 MAKING PANELS
4 INSTALLING PANELS
5 COMPLETED
 The project always starts with interviewing people. In this time, Takafumi Hara interviewed 16 people who are like the representative persons in Singapore, such as the readers of religious places and nations. Singapore is known for one of the countries where many religions and nations coexist in harmony. For Hara’s project, listening to the voices of people, and developing understanding Singapore is the essential part of his projects.
　Hara chooses the phrases he is impressed from the interviews. The project has the role of speaking about the country and thoughts. For that reason, the process of choosing the words needs to consider conditions of the country. (At City Hall Studio)
 The 1st September was the opening of Singapore Biennale. Thousands of enthusiastic art fans from all over the world gathered in front of City Hall. The parties and events were held for the first 4 straight days. The first Singapore Biennale opened with celebrating mood.
 In the day before the opening, Secretary of Education in Singapore visited to Hara’s work. (At City Hall)
 Prime Minister of Singapore showed up in the opening party, The place was filled with exitements.
Since City Hall, in English architectural style, was built in 1929, the building has had a lot of historical events. It is one of the most significant buildings in Singapore. Now, each of the 60 pink boards shown on the front-windows of the building is telling 60 ways of messages.
In fact, there was another project by Hara in this biennale. It was one day workshop held in the residence where many solitary elder people live. --Most of residents migrated into Singapore a long time ago from such as China and India.-- It became a wonderful resident-participation workshop. Hara was working with the residents to draw paintings.
Takafumi Hara did his project in Germany in this April. Soon after it, he flew to Singapore to see sites for 2 days, and quickly went back to Niigata, Japan. Then, he flew back to Germany for the opening, and again to Niigata. These projects in 3 countries have been done in a really tight schedule. He had had the opening of 3 prohects by 5 months after the time of this photo. I can really say that he made it!