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ARThitecture
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at Nipponbashi House
2 Chome-5-15 Nipponbashi, Chuo Ward, Osaka, 542-0073, Japan
Friday, May 9 to Friday, May 31, 2025
What is ART? …and what is ARCHITECTURE?
This exhibition ”ARThitecture” delves into the intersection between art, design and architecture. Danish artists, architects, and designers are giving their views and presenting artworks, ideas and perspective of future art, design and architecture …and how they intertwines.
Mogens Jacobsen, artist
Website: mogensjacobsen.dk
Mogens Jacobsen is an international artist known for his interactive installations often involving technology and audience participation. His intelligent ability to create engaging and thought-provoking works will contribute to the exhibition’s goal of interactivity.
Arne Kvorning, architect and designer
Website: kvorning.com
Arne Kvorning is an architect and designer specializing in concept development, strategy, consultancy, design, scenography, immersive experiences, exhibitions, art installations, feasibility studies, and master plans. Arne Kvorning and his design studio form strategic international partnerships with the sharpest minds, creating teams with strong local ties and deep cultural understanding. Develops and realizes captivating concepts, experiences, and exhibitions where storytelling, design, art, and architecture seamlessly come together
Mette Salomonsen designer and artist
Website: salomet.dk
Mette Salomonsen is a graphic designer based in Copenhagen. She works in both big-picture thinking for eco-campaigns and detailed work for art catalogs, providing creative solutions from magazine and book design to larger design concepts. Her form-giving explorations expand into the use of natural materials, including clay, natural fibers, indigo dye, and wool.
BackhausBrown designer and artist duo
Website: backhaus-brown.com
Nanna Backhaus is a prominent glassblower known for her aesthetically captivating glass works. She works with different techniques and materials to create pieces that explore spatiality and perception.
Andrew Jason Brown also a skilled glass blower who creates complex and exciting glass works. Although his background is handicraft, in recent years Andrew Brown has challenged his own and the boundaries of the profession by producing exciting and thought-provoking works of art.
Niels Bak Rasmussen, architect and artist
Youtube playlist: youtube.com/@nielsbakrasmussen
Niels Bak Rasmussens art is an examination of the absent, the hidden and overlooked. That which is behind and in between the visible. Temporary or permanent, it leaves traces that supports and ties the orderly and
visible together. His goal is to identify this imaginary space. Its extent. Its rules, orders and beauty. To capture that, which is out of context. Its own context.
Yuko Takada Keller, danish/japanese artist
Website: yukotakada.com
Yuko Takada Keller Yuko Takada Keller creates delicate sculptural installations, mainly using paper. Her works combine Japanese aesthetics with contemporary artistic techniques and are exhibited in many public spaces. In this exhibition, she challenges the relationship with architecture in a new expression.
Nipponbashi House is the perfect setting for ”ARThitecture” Ando’s minimalist architecture with its focus on light, shadow, and clean lines provides an ideal context for exploring the complex and boundary-pushing works in the exhibition. The flexible design allows for adaptation of the exhibition space, giving artists the opportunity to
integrate their works organically into the surroundings.
Minimalism and Elegance
The world-renowned architect Tadao Ando’s ‘House in Nipponbashi’ is
characterized by its minimalist architecture, creating a clean and elegant atmosphere. This highlights the simplicity and timelessness in art and
architecture, providing a fantastic contrast to the exhibition’s concept of complex and boundary-crossing works.
Light and Shadow
Ando’s ability to manipulate light and shadow creates a dynamic in the space that can enhance the experience of the exhibited works. This is particularly relevant when exploring the boundaries between art and architecture, as the play of light can alter the perception of space and form.
Cultural Reflection
The gallery’s location in Osaka, a city with deep cultural roots, adds an extra dimension to the exhibition. This can be used as inspiration for artists and architects to create works that not only challenge the boundaries between disciplines but also reflect cultural aspects.
Flexibility and Adaptation
The venues architectural design, which allows for flexibility and adaptation of the exhibition space, provides artists and architects a unique opportunity to create works that not only challenge boundaries but also integrate organically into the space
Borders between art, design and architecture
”ARThitecture” delves into the intersection between art, design and architecture. We will present works that investigate how art can influence architecture and design and vice versa.
The exhibition is not only a visual experience, but also invites the audience to engage and reflect on the boundaries between art and architecture – and the ways we can live and live together in the future.
Brief for the exhibitors:
Exhibitors are asked to relate to Expo 2025 in OSAKA’s overarching theme, ”Designing Future Society for Our Lives”, and consider how their work can contribute to a new angle on future society. Each participant is encouraged to integrate aspects of this theme in their works and create a connection between art, design and architecture’s role in societal development.
Method and form
The works can be concrete or conceptual – and consist of boards, video, objects, light, sound or other materials, all media are permitted.
Each artist, designer or architect must approach the task from his own point of view but should try to challenge his own framework and the conventional perceptions of the disciplines of architecture, art and design.
You can, for example, explore light and sounds as media that influence spatial experience. Create works that unite light, sound and space, which will make the viewer reflect on the importance of acoustics and light in architectural success.
Sustainability and materials
Another aspect today is of course the use of alternative materials and sustainable design principles. Within this area, the exhibitor can, for example, examine how art, design and architecture can contribute to sustainable and environmentally friendly future buildings and creative expressions.
Interactivity and audience engagement
Exhibitors may wish to consider using interactive elements that invite the audience to participate in the creation of works of art, architectural structures or participate in the debate. Involving viewers or users, for example, in the process can also help to challenge traditional perceptions of static art and architecture.
Of course, the title ”ARThitecture” suggests that you approach the task with the idea of how the world can be changed with a form of creative anarchy without the established framework and norms for what constitutes art, architecture or design.
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