Taninaka Yusuke

Taninaka (b.1988, Osaka) lives and works in Berlin.

His sculpture and performance are interrelated, and each independent work is based on these relationships. His interest is in that these relationships maintain not instantaneously but potentially and continuously their own performativity. He completed his B.F.A. in sculpture at Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan in 2012 and earned Kyoto City Special Bounty for Arts and Culture in 2016. He has also been awarded with Grand Prize of Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi (2014), Sadame Kato scholarship (2013) and other prizes. His solo exhibitions include Galatea (Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto, 2014), In/Flesh/Out (Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Mariannenplatz, TWS resident room, Berlin, 2015). He has also been in numerous group exhibitions including transmit program “still moving” PARASOPHIA (Kyoto, 2015), RETURN TO (Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo) Joan Jonas Workshop Exhibition (Villa Iris of The Botin Foundation, Santander, 2016), Chronicle, Chronicle! (Creative Center Osaka, Osaka, 2017).