KEIKO SATO

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www.keikosato.nl

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BIO

1957            27 th January born in Iwaki-city in Japan
1979-1989   work in Fukushima University Hospital as a midwife.
1989-1993   study at Goldsmiths’ College, Fine Art in London.
1993-1995   study at Jan Van Eyck Academie, Fine Art in Maastricht.
2009            live in Nijmegen, The Netherlands
 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

1995           Invisible Thread, Stage Design  
                   Place Theatre, London, U.K.

1996           Keiko Sato, Installation
                   Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna, Austria

                   Keiko Sato, Installation
                   Lokaal 01, Breda, The Netherlands

                   Mum's Tattoo, Installation
                   SI EN LA, Antwerpen, Belgium

1997           Keiko Sato, Installation
                   Beam, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
 
                   Maal tijd, Installation
                   Ultima Thule, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

                   Keiko Sato, Installation
                   Galerie De Expeditie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1998           Architectural Installation PBNA
                   Royal PBNA, Arnhem, The Netherlands

1999           Keiko Sato, Installation
                   Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2001           Keiko Sato, Installation
                   Chisenhale Gallery, London, U.K.

                   Keiko Sato, Installation
                   Galarie de Expeditie
                   Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2003           Keiko Sato, Installaion
                   De Gele Rijder (Euregio art price 2002)
                   Arnhem, The Netherlands

2004           Installation (Project van de Rijksgebouwdienst)
                   Ministerie van SZW
                   Den Haag, The Netherlands

                   Keiko Sato, Installation
                   Paraplufabriek
                   Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2006           Project Studio in Berlin
                   Open studio
                   Berlin, Germany
                   Supported by The Netherlands Foundation for
                   Visual Art, Design and Architecture.

2008           Tabularium 4, ‘Memento”
                   CBKGerderland
                   Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2009          “How to tell a story of my father”
                   Exhibition and  book presentation
                   Galerie de Expeditie   
                   Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2010           Keiko Sato, Reworking
                   Annie Gentils Gallery
                   Antwerpen, Belgium
  
                   Keiko Sato, Synchronicity (Gelders Balkon 10)
                   Het Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (MMKA)
                   Arnhem, The Netherlands

2011           Waiting for a cup of tea
                   Stichting Shofukan (Japans Tuin)
                   Rotterdam, The Netherlands
 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

1995          Quarters, Installation
                  Oude Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands

                  Wrong Sun, Installation
                  W 139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1996          Zero Time, installation
                  24 Nun Street, Newcastel-Upon Tyne, U.K.

                  Mona Hatoum and keiko Sato, Craig Bell, Werner Feiersinger
                  Installation
                  De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1997           Tussen de Mazen, Installation
                   Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

                   Booster Up Dutch Courage, Installation
                   Los Angels, U.S.A.

1998           The kindness of stranger, Installation
                   W 139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

                   Nexus, Part of Europian Month of Culture, Installation
                   Nexus institut fur Kunst, Linz, Austria

                   Power Up, Installation
                   Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, The Netherlands

                   Multiplicity, Installation
                   W 139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

                   De droom van fontein, Installation
                   De kabinnetten van de Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands

                   Re:Zero=0, Installation
                   Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1999           Smooth Space, Installation
                   Vlaams Cultureel Centrum de Brakke Grond,
                   Amsterdam, The Netherlands

                   real time @ Zoerzel '99, Installation
                   Zoerzel(Park), Belgium
   
                   Keiko Sato – Per Wizen, Installation
                   De kabinetten van de Vleeshal
                   Middelburg, The Netherlands

2000           Keiko Sato - Els Vanden Meersch, Installation
                   Provinciaal Centrum voor Beeldende Kunsten - Begijnhof
                   Hasselt, Belgium

                   Because a fire was in my head, Installation
                   South London Gallery
                   London, U.K.

                   Everything needs time, Installation
                   Honiton Festival, (St. Michael Church, Spacex Gallery)
                   Honiton, Exeter, U.K.

                   Hotel, Photo Installation
                   C.B.K.N
                   Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2001           Gelderland Bienalle, Installation
                   Museum Het Valkhof
                   Nijmegen, The Netherlands
   
                   Continental Shift (Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium)
                   Installation
                   Ludwig Forum
                   Aachen, Germany

                   Prodigal Prodigy, Installation
                   White Box
                   New York, U.S.A.
  
2002           Ökonomien Der Zeit, Installation
                   Ludwig Museum
                   Cologne, Germany
  
                   Different States, Installation
                   Spacex Gallery
                   Exeter, England

                   Euregio Kunstpreis (price winners), Installation
                   ArTolle.V.
                   Kleef, Germany

2003           Wild Life, Installation
                   Garden van Markus Ambach (Artist)
                   Neuss, Germany
  
                   Alhambra, “Home”, Installation
                   Museum Het Valkhof (The project of Colourful City Circus)
                   Nijmegen, The Netherlands

                   August - December
                   Lacinca project, Video work, wand work, installation en web site.
                   Edited three interviews en made two books.
                   De Veemvloer
                   Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2004           Achterland en Achterdocht
                   Locaal 01
                   Antwerpen, Belgium

2005           Rijk Uren
                   Museum Het Valkhof
                   Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2006           Landscapes (Two artists show)
                   The Japan Foundation
                   Cologne, Germany
 
2007           Plakjes en tak
                   Supermedium
                   Den Haag, The Netherlands
  
                   Vanaf nu!
                   LLS 387
                   Antwerp, Bergium

2008           Dichter op de huid
                   Fort Asperen
                   Acqoy, The Netherlands

                   IFAA project
                   (3 months project of the collaboration
                    with Netherlands and African artists)
                   Contemporaly Art Museum in Arnhem, African Museum, CBK
                   Arnhem and Nijmegen, The Netherland

2009           Jeugdezonde
                   LLS 387
                   Antwerp, Bergium
                   Maastricht, The Netherlands

                   Arianne Olthaar and Keiko Sato
                   Galerie West
                   Den Haag, The Netherlands

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B-SIDES AND RARITIES

Lokaal 01
Breda, The Netherlands

AIR5, Art, Migration and Identity (IFAA 08)
Oude Kerk (Old Church)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Everyday life, another space, and Art complex
Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery
Yokohama, Japan

2010
Shelter/Schulplaats
De Vishal
Haarlem, The netherlands

Appetite for Destruction
Nest
Den Haag, The Netherlands

Lecture and Performance
Extrapool, Abbe Museum
Nijmegen, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Shadow Performers, -Prologue- (December)
Galerie de Expeditie
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(organisator en Kunstenaar)

Did you visit this part of P.A.R.K.
Stichting Zet
Amsterdam (Amstel Park)
The Netherlands

SALVO
Annie Gentils Gallery
Antwerp, Belgium

Transformatie/Inspiratie
Madelon Hooykaas, Keiko Sato
SieboldHuis, Japanmuseum
Leiden
The Netherlands
  
Communication, Exchange, Dialogue & Art
2012 IFAA Art Platform Louvain-la-Neuve
Diferent locations
Louvain-la-Neuve
Bergium

2013 
Hope Step Japan
“Two years since the disater”
Talk with Nishiko and work presentation
Mediamatic Fabriek
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Once More
Lokaal 01
Breda, The Netherlands
 
Top Floor
DordtYard
Dordrecht, The Netherlands

IFAA 2013
The Future Begins Now!
Putting our world first for a sustainable future
Valkhof Museum (ijs kelder)
Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2014 
Gelderland Biënnale
Galerie Bard
Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Yango Biënnale
MACM Museum
Kinshasa, Congo

2015 
ART and SOIL
Ex-recycling company
Ihlienworth, Germany

 
IFAA project
The world climate summit 2015
La Galerie COP21
Paris, France

Residency program (December 2015- February 2016)
Cité internationale des arts
Paris, France

2016
Our world, our dignity, our future, Open studio
IFAACross-cultural artists in residency exchange platform
Cité Internationale des Arts
Paris, France

La Medina: Traditions, Transmissions and Comtenprary Society (Off Dakar Biennale)
Daker, Senegal

October
Born in Japan
Cultuurcentrum Strombeek Grimbergen
Grimbergen, Belgie

November
Intergalactic Dust
Annie Gentils Gallery
Antwerp, Belgium

WORKSHOPS
2007           Espira, espora
                   2 weeks Managua, Nicaragua

PUBLICATIONS (2009 - 2013)
Keiko Sato
“how to tell a story of my father”
Art book
Jap Sam Books, De Nederlands
December 2009

Everyday life, another space
Hitoshi Nakano (text)
"Another Space by Keiko Sato”
Catalogue
Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Japan
October 2009

Domeniek Ruyters
“Op de rand van de totale vernietiging” 
METROPOLIS M (art magazine in the Netherlands)
December 2010

Machteld Leij
“De zinloosheid van oorlogen in collages”
(“Pointlessness of war prtrayed in collages”)
Keiko Sato in Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem
<H>ART (kunsttijdschrift in Antwerp),
Januari 2011

Tranformatie/Inspiratie (Transformation/Inspiration)
Madelon Hooykaas, Keiko Sato
catalogue of SieboldHuis
Kitty Zijlmans (text)
2012

 
Once more, Lokaal 01 Breda
catalogue
2013

‘Whispering’ Fukushima, Keiko Sato
Small art book
IFAA Art 2012
Januari 2013