Koji Kamoji, Yosiho Nakajima i Keiji Uematsu
1 March – 31 May 2026
Fot. NMWr press materials
Curators of the exhibition: Iwona Dorota Bigos (PL), Akiko Kasuja (JP), Martin Schibli (SE)
This is a presentation of works by three contemporary artists born in Japan, who moved to Europe at the start of their career – Koji Kamoji (b. 1935), Yoshio Nakajima (b. 1940) and Keiji Uematsu (b. 1947). Whilst educated in Japan, they created their artistic work within another culture, becoming important representatives of the contemporary artistic milieu.
Despite the very lively avant-garde, now legendary, artistic scene of the 1950s and the 1960s in Japan, many young artists decided to emigrate to Europe and the United States. Kamoji, Nakajima and Uematsu left their country during the Cold War, and settled down in diverse locations and geopolitical contexts – Poland, Sweden, and the then East Germany.
From an artistic viewpoint, all three share an interest in philosophy and Nature, as well as the genealogy of conceptual art, along with their involvement in site-specific actions using exhibition space, yet each of them creates artistic work of a different kind. The exhibition showcases a variety of media, from paintings, drawings, sculpture, film and photography to performance art.