
Ayumi Matsuzaka
Curiculum Vitae
Education
- 2001-2004
- Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany: Master of Fine Arts,
"public art and new artistic strategies"
- 2002-2003
- IUAV (Istitute Universitario Di Architettura Venezia) Venice, Italy;
Faculty of Art and Design: Planning and realization of Visual Art / Master program
- 1997-2001
- Nihon University College of Art, Department Broadcasting, Bachelor of Arts
Solo exhibitions
Exhibitions
- 2008
- House of Senses
Art intervention with Piia Salmi
Organized by Muodonmuutoksia, Luopionen, Finland
Supported by The Nomura Cultural Foundation, Japan
- Preserved fish
Installation with Tricia Flanagan and Geoff Whitnall
Part of the urban project "Back to the City", Newcastle, Australia
- 2007
- 100 Toasts
performance
with Chefs de Cuisine Daniel Labattu and Jacky Legrand
Residency Chantier Public, Lyon, France
- Les oeufs au plat
Les oeufs au plat II
performance
Chantier Public, Lyon, and La Générale, Paris, France
- Le petite chaperon rouge
public art project
Chantier Public, Lyon, France
- Birth
installation with slide projectors
Paula Modersohn-Becker "Leben!", Worpsweder Kunsthalle
- 2006
- Kunst in Bewegung / On the Move
Wärmekreislauf (exchange of warmth), public art project
Kunstverein Kreis Ludwigsburg, Germany
curated by Agnes Kohlmeyer
- 2005
- 2004
- Growing beans project, public art project
Reithaus Weimar, Germany
- TRANSIT unfolded
"skinunease", sound piece with Piia Salmi
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
- Real Presence Generation2
Summer beach in Belgrade,
public art project with Catherine Ludwig
Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, curated by Biljana Tomic and Dobrila Denegri
- 2003
- Recycling the future - viverevenezia2
Il Giardino verde del té (Green garden for tea), public art project
50. Biennale di Venezia, Italy, curated by Angela Vettese
- Mizuninagasu
video work
- 2002
- Sie war hier – Spuren der Existenz (She was here - traces of existence)
public art project, Orangerie Schloss Belvedere, Weimar, Germany
- "Do you like tea?", performance
Civitella d'Agliano, Italy
- Wasure shell, video work,
shown at the Video Dance Festival Tokyo and broadcasted at Theater TV, Japan
Grants
- 2008
- The Nomura Cultural Foundation – project grant
- 2007
- 2006
- Art Initiative Albb, Saigon, Vietnam – residency grant
- 2005 / 2006
- State Thüringen, Germany / Bauhaus-University Weimar
1-year graduate scholarship
- 2005
- 2002 / 2003
- DAAD-Scholarship (German Academic Exchange Service)
Publications / Catalogues
- CAMOUFLAGE/Nguy Trang #1, HCMC, Vietnam, autumn 2006
(Magazine project in Singapore Biennale 2006)
- Bijyutsu-techo, article "The Dream Collector"
Tokyo, November 2006
- ARTiT, article
Tokyo/Japan, Summer/Fall 2006
- Kunst in Bewegung / On the Move
Kunstverein Kreis Ludwigsburg/Germany, May 2006
- Taipei Artist Village the year book 2005, Taiwan
- Public Art and New Artistic Strategies
Bauhaus University Weimar/Germany, 2004
- Recycling the future – viverevenezia2
IUAV, Consorzio Venezia Nuova, Biennale di Venezia; Marsilio, 2003
- Dreams and Conflicts – 50. Esposizione Internationale d'Arte
catalogue of the Biennale; Marsilio, 2003
Lectures
- Art of the Gap – Two perspectives on Public Art (with Julaporn Buakaow, US)
Gallery VER, Bangkok Thailand (LINK), February 2008
- ACC Gallery Weimar, Germany, October 2006
- VJCC (Vietnam-Japan Human Resources Cooperation)
Ho Chi Minh City, September 2006
- RMIT International University, Ho Chi Minh City, August 2006
- Taipei Artist Village/open studio talk, Taiwan, August 2005
- Guest lecture/ Kwassui institute, Nagasaki, Japan, 2003
