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Mineki Murata

2025.7.2[wed] - 2025.7.22[sun]
12:00-16:00, 18:00‒21:00(wed,thur,fri) |12:00‒21:00(sat,sun)
Admission: ¥400(with tea)

Event

July 5th (sat)
Opening reception
19:00 –
Admission: 1000 yen (with light catering+one drink)


July 12th (sat)
Ongoing School
15:00 Start
Artists will give a talk about the exhibition.
Admission: 1000 yen(with cake and drink)


July 13th (sun)
Kasetsu × Mineki Murata Performance event
17:00-
Admission: 1000 yen(with one drink)
https://www.instagram.com/kasetsu_sho/


July 16th (wed)
Physical Expression and Materials – Artist Roundtable Discussion
Responding performance initiative
19:00-
Admission: 1000 yen(with one drink)

Graciela Ovejero Postigo (Abya-Yala: AR/US) is an international transdisciplinary performance artist and curator. MFA and Visual Arts graduate from University of California San Diego,   National University of Tucumán, and Dance Professor. She was a solo dancer, independent choreographer and docent prior to migrating to the US. Graciela has explored performance art since the mid-1980s with Grupo Crónica in Argentina. Since 1983, she has shown her work continuously in 22 countries from South to North America, Asia and Europe. Her work has been mentioned as part of the Thailand based Womanifesto collective’s exhibit by ASIAN ART ARCHIVE at Documenta 15 2022. Last engagement at RiAP 2024, Le Lieu, Quebec City.

Yeh Tzu-Chi(葉⼦啓)is a performance artist and organizer based in Taiwan. With a background of English literature, she had been an editor, an English lecturer and a freelance writer/translator before turning to performance art in 2002. She has shown her performance and documents in more than 20 countries. She founded ArTrend Performance Group(阿川⾏為群)in 2003, and has organized local and international performance art events/festivals domestically and published 6 catalogues. She is a participant of Sub Zoology(禽獸不如): 2020 Taiwan Biennale. Two of her pieces Hair Tie(結髮)and Human Egg vs Animal Egg(⼈卵vs動物卵)have been collected by Macau Museum of Art. https://yehtzuchiart.wordpress.com/

Dimple B Shah is practicing multidisciplinary artist from Bangalore, studied in MS University, Baroda. She has worked in International Residencies: Royal Over-Seas  League International Residency -The Art house (Uk, 2019), Villa Waldberta International Residence (Germany 2017), Glasgow Print Studio (UK 2006). She has been honored with National & International Awards such as India Foundation for Arts Grant for project 560 (2014), Prince Claus Grant (2013), First Gold Prix in 7th Engraving Biennale (Versailles 2009), National Award Government of India (2008), Commonwealth Arts and Craft Award (UK 2005), Arunawaz Award (2004), Junior Fellowship, HRD, Government of India (2000-2), and Millennium year Award (2000). She had solo shows in UK and India. Her work has been widely exhibited in international biennales and festivals, and her work is in the collection of University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art.

Based in Ishinomaki, interdisciplinary artist Daisuke Takeya obtained an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His praxis is comprised of the exploration of nature and plausibility in contemporary society, and hinges on all kinds of double meanings. Solo and group exhibitions included: Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, SVA Gallery (NYC), Wagner College Gallery (NYC), Kyoto Art Center, Fukushima Contemporary Art Biennale, Canon New Cosmos Exhibition, Yamagata Biennale, the Japan Foundation, Toronto, and the Prince Takamado Gallery at the Embassy of Canada in Japan. Daisuke is also the co-representative of Field Trip Project, and co-founder of Responding Performance Art Initiative, and one of DAIS Ishinomaki.

Milla Lee is an artist from Taiwan with Indonesian Chinese and indigenous Taiwanese heritage . She primarily focuses on performance art while also engaging in installation art and video creation. Her work deeply explores the complex relationships between humanity, the subconscious, and environmental ecology, often reflecting an ecofeminist perspective. Through her performances, Milla engages in dialogue with the site and the subconscious, hoping to create transformative experiences among with the audience. She seeks to liberate memories and cultivate new awareness. Her art challenges societal norms, offers spiritual insights, and inspires profound introspection.

Priyanthi Anusha is a double degree holder with a BFA and a BA from two major universities in Sri Lanka, and has been regularly participating in exhibitions in Sri Lanka and abroad since 2009. From painting she has gradually stepped into installations and performance art focusing on how what is beautiful from a masculine angle is perceived by females and other gender related issues as experienced by her as a female. She has been an art teacher since 2001, and since 2011. She is a member-artist of Theertha International Artists Collective and an active participant at Mullegama Art Center, the Woman’s Artist Colloquium Program at Theertha, and the Fire Flies Women Artists.

Efat Razowana Reya Reya is a multidisciplinary artist from Bangladesh based in Dhaka. Her work blends emotion, memory, and the natural world through painting, installation, and performance. Rooted in intuition and presence, her practice explores identity and transformation. Reya’s work has been showcased at Asian Art BIENNIAL, Chobi Mela, and other local and international platforms, earning recognition for its poetic and immersive qualities.

Gabriella Nataxa García González was born in México City. Living in Tokyo, Japan since January 2024, her artistic practice focuses on Expanded Printmaking and Performance Art. Graduated from the Guanajuato University (Fine Arts), México. Nataxa has worked as a video artist and animator, and showed her work in numerous short film festivals. She is currently a member of CAF.N (Contemporary Art Festival Nebula), an artist group in Saitama, Japan. In 2024, she joined the “R6: Releasing and Healing” in Fukushima and Ishinomaki. In 2025, she participated in exhibitions in Germany, Tokyo, Chiba, and Aguascalientes, exploring the intersection of graphic drawing and body expression.

Noel Langone (Paysandú,1980). Currently lives in Montevideo, Uruguay. She works in different artistic languages. She has participated in exhibitions, art cycles, festivals, residencies, both in institutional and alternative, national and international spaces. She works as a teacher in the Area of Artistic Knowledge in Public Schools and also in the Technicature in Photographic Image Technologies at the University of the Republic. She participates in projects where it is possible for her to investigate, intertwine and strengthen her practices.

Vichukorn Tangpaiboon is a performance artist and has served as the Artistic Director of the ASIATOPIA International Performance Art Festival since 2018. He began his performance artwork in 1999 and has regularly exhibited at performance art festivals both in Thailand and internationally, including Singapore, Laos, Croatia, China, Taiwan, Myanmar, Hong Kong, Japan, Sweden, France, India and Indonesia. His work often relates to social, environmental, and political issues connected to communities and public spaces.

Mineki Murata

1979 Born in Gunma, Japan, currently living in Gunma.2005 BA in Tama Art University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Dep […]