Mulier Mulier Gallery is pleased to invite you to a solo exhibition by Tadashi Kawamata, opening on Thursday, May 21, from 17.00h at our Brussels gallery.
Internationally celebrated for his architectural interventions and large-scale installations, Kawamata has developed a practice that questions the relationship between space, structure, memory and human experience. The exhibition at the gallery shifts to the more intimate yet equally essential dimension of his work: the sculptures and wall-based pieces that reveal the artist’s thinking process and formal language.
Using materials such as wood, cardboard and found elements, Kawamata constructs fragile yet powerful works that balance between sculpture, architecture and drawing in space. These pieces echo the concerns of his monumental public projects — community, impermanence, urban transformation and the tension between the built and natural environment — while allowing viewers to encounter his practice on a more concentrated scale.
Born in Hokkaido, Japan in 1953, Tadashi Kawamata lives and works between Japan and Paris. He has taught at both the Tokyo University of the Arts and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His work has been presented at major institutions including the Serpentine Gallery, London, Centre Pompidou Metz, Centre Pompidou Paris, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Kunsthaus Zug, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, among others. He represented Japan at the 40th Venice Biennale in 1982, and participated in Documenta VIII and Documenta IX in Kassel, as well as the Busan Biennale.
