April to May 2025
Takehito Koganezawa (* 1974 Tokyo, Japan) is an artist who brings various media – drawings, videos, installations, and performance – into dialogue with one another. His conceptual and experimental works revolve around questions of time and space. They seek to make the flow and perception of time tangible as moving images.
Takehito Koganezawa is a CoMuse Fellow and Art Resident at the Department of Contemporary Art, in collaboration with curator Kerstin Pinther at the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst. His solo exhibition “One on Two, Two from One” consists, among other artworks, of the video installations Double Sisters (2022–) and Divided Brothers (2022–) as well as Exquisite Corpse (2025) which is based on an art workshop with students at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. His art incorporates surrealist image-making and playful principles, stimulating the accidental, and spontaneity. Takehito Koganezawa on this:
“Two” is a curious number. When walking, I naturally alternate between the left and right foot without thinking about it. However, the moment I begin to question, “Am I using right or left now?” the movement ceases. Within a dualistic framework, positioning oneself on one side or the other ends in a standstill. Yet, by taking a meta-perspective and observing from above, movement happens by itself. As I oscillate between one and two, adding and dividing, I am actually searching for the space of three.
After studying art in Tokyo, Koganezawa spent many years (1999–2016) in Berlin. Since 2017, he has been living and working in Tokyo. His works have been shown in numerous solo and group shows as well as biennials and triennials around the world, and are represented in important collections of global art