About Arakawa

ARAKAWA

Biography

1987 Founded Architectural Body Research Foundation (Formerly Containers of Mind Foundation) with Madeline Gins

1963 Began collaborating with Madeline Gins on the research project The Mechanism of Meaning

1961 Arrived in New York where he now resides

1936 Born in Japan

Awards

2003 Shiju Housho – Purple Imperial Award

2003 Nihon Gendai Geijutsu Shinko Sho – Award for innovation in Japanese contemporary art from Japan Arts Foundation

1998 The highest award in the Rainbow Town Urban Design Competition goes to the Arakawa/Gins Chinju no Mori/Sensorium City (Tokyo Bay)

1988-89 Belgian Critics' Prize

1997 College Art Association’s Artist Award for Exhibition of the Year/Distinguished Body of Work, Presentation or Performance Award

1987-88 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship

1986 Awarded by the French Government: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres

Conferences

2005 “Arakawa and Gins: Architecture and Philosophy,” University of Paris X-Nanterre

2008 “Reversible Destiny - Declaration of the Right Not to Die: Second International Arakawa +Gins Architecture + Philosophy Conference/Congress," University of Pennsylvania, Slought Foundation

Installations

1994 Inauguration of an Arakawa room at the Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum,

Dusseldorf

Selected One-Man Exhibitions

1998 NTT Intercommunication Center: The City as the Art Form of the Next Millenium

1997 Guggenheim Museum Soho: Reversible Destiny

1995 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf

1994 Hara Museum of Comtemporary Art, Tokyo

1993 Busche Galerie, Berlin

1992 National Museum of Kyoto

1991 National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

1990 Joseloff Gallery, Hartford

DAAD Gallery, Berlin

Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York

Busche Galerie, Koln

1989 Touko Museum, Tokyo

1988 Seibu Museum, Karuizawa

Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York

Isy Brachot, Brussels

1987 Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York

Von Straaten Gallery, Chicago

Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

Seibu Museum, Tokyo

Satani Gallery, Tokyo

1986 Gallery Blu, Milan

Satani Gallery, Tokyo

1985 Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York

Arnold Herstand Gallery, New York

1984 Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut

1983 Matrix Gallery, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford

Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York

Kitakyushu Museum, Kyushu, Japan

1982 Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

Galerie Maeght, Paris

1981 Lenbachhaus, Munich

Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover

The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago

1980 John Stoller & Co., Minneapolis

Luria Gallery, Palm Beach

Galerie Maeght, Zurich

Gallery Takagi, Nagoya

1979 The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis

Seibu Museum, Tokyo

The National Museum, Osaka

Stadtische Kunstsammlungen, Ludwigshafen

1978 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

Gallery Takagi, Nagoya

1977 Stadtsiche Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf

Galerie Maeght, Paris

Galerie Art in Progress, Dusseldorf

1976 Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York

Multiples, New York

Galleria 42, Barcelona

Art in Progress, Munich

1975 Art in Progress Gallery, Dusseldorf

Galerie Aronowitsch, Stockholm

Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

Henie Onstad Museum, Oslo

Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh

1974 Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis

Galleria L'Uomo e L'Arte, Milano and Bergamo

Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York

Art in Progress Gallery, Munich

The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Prints)

1973 Daytons Gallery 12, Minneapolis

Margot Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1972 Traveling Exhibition: The Mechanism of Meaning

Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Stadtische im Lenbachhaus, Munich

Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt

Kunsthalle Bern, Bern

Art in Progress, Zurich

Galleria Bertesca, Genoa

Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York

1971 Harcus-Krakow Gallery, Boston

Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

Galeria Schwarz, Milan

Angela Flowers Gallery, London

ROSC Show, Dublin

Whitney Museum of American Art (Film: For Example)

1970 Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

Hannover Kunstverein, Hannover

Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe

Venice Biennale

1969 Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

Dwan Gallery, New York

Galleria Schwarz, Milan

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (film: Why Not)

1968 Dwan Gallery, New York

Galerie Lauter, Mannheim

1967 Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Galleria Schwarz, Milan

Dwan Gallery, New York and Los Angeles

1966 Wuttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart

Dwan Gallery, New York and Los Angeles

Wide White Space, Antwerp

Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf

Stadelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

Minami Gallery, Tokyo

1965 Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf

Minami Gallery, Tokyo

Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan

1964 Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles

Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

1963 Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf

1960 Mudo Gallery, Tokyo

Constructions

1. 08Bioscleave House, East Hampton, Long Island (Completion Date: April 2008)
2002-05 Reversible Destiny Lofts – Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan.

2001-05 External Genome Housing Project, Shidami, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. (In association with Takenaka Corporation) (Completion Date, 2005)

1996 Reversible Destiny Office, Yoro, Gifu Prefecture

1994 Site of Reversible Destiny, Yoro, Gifu Prefecture [a seven acre site in central Japan]

1992 Ubiquitous Site * Nagi's Ryoanji *, Architectural Body, [Permanent Installation],

Nagi MOCA, Nagi

1992 Ubiquitous Site * Nagi's Ryoanji * Heart, [Permanent Installation],

Nagi MOCA, Nagi

Bibliography

Books:

Making Dying Illegal, Architecture Against Death: Original to the 21st Century. (in collaboration with Madeline Gins). New York: Roof Books. (November, 2006)

Le Corps Architectural (in collaboration with Madeline Gins). Paris: Editions Manucius, 2005.

Architectural Body (in collaboration with Madeline Gins). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.

Reversible Destiny: We Have Decided Not to Die (Guggenheim Catalog) (in collaboration with Madeline Gins). New York: Abrams, Inc., 1997.

Arakawa and Madeline Gins. ARCHITECTURE Reversible Sites, Reversible Destiny (Architectural Experiments after Auschwitz-Hiroshima). London: Academy Editions, 1995.

Arakawa and Madeline Gins. The Mechanism of Meaning (introduction by Lawrence Alloway).

Munich: Bruckmann, 1971 (1st edition). New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1979 (2nd edition). New York: Abbeville Press, 1989 (3rd edition).

Arakawa and Madeline Gins. To Not To Die. Paris: Editions de la Différence, 1987.

Arakawa and Madeline Gins. For Example (A Critique of Never). Milan: Alessandra Castelli Press, 1974.

Essays:

“The Architectural Body – Landing Sites,” Space in America: Theory History Culture, (editors) Klaus Benesch and Kerstein Schmidt, Fall 2005.

“Gifu—Reversible Destiny” (in collaboration with Madeline Gins). Architectural Design, Games of Architecture, 1996, pp. 27-35.

“Housing Complexity” (in collaboration with Madeline Gins). Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts no. 6, Complexity, 1995, pp. 88-95.

"Landing Sites/The End of Spacetime." Arakawa and Madeline Gins. Art and Design, May-June, 1993.

"Person as Site in Respect to a Tentative Constructed Plan." Arakawa and Madeline Gins. ANYWHERE, 1992, pp. 54-67.

"The Tentative Constructed Plan as Intervening Device (for a Reversible Destiny)." Arakawa and Madeline Gins A+U: Architecture and Urbanism, December 1991, pp. 48-57.