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Takeshi Ikeda (Japanese Artist)
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STATEMENT
STATEMENT
On What Lies Behind Boredom (2026)
My practice engages with forms of time and change that tend to go unnoticed behind what we call “boredom.”
Working across video, paper constructions, drawing, painting, and performance, I have explored the slow collapse of the world and the violence embedded in everyday life through narrative-stripped duration, caricatured interiors and landscapes, ghostlike presences, and insistently repeated screams.
Having long been immersed in hardcore punk and experimental music, I came to see the tension that builds within monotony and the violence that persists through repetition as a framework for thinking about Japanese society after the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster. My experience of music has become a basis for apprehending not only the events themselves, but the quality of time that continues to flow through them.
More recently, drawing on my work in IT and the game industry, I have approached the homogeneous, unending time and the standardization of urban space, architecture, and labor environments expanding under capitalism, AI, and the attention economy through the sensation of “boredom,” developing them into images of offices, abstract painting, monstrous bodies, and collapsing architecture.
WORKS
WORKS
BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY
TAKESHI IKEDA (Artist, Musician)
was born in Tokyo in 1984.
Education: -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2019 PhD, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, Yokohama, Japan
2011 MFA, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, Yokohama, Japan
2008 Bachelor's degree, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan
Awards & Grants: -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2024 Special Prize, The 27th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, Japan
2020 Grant for Overseas Study by Young Artists, Pola Art Foundation, Japan
2018 Contemporary Art Grant, TERUMO Life Science Foundation, Japan
2016 Canon Foundation Research Fellowship, Europe
2013 Asian Cultural Council Grant, United States
(Film, Video, & Photography)
Residency Program: -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2020 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2016 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2013 NARS Foundation, New York, USA
Solo Exhibitions: -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2024 "SPACE X" PURPLE, Kyoto, Japan
2020 "WEEKEND" Fujisawa City Art Space (FAS), Fujisawa, Japan
2018 "WEEKEND" Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen, the Netherlands
2013 "All Day Long" AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2012 "fast/slow" Gendai Heights, Tokyo, Japan
2011 "666 or more malignant songs which should be forgotten immediately after they're played"
AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2007 "fastest" CAP HOUSE, Kobe, Japan
2006 "aside" CAP HOUSE, Kobe, Japan
2006 "drum dive festival" gallery 38, Kyoto, Japan
Group Exhibitions: -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2025 "Are They Owe Us a Living?" KAG, Okayama, Japan
2024 "The 27th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art" Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan
2023 "GeneralMuseum: Excavating Place / Some Practices" online
2022 "Can Dialectics Break Bricks?" Kurozumikyo Homotsukan Marukoto Center, Okayama, Japan
2021 "Rijksakademie Open" Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2020 "Ongemakkelijk // Awkward" Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2018 "Filler II" SIGN, Groningen, the Netherlands
2017 "TodaysArt 2017" The Hague, the Netherlands
2017 "TEC ART Rotterdam 2017" KEILEPAND, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2016 "Rijksakademie Open" Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2014 "Clever Hans" Talion Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014 "Imitator 2" The MART, Dublin, Ireland
2013 "Garden" NARS Foundation, New York, USA
2011 "Gallery Artists' Show" AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2011 "Media Practice 10-11" Tokyo University of the Arts, Yokohama, Japan
2009 "Media Practice 09-10" BankART, Yokohama, Japan
Selected Performances: -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2017 "Fuck Everything" core of bells, SCOOL, Tokyo, Japan
2014 "12 Months of the Monster and Mr. Boredom" core of bells, SuperDeluxe, Tokyo, Japan
January: "Did You Notice?"
February: "Moshing Maniac 2000"
March: "Last Days of Humanity"
April: "Detroit Techno Doll"
May: "Gravity Blast Night"
June: "Truth of the Rumor"
July: "Time is Fuckin' on Time"
August: "Hell Patrol"
September: "Memento Comment Whisper Men"
October: "core of bells Big Show"
November: "Death Mix Death"
December: "From Here to Eternity"
2014 "Mujanhyang" / "Saritote" National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
2013 "Tzodom No.3" solo performance, Asia Art Archive in America, New York, USA
2012 "14 Evenings" core of bells, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
2011 "Azumabashi DX 2011" core of bells, Asahi Art Square, Tokyo, Japan
2010 "Fuji Rock Festival 2010" core of bells, Naeba Ski Resort, Niigata, Japan
2003-present
Drummer, core of bells
Discography: -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2015 "12 months of the monster and Mr. Boredom" core of bells
CHAOZ CHAOS, CZCZ-005
2013 "Methodelic" core of bells
HEADZ, UNKNOWNMIX 22 / HEADZ 177
2013 "Live in Saritote" Saritote
Slub Disc
2010 "gesupiria 2" core of bells + Taku SUGIMOTO
CHAOZ CHAOS, CZCS-003
2010 "BAD ADULTS" ningen gokaku
CHAOZ CHAOS, CZCS-002
2010 "Bottle Keep 2010" core of bells
CHAOZ CHAOS, CZCS-001
2005 "CD precious" core of bells
CHAOZ CHAOS, CZCS-000
Projects / Planning: -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2006-present
"Lesson" The Study for 20th Century Art
Professional Experience: -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2011-present
Game Designer / Director / Applied AI Engineer
