KONDO Kenichi

Teaching Staff (Multidisciplinary Arts)

Title	Associate Professor
Research Fields	Contemporary Art, Curation
Education	1999 MA, Art History, Goldsmiths College, University of London 1993 BA, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo
Selected Professional Experience	2026-Present Associate Professor, Graduate School of Transdisciplinary Arts / Department of Art, Faculty of Art, Akita University of Art 2014-2015 Research Fellow at Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin – National Museums of Berlin 2003-Present Assistant Curator (subsequently Associate Curator, Curator, and Senior Curator), currently Adjunct Curator, Mori Art Museum 1999-2002 Independent Curator, London
Recent Activities	< Selected Curatorial Work > 2026 Ron Mueck (co-curated), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2025 The Architecture of Sou Fujimoto: Primordial Future Forest (co-curated), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2024 MAM Research 010: The Dawn of Taiwanese Video Art in the 1980s–1990s (co-curated), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2022 Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going (co-curated), Mori Art Museum Chim↑Pom: Happy Spring, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2020 STARS: Six Contemporary Artists from Japan to the World (co-curated), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2019 Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life—How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow (co-curated), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2018 Catastrophe and the Power of Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2014 Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal (co-curated), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2012 “MAM Project 018: Yamashiro Chikako”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Arab Express: The Latest Art from the Arab World (co-curated), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2010 Videozoom: Japan, Sala 1, Rome</br /> Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art? (co-curated),Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2009 MAM Project 009: Koizumi Meiro, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2008 History in the Making: A Retrospective of the Turner Prize (co-curated), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2007 MAM Project 005: John Wood and Paul Harrison, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Courses Taught	Transdisciplinary Arts Theory Transdisciplinary Arts Seminar Applied Transdisciplinary Arts Theory Guided Research I, II

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Example Works
Thomas Hirschhorn, Collapse, 2018 Installation view: Catastrophe and the Power of Art, Mori Art Museum (2018)	SIDE CORE / EVERYDAY HOLIDAY SQUAD, rode work ver. Tokyo, 2018/2022 Installation view: Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going, Mori Art Museum (2022)	Sou Fujimoto, Forest of Thoughts, 2025 Installation view: The Architecture of Sou Fujimoto: Primordial Future Forest, Mori Art Museum (2025)

Further details (in Japanese) can be found at the following link: KONDO Kenichi (Japanese page)