KENICHI KONDOU
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- ・Transdisciplinary Arts Theory
- ・Transdisciplinary Arts Seminar
- ・Applied Transdisciplinary Arts: Theory
- ・Transdisciplinary Arts Practicum
- ・Transdisciplinary Arts Research: Theory I, II
- ・Guided Research I, II
Profile
Curator of contemporary art, born in 1969. Following a period working as an independent curator in London, Kondo joined Mori Art Museum, Tokyo in 2003. At the museum, he curated and co-curated exhibitions such as “Ron Mueck,” 2026, “MAM Research 010: The Dawn of Taiwanese Video Art in the 1980s-1990s,” 2024, “Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going,” 2022, “Chim↑Pom: Happy Spring,” 2022, “Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life - How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow,” 2019, “Catastrophe and the Power of Art,” 2018, “Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal,” 2014, “Arab Express: The Latest Art from the Arab World,” 2012. He was Research Fellow at Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin - National Museums of Berlin (2014 -2015). Since 2026, he has served as a faculty member in the Graduate School of Transdisciplinary Arts and the Department of Art at Akita University of Art.
Research
activities
【Selected Curatorial Work】
2026 “Ron Mueck” (co-curated), Mori Art Museum
2025 “The Architecture of Sou Fujimoto: Primordial Future Forest” (co-curated), Mori Art Museum
2024 “MAM Research 010: The Dawn of Taiwanese Video Art in the 1980s–1990s” (co-curated), Mori Art Museum
2022 “Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going” (co-curated), Mori Art Museum
2022 “Chim↑Pom: Happy Spring”, Mori Art Museum
2020 “STARS: Six Contemporary Artists from Japan to the World” (co-curated), Mori Art Museum
2019 “Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life—How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow” (co-curated), Mori Art Museum
2018 “Catastrophe and the Power of Art”, Mori Art Museum
2014 “Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal” (co-curated), Mori Art Museum
2012 “MAM Project 018: Yamashiro Chikako”, Mori Art Museum
2012 “Arab Express: The Latest Art from the Arab World” (co-curated), Mori Art Museum
2010 “Videozoom: Japan”, Sala 1, Rome
2010 “Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?” (co-curated), Mori Art Museum
2009 “MAM Project 009: Koizumi Meiro”, Mori Art Museum
2008 “History in the Making: A Retrospective of the Turner Prize” (co-curated), Mori Art Museum
2007 “MAM Project 005: John Wood and Paul Harrison”, Mori Art Museum