TAKEDA Tatsuma

Profile

Tokyo-Berlin Exchange Residency Program (2017)
Born in 1988 in Kumamoto. Lives and works in Amsterdam/Berlin. Earned a Meister’s degree with Prof. Carsten Nicolai, Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden, Germany in 2020.

Recent major exhibitions:
2021
“De Liefde,” [Solo exhibition] puntWG, Amsterdam
“Collection Exhibition 1: Inner Cosmology,” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
“VOCA 2021 - The Vison of Contemporary Art,” The Ueno Royal Museum

2020
“Skin Deep Beauty,” [Solo exhibition] Cite internationale des arts, Paris
“Shell Artist Selection 2020,” The National Art Center, Tokyo
“MEISTER 2020,” Motorenhalle. Projektzentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden, Germany

2019
“Chronicle,” Projektraum Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin

2018
“Death Becomes Her,” [Solo exhibition] Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
“PATCHWORK,” STOFF-PAVILLION, Cologne, Germany
“Löwen Safari,” Kunsthalle Luzern, Switzerland

2017
“Diplomausstellung,” Oktogon, Dresden, Germany
“Jahresausstellung 2017,” Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Germany 

ーーーーーーーーーUpdated on 23rd November 2021
 
Graduated from Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 2020.

Recent 5 main activities (personal exhibitions, group exhibitions, concerts) are

-  "VOCA 2021", The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo | Japan

-  "Skin Deep Beauty", Cite internationale des arts, Paris | France, 2020

-  "Shell Artist Selection 2020", The National Art Center, Tokyo | Japan

-  "MEISTER 2020", Motorenhalle. Projektraum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden | Germany

-  "Death Becomes Her",   TOKAS (Kunstquartier Bethanien), Berlin | Germany, 2018

Awards received include:

- Grant for Overseas Research, Pola Art Foundation, 2021

- Grant for Overseas Research, Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation, 2018

- Arts and Culture Grant, Nomura Foundation, 2017

- Tokyo Wonder Wall Grand Prize, Tokyo Wonder Wall 2011

Takeda was born in Amakusa islands in Kumamoto in 1988, recently based in Germany. He holds a Meister's of Fine Arts from the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, a Diplom of Fine Arts from the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Tama Art University. He has won numerous awards including the Grand Prize of the Tokyo Wonder Wall 2011, among others.

About works / performance

Skin Deep Beauty #1, 2016, Acrylic, resin and metal, 190 × 80 × 70 cm

Skin Deep Beauty #2, 2016, Acrylic, resin and metal, 170 × 57 × 59 cm

Skin Deep Beauty #3, 2016, Acrylic, resin and metal, 160 × 26 × 50 cm

Beyond The Distant Horizons, 2017, Glazed ceramic, wooden crates and photo on aluminum, Variable size

Beyond The Distant Horizons, 2017, Glazed ceramic, wooden crates, Variable size

memory, 2013, Plaster statue (Kannon and Virgin Mary) and video projection, Variable size