yang02 (YAMAGUCHI Takahiro)

Profile

Born in Kanagwa, 1984. Based in Kanagawa.
Graduated from Information Design Field, Design Course Master Program at Tama Art University in 2009.

Selected Exhibitions:
2025 "WE ARE ME," Keelung Museum of Art, Taiwan
2025 "MIKAMI MEME 2025: The Creative Meme of Seiko Mikami - A 10th Anniversary Tribute," √ｋ Contemporary, Tokyo
2025 "Setouchi Triennale 2025," Hiraga Gennai Memorial Museum, Sanuki, Kagawa
2025 Solo Exhibition "Homage to New York," WALL_alternative, Tokyo
2025 "Randam Access 4.0," Nam Jun Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
2023 "MOT Annual 2023 Synergies, or between creation and generation," Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2022 "Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going," Mori Art Museum,Tokyo
2019 "OPEN SITE 2018-2019 TOKAS Recommendation Program contact Gonzo ‘untitled session’," Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo
2011 "TWS CiR OPEN STUDIO ‘TOKYO STORY 2010’," Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo

Awards:
2023 "TERADA ART AWARD 2023," TERASE Yuki Award
2018 "The 21th Japan Media Arts Festival," Art Division, Excellence Award (*With KANNO So)

Residency:
2011 "defined by___" Augsburg, Germany
2010 "TWS Exchange Residency Program" HANGAR、Barcelona, Spain

About works / performance

Known for installation works in which human-centered actions associated with the art system—such as creating, viewing and installing (or removing) works—are replaced by machines. In recent years, he has created works that involve slowing down toy racing cars and transforming exhibition spaces into power stations using self-built large generators. Through these and other methods, he focuses on issues concealed behind the convenience and rationality of technology, such as politics, previllege, and violence, to question the structure of society as defined by technology.