Japanese pavilion

The Japanese pavilion houses Japan's national representation during the Venice Biennale arts festivals.

Japanese pavilion at the Venice biennial

Background

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Organization and building

The pavilion, designed by Takamasa Yoshizaka, was built between 1955 and 1956.

Representation by year

Art

• 1952 — Taikan Yokoyama, Kokei Kobayashi, Kiyotaka Kaburaki, Heihachirō Fukuda, Kyujin Yamamoto, Kenji Yoshioka, Sotaro Yasui, Shinsen Tokuoka, Ryuzaburo Umehara, Ichiro Fukuzawa, Kigai Kawaguchi
• 1954 — Hanjiro Sakamoto, Taro Okamoto
• 1956 — Kunitaro Suda, Kazu Wakita, Takeo Yamaguchi, Shigeru Ueki, Toyoichi Yamamoto, Shiko Munakata
• 1958 — Ichirō Fukuzawa, Kawabata Ryūshi, Seison Maeda, Kenzo Okada, Yoshi Kinouchi, Shindō Tsuji (representative: Shūzō Takiguchi; assistant commissioner: Ichirō Fukuzawa and Yoshiaki Tōno)
• 1960 — Toshimitsu Imai, Yoshishige Saito, Kei Sato, Kaoru Yamaguchi, Tadahiro Ono, Tomonori Toyofuku, Yoshitatsu Yanagihara, Yozo Hamaguchi
• 1962 — Kinuko Emi, Minoru Kawabata, Kumi Sugai, Tadashi Sugimata, Ryokichi Mukai
• 1964 — Yoshishige Saito, Toshinobu Onosato, Hisao Domoto, Tomonori Toyofuku
• 1966 — Toshinobu Onosato, Masuo Ikeda, Morio Shinoda, Ay-O
• 1968 — Tomio Miki, Kumi Sugai, Jiro Takamatsu, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi
• 1970 — Shusaku Arakawa and Nobuo Sekine
• 1972 — Kenji Usami, Shintaro Tanaka
• 1976 — Kishin Shinoyama
• 1978 — Koji Enokura, Kishio Suga
• 1980 — Koji Enokura, Susumu Koshimizu, Isamu Wakabayashi
• 1982 — Naoyoshi Hikosaka, Yoshio Kitayama, Tadashi Kawamata
• 1984 — Kosho Ito, Kyoji Takubo, Kosai Hori
• 1986 — Isamu Wakabayashi, Masafumi Maita
• 1988 — Shigeo Toya, Keiji Umematsu, Katsura Funakoshi
• 1990 — Toshikatsu Endo, Saburo Muraoka
• 1993 — Yayoi Kusama (Commissioner: Akira Tatehata)
• 1995 — Katsuhiko Hibino, Yoichiro Kawaguchi, Hiroshi Senju, Jae Eun Choi
• 1997 — Rei Naito
• 2003 — Yutaka Sone, Motohiko Odani
• 2005 — Miyako Ishiuchi (Commissioner: Michiko Kasahara)
• 2007 — Masao Okabe (Commissioner: Chihiro Minato)
• 2009 — Miwa Yanagi (Commissioner: Hiroshi Minamishima)
• 2011 — Tabaimo (Commissioner: Yuka Uematsu)
• 2013 — Koki Tanaka (Curator: Mika Kuraya)
• 2015 — Chiharu Shiota (Curator: Hitoshi Nakano)
• 2017 — Takahiro Iwasaki (Curator: Meruro Washida)
• 2019 — Motoyuki Shitamichi, Taro Yasuno, Toshiaki Ishikura, Fuminori Nousaku (Curator: Hiroyuki Hattori)
• 2022 — Dumb Type

Bibliography

• Russeth, Andrew (April 17, 2019). "The Venice Biennale: Everything You Could Ever Want to Know". ARTnews. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
• Volpi, Cristiana (2013). "Japan". In Re Rebaudengo, Adele (ed.). Pavilions and Garden of Venice Biennale. Rome: Contrasto. p. 188. ISBN 978-88-6965-440-4.

Further reading

• Adriasola, Ignacio (October 2017). "Japan's Venice: The Japanese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the "Pseudo-Objectivity" of the International". Archives of Asian Art. 67 (2): 209–236. doi:10.1215/00666637-4229710. S2CID 194869758.
• Etherington, Rose (August 29, 2012). "Toyo Ito's Japanese Pavilion wins at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012". Dezeen. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
• Frearson, Amy (June 10, 2014). "Japan's biennale pavilion celebrates radical 1970s architecture". Dezeen. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
• "Japanese Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale". Artsy. May 18, 2015. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
• "Japanese Pavilion – 55th Biennale di Venezia. June 1st – November 24th 2013". Artsy. May 23, 2013. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
• Seaman, Anna (June 29, 2015). "Venice Biennale: Japan's Pavilion by Salama Nasib". The National. Retrieved May 12, 2019.

External links

• Official website