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Mai born in 1976 in Chiba, Japan and Naoto born there in 1974 both gained a degree at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music before they studied at the Universität der Künste in Berlin as guest students. Together they realized a high number of solo and group exhibitions.
| Education: Mai Yamashita | | | 2001 | B.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music | | | 2004 | M.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music | | | 2005 | Universität der Künste Berlin, Class Stan Douglas, Guest student | | | | | | Education: Naoto Kobayashi | | | 1999 | B.A. The University of Tsukuba, School of Art and Design | | | 2002 | M.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music | | | 2005 | Universität der Künste Berlin, Class Stan Douglas, Guest student | | | | | | | Prizes: | | | | 2006 | The Asahi Shimbun Foundation, Stipend, Japan The Nomura Cultural Foundation, Stipend, Japan Honorable Mention of transmediale.06, Berlin Special Prize of VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain 2nd Prize of Gstaad Film Festival 2006, Gstaad, Switzerland | | | 2007 | The Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists, Japan Special Prize of VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain | | | | | Residencies: | | | | 2006 | Künstler Atelier AKKU Uster, Uster, Switzerland | | | 2007 | Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstlerhaus, Eckernförde, Germany | | | | | | Solo exhibitions: | | | | 2001 | dam has broken, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo | | | 2007 | 1000 Waves, Kunsthalle Lingen cabinet, Germany infinity, ZAIM Annex 304, Yokohama, Japan Yamashita Kobayahshi Repeast Playback@Maruya, Naoshima, Japan | | | 2008 | INUZORI, Rasche Ripken Berlin, Germany | | | | | | Group exhibitions (selection): | | | | 2002 | Philip Morris K.K. Art Award 2002 -The First Move, Tokyo International Forum Green Space, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Ibaraki, Japan | | | 2003 | Green Space 2_licht/schatten, Haus am Horn, Weimar, Germany | | | 2004 | The World is Mine, Hiromi Yoshii Five, Tokyo | | 2005 | EMERGENCY 2, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK | | | 2006 | ARS 06-Sense of the Real, The Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki LichtRouten Lüdenscheid, Lüdenscheid, Germany Small mischiefs, Pump House Gallery, London Indblik, Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark O.V. L by REC, MIACA, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan Staring into Space, Trafó-House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest | | | | It is strange to be so many women, Ellen de Bruijne Projects | | | 2007 | I Am Future Melancholic, Tate Modern, London* I Am Future Melancholic, GoGallery, Milan, Italy Crawford Open 2007, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland Works by Emerging Video Artists, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN, US Theory of Everything, DongFang The Cinema of the Far East, Napoli Museumsnacht, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany | | | 2008 | Yokohama Art & Home Collection, Kanagawa, Japan The Doctoral Program Final Exhibition, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan GOING TO OUESSANT-Video on the island, Ouessant, France* Re-imagining Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin When I wish upon a star + Infinity, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium BACKLIGHT 08, 8th International Photographic Triennial, Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Tampere, Finland | | | | | | | Performances: | | | | 2008 | “infinity”, Re-imagining Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin | | | | | | | Workshops: | | | 2006 | “Shooting Star Party”, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki "It's a small world", Japanese School in Zürich | | | | | | | Website: | | | http://www.yamashita-kobayashi.com/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |