Jun Azumatei
was born in Tokyo in 1973, graduated from Tama Art University in Tokyo and studied Fine Arts at HGK FHNW in Basel for one year. He lived and worked in Switzerland and Germany from 2009 to 2015, based in Yokohama Japan since 2015.
Since 2010, Art Performance Duo "KARASUTEI" (with Hidetada KARASUYAMA)
2014-2015, Art project team "songs for a pigeon" (with Axel Toepfer)
Since 2019, Art project "AZUMATEI PROJECT" (with Hidetada KARASUYAMA, Takuro ISHII and Tetsuaki NANJO. Keiichiro TANAKA and Kazuyoshi SAKAI joined at the end of 2020)
Since 2019, Art & Sound Performance Duo "Soft-Concrete" (with Kota SAITO)
Since 2022, PALOMA - Coffee, Alcohol, Cigarette, Music and Art with MOMO
Jun AZUMATEI
1973 born in Tokyo, Japan
lives and works in Yokohama, Japan
1999 BFA Tama Art University, Tokyo
12-13 MFA HGK FHNW, Basel
Grants
2009 Pola Art foundation, international exchange, Japan
2010 The Japanese government overseas study program for artist
2011 The Nomura foundation in Japan (2011, 2012)
2014 Jakob und Emma Windler Stiftung, Stadt Stein am Rhein, Switzerland
Artist in Residencies
2009 iaab - Internationales Austausch- und Atelierprogramm Region Basel, Switzerland
2010 FRISE - Kuenstlerhaus und Abbildungzentrum - Hamburg, Germany
2014 Chretzeturm - The Trustees Artist's Flat Chretzeturm - Stein am Rhein, Switzerland
09-15 lived and worked in Basel, Switzerland and Kiel, Germany
2016 BankART 1929, Yokohama, Japan
Solo Exhibitions
2019 #07 Watershed, Counter, Propagation - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2014 #32 Jun Azumatei - a piece of space APS, Tokyo
2014 Face to Face #4 - Gallery Camellia, Tokyo
2014 Everywhere and Nowhere - Hayward Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia
2014 FASZINATION DAMAST - Malerei auf Stoff aus Mutter's Truhe - Chretzeturm, Stein am Rhein, Switzerland
2013 Ein Fenster inmitten der Welt: Jun Azumatei - Wolkenhof, Murrhardt, Germany
2013 double - tatiana kourochkina GALLERIA D'ART, Barcelona
2011 I still haven't found what I'm looking for - AB projects, Zurich Switzerland
2011 #23 Jun Azumatei - a piece of space APS , Tokyo
2011 RECENT PAINTINGS - Gotthard, Basel Switzerland
2010 Threshold_between worlds - Atelierhaus Arlesheim, Basel Switzerland
2009 Domain of Art 2 : Jun Azumatei - Plaza North / North Gallery, Saitama Japan
2009 Jun Azumatei exhibition - FAZIOLI ART GALLERY, Tokyo
2008 THE DIVA IN FORM - gallery FORM, Tokyo
2007 Gardening Record - Plaza Gallery, Tokyo
2006 Fleur De Chocolat, Tokyo
2006 Talk on air - gallery dojunkai, Tokyo
2005 Touch me if you can... - art cocoon, Tokyo
2004 Project N17 - Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery,Tokyo
2004 a face - Suika-to, Tokyo
2003 Smells like rain - Makii Masaru Fine Arts, Tokyo
2002 RECENT PAINTINGS - CENTURY GALLERY, London
2001 Transparent Time - NC Art Gallery, Tokyo
2001 Transparent Time - Art Gallery KAN, Tokyo
2001 Transparent Time - Makii Masaru Fine Arts, Tokyo
2001 Jun Azumatei exhibition - Suika-to, Tokyo
1998 Jun Azumatei exhibition - Art Gallery KAN, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
2024 #39 Two Man Show(with Mitsunori Kurashige) - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2024 #38 Halation - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2023 #35 Four Perspectives - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2023 #34 KOTOBUKE - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2022 #33 Heading to FUJIDANA - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2022 #28 Art exhibition vol.1 NANJO - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2021 #21 luna crescente - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2020 #18 Soft or Hard - Three weeks with Soft-Concrete - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2020 #16 VIVIDOR - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2020 #13 Fragment Monochrome - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2020 #11 before sunrise after dark - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2019 #10 Possible or Not Impossible - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2019 #01 Memento Mori - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2016 Japan im Palazzo - Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
2015 SNAPSHOT - HAYWARD FINE ART, Brisbane
2014 songs for a pigeon - Embassy of Switzerland, Tokyo
2014 songs for a pigeon - gallery coexist TOKYO & ERATH+GALLERY, Tokyo
2014 songs for a pigeon - Plaza Gallery, Tokyo
2014 songs for a pigeon - N-MARK B1, Nagoya, Japan
2014 songs for a pigeon - Nagasaki Factory, Nagasaki, Japan
2014 last but not least - Galerie Katharina krohn, Basel, Switzerland
2014 Wonkun Jun x Jun Azumatei - Galerie Katharina krohn, Basel, Switzerland
2013 ALLE JAHRE WIEDER... - Galerie Katharina krohn, Basel, Switzerland
2013 Small Works - Gallery Camellia, Tokyo
2013 Kind of Blue - Galerie Katharina krohn, Basel, Switzerland
2013 NATURE - Grand Hotel National, Luzern, Switzerland
2013 ARTIST FILE 2013 - The National Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo
2012 ALLE JAHRE WIEDER... - Galerie Katharina krohn, Basel, Switzerland
2012 NISHINOMIYA FUNASAKA BIENNALE 2012 - Hyogo, Japan
2012 SOMMERFEST - AB Gallery Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
2011 ALLE JAHRE WIEDER... - Galerie Katharina krohn, Basel, Switzerland
2011 5/GO - Bollag projektraum, Basel, Switzerland
2011 Face to Face : Hildegard Spielhofer x Jun Azumatei - PLATFORM STUDIO, Tokyo
2011 Conversing with Nature - ARTE PIAZZA BIBAI, Hokkaido, Japan
2010 micro salon 60 - Tokyo Gallery＋BTAP, Tokyo
2010 Ach soh!? vol.2 - Kuenstlerhaus FRISE, Hamburg
2010 ARBEITEN AUF HOLZ - Galerie Katharina krohn, Basel, Switzerland
2010 silent position - Velada St.Lucia 2010 - Santa lucia, Venezuela
2009 REGIONAL 10 - Accelerateur de Particules, Strasbourg, France
2008 Yokohama art and collection - Yokohama Home Collection, Yokohama, Japan
2008 NETWORK PROJECT JAPAN - interalia, Seoul, South Korea
2008 Milestones - Tokyo Gallery＋BTAP, Beijing, China
2008 Layered landscape - Makii Masaru Fine Arts, Tokyo
2007 Emerging Artist in Meguro - Meguro-ku MUSEUM, Tokyo
2007 BTAP 5th Anniversary 2002-07 - Tokyo Gallery＋BTAP, Beijing, China
2007 Makii selection - Makii Masaru Fine Arts,Tokyo
2007 A selection encouragement exhibition - Sonpo-JAPAN museum, Tokyo
2006 Bunkamura Art Show 2006 - Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
2006 Memories of Light : with Man Furuya, Tokyo Gallery＋BTAP, Tokyo
2006 The boice planning is covered with a profusion of flowers - BOICE PLANNING, Kanagawa, Japan
2006 Opening exhibition - gallery dojunkai, Tokyo
2005 Take Art Collection 2005 - SPIRAL, Tokyo
2005 The Artifical paradaise - Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
2004 New Flat - White Cube OSAKA, Osaka
2004 Guardian Garden, Tokyo
2004 Take Art Collection 2004 - SPIRAL, Tokyo
2003 Guardian Garden, Tokyo
2003 select 4 - Art Gallery KAN, Tokyo
2002 NipponTV Crystal hall, Tokyo
2002 Guardian Garden, Tokyo
2002 SPICA MUSEUM, Tokyo
2001 Garage・B, Tokyo
2000 Guardian Garden, Tokyo
2000 Drawing exhibition, Art Gallery KAN, Tokyo
2000 Liquitex Biennale - SPIRAL, Tokyo
1999 La foret HARAJUKU, Tokyo
1996 Level 2 - GALLERY AOYAMA, Tokyo
0pen Studios
2014 Chretzeturm - Stein am Rhein, Switzerland
2012 OSLO-Ateliers, Basel, Switzerland
2011 OSLO-Ateliers, Basel, Switzerland
2009 iaab Ateliers4, Basel, Switzerland
Work Shops
2014 Magical tools: with David Berweger & Axel Toepfer- Torin Art School- Kawasaki, Japan
2014 Performance and Installation: with David Berweger, Axel Toepfer - Isahaya Art School- Nagasaki, Japan
2014 Schule Schanz - Stein am Rhein, Switzerland
2009 work shop-cut out the sky - Plaza North Gallery, Saitama, Japan
Lectures/Artisttalks
2017 ''Lecture and performance'' Tainan University of Technology, Taiwan (as KARASUTEI)
2015 HAPS - Kyoto, Japan
2014 Songs for a pigeon: with David Berweger, Axel Topfer, Chisai Fujita, Aich University of the Arts, Aichi, Japan
2014 Songs for a pigeon: with David Berweger, Axel Toepfer, - Torin Art School, Kawasaki, Japan
2014 Songs for a pigeon: with David Berweger, Axel Toepfer - Isahaya Art School & Nagasaki Factory, Nagasaki, Japan
2014 Songs for a pigeon: with David Berweger, Axel Toepfer - N-Mark, Nagoya, Japan
2014 Songs for a pigeon: Trans-Boundary: with Tota Goya(Architect), Sho Toyokawa(Architectural researcher), Fumiko Takahama(Architect),Toshiya Kobayashi(Artist), Mitsuhiro Yamagiwa(Artist), Chisai Fujita(Art Writer) - Gallery coexist TOKYO, Tokyo
2014 Songs for a pigeon : with Toshiya Kobayashi - Gallery Camellia, Tokyo
2013 ARTIST FILE 2013 - The National Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo
2007 Emerging Artist in Meguro - Meguro-ku MUSEUM, Tokyo
A•P•D KARASUTEI
2022 ''#33 Last Drawing for Center Building'' - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2022 ''#32 Prophecy'' - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2021 ''#25 Survive Romantically'' - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2021 ''#23 with Andy - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2017 ''KARASUTEI ENJYO Final'' with Kota(GLDN) Miyakobashi Echo's, Yokohama, Japan
2017 ''Lecture and performance'' Tainan University of Technology, Taiwan
2016 Solo Show 'KARASUTEI ENJYO', pon ding, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 Group Show '白群', Gallery Camellia, Tokyo, Japan
2016 'UWABATAKE ART 2016', Meditation village in Toyama, Japan
2016 Open Studio 'KARASUTEI ENJYO' - BankART 1929, Yokohama, Japan
2016 Live Performance 'KARASUTE ENJYO' - Miyakobashi Echo's, Yokohama, Japan
2014 Group Show of songs for a pigeon - KARASUTEI x David Berweger - Plaza Gallery, Tokyo
2010 Performance - Tokio Nacht - Atelierhaus Arlesheim, Basel, Switzerland
A•S•P•D Soft-Concrete
2023 #37.2 Our Blue Earth - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2023 "Halloweenpic" with Niya - Chat Noir, Yokohama, Japan
2022 "la Seine" with PEI & KARASU-TEI - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2022 "wonderful fountain Ⅳ" - Thumbs UP, Yokohama, Japan
2021 "wonderful fountain Ⅱ" - Thumbs UP, Yokohama, Japan
2021 "wonderful fountain" - Thumbs UP, Yokohama, Japan
2020 #18 Soft or Hard - Three weeks with Soft-Concrete - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2020 ''#14_YODOMISAE'' with Hidetada Karasuyama AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2020 ''#11_pieces of fragments, particle expanding'' AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2019 ''#10_The world never ends'' AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2019 ''#07_The end of the world 3/3'' AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2019 ''#07_Living in a Sewage River 2/3 AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2019 ''#07_Beginning of the world 1/3" AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2019 ''Live Performance_Jiritsu(independenceⅡ)'' IZK Gallery, Nagasaki, Japan
2019 ''#05.5 Live Performance_Jiritsu(independence)'' AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
Collaborations
2022 "The Over Drive Show" - Maruhon Macchiato Terrace, Ishinomaki, Japan
2022 "wonderful fountain Ⅲ" a.k.a.Kienai Hokori - Thumbs UP, Yokohama, Japan
2021 ''#25'' - KARASU-TEI × Yoriko Ichinomiya × Kota Saito - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2019 ''Memento Mori'' - Aoi Sawaguchi(Flute) × Jun Azumatei - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2019 ''Memento Mori'' - Kota Saito(Guitar) × Jun Azumatei - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2019 ''Memento Mori'' - Yusuke Shimada(Buto) × Jun Azumatei - AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2018 ''Improvisation Live'' Meeting#6' - Yusuke Shimada(Buto), Kota Saito(Guitar), Aoi Sawaguchi(Flute) × Jun Azumatei - Jazz Spot Dolphy, Yokohama, Japan
2018 ''Bless you'' Live Performance - Yo Keiso × Jun Azumatei - Miyakobashi Echo's, Yokohama, Japan
2017 ''Improvisation Live'' Meeting#5' - Yusuke Shimada(Buto), Kota Saito(Guitar) × Jun Azumatei, Kyu-Baraso, Yokohama, Japan
2017 ''KOIKE ENJYO'' Kota Saito(Guitar)×Jun Azumatei, Miyakobashi Echo's, Yokohama, Japan
Curations
2022 "MATSURI" (KARASU=TEI)- AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2021 "The glaring noon in the dark - Indefinite Square" (KARASU=TEI)- AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2021 "#22 Over the Absence"- AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2021 "#20 luna crescente"(with Hajime Mizutani)- AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2020 "#18 Soft or Hard – Three weeks with Soft-Concrete"- AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2020 "#17 Shoichi Shibuya Film Festival"- AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2020 "#16 VIVIDOR – The one who enjoys life to the full"- AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2020 "#13 Fragment Monochrome"- AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2020 "#11 before sunrise after dark"- AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2019 "#10 Possible or Not Impossible"- AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2019 "#09 Yu-Sui"- AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2019 "#06 girlish/Gilgamesh"- AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2019 "#05.5 Live Performance"- AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2019 "#03.5 Photo Book Echo's Music & Alcohol"- AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2019 "#02 A DAY OFF – You can’t catch the fish you can see"- AZUMATEI PROJECT, Yokohama, Japan
2014 "songs for a pigeon" link→
PALOMA
2022 "collection" by KARASU-TEI, Hidetada KARASUYAMA and Jun AZUMATEI, Yokohama, Japan