Rie Nakajima is a a sculptor living in London. She creates sounds using combination of motorised devices and daily objects. It can be installation or performance. Fusing sculpture and sound, her artistic practice is open to chance and the influence of others. Her first major solo exhibition was held at IKON Gallery in Birmingham in 2018. She has also worked with Museo Vostell Malpartida (Cáceres), Association de Le Cyclop (Milly la Forêt), ShugoArts (Tokyo), Donaueschinger Music Festival (Donaueschinger), and Cafe OTO (London). Her collaborators are Pierre Berthet, Angharad Davies, David Cunningham, Keiko Yamamoto, miki yui, hans.w.koch, Marie Roux, Billy Steiger, David Toop and Akira Sakata.
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 'Air Recycle', Annely Juda Gallery, London
2022 'Flat', Void+, Tokyo
2022 'In Sounds, In Places', La Chaufferie, Strasbourg
2020 'See-Saw', Labor Neunzehn, Berlin
2019 'Stepping', STUK, Leuven
2018 'Cyclic', Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2017 'Paging', Breakthrough Book Gallery, Hong Kong
2016 'Throw', Borealis Music Festival, Lydgalleriet, Bergen
2015 'becoming sounds', ShugoArts Weekend Gallery, Tokyo
2015 'Leave', Karin Weber Gallery, Around Sound Festival, Sound Pocket, Hong Kong
2014 'Fall', noshowspace, London
2010 'I Can Hear It', Soundfjord, London
2010 'pun∼q'', Quare, London
2009 'Unwind', Void+, Tokyo
Selected Group Shows:
2024 ‘Instruments Play Music’, with Pierre Berthet, Kunstlab, Deventer
2023 ‘Donaueschinger Music Tage 2023’, with Pierre Berthet, Donaueschingen
2023 ‘The Sound’, Monheim Triennale II, Monheim am Rhein
2023 ‘Murmures En Fractales, Des Récits Qui Nous Accompagnent…’ with Pierre Berthet Le Cyclop, Milly la Forêt
2023 'Drums Listens to Heart', The Wattis, San Francisco
2022 ‘Three Days: Haruko Nakajima & Rie Nakajima’, Yanaka Idaten, Tokyo
2022 ‘Everywhere Gather Yourself Stand’, Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo
2022 ‘Sonic Garden’, French School of Athens, Athens
2022 'Hear Here: Walk along sound art', Leuven
2021 'Listening to the Anthropocene', Coventry Biennial, Coventry
2021 'Klang Moor Festival', Gais
2021 'Polyphony', Kunstsammlung Gera Orangerie & Museum Für Angewandte Kunst, Gera
2020 'Klangkünste - drei Positionen an den Rändern eines weiten Feldes', Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden
2019 'Big Orchestra', Schirn, Frankfurt
2019 'Persisting Realities', Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Bethanien, Berlin
2016 'What Are We Building Down There?' Bucharest Biennale, Bucharest
2014 'No Music Was Playing', Instants Chavirés, Montreuil
2013 'The Silence Between', Paul Stolper Gallery, London
2009 'Zen und Konkret', Quilow
Selected Performances:
2023 ‘Akira Sakata + Pierre Berthet + Rie Nakajima’, Embassy of Belgium in Tokyo, Tokyo
2023 ‘Kazuko Miyamoto Exhibition’, Museo Madre, Napoli (solo)
2023 ‘Phill Niblock + Thurston Moor + Rie Nakajima’, Cafe OTO, London
2023 ‘O YAMA O GALO release’, O YAMA O, Cafe OTO, London
2022 ‘Maggie Nichols Residency’, Cafe OTO, London
2022 ‘Next Festival’, Bratislava
2022 ‘The Wire 40: The Tao Of AMM x The Essence Of SME’, Cafe OTO, London
2022 'Dead Plants & Living Objects', Villa Stuck, Munich
2019 'O YAMA O', Festival Novas Frequências, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
2019 'dara dara by David Toop + Akio Suzuki + Aki Onda + Rie Nakajima', Oscillation Festival, Recyclart, Brussels
2019 'O YAMA O with David Cunningham', BBC Late Junction Festival, EartH, London
2019 'Akira Sakata x Rie Nakajima Live Performance', Hara Museum, Tokyo
2017 'Dead Plants & Living Objects by Rie Nakajima & Pierre Berthet', Meakusma Festival, Eupen
2016 'Saturday Live : Low', Serpentine Gallery, London (solo)
2016 'BMW Tate Live:Tarek Atoui The Reverse Collection', Tate Modern, London
2016 'On the Edge: Young on Sylvian – Skrap – Rowe/Toop/Davies/Nakajima/ Durrant', Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
2015 'Performance Nacht, Zero', Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (solo)
2015 'Christian Marclay', White Cube, London (solo)
2015 'Over the Fence', Camden Art Centre, London (solo)
2015 'boundary music', Whitechapel Gallery, London
2014 'New Experimentalists', The Arts Foundation Award, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London (solo)
2013 'Blue, Yellow, Red' South London Gallery, London
2010 'Art Birthday', Okno, Brussels (solo)
2010 'A lot of pedals', A lot of pianos..., curated by David Cunningham, at Markson Piano, London
2009 'Takahiro Kawaguchi + Rie Nakajima', Void+, Tokyo
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