MOT×Bloomberg Public Space Project [Kimihiko Okada]

Through Bloomberg’s sponsorship, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is undertaking a project in which young artists from Japan and abroad display works in spaces other than the Museum’s galleries. This year, in the Museum’s “Sunken Garden” outdoor court, Kimihiko Okada will establish an aluminum artwork 22m x 41m x 6.5m in size, thereby producing scenery that alters in appearance along with time’s passage and the changing weather.

Kimihiko Okada experiments to change the ways people perceive space with the materials he uses in his art works aside from his work as an architect. His artwork, this time, is displayed in an outdoor space that is open to all and can be viewed anytime, free of charge, even by the casual passer-by. You are encouraged to visit several times and enjoy a work that changes under the influences of its environment.

1971 Born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
1997 Graduated from Meiji University, Department of Architecture, School of Science & Technology,
1997-2004 Joined Office of Ryue Nishizawa
2005 Established Office of Kimihiko Okada
2006 Lecturer, Tokyo Denki University

2005 A Proposal for a shop Display (1st Prize at WORLD Space Creators Awards 2005)
2005- Raw house at "Kototoi St.", Tokyo, Japan (Selected for SD Review 2006)
2006 A store with a shelf made for a strip (Selected for WORLD Space Creators Awards 2006)
2006- House in Hiroshima, Hiroshima/Japan
2007- Apartment Building ni Himonya, Tokyo/Japan
2007 Solo exhibition "Kimihiko Okada" at PRISMIC GALLERY
2008 Solo exhibition "Another Geography" at DIESEL DENIM GALLERY AOYAMA