TATSUYA SUGIMOTO

Born 1993, Kochi, Japan; lives and works in Hamburg.

CV

Education
2012 - 2016 in Kyoto University of Art Department of Film
2018 - 2022 in University of Fine Arts Hamburg Department of Sculpture

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Ibasho ♯2, The place where I/we can be(Hokkaido University of Education Gallery, Hokkaido JP)

2023 Schnee von Gestern (Kunstverein Lüneburg, Lünebug DE)

2023 UNCUT WAYS ( La volonté 93,Paris FR )

2022 Easter Field Festival ( Osterfeldstraße 6, Hamburg DE )

2021 Abstecher ( Danziger Str.22, Hamburg )

2021 I Rejseleve ( Heaven20, Copenhagen )
2020 7+1 Künstler aus Japan - Gedanken nehmen Gestalt an ( Galerienrundgang Charlottenburg - Berlin )

2020 Small Is Beautiful ( Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg )
2019 Ibasho,The place where I/we can be (Frappant e.V. , Hamburg )
2019 TOSA no MOSA (Museum of Art WARAKOH,Kochi )
2019 Espace de Réflexion (Spiral Garden,Tokyo )
2019 Parallel Picnic (Krebs-Kontor, Hamburg )
2018 TSJK ( Kochi Museum of Art, Kochi )
2017 The red car is passing through the gallery ( KUNST ARZT, Kyoto )

Award

2022 Karl H. Ditze Prize

Grant

2022 POLA Art Foundation
2021 EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee

Schnee von Gestern, 2023

Import/Export, 2023

Import/Export, 2023

To ventilate a piano, 2023

Transit, 2022

Foto: Tim Albrecht

Transit, 2022

Installation view with Mette Velling

spatial installation

HFBK door sticker"The room number was changed from K25 to K29,the doorman was instructed to change the key number from K25 to K29.", Safety sign 40×30cm“Notausgang freihalten! / Keep emergency exit clear!”, Bus handrail Ø15cm×2.2m, Sanded and polished floor, Faltenbalg / Bus bellows 2.5×2.5×1.8m(Wall breakthrough with inserted bus part)

This space was the studio where I worked for four years and was called k25 before
the exhibition. The studio next to it across the wall was called k25a and according to
a blueprint made in 1911 there was no wall between the two spaces at the time, but
one large studio; k29. With the help of the doorman, the room number in the
computer system was changed from k25 to k29, creating a situation where there was
no space called k25 in the building for the duration of the exhibition.

Airchannel, 2022

Airchannel

At around 5 pm, a noise was heard from inside the wall, so the rat exterminator checked it out. The inside of the wall was made visible through the invoice, as was the peephole.

Double espresso cup for two persons, 2021

small is beautiful ² ( Mikiko Sato Gallery )

Foto: Hagen Stier

Double espresso cup for two persons

Installation view

small is beautiful ² ( Mikiko Sato Gallery )
Porcelain, Volcanic rock 12.5 × 6.3 × 6.4 cm

Foto: Hagen Stier

Travel to double landscaps, 2021

I Rejseleve ( Haven20 )

Foto:Amandus Rock

Travel to double landscaps( Jægersborg Dyrehave )

I Rejseleve ( Haven20 )

Commemorative valve, 2021

ABSTECHER ( Danziger str.22 )

Commemorative valve

ABSTECHER ( Danziger str.22 )

https://www.mikikosatogallery.com/de/kollaboration/ausstellung-in-der-danzigerstrasse/

BEST OF THE SEASON F/W 20/21

7+1 Künstler aus Japan - Gedanken nehmen Gestalt an ( Galerienrundgang Charlottenburg - Berlin )

BEST OF THE SEASON F/W 20/21

7+1 Künstler aus Japan - Gedanken nehmen Gestalt an ( Galerienrundgang Charlottenburg - Berlin )

Wood, Metal, Stethoscope, Bottle of wine 15 × 78 × 15 cm

During the exhibition in Berlin, the grape juice made in Hamburg will continue to ferment in the transport box and turn into red wine. Instead of seeing the fermentation process with your eyes, you can listen to the sound of the bubbles produced during the fermentation with a stethoscope. Just as different people can see and hear different things, through this work I have tried to find a way to accept the undecidedness of what is to come, and to let the results out of your hands.
On the last day of the exhibition, I hope I can toast together with the visitors with a glass of grape-juice-like red wine.

Cuckoo clock without clock #1 2020

Cuckoo clock without clock #1

Rest wood, Plastic 63 × 78 × 13cm

The ball is my best friend, 2019

Espace de Réflexion (Spiral Garden,Tokyo )

The ball is my best friend

Espace de Réflexion (Spiral Garden,Tokyo )

Soccer ball, Valve, Musical score

I released the air from the ball using a bicycle valve and with the sound it made, I read a letter written by morse code.

Foto: Shinpei Yoshida

GOOD HEART MARKET, 2019

GOOD HEART MARKET, 2019

TOSAのMOSA(Museum of art WARAKOH, Kochi )

Woodenhouse made by rest wood, Objects

During the preparation period of the exhibition, I worked part-time in various places (restaurants, cafés, wood workshop, hotel) and received things instead of a salary. During the exhibition, visitors were asked to leave something different in exchange for being able to take something placed in the woodenhouse back home, creating a situation where what was visible was constantly changing.

Schöne Zeit, 2019

Schöne Zeit, 2019

Installation view:
Hunting Chair, Gloves 174× 382 × 130 cm

I bring the hunters chair from the farm to the gallery. The hunters take vacation and I can take care of the chair, inviting gallery visitors to observe or sit on the chair.

Steps for making blue entrance, 2019

Parallel Picnic (Krebs-Kontor, Hamburg )

Steps for making blue entrance

Installation view:
Rest wood, Metal, Ink 230× 152 × 120 cm

I heard the history of the gallery used to be a crab soup factory (from a person who worked there.) At that time they used this door as a delivery entrance.
I felt inspired from it and created one kind of bridge for connecting between old history and this scene in the present. During the opening day, people could use the steps to enter the gallery space.

Parallel Picnic (Krebs-Kontor, Hamburg )

We dreamed under the same sky, 2019

Ibasho,The place where I/we can be (Frappant e.V. ,Hamburg )

We dreamed under the same sky

Water color on paper

I have asked people I know at different places in the world to screen “their” sky after waking up. These videos were filmed June 3, 2019
( Germany, Estonia, Scotland, USA, Spain, France, Denmark, Japan, Thailand )

Ibasho,The place where I/we can be (Frappant e.V. ,Hamburg )

Ball control, 2018

Ball control, 2018

Vorsicht! Frische Leihgabe(der U-Bahn Station Mundsburg an Raum K26), 2018

Vorsicht! Frische Leihgabe(der U-Bahn Station Mundsburg an Raum K26)

From Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel Airport to Prague-Václav Havel Airport, 2017

From Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel Airport to Prague-Václav Havel Airport, 2017

Drawing on paper, 30 × 45 × 0.2 cm

I have finished earlier than usual today, 2016

I have finished earlier than usual today, 2016

Wood, Hinge, Horsehair, Ferrari paint 173.2 × 160 × 2 cm

I spoke with a cleaner in the university and found he would like to finish his work earlier to be with his family. He dreamt to be a Ferrari racer.
I order to Ferrari, for coating red on the broom as a specification Ferrari.
I attempt in this work is to make his childhood dream and current problem comes ture.

Basket and Ball 2016

Basket and Ball 2016

Artificial leather, Rubber 24.5 × 14.5 × 24.5 cm

I heard the story from the owner of the building that the gallery used to be a sports office.
At that time they used this window as a delivery entrance for carrying big tables and copy machines etc... Because their stairs were too narrow.
I felt inspired by it and I asked the owner about permission to use the window for instoring my piece. Then he told me "Yes, you can do it. But please don't break the window."