MC Mirai Moriyama takes a closer look at three unique directors who run popular art spaces! Pursuing the behind-the-scenes aspects of the art scene and management from the perspective of each generation

“MEET YOUR ART” is an art specialty program where Mirai Moriyama serves as MC.

This time, three unique directors, COBRA, Kiyoshi Kurotaki, and Hisatomo Kato, who manage art spaces in various capacities, were invited as guests, and a video was released that delved into the behind-the-scenes of the operation.

In addition to delving into the characteristics of the space and the content of their work, we will consider the significance of the art scene and space from the perspective of each generation.

He will also talk about “AiRK,” an artist-in-residence space that MC Mirai Moriyama manages.

■COBRA

XYZ collective director/artist.

Born in Chiba Prefecture in 1981. Operates artist run space “XYZ collective”. He has published many works that use general world themes and art history and express them comically through video works. In addition to participating in exhibitions both domestically and internationally, he is also active as a unit called “C&K” with artist Ken Kagami.

HP:https://xyzcollective.jp/

■Kurotaki Kiyoshi

Chairman, Planner/Director of the art organization Two Monologue.

Born in Tokyo in 1986. He is the chairman of the art organization Two Monologue, which was established in Tokyo in July 2023 with the aim of coexisting with young and mid-career artists and supporting themselves through art activities that are widely open to the public. In addition, he has been working as a curator and director at the art space “Decameron” since 2020. Solo exhibition “Presence is Absence, Presence is Absent” (Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2018). In addition to direction/curation at Decameron, he also served as associate director/gallery relations at “EASTEAST_TOKYO 2023”.

HP:https://decameron.jp/

■Hisatomo Kato

CON_ Director.

In April 2022, he is in charge of the director of CON_, a space that opened in Bakurocho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo. With a focus on both visuality and concept, we are developing programs that cross various expressive cultures, including contemporary art. While reconsidering and practicing Tokyo’s urban culture, we have set a vision of reconsidering not only contemporary art but also music and other forms of expression as organic movements, and have created programs born from dialogue with artists and research. By planning, we are continually constructing new contexts born from contemporaneity. HP:https://www.contokyo.com/