Kina Yohei
Kina Yohei was influenced by Takagi Shu and Nakayama Masaki, artists and teacher who have been creating works focusing on performance and the theory of the body since the 1970s, during his studying at Toyo Institute of Art & Design.In the 2000s, he produced performance videos that captured society from a critical and unconventional perspective. Afterwards, he shifted his main works to painting, but he has continued to engage actively in performance.
While his critical perspective remains unchanged, he has recently been creating performance that confront his own body directly. (written by Kitayama Seiko)
Biography
1979 born in Tokyo
2004 graduated from Toyo Institute of Art & Design
solo exhibition
2022 I am, TOKI Art Space, Tokyo
2021 Portrait, TOKI Art Space, Tokyo
2019 Design / Painting, TOKI Art Space, Tokyo
2016 Whereabout of Fundamental?, Visions gallery, Tokyo
2013 / 2016 Visions gallery, Tokyo
2005 / 06 / 07 / 08 / 09 / 11 / 12 / 16 / 19 / 21 / 22 TOKI Art Space, Tokyo
2004 Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo
Group Exhibition
2021 Asian Landscapes, with Patrik Hábl, GALERIE KRITIKU, Chez
2021 Exhibition with Hirata Hirohiko, Tanaka Modern Art, Kanagawa
2018 Horizontal Thinking, TOKI Art Space, Tokyo
2017 Another Fields, with Josef Achrer, Czech Center Tokyo
2015 Railroad siding, Kyushoku center Saitama
2014 META PLAY (PRAHA – TOKYO),GALERIE KRITIKU ,Chez
2009 CLOSENESS, Contemporary of Serbia and TOKI Art Space, Tokyo
2007 Lollypop-Body&Consumption, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina,Serbia
Performance
2025 ∞ exhibition
2024 solo exhibition of Nakayama Masaki, BODY SCALE,TOKI Art Space
2021 Koui Izen#13, Tanaka Modern Art, Kanagawa
2014 Poetry action vol.2Cafe FLYING TEAPOT, Tokyo
2012 Poetry action vol.1Cafe FLYING TEAPOT,Tokyo
Scholarships
26th Holbein Scholarship
title: 6 months
date: 2007
location: Inside a train on the Yurakucho Line, Gym at Bunkyo-ku
exhibition:
Lollypop – Body & Consumption, exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina (Serbia) and at TOKI Art Space. At TOKI Art Space, three consecutive monitors were used.
edited by: Kina Yohei
Due to copyright reasons, the music in the videos presented here differs from that of the original works.
title: BLEACH
date: 2007
location: Tokyo station
exhibition: solo exhibition of Kina Yohei, TOKI Art Space,Video exhibited on monitors fitted into locker-shaped structures.
edited by: Kina Yohei
title: Reverse
date: 2008
location: Ikebukuro and around Tokyo station
exhibition: Video exhibited in solo exhibition of Kina Yohei, TOKI Art Space
edited by: Kina Yohei
title: TODAY 1
date: 2009
location: Ikebukuro
exhibition: video exhibited in CLOSENESS/Contemporary of Serbia, TOKI Art Space
project: CLOSENESS/Contemporary of Serbia
edited by: Kina Yohei
title: TODAY ２
date: 2009
location: Ikebukuro
exhibition: video exhibited in CLOSENESS/Contemporary of Serbia, TOKI Art Space
edited by: Kina Yohei
title: Boundary
date: 2024-12-14
venue: Performance at solo exhibition of Nakayama Masaki , BODY SCALE , TOKI Art Space
camera & edited by Kitayama Seiko
title: Walking Around the Museum While Touching It
date: 2025-7-19
venue: Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
project: Performance at ♾️ group exhibition
camera by Kitayama Seiko
edited by Kina Yohei, Kitayama Seiko
Early performance-related works
Triangle
Line/time/distance 2005
He drew a line while he was on a plane. On that single line,the movements on the paper-its time and place-and the movement of his traveling body-its time and location-intertwined.
demarcation
Before this work, he also marked circles passed red yarn through the holes of the fence at U.S military bases in Tokyo and Okinawa. In this work, he also threaded red yarn onto the mirror, as if connecting real and fictional world. Then he reflected the National Diet Building in the mirror.
Plane
untitled