Saitama Triennale is an art festival that is held once every three years in Saitama City. Since holding the first edition in 2016, together with artists from Japan and abroad, the festival has expanded according to the idea to revitalize the region and enhance its appeal by means of art, with the ultimate goal to establish Saitama as a city of art and culture. As a festival for the local people to “partake and create together,” offering opportunities for exchange between citizens and citizens, citizens and artists, and artists and the local community, Saitama Triennale takes place at multiple locations in Saitama City.
Event name｜Saitama Triennale 2023
Theme｜“We”
Event period｜Saturday, October 7 – Sunday, December 10, 2023
Venues｜
Main venue｜Former Omiya Civic Hall
In addition to the main venue, related projects take place at various cultural facilities and other locations in the streets of Saitama City.
Organizer｜Saitama Triennale Executive Committee
Producer｜SERIZAWA Takashi (Executive director of P3 art and environment)
Direction｜Contemporary art team 目 [mé]
Civic Project curators｜MATSUNAGA Ko, ASAMI Shunya, IIJIMA Koji
Designer｜TAKADA Yui (Allright Graphics)
Direction
目[mé]
A Japanese contemporary art team project with three core members of, artist KOJIN Haruka, director MINAMIGAWA Kenji, and installer MASUI Hirofumi. 目[mé] works on the realization of artworks that manipulate perceptions of the physical world. Their installations provoke awareness of the inherent unreliability and uncertainty in the world around us. Selected works and projects include solo exhibition
Unreliable Reality - The Where of This World (Shiseido Gallery, 2014), Day with a Man’s Face Floating in the Sky (Utsunomiya Museum of Art Outreach Project, 2013-14), Elemental Detection (Saitama Triennale 2016), solo exhibition Obviously, no one can make heads nor tails. (Chiba City Museum of Art, 2019), solo exhibition Just a world (SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, 2021), masayume (Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special 13, 2019-21) and matterα, matterβ (Hawai’i Triennial 2022) among others. 目[mé] was the recipient of the Takashimaya Cultural Foundation’s 28th(2017) Takashimaya Art Award, and VOCA 2019 Award.
Web: https://artsaitama.jp/en/top/