Taka Kono
Taka Kono (b. 1994) lives and works in Tokyo. Working across installation and objects, his practice investigates how intimacy and distance are configured spatially over time.
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Education
2012–2017 BFA, Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design, New York, US
Solo Exhibitions
2025 HOME, Hunsand Space, Beijing, CN
2024 lost and found / everything, Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2023 specter, Hunsand Space, Hangzhou, CN
2022 down4u, Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2021 only only makes sense if there’s nothing else, darkZone, New Jersey, US
2020 dream knowledge, no, ledge, noh, no knowledge, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Froth of the Daydream & Tar in the Cellar, Çankaya Kültür Sanat, Ankara, TR
2025 Easternization Movement: Radiance Peak, Hunsand Space, Hangzhou, CN
2025 Ambiguous Intentions, Two Monologue, Tokyo, JP
2025 Best wishes, Plague, Kazan, RU
2024 XO.1, WHITEHOUSE, Tokyo, JP
2024 Beijing Contemporary Art Gallery Sampling Project, Hunsand Space, Beijing, CN
2024 Opening Exhibition, Hunsand Space, Shijiazhuang, CN
2024 Contemporary Goth, Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2023 Spirit Heart Soul Flesh Body, Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2023 ill omen 3, Malpaís, Barcelona, ES
2023 kirakira, off-site, Shiramine, JP
2023 Usual Group Show at an Emerging Gallery, Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2022 Terminal B, Smena Center of Contemporary Culture, Kazan, RU
2022 ill omen 2, CHURCH, Copenhagen, DK
2022 Vectored Goth, Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2022 The Aftercare in Order to Betray, akibatamabi21, Tokyo, JP
2022 Apocalypse Celebration, Boulevard Adolphe Max 26, Brussels, BE
2022 Garden of Gods, SXSW, Austin, US
2022 Garden of Gods, Vellum Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2022 BAITBALL (02), Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, IT
2022 and then, when I sleep, without language of night, I do not realize, See U, Brussels, BE
2021 ill omen 1, dungeon detroit, Detroit, US
2021 A Portal Fantasy, Plague Space, Krasnodar, RU
2021 ATK/0 DEF/10000, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP
2021 2121 Time Capsule, Goodbuy Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2021 Haunting Liminality: Refugia, off-site, Hung Hom, HK
2020 allelopathy of the wasteland, Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2020 A postnet folk fanfiction fairytale mythology: Part 1, Online
Art Fairs
2025 ART021, Shanghai, CN
2024 artKYOTO, Kyoto, JP
2024 JINGART, Beijing, CN
2024 Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo, JP
2023 EASTEAST, Tokyo, JP
Curatorial Projects
2025 Revelation of Divine Love, WHITEHOUSE, Tokyo, JP
2024 XO.1, WHITEHOUSE, Tokyo, JP
2024 The Mirror of Simple Souls, Copy Center Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2022 Dirty Laundry, KEIV, Athens, GR
2022 BAITBALL (02), Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, IT
2022 Screening program: sundae, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP
2021 ATK/0 DEF/10000, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP
2021 Your Fate, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP
2021 look past this, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP
2021 It’s always someone’s birthday, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP
2021 鬼由心生, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP
2021 damp plosive roam, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP
2021 runurunu + Hirari Ikeda + Risako Yamada, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP
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Home unfolds inside spaces that imitate domestic comfort while remaining impersonal. Decorative motifs associated with warmth—roses, musical notation, the word “home”—circulate across fragmented installations and transferred surfaces, often worn or misaligned. These elements function like secondhand language inside temporary interiors: recognizable, but unstable, offering familiarity without providing shelter.
lost & found / everything traces ownership and recovery through spaces shaped by belief and chance. The exhibition moves from ground to shelter, from early encounters with land to standardized contemporary interiors, where a bedside lamp marks the final site of presence. By aligning séances with gambling environments, the works approach intimacy and possession as faith-based actions carried out within systems designed to limit risk, yet never guarantee outcomes.
Specter approaches horror as something that has already entered intimate space. References to cultural memory and bodily sensation position fear as embedded within the domestic and familiar, not external to it. What appears is not spectacle, but proximity: a quiet pressure that compresses distance and unsettles the stability promised by comfort and reason.
Spirit Heart Soul Flesh Body brings death, intimacy, and the body into a shared space shaped by suspension, gravity, and post-event conditions. The exhibition moves through moments where physical processes continue after subjectivity recedes, and visibility becomes partial, delayed, or arrested. Intimacy appears as something that persists beyond life, carried by material behavior and systems of record.
ill omen 3 unfolds through intuitive structures and recurring motifs that draw on dream states. The exhibition holds a sense of suspension and low intensity, where materials and gestures accumulate without forming a closed narrative. Meaning emerges through atmosphere and duration, allowing fragments to remain unresolved while still held together.
East East builds an enclosed interior that feels wet and submerged without using water. The space changes through use, as the floor records footprints and movement over time, slowly forming a map of passage. Bodily fragments and surface treatments remain present without resolving into narrative, allowing the room to be experienced through contact and trace.
Only only makes sense if there’s nothing else uses small beds made from plastic, burned until the material softens and slumps. They sit across the gallery without forming a usable resting place. Heat leaves the beds warped and unreliable.