Taka Kono

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Taka Kono (b. 1994) lives and works in Tokyo. His practice centers on installation and objects that examine how spaces absorb use and contact over time, treating material surfaces as sites where intimacy becomes spatial, infrastructural, and quietly unstable.

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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
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, Hunsand Space, Beijing, CN
12 April – 17 May 2025

Home brings Kono’s ongoing interest in intimacy into spaces that imitate domestic comfort while remaining fundamentally impersonal. Decorative motifs associated with warmth—roses, musical notation, the word “home”—circulate across fragmented installations and transferred surfaces, appearing worn, misaligned, or incomplete. These elements behave like borrowed language within temporary interiors, producing familiarity without attachment and comfort without shelter.

lost & found / everything, Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery, Tokyo, JP
13 April – 12 May 2024

lost & found / everything considers ownership and recovery through spaces structured by belief and chance. The exhibition collapses origins and endings, moving from ground to shelter, from the earliest human encounter with land to the final standardized interior of contemporary life, where a bedside lamp marks the last site of presence. Drawing a parallel between séances and gambling sites, the works frame intimacy, possession, and recovery as acts of faith carried out within controlled environments, where outcomes remain uncertain and temporary.

Specter, Hunsand Space, Hangzhou, CN
23 December 2023 – 25 February 2024

Specter brings Kono’s practice into direct contact with horror as a condition that enters intimate space rather than remaining external or symbolic. Drawing on cultural memory, bodily sensation, and the persistence of the unseen, the works treat fear as something quietly present and embedded within domestic, familiar, or private environments. Horror appears not as spectacle, but as a form of closeness that collapses distance and exposes instability beneath comfort and rational order.

Spirit Heart Soul Flesh Body, Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery, Tokyo, JP
21 October – 12 November 2023

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, Malpaís, Barcelona, ES
8 April – 8 June 2023

ill omen 3 unfolds through intuitive structures and recurring motifs that draw on dream states, belief, and anticipation. 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, Science Museum, Tokyo, JP
17 February – 19 February 2023

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, trace, and duration.

Only only makes sense if there’s nothing else, darkZone, New York, US
1 May – 1 June 2021

Only only makes sense if there’s nothing else consists of small beds made from plastic, burned until their forms soften, drip, and partially collapse. The beds are scattered across the gallery, breaking any sense of a single resting place and turning the space into something navigable rather than habitable. Sleep and shelter appear damaged and unreliable, shaped by heat and absence rather than comfort.

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