© 2024 Daisuke Kosugi
CV
Daisuke Kosugi
Born 1984, Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in Farsund, Norway
Contact
daisuke.kos(at)gmail.com
Solo exhibitions / Events
01/2024 Invisible Touch, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
12/2022 Red Forests and Blue Clouds, WIELS, Brussels
05/2022 Somewhat Infrequently, Daiwa Foundation, London,
06/2021 All that goes before forget, VOLT, Bergen
11/2019 En falsk tyngde, Fotogalleriet, Oslo
10/2019 Sattelite 12: Une fausse pesanteur, Jeu de Paume, Paris;
CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux; Amparo Museum, Mexico
02/2016 Forgive Me for I Am Not Gentle with Ina Hagen, INCA Seattle, Seattle
09/2015 Dawning of the dance floor, Podium, Oslo
03/2014 Celebration, One Night Only Gallery, Oslo
03/2014 Japanese Breakfast, Demon’s mouth, Oslo
Selected group exhibitions / projects
11/2022 I have not loved (enough or worked), The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), Perth
07/2022 STILL ALIVE, Aichi Triennale 2022, Japan
06/2022 I Call it Art, The National Museum in Oslo, Oslo
04/2022 PALASS(KRS) x ALADDIN, Kristiansand
10/2021 Smile! Emotions at Work, Musée d'art de Joliette, Quebec, Canada
07/2021 MOT Annual 2021 A sea, a living room and a skull, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
06/2021 HOUSE OF COMMONS, MOMENTUM11, Galleri F 15, Moss
01/2021 Artists' Film International 2020, Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø
09/2020 Artists' Film International 2020, Whitechapel Gallery, London
08/2020 Artists' Film International 2020, Galleria D' Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo
05/2020 Artists' Film International 2020, Fundacion PRÓA, Buenos Aires
03/2020 Artists' Film International 2020, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
08/2019 twenty-four-seven, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, NZ
05/2019 MOVE 2019, Centre Pompidou, Paris
10/2018 Rugged, weathered, above the sea, Coast Contemporary, Norway
06/2018 Juniutstillingen 2018 - Det kollektive hodet, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo
04/2018 Slow/Fast Cycle, Akershus Kunstsenter, Lillestrøm
11/2017 Directing the Real. Artists’ Films and Video in the 2010s, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi
Sala delle Carrozze, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence
11/2017 The Long Dream of Waking, Curated by Tendai John Mutambu and Sarah Wall,
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
11/2017 Department for Work Relations, curated by Àngels Miralda, Projektraum LS43, Berlin
11/2017 #4 MINIBAR: ONE NIGHT ONLY, UKS (The Young Artists’ Society), Oslo
10/2017 Snake Pit Breakdown, Swallowing Helmets, Brussels
09/2017 I Taste the Future, LIAF (Lofoten International Art Festival) 2017
curated by Heidi Ballet and Milena Hoegsberg, Henningsvær, Norway
09/2017 Høstutstillingen 2017, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
06/2017 The 9th Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, curated by Steffen Håndlykken, The Vigeland Museum, Oslo
02/2017 Kaffemik curated by Kenneth Alme and Milena Høgsberg, Ole Vigs Gate 3, Oslo
02/2017 Kosugi / Karpilovski + Nordin, PlussPluss / Black Box teater, Oslo
11/2016 Sparebankstiftelsen DNBs stipendutstilling, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo
09/2016 The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?), Gwangju Biennale 2016, curated by Maria Lind, Gwangju, South Korea
08/2016 Is-slottet and the Flow of Body Spaces, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
03/2016 The Spring Exhibition 2016, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen
01/2016 Wer ist wo wer? Was ist wo was? – Identität von Mensch und Ort, BBK - Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel
06/2015 Østlandsutstillingen 2015 "Wer ist wo wer? Was ist wo was? Identität: menneske og sted", Tegnerforbundet, Oslo
02/2015 Daisuke Kosugi / Monica Winther, Spikersuppa Lydgalleri, Oslo
06/2014 Connecting Sound Etc., freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL, Museums Quatier, Vienna,
05/2014 Kunstakademiet i Oslo BA Avgangsutstilling 2014, Oslo National Academy of Arts, Oslo
04/2014 Faces, Surfaces, and Interfaces: Communities and the Commons, Cinemateket, Oslo
03/2014 Faces, Surfaces, and Interfaces— Communities and the Commons, Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building, New York
04/2013 Gallery opening of fAenspotent, Borgen kulturhus,Oslo
12/2012 Winter Solstice, Atelier Nord ANX, Oslo
08/2012 Listen to Your city--Listening To Art: A Tower Full of Sound Etc, Copenhagen Art Festival, Knippelsbro, Copenhagen;
10/2012 Wundergrund Festival, Knippelsbro, Copenhagen
02/2012 The Spring Exhibition 2012, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen
Selected Festivals / Screenings
04/2022 Det Går Bra, Det Går Wack, Vega Scene, Oslo
10/2020 Bergen International Film Festival, Bergen
04/2020 Kunstnernes Hus Kino, Oslo
11/2019 Jue de Paume, Paris
09/2019 The 15th Berwick film & media arts festival (Competition), Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
11/2018 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
05/2018 Kunstnernes Hus Kino, Oslo
03/2017 Beursschouwburg, Brussels
2017 As part of Høstutstillingen video program. Traveled to: Asker kunstforening; Bømlo Kunstlag;
Grimstad Kunstforening; Kunsthall Stavanger; Neadalen Kunstforening; Nesodden Kunstforening;
Steinkjer Kunstforening; Stjørdal Kunstforening; Sunnfjord Kunstlag; Trysil Kunstforening;
Vestby Kunstforening, Norway
10/2017 Festival Film Dokumenter, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2017
10/2017 25 FPS Festival, Zagreb Croatia
09/2017 Bergen International Film Festival, Bergen
09/2017 The 13th Berwick film & media arts festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
08/2017 Multiplex Berlin, Berlin
06/2017 The Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad
06/2017 The Palm Springs International ShortFest, Palm Springs, CA
03/2017 CPH:DOX 2017 Copenhagen
01/2017 FRANK / Kunstnernes Hus Kino, Oslo
01/2017 Mount florida studio, Glasgow
Curated exhibitions / projects
01/2017 To Do or Not to be, curated by Louise Dany and FRANK, Kurant, Tromsø
12/2013 We called this “re-wave” just because of practicality, curated with Ina hagen, Oslo National Academy of Arts, Oslo
05/2010 POSTERS FOR JAPAN -100 ting til ettertanke-, as part of The support group for Noth-east Japan in Oslo, DogA, Oslo
Publications
09/2021 MOT Annual 2021 - A sea, a living room and a skull, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
11/2019 The Floor Is Uneven. Does It Slope?, edited by Henry Andresen and Laura Herman, Mousse Publishing
10/2019 Une faussee pesanteur, Jeu de Paume, Paris and CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux
09/2016 CAUGHT UP IN THE UNIVERSAL BODY, Kunstkritikk
09/2016 Free as in Free..., INCA Press in collaboration with Publication Studio
05/2014 Symzonia - tomheten som verdi, KOTE #4 - Allmenhetens Rom
11/2013 Inaugural Proposal, The Performance Inquisition Oslo (PI)
Education
08/2011 - 05/2014 Bachelor of Fine Art, Academy of Fine Art /Oslo National Academy of Arts, Oslo
08/2009 - 05/2011 Einar Granum kunstfagskole, Oslo
04/2003 - 03/2007 Bachelor in Department of Politics, College of Law and Politics, Rikkyo University, Tokyo
Residencies
2018 Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2017 Residency, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels
2017 VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images at Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival, Florence
2017 Residency, BAR project, Barcelona
2014 Artists-in-Residence at quartier21, Museums Quatier, Vienna
2013 Artists-in-Residence at quartier21, Museums Quatier, Vienna
Awards
2017 The French Prize 2017 awarded by the French Institute of Norway, Høstutstillingen 2017, Oslo
2017 NEW:VISION Award, Special mention, CPH:DOX 2017, Copenhagen
2016 Sparebankstiftelsen DNBs stipend, Award nominated, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo
2016 The Spring Exhibition 2016, International artist Award, Award nominated, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen
2011 Einar Granum material prize, Einar Granum school of art, Oslo
Mentioned articles
2020 Daisuke Kosugi: Normative Bodies, Leisure and Other Capitalist Lies, by Leon Hösl, PW Magazines
2019 Et av de mest rørende portrettene av alderdom og kroppslig svekkelse jeg har sett, by Kjetil Røed, Vårt land
2019 Enduring Frames, by Heidi Bale Amundsen, Kunstkritikk International Edition
2019 Daisuke Kosugi, l’art du détachement, by Roxana Azimi, Le Monde
2018 Styrken i skjør balansekunst, Vårtl and
2017 Postcard from Lofoten, by Harry Thorne, FRIEZE:COM
2017 Lofoten International Art Festival I Taste the Future, by Hannah Zafiropoulos, ArtReview
2017 Realm of the Senses, by Stian Gabrielsen, Kunstkritikk International Edition
2016 11th Gwangju Biennale, by Harry Thorne, FRIEZE.COM
2015 Første dans på nye Podium, by Simen Joachim Helsvig, Kunstkritikk,
2014 Kroppens blikk, by Stian Gabrielsen, Kunstkritikk,
Grants
2022 Ten-years working grants for established artists, Arts Council Norway
2022 International Support - travel grants, Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA)
2021 International Support - travel grants, Office for Contemporary Art Norway
2021 Norsk kulturfond, project support, Arts Council Norway
2021 Fond for lyd of bildet, project support, Arts Council Norway
2020 Krisepakke til kulturaktører, The City of Oslo
2020 Produksjonsstipend, Bildende Kunstnernes Hjelpefondvia Hordaland kunstsenter, Bergen
2019 Project support, Fritt Ord (Free Speech Foundation)
2019 Fond for lyd of bildet, project support, Arts Council Norway
2019 Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Project support, NBK (The Association of Norwegian Visual Artsts)
2019 Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Three-years working grants, NBK (The Association of Norwegian Visual Artsts)
2019 International Support - travel grants, Office for Contemporary Art Norway
2018 Exhibition support for artists in the establishment phase, Arts Council Norway
2018 Project support, Ingerid, Synnøve og Elias Fegerstens stiftelse for norske bildende kunstnere
2018 Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Project support, NBK (The Association of Norwegian Visual Artsts)
2018 International Support - travel grants, Office for Contemporary Art Norway
2017 Two-year working grants for young artists, Arts Council Norway
2017 Residency Programme at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Office for Contemporary Art Norway
2017 Exhibition support for artists in the establishment phase, Arts Council Norway
2016 Exhibition support for artists in the establishment phase, Arts Council Norway
2016 Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond One-year working grants, NBK (The Association of Norwegian Visual Artsts)
2016 Exhibition support for artists in the establishment phase, Arts Council Norway
2016 Grants for artists in the establishment phase, The City of Oslo
2015 International Support - travel grants, Office for Contemporary Art Norway
2015 Exhibition support for artists in the establishment phase, Arts Council Norway
2015 Grants for graduates artists, Arts Council Norway
2014 Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Project support, NBK (The Association of Norwegian Visual Artsts)
2014 FKD grant for academy students - project grants, Oslo National Academy of Arts
2013 FKD grant for academy students - development of practice grants, Oslo National Academy of Arts
Relevant experience
01/2022 - present Grant selection committtee for visual arts, Art Council Norway
09/2022 Teacher for introduction course, Nordland kunst - og filmhøgskole, Kabelvåg
03/2022 Guest teacher, Agder Kunstakademiet, Arendal
09/2021 Teacher for introduction course, Nordland kunst - og filmhøgskole, Kabelvåg
06/2021 External examiner for semster exam, Nordland kunst - og filmhøgskole, Kabelvåg
06/2020 External examiner for BFA Graduation, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo
08/2016 - 08/2019 Co-Founder of Artist-Run-Initiative, Louise Dany, Oslo
09/2018 Den kulturelle skolesekken Oppland (Toured to 16 shools, 41 classes)
11/2014 Participant in the performance A.E.I.O.U. with Ei Arakawa and Karl Holmqvist,
Rameau’s nephews, Sofie Berntsen and Karl Holmqvist, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo.
10/2014 Technical assistant to FRANK on Rage Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, MANIFESTA 10 On Board
09/2014 Installation and video assistant to FRANK and MYCKET on the re-enactement project
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger; as part of the 10 year anniversary of the magazine FETT.
09/2013 - 12/2013 Curatorial assistant, mobilizing- media/communication and production team for Goro Tronsmo’s project
The Residency by Muscle Temple, 0047, Oslo
Events during the project:
- Living Loft by Muscle Temple, Conversation between Petra Petersson/Realarkitektur,Goro Tronsmo and Markus Wetzel
- URSKOG 1 and 2, Performance by Ingri Fiksdal
- Erlend Hammer in conversation with Lars Monrad Vaage
- Opening and Clumsy Corner, Performance by Johanna Gustafsson Fürst and Lisa Torell
- MINUS GREEN, Prémier party by Gérald Friedrich Spelsberg, Aérea Negrot, rRoxymore and Viron Erol Vert
- OPEN DECONSTRUCTION SITE - Lars Cuzner practicing the absence of residency -
-”Cool Architecture in New Hip Area” After the Recidency: talk on gentrification with Geir Haraldseth, Tone Huse, Ingrid Lønningdal
and Goro Tronsmo; moderator: Markus Richter
04/2007 - 05/2009 Worked as a risk consultant at AIOI Insurance Company LTD, Tokyo