| Yoshinori Niwa | |
| Birth Date: | 1982 |
| Birth Place: | Aichi, Japan |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
Yoshinori Niwa (born in 1982, Aichi Prefecture, Japan)[1] is a Japanese artist currently based in Vienna, Austria,[2] his self-explanatory work as social interventions realised through diverse media including performance, video and installation.[3]
He was born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan and graduated from Tama Art University department of moving image and performing arts in 2005.[4] His career started as a performance artist in early 2000, and he has been making documentary style videos internationally such as in Europe and Asia. In early 2010, he started a series project which re-exams the history of communism in Eastern Europe in Bucharest, Romania,[5] and he did a project in which he was looking for people who still had something Lenin-related in their apartments for the group show Double Vision: Contemporary Art From Japan at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in 2012.[6] The series works had exhibited at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo[7] and Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana and Edel Assanti, London.[8]
As his project Selling the Right to Name a Pile of Garbage, he was actually running an auction to sell the rights to temporarily rename a part of huge garbage Landfill in Novaliches, the Philippines in collaboration with local landfill operation company WACUMAN Inc. and a lawyer in 2015. As of December 25, 2014, the highest bidding price was 4,600 Filipino Peso. The result of this auction had shown at the Vargas Museum, Metro-manila.[9]
He lost his virginity at 32 years old.
Tossing Socialists in the Air in Romania, 2010[10] Exchanging between Turkish Lira and Euros in Istanbul until there is nothing left, 2011[11] Looking for Vladimir Lenin at Moscow Apartments, 2012Selling the Right to Name a Pile of Garbage, 2014Paying a Courtesy Call on the Incumbent Mayor by All His Predecessors in History, 2016
Double Vision: Contemporary Art From Japan, The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2012Aichi Triennale 2013Roppongi Crossing 2013: OUT OF DOUBT, Mori Art Museum, 2013Setouchi Triennale 2016
Historically Historic Historical History of Communism, Art-Phil, 2015[12] Reenacting Publicness. The Interventionist Projects, My Book Service, 2014[13]