「　　」: Tetsuya Umeda

From capturing environments, architectural spaces, sound, light and interactive human behaviour, Tetsuya Umeda's practice covers an extensive range. He remodels and creates on-site installations from everyday objects, engages viewers with performances, and collaborates with musicians on a regular basis. His works have been shown internationally at museums and galleries, as well as outdoor locations such as ruined buildings, lakes and mountain tops.

Umeda often derives ideas directly from his immediate surroundings: re-configuring mundane objects and exposing hidden or un-observed structures of various spaces.

Ota Fine Arts invites you to explore how Umeda transforms the space of "7CHOME", a new viewing room which we recently opened in Roppongi this year. 

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[Tetsuya Umeda]　Umeda produces installations that are inspired by and incorporate existing elements found in the environment and circumstances surrounding the exhibition space including its architectural structure. Umeda produces installations that are inspired by and incorporate existing elements found in the environment and circumstances surrounding the exhibition space including its architectural structure. In addition to exhibitions in museums and art institutions, he has produced numerous site-specific works based on the context of both urban spaces and the natural environment. Performance works are presented in Japan and abroad, such as tours inviting the audience to unfamiliar places, stage works focusing on functions found in theaters and chorus projects without center point. He is also globally renowned as a leading artist in the field of sound art. Recently he has presented performance works such as "Riverwalk" (KYOTO EXPERIMENT, Kyoto, Japan, 2022), "Composite: Variations / Circle" (Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Belgium, 2017), "INTERNSHIP" (Asia Cultural Center, Gwangju, South Korea, 2016 / TPAM, KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theater, Japan, 2018), and has taken part in numerous international exhibitions including Saitama Triennale (Japan, 2020) and Taiwan East Coast Land Arts Festival (Taichung, Taiwan, 2018). His recent solo exhibitions are "UMEDA Tetsuya in BEPPU '0 Tai'" (Oita, Japan, 2020-2021), "On the origin of voices" (Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan, 2019-2020) and "See, Look at Observed what Watching is" (Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, USA, 2016).