NEWS

Learning Exchange Program with K11 Art Foundation (Hong Kong) Begins this January!

2022.1.27 [Thu]

A new collaborative exchange program with “learning programs” as its pivot begins at the end of January 2022, centered on the collaboration between the Mori Art Museum Learning and K11 Art Foundation (Hong Kong).

COVID-19 has had a profound influence on all the art museums’ activities, from research of works of art to their collection, preservation, exhibition and promotion. Amidst this, the learning in particular has taken on the challenge of promoting art via online activities of art museums and art spaces around the world, rolling out the programs in line with what is going on in society. As programs can now be offered online, this is also a time when these art museums and art spaces are to ponder how to balance online and offline activities, and how to utilize both of these activities in the post-COVID era.

In anticipation of the day when the staff of the Mori Art Museum and the K11 Art Foundation can finally interact face-to-face, we’ve decided to start an exchange program with the aim of sharing our mutual knowledge online. This program comprises artists, curators, learning curators and art curators selected from both sides. Both sides are to share their activities and experiences during the pandemic, with the aim of creating new ideas related to this program as well as opportunities for collaboration.

From Japan, Horiuchi Naoko of the non-profit organization Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT] (Tokyo) and Mori Junpei of PARADISE AIR (Chiba), who have both been active beyond their established roles are involved in this program, participating in online exchanges with Assistant Curator and Learning Curator of the Mori Art Museum. We plan to publish the progress report of this program both on the Mori Art Museum website and the K11 Art Foundation website.

K11 Art Foundation × Mori Art Museum Learning
Learning Exchange Program

* This program is not open to the general public.

Kicking off

in January 2022

Organizers

K11 Art Foundation, Mori Art Museum

Participants in Japan

Horiuchi Naoko (Curator, Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT]; Director, dear Me)
Mori Junpei (Architect; Director, PARADISE AIR)
Yahagi Manabu (Assistant Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Shiraki Eise (Associate Curator of Learning, Mori Art Museum)

Participants in Hong Kong

Angel Leung (Programmes Manager, Videotage)
Doreen Chan (Visual Artist)
Olivier Cong (Music Artist, Raven & The Sea Music Production)
Fion Ko (Deputy Manager, Learning & Engagement, K11 Art Foundation)
Kimberly Park (Senior Officer, Exhibition & Programme, K11 Art Foundation)

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Horiuchi Naoko (Curator, Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT]; Director, dear Me)

Horiuchi works as a curator and lecturer at non-profit organization Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT]. After completing an MSc in Contemporary Art and Art Theory at Edinburgh College of Art in 2005, Horiuchi worked as an independent curator in Edinburgh. Since 2008, she has been involved in the planning of residency programs, exhibitions, symposia, and corporate and educational programs at Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT]. Since 2016, she has been organizing AIT’s new program called ‘dear Me,’ an alternative art learning platform directed towards children in various living situations. https://www.a-i-t.net/en/

Mori Junpei (Architect; Director, PARADISE AIR)

Born in 1985, Mori Junpei graduated from the Graduate School of Architecture at Tokyo University of the Arts. From his experiences in architecture, Mori continues to think about time and devotes himself to working in stage arts, exhibitions, urban development and more. He established the artist-in-residence “PARADISE AIR” facility in Matsudo, Chiba, in 2013, and more than 300 groups of artists have resided in this urban area to date. Mori’s main projects and work include “Tono Off-Campus,” ongoing since 2015, and the new design of Hachinohe City New Museum, co-designed with Nishizawa Tetsuo and Asako Yoshihide, completed in 2021. Since 2017, Mori has been Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts. He has also been involved in the basic design and direction for the “Taiken Bijutsuba VIVA” since 2019.