Kunsthalle Düsseldorf will be honouring Japan this year with an exhibition entitled The Group 1965 – We
are Boys!, the world’s first exhibition in an art institution to present a comprehensive range of works by the six Japanese artists Makoto Aida, Parco Kinoshita, Hiroyuki Matsukage, Oscar Oiwa, Tsuyoshi Ozawa and Sumihisa Arima. Despite its name, The Group 1965 is not an artist collective in the conventional sense of the term. It formed more or less by chance, and its members share little other than
their Japanese nationality and the fact that they were all born in 1965.