Deutsche Bank has announced its “Artist of the Year” 2015: The Japanese Koki Tanaka follows Wangechi Mutu (Kenya), Yto Barrada (France/Morocco), Roman Ondák (Slovakia), Imran Qureshi (Pakistan), and Victor Man (Romania) as the sixth international artist to be honored with this award. In 2015, the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle in Berlin presents Tanaka’s first major solo show in Europe.
“Koki Tanaka is one of the most original artists of his generation to emerge on the global art scene in the last decade. A shrewd observer of the most ‘indifferent’ matters of the everyday, he always manages to magically transform them into fantastic events with a sense of humor, offering open but pungent implications that reveal the uncanniness of existence,” writes Hou Hanru, artistic director of the MAXXI in Rome, in a statement on the jury’s selection. “On the other hand, Tanaka, a global trotter, is also a savvy mobilizer of collective actions and encourages sharing and exchange among participants to produce a common sense of creativity and imagination while probing new rules of negotiation and collaboration. Tanaka's work represents an inventive approach toward exploring the question of community making―a truly important issue in today's aesthetic and political experiments across the world.”
The award was given on the recommendation of the Deutsche Bank Global Art Advisory Council, comprised, along with Hou Hanru, of the renowned curators Okwui Enwezor, Udo Kittelmann, and Victoria Noorthoorn.
Stefan Krause, the Deutsche Bank board member in charge of the global art program, explains: “Koki Tanaka forces us to see everyday things with new eyes. He represents a new generation of artists who connect their aesthetic concerns to social issues. This corresponds perfectly to Deutsche Bank’s commitment to art.”
http://db-artmag.de/en/81/news/deutsche-bank-honors-koki-tanaka-as-its-artist-of-the-year-2015/
ドイツ銀行が田中功起さんを年間作家に選出。2015年にベルリンで個展開催。
