Shimabuku

♂ *1969 / Japan

Works

Solo exhibitions

Self Portrait

Barbara Wien, Berlin (DE)
23 Aug 2025 – 8 Nov 2025
Land Art

Amanda Wilkinson, London (GB)
13 Apr 2024 – 2 Jun 2024
Me, We

MUSEION, Bolzano (IT)
6 May 2023 – 3 Sep 2023
Instrumental

WIELS Centre d'art contemporain, Brussels (BE)
9 Sep 2022 – 8 Jan 2023
Swan Goes to the Sea / Let’s Make Cows Fly!

Air de Paris, Paris (FR)
11 Sep 2022 – 19 Nov 2022
For Octopuses, Monkeys and Men

Pour les pieuvres, les singes et les Hommes

Crédac, Centre d’art, Ivry-sur-Seine (FR)
14 Sep 2018 – 16 Dec 2018
Bow to Bow

Amanda Wilkinson, London (GB)
30 May 2018 – 30 Jun 2018
Bow to Bow

Barbara Wien, Berlin (DE)
4 Mar 2017 – 13 Apr 2017
Exchange a mobile phone for a stone tool

Amanda Wilkinson, London (GB)
17 Apr 2015 – 17 May 2015
Man should try to avoid contact with alien life forms

Centre International d'art et du paysage, Ile de Vassivière (FR)
13 Nov 2011 – 6 May 2012
On the Water

CAPC Bordeaux, Bordeaux (FR)
9 Nov 2011 – 5 Feb 2012
Overbeck-Preis für Bildende Kunst der GEMEINNÜTZIGEN 2011

Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck (DE)
22 Nov 2011 – 15 Jan 2012
New works

Watarium Museum, Tôkyô (JP)
12 Dec 2008 – 15 Mar 2009
Shimabuku: Fish & Chips

Wilkinson Gallery, London (GB)
11 Oct 2007 – 18 Nov 2007
From high in the sky to the bottom of the sea

Galeria Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona (ES)
17 Nov 2005 – 14 Jan 2006
Catching octopus with self-made ceramic pots

Air de Paris, Paris (FR)
8 Jan 2005 – 26 Feb 2005

Group

Longing for Trust

Über das Vertrauen in der Kunst

Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop (DE)
8 Nov 2026 – 7 Mar 2027

with Marina Abramovic, Thomas Demand, Gauri Gill, Koizumi Meiro, LEE Mingwei, Yoko Ono, Trevor Paglen, Julia Scher, Andreas Siekmann, Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen)
Grund und Boden

Wie wir miteinander leben

K21 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf (DE)
29 Nov 2025 – 19 Apr 2026

with Maria Thereza Alves, AA Bronson, Johannes Büttner, Liu Chuang, Simon Denny, Jan Dibbets, Nir Evron, Simone Fattal, Robert Gober, Andreas Gursky, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Gordon Matta-Clark …
The Pulse of Life

10th Daegu Photo Biennale

Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu (KR)
18 Sep 2025 – 16 Nov 2025

with Alice Anderson, Hicham Berrada, Brodbeck & de Barbuat, HAN Chungshik, Bianca Dacosta, Xiaocong Ge, Patrick Gries, Sangyon JOO, Yeondoo JUNG, Juyon Kim, Shinwook KIM, Chris McCaw …
Aquaria

visual arts, sounds, poetry, talks

daadgalerie, Berlin (DE)
9 Mar 2018 – 31 Mar 2018

with Agnieszka Brzezanska, Edith Dekyndt, Aurelien Froment, Liz Magor, Allan Sekula
Echo of untouched matter

Lothringer 13, München (DE)
15 Feb 2016 – 20 Mar 2016

with Jason Fulford, Ulrich Gebert, Katrin Petroschkat
Eating the Universe

Vom Essen in der Kunst

Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck (AT)
24 Apr 2010 – 4 Jul 2010

with Carsten Hoeller, Christian Jankowski, Bernd Jansen, Elke Krystufek, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, L.A. Raeven, Mika Rottenberg
Counter-Photography, Japan's Artists Today

Photographic Center, Seattle (US)
11 Sep 2009 – 5 Oct 2009

with Miho Akioka, Eikoh Hosoe, Miyuki Ichikawa, Hiroko Inoue, Tomoaki Ishihara, Kazuo Katase, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Akiko Sugiyama, Chie Yasuda, Tomoko Yoneda
Tomorrow

Artsonje Center, Seoul (KR)
6 Oct 2007 – 2 Dec 2007

with CAO Fei, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, CHEN Shaoxiong, Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries
From East and West

Shugoarts, Tôkyô (JP)
21 Dec 2005 – 4 Feb 2006

with Yasumasa Morimura, Takuma Nakahira, Miwa Yanagi, Tomoko Yoneda
LE INVASIONI BARBARICHE

Galleria Continua, San Gimignano (IT)
5 Feb 2005 – 9 Apr 2005

with YANG Fudong, Koo Jeong-A, Surasi Kusolwong, ZHANG Peili
Counter Photography

lens-based works by 11 Japanese contemporary artists

Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth (GB)
15 Jan 2005 – 12 Mar 2005

with Miho Akioka, Eikoh Hosoe, Miyuki Ichikawa, Hiroko Inoue, Tomoaki Ishihara, Kazuo Katase, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Akiko Sugiyama, Chie Yasuda, Tomoko Yoneda
Expat-art Centre / EA C

An exhibition happening everywhere, at all times, with everyone

Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) , Vilnius (LT)
31 Oct 2004 – 19 Nov 2004

with Pierre Huyghe, Claude Leveque
Eijanaika!Yes future! Post-twentieth Century Japan

Collection Lambert, Avignon (FR)
9 Jul 2004 – 10 Oct 2004

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Amy Granat, Eikoh Hosoe, Youmei Kawai, Yayoi Kusama, Mariko Mori, Yasumasa Morimura, Takashi Murakami, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Rika Noguchi, Yoko Ono …
Expat-Art Centre

ICA Inst Contemporary Arts, London (GB)
1 Mar 2004 – 28 Mar 2004

with Pierre Huyghe, Claude Leveque
50th International Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
15 Jun 2003 – 2 Nov 2003

with Adel Abdessemed, Carlos Amorales, Emmanuelle Antille, Kader Attia, Maja Bajevic, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Zarina Bhimji, Dara Birnbaum, Sergey Bratkov, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Boris Cvjetanovic …
Scènes d'esprit - Photographie japonaise contemporaine Acte II

Maison de la culture du Japon, Paris (FR)
29 Apr 2003 – 28 Jun 2003

with Miho Akioka, Eikoh Hosoe, Miyuki Ichikawa, Hiroko Inoue, Tomoaki Ishihara, Kazuo Katase, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Akiko Sugiyama, Chie Yasuda, Tomoko Yoneda

Events

10th Daegu Photo Biennale

The Pulse of Life

Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu (KR)
18 Sep 2025 – 16 Nov 2025

with Matthew Abbott, Juliette Agnel, Dove Allouche, Alice Anderson, Nobuyoshi Araki, Nathalie Baetens, Hyong-Ryol BAK, Mandy Barker, Valerie Belin, Hans Bellmer, Jonas Bendiksen, Hicham Berrada …
London Gallery Weekend

London Gallery Weekend, London (GB)
31 May 2024 – 2 Jun 2024

with Can Altay, John Baldessari, Nan Goldin, Adam Rouhana, Dean Sameshima, Nil Yalter
Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai 2023

Thailand Biennale, Bangkok (TH)
9 Dec 2023 – 30 Apr 2024

with Maria Thereza Alves, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Kader Attia, Pablo Bartholomew, CHIA-WEI HSU, Pierre Huyghe, Michael Lin, Almagul Menlibaeva, Ernesto Neto, Anading Poklong, Kamonlak Sukchai, Sarah Sze …
Artissima 2023

ARTissima, Torino (IT)
3 Nov 2023 – 5 Nov 2023

with Oystein Aasan, Gabriel Abrantes, Helena Almeida, Adam Avikainen, Rosa Barba, Yael Bartana, Vanessa Beecroft, Jacopo Benassi, Renate Bertlmann, Walead Beshty, Diego Bianchi, Barbara Bloom …
Paris+ par Art Basel 2023

Art Basel Paris, Paris (FR)
20 Oct 2023 – 22 Oct 2023

with Chantal Akerman, Francis Alys, Lara Almarcegui, John Baldessari, Rosa Barba, Eric Baudelaire, Valerie Belin, Jacopo Benassi, Sadie Benning, Dirk Braeckman, Matti Braun, Pauline Curnier Jardin …
ASIA NOW - Paris Asian Art Fair 2021

Asia Now Fair, Paris (FR)
21 Oct 2021 – 24 Oct 2021

with Sasan Abri, Reza Aramesh, Sonia Balassanian, Samira Eskandarfar, Shadi Ghadirian, Arash Hanaei, Anahita Hekmat, Jitish Kallat, Shiva Khosravi, HAN Lei, Tahmineh Monzavi, Manit Sriwanichpoom …
Manif d'art 9 - The Quebec City Biennial,

Small Between the Stars, Large Against the Sky

Musée national , Québec (CA)
16 Feb 2019 – 22 Apr 2019

with Oliver Beer, A K Dolven, Dinh Q. Le, Kelly Mark, Meryl McMaster, Rika Noguchi, Anne-Marie Proulx, Beat Streuli
Art Basel in Hong Kong 2019

Art Basel HongKong, Hong Kong (CN)
29 Mar 2019 – 31 Mar 2019

with Michele Abeles, Marina Abramovic, Farah Al Qasimi, Sophia Al-Maria, Nevin Aladag, Darren Almond, Eric Baudelaire, Becky Beasley, Vanessa Beecroft, Jacopo Benassi, Birdhead (Ji Weiyu and Song Tao), Fatma Bucak …
FIAC 2017

FIAC Paris, Paris (FR)
19 Oct 2017 – 22 Oct 2017

with Adel Abdessemed, Helena Almeida, Dieter Appelt, Sammy Baloji, Kim Sop Boninsegni, Elina Brotherus, Hannah Collins, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Liz Deschenes, Peter Downsbrough, Roe Ethridge, Alain Fleischer …
Video Screening mit Ariane Beyn

Die Künstler werden für Fragen zur Verfügung stehen.

KW Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin (DE)

with Karl Holmqvist, Judith Hopf, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Allan Sekula, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Florian Zeyfang