ABOUT
ICA Kyoto TALK｜Upcoming & Past
FY2026
067
Talk Title TBC
Eva Lin at mt.project, photo by Etang Chen
- Speaker
- Eva Lin（Curator｜Taiwan）
- Date
- Friday, November 13, 2026
- Venue
- TBC
066
Talk Title TBC
Portrait by Bo Wang
- Speaker
- Jo-Lene Ong（Curator｜Netherlands, Malaysia）
- Date
- Friday, October 23, 2026
- Venue
- TBC
065
Talk Title TBC
- Speaker
- Penwadee Nophaket Manont（Curator｜Thailand）
- Date
- Friday, October 9, 2026
- Venue
- TBC
064
Talk Title TBC
- Speaker
- Tromarama（Artists collective｜Indonesia）
- Date
- Friday, July 3, 2026
- Venue
- TBC
063
Talk Title TBC
- Speaker
- Kaz Oshiro（Artist｜Los Angeles, USA）
- Date
- Friday, June 12, 2026
- Venue
- TBC
062
Bosco Sodi DIFFERENT ROADS
Photo by Jun Lee, Johyun Gallery
- Speaker
- Bosco Sodi（Artist｜USA, Mexico）
- Date
- Friday, May 22, 2026
- Venue
- Screen2, UPLINK Kyoto, ShinPuhKan B1
FY2025
061
Sound and Media Art as the Foundation for Curatorial Practice
- Speaker
- Bob Edrian（Curator｜Jakarta, Indonesia）
- Date
- Wednesday, November 26, 2025
- Venue
- U21, 2F Uryu-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
060
How I Became an Artist
Photo: Oto Hanada
- Speaker
- SHIMABUKU（Artist｜Japan）
- Date
- Tuesday, October 21, 2025
- Venue
- CAPS (Contemporary Art Practice Studio), 6F NC building, Kyoto University of the Arts
059
Comparative Art Histories in Asia: Thailand and Japan, 1990s–Present
Photo: Oto Hanada
- Speaker
- Gridthiya Gaweewong（Artistic Director, Curator of the Jim Thompson Art Center｜Bangkok, Thailand）
- Date
- Friday, October 3, 2025
- Venue
- Lecture Hall, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art
058
Tales of Four Cities: Curatorial Practice Across Time Zones
Photo: Oto Hanada
- Speaker
- Yung Ma（Curator｜London, UK）
- Date
- Thursday, July 10, 2025
- Venue
- Kyoto Uradera Gokurakuji
057
LIQUEERED: Performance in the Expanded Field of Liquefied Queerness
Photo: Oto Hanada
- Speaker
- Yu Cheng-Ta（Artist｜Taipei, Taiwan）
- Date
- Friday, June 13, 2025
- Venue
- Former VOXhall, 5F VOX bldg.
056
Before the Moment: Roots of a Curatorial Practice
Photo: Oto Hanada
- Speaker
- Eungie Joo（Curator｜San Francisco, USA）
- Date
- Thursday, May 15, 2025
- Venue
- Aoi Park, North side of the Kamogawa River Delta
055
Repositioning: Kyoto, Asia and the World within Contemporary Art Ecosystem
Photo: Oto Hanada
- Speaker
- Mami Kataoka, Kazuya Nakayama, Kodama Kanazawa, Takuya Tsutsumi, Atsushi Kiri（Directors of ICA Kyoto｜Japan）
- Date
- Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Venue
- Community Steps, 4F QUESTION building at Kawaramachi, Kyoto
FY2024
054
どこまでも未知なゴダール
Self-portrait photograph with drawing by Jean-Luc Godard from his later years
- Speaker
- Yomota Inuhiko（Researcher in Film and Comparative Literature｜Japan）
- Date
- Tuesday, January 28, 2025
- Venue
- NA102, 1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
053
What and Where is Latin American Art Today?
- Speaker
- Tobias Ostrander （Curator, Curator At Large, Latin America, TATE｜Mexico）
- Date
- Monday, October 7, 2024
- Venue
- NA314, 3F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
052
Site Stories
- Speaker
- Rayyane Tabet （Artist｜Lebanon, USA）
- Date
- Monday, September 30, 2024
- Venue
- NA314, 3F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
051
Point Reflection
- Speaker
- Aki Sasamoto（Artist, Professor at Yale University｜USA）
- Date
- Monday, June 24, 2024
- Venue
- NA314, 3F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
050
Institutional Critique: some Asian dispositions
- Speaker
- David Teh（Curator｜Singapore）
- Date
- Friday, May 31, 2024
- Venue
- NA314, 3F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
049
A conversation between curator Saskia Bos and artist Christiaan Bastiaans “Hurt Models”
- Speaker
- Saskia Bos（Arthistorian, Curator and Critic｜Amsterdam, Netherlands）, Christiaan Bastiaans（Artist｜Amsterdam, Netherlands）
- Date
- Tuesday, May 21, 2024
- Venue
- NA302, 3F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
048
Glocal Art Talk
- Speaker
- Yu Araki（Artist, Filmmaker｜Japan）
- Date
- Friday, April 26, 2024
- Venue
- NA314, 3F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
FY2023
047
2024年度国際プログラム 高山明「交換修学旅行プロジェクト 京都／メコン」企画紹介および「タイランド・ビエンナーレ チェンライ 2023」報告会
- Speaker
- Takayama Akira（Artist｜Japan）
- Date
- Tuesday, March 5, 2024
- Venue
- NA102, 1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
046
Moments from a Curatorial Practice
- Speaker
- Eungie Joo（Curator, Head of Contemporary Art at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art｜San Francisco, USA）
- Date
- Wednesday, November 29, 2023
- Venue
- Video Hall, B1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
045
A Long and Winding Road (Abridged)
- Speaker
- Yuki Okumura（Artist｜Belgium, Netherlands）
- Date
- Tuesday, November 7, 2023
- Venue
- Video Hall, B1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
044
the homemaker and her domain
- Speaker
- Leonor Antunes（Artist｜Portugal）
- Date
- Tuesday, October 24, 2023
- Venue
- Video Hall, B1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
043
What do you want from me?
- Speaker
- Lee Kit（Artist｜Taiwan）
- Date
- Wednesday, October 4, 2023
- Venue
- Video Hall, B1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
042
Art Museum Ecosystems－From the series “Contemporary Art Museums in China”
- Speaker
- Kodama Kanazawa（Curator｜Japan）
- Date
- Friday, May 19, 2023
- Venue
- Video Hall, B1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
041
Isamu Noguchi: The In-Between
- Speaker
- Brett Littman（Director of Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum｜USA）
- Date
- Tuesday, April 18, 2023
- Venue
- Video Hall, B1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
FY2022
040
MAKE, DO, WITH
- Speaker
- Eric Baudelaire（Artist, Filmmaker｜USA）
- Date
- Monday, December 26, 2022
- Venue
- Video Hall, B1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
039
SPACE, STORY, SITUATION
- Speaker
- Rayyane Tabet（Artist｜Lebanon, USA）
- Date
- Tuesday, December 20, 2022
- Venue
- Video Hall, B1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
038
パゾリーニのすべて アビューラ（異端誓絶）
Pasolini (Sakuhinsha)
- Speaker
- Yomota Inuhiko（Researcher in Film and Comparative Literature｜Japan）
- Date
- Monday, December 12, 2022
- Venue
- Video Hall, B1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
037
On “Re” and Related Works
- Speaker
- Yu Araki（Artist, Filmmaker｜Japan）
- Date
- Monday, November 28, 2022
- Venue
- Video Hall, B1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
036
Paper Leap and Other Movements.
- Speaker
- Haegue Yang（Artist｜Korea, Germany）
- Date
- Wednesday, October 5, 2022
- Venue
- Video Hall, B1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
035
Teaching Art in Times of Armed Conflict
- Speaker
- Saskia Bos（Art Historian, Curator, Critic｜Netherlands）
- Date
- Monday, August 8, 2022
- Venue
- Video Hall, B1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
034
Circulation and Sediments
Kassel Ingot project (iron), Documenta 14, Kassel, Germany 2017
Photo credit: Dan Peterman
- Speaker
- Dan Peterman（Artist｜Chicago, USA）
- Date
- Friday, July 8, 2022
- Venue
- Video Hall, B1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
033
Situating the Void of Times (Problems of Curating)
- Speaker
- Ho Tzu Nyen（Artist｜Singapore）
- Date
- Saturday, July 2, 2022
- Venue
- Video Hall, B1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of the Arts
FY2021
032
Infrastructure and other Stories
031
My Evolving Role as a Curator
- Speaker
- Yoshitake Mika（Independent Curator ｜USA）
- Date
- Saturday, December 11, 2021
- Venue
- Online Talk
030
The hardest thing I’ve ever done is keep things simple
029
How to Photograph Enlightenment (Pause translation)
- Speaker
- Charles Lindsay（Artist｜San Francisco, USA）
- Date
- Saturday, October 9, 2021
- Venue
- Online Talk
028
ELEPHANTS IN OUR LIVING ROOM:PACIFIC ISLANDER RESISTANCE, RESILIENCE, AND SOLIDARY DESPITE JAPANESE AND AMERICAN EMPIRES
- Speaker
- Greg Dvorak（WASEDA University Professor, Independent Curator｜USA, Japan）
- Date
- Saturday, July 3, 2021
- Venue
- Online Talk
027
Observations of Shanghai’s Art Scene (2020 to First Half of 2021)
FY2020
026
Sculpture and Storytelling
025
Superorganism
- Speaker
- Ken + Julia Yonetani（Contemporary Artists｜Australia, Japan）
- Date
- Tuesday, December 15, 2020
- Venue
- Online Talk
024
Continuing to Respond to Circumstances, Conditions, and Environments
- Speaker
- Hattori Hiroyuki（Curator, Associate professor of Akita University of Art, Affiliate Professor of Kyoto University of the Arts｜Japan）
- Date
- Saturday, November 14, 2020
- Venue
- Online Talk
023
East Asian Contemporary Art and The Legacy of Colonialism
- Speaker
- Yamamoto Hiroki（Scholar of Cultural Studies, Artist｜Japan）
- Date
- Saturday, October 24, 2020
- Venue
- Online Talk
022
Refusing to get used to the new normal
- Speaker
- Jun Yang（Artist｜China, Yokohama, Taipei, Vienna）
- Date
- Wednesday, September 23, 2020
- Venue
- Online Talk
021
Site-Specific Art: What We Can Do At That Place, At That Time, With Those People There
《起こす》 Erect, 2017, Reborn Art Festival, Ishinomaki 2017
- Speaker
- SHIMABUKU（Artist｜Okinawa, Japan）
- Date
- Wednesday, September 2, 2020
- Venue
- Online Talk
FY2019
020
About a New life, a Silence and Hawaii
photo: Motoyuki Daifu
- Speaker
- Koki Tanaka（Artist｜Japan）
- Date
- Saturday, December 7, 2019
- Venue
- NA402,2F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of Art and Design
019
Story Time
Young Lee Mingwei with his mother, 1969.
- Speaker
- Lee Mingwei（Artist｜Taiwan, France, USA）
- Date
- Monday, November 4, 2019
- Venue
- NA208, 2F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of Art and Design
018
Expanded field
Anya Gallaccio preserved beauty 1991
- Speaker
- Anya Gallaccio（Artist｜UK, USA）
- Date
- Saturday, October 26, 2019
- Venue
- Lecture Room 3, Campus Plaza Kyoto
017
Research Analysis, Interpretation: How Can Art Have Dialogue with History?
- Speaker
- Kamiya Yukie（Director of Gallery, Japan Society, New York｜New York, USA）
- Date
- Monday, July 22, 2019
- Venue
- NA102, 1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of Art and Design
016
Festivity and Contemporaneity: worldly affinities in Southeast Asian art
- Speaker
- David Teh（Independent Curator, Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore｜Singapore）
- Date
- Saturday, June 8, 2019
- Venue
- Lecture Room 3, Campus Plaza Kyoto
015
Possible Worlds
TRANSIT 2011 © Susan Norrie – installation detail, Yokohama Triennale. Courtesy of the artist.
- Speaker
- Susan Norrie（Artist｜Sydney, Australia）
- Date
- Monday, May 20, 2019
- Venue
- NA102, 1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of Art and Design
FY2018
014
Sweat turns to salt: slowing down nature in liminal places
Examining Bowhead whale remains at edge of Arctic Ocean, Point Barrow, Alaska (photo: Robin Mongoyak), Courtesy of the artist
- Speaker
- Michael Joo（Artist｜New York, USA）
- Date
- Monday, December 17, 2018
- Venue
- NA102, 1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of Art and Design
013
How to Make Art Timeless: The Legacy, the Foundation, and Preservation in the Case of Arakawa+Gins
Arakawa and Madeline Gins, Site of Reversible Destiny̶ Yoro Park, Gifu Prefecture, Japan, 1993–95. Park/architecture. 18,100 m² (195,000 sq. ft).
©1997Estate of Madeline Gins. Reproduced with permission of the Estate of Madeline Gins.
- Speaker
- Tezuka Miwako（Curator｜New York, USA）
- Date
- Monday, November 19, 2018
- Venue
- ROHM Theatre Kyoto North Hall
012
Ifs, Ands, or Buts
- Speaker
- Heman Chong（Artist｜Singapore）
- Date
- Friday, October 26, 2018
- Venue
- NA102, 1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of Art and Design
011
Now Here & No Where
- Speaker
- Shreyas Karle（Visual Practitioner, Co-Director of CONA Foundation and KATCONA Design Cell｜North Bombay）
- Date
- Tuesday, July 10, 2018
- Venue
- NA207, 2F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of Art and Design
010
What does it mean to live as an artist?
What’s wrong with carrying things on your head?
Memorial work for the opening of Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, 2007
- Speaker
- SHIMABUKU（Artist｜Okinawa, Japan）
- Date
- Monday, June 11, 2018
- Venue
- NA102, 1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of Art and Design
009
Is curating a form of journalism or is it storytelling, fiction?
- Speaker
- Saskia Bos（Art Historian, Independent Curator, Critic｜Amsterdam）
- Date
- Monday, May 7, 2018
- Venue
- NA102, 1F Ningen-kan, Kyoto University of Art and Design
FY2017
008
My Journey with Art
Dojima River Biennale 2013, Lettle Water, Dojima River Forum, Osaka
- Speaker
- Rudy Tseng（Independent Curator, Art collector｜Taipei, Taiwan）
- Date
- Tuesday, July 11, 2017
- Venue
- 1F Chiyu-kan, Kyoto University of Art and Design
007
Origins of Participatory Art: Claire Bishop, with a focus on “Artificial Hells”
“Artificial Hells” (Japanese Edition) Book Cover
- Speaker
- Omori Toshikatsu（Critic of fine arts, Contemporary art historian｜Tokyo, Japan）
- Date
- Tuesday, June 6, 2017
- Venue
- 1F Chiyu-kan, Kyoto University of Art and Design
FY2016
006
Will Art Change When the World Changes?
Theaster Gates, Art Bank, 2016
- Speaker
- Kataoka Mami（Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Graduate School of Art and Design Studies, Chief Curator of Mori Art Museum in Tokyo｜Japan）
- Date
- Tuesday, January 17, 2017
- Venue
- 1F Chiyu-kan, Kyoto University of Art and Design
005
Communicating with the world
《一石を投じる》Stone from Nibutani 2014
- Speaker
- SHIMABUKU（Artist｜Berlin, Germany）
- Date
- Thursday, December 1, 2016
- Venue
- 1F Chiyu-kan, Kyoto University of Art and Design
004
Parts of a Whole
Artists’ site visit to Mleiha,
March 2014 for Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible.
Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation.
- Speaker
- Eungie Joo（Artistic Director, 5th Anyang Public Art Project (APAP5)｜Anyang, Korea）
- Date
- Friday, November 18, 2016
- Venue
- Lecture Room 3, Campus Plaza Kyoto
003
Spectrum to Specter
Dane Mitchell, Remedy for Agoraphobia, Ataxia, Anxiety (AgNO3), 2016
Courtesy the artist; Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland; and RaebervonStenglin, Zürich
Photograph: Christopher Morris
- Speaker
- Dane Mitchell（Artist｜New Zealand）
- Date
- Tuesday, August 30, 2016
- Venue
- KYOTO ART CENTER Auditorium
002
Contemporary Art in Central Asia: Post-Soviet Context
Gulnara Kasmalieva & Muratbek Djumaliev, Racing, 2006
- Speaker
- Gulnara Kasmalieva & Muratbek Djumaliev（Artist｜Kyrgyz Republic）
- Date
- Thursday, August 4, 2016
- Venue
- 1F Chiyu-kan, Kyoto University of Art and Design
001
Chiang Mai Social Installation in Context
- Speaker
- Gridthiya Gaweewong（Artstic Director of the Jim Thompson Art Center｜Bangkok, Thailand）
- Date
- Wednesday, July 20, 2016
- Venue
- ROHM Theatre Kyoto North Hall