Artists - K
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Kimsooja (Korea) 
 Born
in 1957 in Daegu, Korea. Lives and works in New York.
Kimsooja is known internationally for her installations featuring
colorful bedcovers made from traditional Korean fabric that
is presented in a number of different ways – to wrap
old clothing, as a tablecloth in the Art Museum café or
hung, like washing, over a rope. Since 1999 she has also been
creating videos featuring herself. Her works have been shown
in the 48th and 49th Venice Biennale (1999 and 2001 respectively)
as well as in other major international Biennale and Triennale
including São Paolo, Sydney, Busan and Kwangju. A participant
in the 51st Venice Biennale to be held this year.
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Kim Sora (Korea) 
Born in 1965 in Seoul, Korea. Lives and works in Seoul.
Kim Sora has been involved in many projects that are the result of collaborations
with the socially dispossessed or through the participation of observers,
proposing new ways to relate to each other that can replace existing social
systems.
In recent years Kim has participated in international exhibitions such as
the Taipei Biennale (1998), the Venice Biennale (2001, 2003), and the Echigo-Tsumari
Art Triennale (2003). For Yokohama 2005, she is working on collaborative
performances with local choral groups and brass bands. Well-known words and
melodies from each performers’ country are selected and modified by
the artist to produce familiar-sounding tracks that you can’t quite
identify. These will be performed at the Triennale.
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Takehito Koganezawa (Japan)
Born in 1974 in Tokyo, Japan. Lives and works in Berlin.
Since moving to Berlin in 1999, Koganezawa has been based in Germany, and
his work been represented in group exhibitions and international exhibitions.
He was awarded an overseas study scholarship by the Japanese Government Department
of Art and Culture in 2001. In 2005, awarded scholarship by the Berlin Department
of Academic Study, Research and Culture (Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft,
Forschung und Kultur Berlin). Koganezawa works in various mediums – colored
pencil drawings, videos and performances – that focuses on a single act or
phenomenon. In his work, he confuses the viewer’s perception by collecting
the largest number of patterns possible for a given subject or by distorting
the sense of space or time that is generated by these patterns.
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KOSUGE1-16 + Atelier Bow-Wow + YOKOCOM (Japan) 
KOSUGE 1-16 (formed in 2001 in Tokyo, Japan) is an art duo
formed by Chishino Kurumada and Takashi Tsuchiya. Based in
Kosuge in Katsushika-ku, Tokyo, the name KOSUGE 1-16 represents
the actual address where these two artists are based, and
it was the everyday life that the two shared in this small
house in Kosuge that was the catalyst for their creative activities.
Kurumada and Tsuchiya emphasize the importance of enriching
everyday life in a familiar location to create installations
and carry out projects that enhance the unique qualities of
the region. An enormous soccer board game makes its appearance
at the Yokohama 2005 venue and can be described as a table
soccer game on a grand scale. Participants play by manipulating
dolls that are half the size of humans. Unlike conventional
table soccer games where the participants look down onto the
soccer ground as they manually operate the soccer players,
in this work, the participants have to use their entire bodies
to play the game and as a result are able to physically experience
the difference in scale between the movement as concept and
the actual physical movement.
Meanwhile, the architects collective Atelier Bow-Wow (established
in 1992 in Tokyo, Japan) has created a grandstand that surrounds
this soccer ground.
YOKOCOM (established in 2003 in Yokohama, Japan), a non-profit
that brainstorms the subject of sports communication, will
be organizing special events during Yokohama 2005.
KOSUGE 1-16
Atelier Bow-Wow
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Akihiro Kuroda (Japan)
Born in 1970 in Hokkaido, Japan. Lives and works in Hokkaido.
The arts and culture improvement committee “Iopnor” – of
which Kuroda is the sole member – commenced its activities in 2000
and continue to plan and hold various events, exhibitions and parties. Kuroda
first began
portrait drawing as a way of establishing links with others and in recent
years this has become his primary avenue of expression and indeed a significant
part of his life. Major exhibitions include “Wa no houteishiki [harmony
equation]” (Alliance Française, Sapporo, 2001), “A Muse Land
2003” (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo) and “U-5000” (Contemporary
Art Institute Sapporo, 2003).
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