ART EXHIBITIONS RE NUCLEAR WEAPONS & NUCLEAR POWER
AUSTRALIA: MELBOURNE
This Is No Fantasy: by Yhonnie Scarce
6 September – 1 October 2016
Dianne Tanzer Gallery
http://thisisnofantasy.com/exhibition/strontium-90/
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ART EXHIBITIONS RE FUKUSHIMA
AUSTRALIA: MELBOURNE
Japanese Art After Fukushima: Return of Godzilla
27 March – 30 May 2015
RMIT Gallery, 344 Swanston Street, Melbourne 3000
http://rmitgallery.com/tag/fukushima/
JAPAN: TOKYO
PLACE M: Photo Gallery
9 – 15 March 2015
Conseguenze. Vajont – Fukushima (Aftermath. Vajont – Fukushima
photographs of Vagont & Fukushima by Michele Mttiello & Uma Kinoshita
Shinjuku 1-2-11 modern building 3F, 160-0022 , Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
http://www.placem.com/schedule/2015/20150309/150309.html
FRANCE: PARIS
Photography Exhibition: “Fukushima Tout Va Bien?”
du 16 au 20 mars, 2015: (月)ー(木) 10-20h, (金) 10-18h
VERNISSAGE LUNDI 3/16(月) 17h30-20h
Espace Culturel Bertin Poirée, 8-12 rue Bertin Poirée, 75001 Paris
photographs from the exhibition here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.336552229887735&type=1
http://www.tenri-paris.com/art/
JAPAN: NAGOYA & KYOTO
2015 Touring Exhibition of portraits of mothers and children from Fukushima by Noriaki Kobayashi
Toyohashi Betsuin, Nagoya
Higashi Honganji Temple, Kyoto
http://noriakikobayashi.dosugoi.net/e752797.html
UK: LONDON
curated by ART ACTION UK
work by artist-in-residence YOI KAWAKUBO
TO TELL A (HI) STORY
EXHIBITION AND EVENTS,
16TH – 30TH MAY 2015
Husk Gallery website for detail and How to visit


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30th Talk Event 7-9pmGallery Open Tuesday- Saturday 2-5pmClosed on Sunday/ Monday
Following the earthquake and nuclear meltdown in East Japan in 2011, Kawakubo has created work in Fukushima that focuses on the limits of photographic representation. He asks us to carefully re-examine our immediate visual perceptions and to reflect on the ominous histories beneath the aesthetic beauty of his work.
To Tell a (hi)Story includes photographic, sound and text works along with an installation. Kawakubo’s artworks respond to ongoing social issues following the nuclear meltdown in East Japan. His personal and philosophical reflections on the disaster ask us not only to empathise, but to deeply consider the global implications of the nuclear meltdown.
Please go to Art Action UK website HERE to find out more.
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UK: LONDON
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
KEITA MIYAZAKE: Post-Apocalypse
23 Apr 2015 to 1 Jun 2015
Daiwa Foundation, 13/14 Cornwall Terrace (Outer Circle),
London NW1 4QP
‘Keita Miyazaki, a young Japanese artist, works on creating sculpture series and installations which evoke a sense of the post-apocalyptic.
This sculptural series arises from Miyazaki’s observations of modern society. Focusing on the disasters and crises that man-made constructs can bring about (taking the recent global financial crisis and the nuclear meltdown after the Tohoku disaster in 2011 as two examples), Miyazaki started creating a surreal mix of dystopia and utopia in his work.’
http://www.dajf.org.uk/exhibition/post-apocalypse-by-keita-miyazaki
UK: LONDON
curated by ART ACTION UK & WHITE CONDUIT PROJECTS: Those Who Go East
an exhibition & events to commemorate the 2011 tsunami and nuclear meltdown in East Japan, 11-15 March 2015
White Conduit Projects, 1 White Conduit Street Islington London N1 9EL
http://www.whiteconduitprojects.uk/About
http://www.artactionuk.org/index.html
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FRANCE: PARIS
MASAMICHI KAGAYA: La Balade de l’invisible 11.03.2011,
10th – 28th March 2015
25 rue Duvivier, 75007 Paris
http://www.autoradiograph.org/en/info/exhibition-in-march/
selection of Massmichi Kagaya’s ‘Autoradiogram’ images which reveal the radioactive contamination of flora, fauna & everyday manmade items by the Fukushima nuclear disaster:
http://www.phmuseum.com/masamichikagaya/photos
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USA: BOSTON
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: In The Wake Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11
April 5, 2015 – July 12, 2015
Henry and Lois Foster Gallery (Gallery 158)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5523
617-267-9300 TTY: 617-267-9703
more photos here:
https://hyperallergic.com/183532/photographers-bring-home-a-picture-of-fukushima/
http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/in-the-wake
UKRAINE: KIEV
KAZUMA OBARA: Fukushima. Another Look
an exhibition of photographic portraits of the ‘liquidators’ – workers at Fukushima Daiichi.
When interviewed on TV these people usually have their identities obscured by pixellation and voice distortion, for fear of reprisals from their employer.
Kazuma Obara was born in Iwate, Japan.
4 – 18 March 2015
Kiev History Museum, Kiev, Ukraine
http://kazumaobara.com/aboutme/index.html
USA: NEW YORK
Bortolami Gallery x Green Tea Gallery
curated by UNITED BROTHERS & JACOB KING: The Radiants
a group show of work by 20 + artists, 28 February – 29 March 2015
INDIA: MUMBAI
PETER HUYGHE: Human Mask,
Mumbai Art Room Gallery, Mumbai, India,
16 January – 5 March 2015:
http://www.mumbai-art-room.org
USA: PHILADELPHIA
EIKO OTAKE & WILLIAM JOHNSTON: A Body In Fukushima
October 3 2014 – April 5 2015
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Maguire Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building. 128 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA.
https://www.pafa.org/exhibitions/eiko-body-places
and
Dec 5, 2014 – Feb 14, 2015
Galleries of Contemporary Art University of Colorado | Colorado Springs 1420 Austin Bluffs Pkwy Colorado Springs, CO 80918
http://www.uccs.edu/goca/ART/BODY-IN-FUKUSHIMA.html
PREVIOUS:
USA: NEW YORK
TAKASHI MURAKAMI: In the Land of the Dead, Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow,
until 17 January
2015 Gagosian, 555 West 24th St, New York,
KOSUKE OKAHARA: Fragments of Fukushima
http://kosukeokahara.com/?pid=story_detail&id=19
SINGPORE
Otolith group – discussion re Fukushima for Guggenheim Museum’s ‘No Country’ series https://soundcloud.com/guggenheimmuseum/no-country-at-cca-the-otolith-group-on-the-radiant
GERMANY: DUSSELDORF
Helmut Schweizer, ‘Melancholia’, an exhibition of work dealing with the nuclear disaster of Fukushima as the tragic result of the discovery of atomic energy in the late 19th century
January 11 – February 15, 2014
GALERIE RUPERT PFAB
Poststraße 3
D-40213 Düsseldorf
http://www.galerie-pfab.com/en/exhibitions/melancolia_86_311_a_chi_di_competenza
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PRESS REVIEWS:
Art Journal, 15/5/15, ‘Japan after Fukushima: 10 artists making art about the disaster’
INTERNET:
Doichi Kuda: ‘Fukushima Land To Live On’
Photographs from Fukushima:
http://lifeisabanana.com/2015/04/09/doichi-kuda-fukushima-land-to-live-on/
Abandoned cars in Fukushima
Juiceboxforyou.com blog
although not an art exhibition this selection of photos of abandoned cars in Fukushima highlights another aspect of the catastrophe:
http://juiceboxforyou.com/2015/01/the-abandoned-cars-of-fukushima/