中田一志 Kazushi Nakada
中田一志 Kazushi Nakada
Kazushi Nakada is an artist from a Japanese ceramics family. He has lived and worked in Europe for more than 30 years. His artwork is shown in Europe, Asia, and the US. He also taught at several universities in Europe as a lecturer and professor.
He is the third generation of a ceramic family. His grandfather, Rokusaburo Nakada(中田六三郎）, was a potter of Kiyomizu-yaki, and his father （中田明守）was a prominent ceramist who received the Zuiho Medal (瑞宝単光章受章) from the Japanese government in 2015. Kazushi pursued his own creative endeavors and established careers outside of Japan. However, his working attitude is influenced by Japanese traditional ceramics, spending time in a studio, and handmaking.
He uses a variety of mediums, such as ceramics, video, sound, photography, and abandoned objects. One of his latest projects, "My Archaeology," explores one’s ritual experience and episodic memory as art.
Kazushi says,
To me, art is to express a social, philosophical, or political question. We are living in a period of diversity and pluralism. I am interested in the whole entity of human beings and what is happening around the world. Art does not help people as medical science does, nor does it offer spiritual support as religions do. But art may make people think, realize and act.
The experience of working around the world gave me an opportunity to encounter so many different cultures. And it was fascinating to discover that people, local culture, or real life in a society can not be seen unless you do not go there and see it. And it made me consider "what globalization is about?"...
Over the years, my interest shifted from material-based technical exploration to art projects which are based on humanities or cultural issues.
Various mediums are used in my project and its outcome also varies. It can be an installation made with porcelain, cute looking glass toy, or a video showing a “pink cat”….. They might look unrelated and are not coherent. However, I use a sense of humanity and sociocultural matter as a unifying element and as a foundation of my creative vision. And it makes my own style of consistency in my work.
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Kazushi Nakada
Born 1967
Based in Helsinki Finland and Shanghai China
Member of the Association of Finnish Sculptors
Honorable degree, Ukrainian Ministry of Education, Academy of Art Lviv, Ukraine
Education
1987~1990
Tokyo Glass Art Institute, postgraduate program, Kawasaki Japan
1992~1994
Royal College of Art, Ceramics and Glass Dept. MA, London England
Working experience
1997~2016
Full-time teacher, Senior Lecturer
The University of Art and Design Helsinki / Aalto University, School of Art and Design, Faculties.
2010~2011
Professor
Moholy Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest Hungary
2013 September
Invited artist & lecturer
Rochester Institute of Technology,
College of Image Science and Technology, NY USA
2017 October
Invited Professor
Wroclaw Academy of Arts, Glass dept, Wroclaw Poland
Solo Exhibition
2022
“Art project, KN-Artoy, Flower monster” 尚合院gallery, Ningbo China
“Art project, KN-Artoy, Flower monster” 白川gallery, Nanjing China
2021
Art project "My archaeology", Art Front Gallery, Tokyo Japan
2019
Art project “Pink Copycat” video & photography installation. Gallery M space, Shanghai China
2018
Art project " My Archaeology", Shanghai glass museum, Shanghai China
2006
Kazushi Nakada artwork, Mentzendorff House/gallery, Riga Latvia
2004
“Infinity”, The Finnish glass museum, Riihimäki Finland
2003
“Wall X”, Outside public installation, Esplanadi, Helsinki light festival, Helsinki Finland
Selected exhibitions
2010-2021
2021
Group exhibition “665448”, Haapsalu Linna Gallery, Haapsalu Estonia
Group exhibition “Love is more”, Being Art Museum, Shanghai China
2020
The online video project, 60day of lockdown, Luxelakes A4 Art Museum, Chengdu China
2019
Group exhibition, Objekti 5, Espoo Finland
International symposium Lviv Academy of Art, Lviv Ukraine
The art project, "Please copy me", Shanghai China
2017
Ningbo international art and Glass European/ Asian Conference, Ningbo, China
Vediet' vidiet´, mal'ovat' (sklo ako plátno), gallery Medium, Bratislava Slovakia
To know, To see, To paint (Glass as a Canvas)
2016
International glass symposium Lviv Academy of Art, Lviv Ukraine
2013
Exhibition “Abandoned house” gallery Makslas Banka, Riga Latvia
Exhibition “glass art” gallery Levant Art, Shanghai China
2012
Exhibition “11th International Glass Symposium IGS”,
Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, Prague Czech Republic
2011
International Glass Symposium Nobý Bor Czech Republic
European glass exhibition Wroclaw railway station gallery, Wroclaw Poland
2010
Exhibition “Finnish glass lives” Riihimäki Finland
Exhibition “Glass voice” Latvian Academy of Arts, Riga Latvia
Exhibition “25 years anniversary” Ebeltoft glass museum, Ebeltoft Denmark
2009
Exhibition “Finnish glass art” MUDAM, Luxembourg
2008
Exhibition “Finnish glass art & design”
Industrial Museum, Düsseldorf Germany
Glasmuseum Hentrich, museum kunst palast Dortmund Germany
2007
Exhibition “Kolme= San”, Jarvenpää Talo, Jarvenpää Finland
Exhibition “Finnish glass”, Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art Istanbul, Turkey
2006
L’art du verre Finlandais, Nancy France
Coburg prize, selected artist, Coburg Germany
International glass symposium “RONA” & Exhibition
“Unknown forms” Lednické Rovne, Slovakia
Exhibition Glass Voice, Latvian applied art museum, Riga Latvia
2005
Global art glass triennial, Borgholm Sweden
2004
International competition of glass Kanazawa, selected artist, Kanazawa Japan
Exhibition “Works in Bardibukk 2004”, Kaposbar Hungary
Solo exhibition “Infinity”, The Finnish glass museum, Riihimäki Finland
Exhibition “Vetri nel mondo oggi”, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice Italy
2003
Group exhibition “LANDSCAPE, GLASS FROM FINLAND AND
SPAIN”, Espaividre Gallery, Barcelona Spain
Permanent Collection
Being Art Museum, Shanghai China
The Finnish glass museum, Riihimäki Finland
Glasmuseet Ebeltoft Denmark.
Susan and Martin Gould, Philadelphia, the US
Kaj Franck Square, Arabianranta, public installation, Helsinki Finland
National Museum of Art Lviv, Lviv Ukraine
Decorative Art Museum of Prague, Prague Czech Republic
Shanghai glass museum, Shanghai China
Green wave glass museum, Ningbo China
Private collections in Asia, Europe, and the USA