Kanade Hamawaki, artist
Kanade Hamawaki, from the series Kaufmann Anton Nordpol Dora Emil Heinrich Martha Wilhelm Ida Otto Berta Richard Ludwig Übermut Samuel Friedrich, 2025, installation view Hamawaki/Hölk/Albatal oder Die Neuen von nebenan, FUHRWERKSWAAGE 2025
CreditKanade Hamawaki was born in Kobe, Japan, and lives and works in Dusseldorf, Germany. She graduated from the Dusseldorf Art Academy, and further expanded her academic experience through guest studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Site-Specific Art), Justus Liebig University Giessen (Applied Theatre Studies), and Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf (Social Sciences – Media, Politics, Society).
Her interdisciplinary works follow a conceptual and discursive approach driven by artistic research, in which the participation of the audience plays a central role. She uses site-specific interventions, installations, art books, and participatory games as artistic media. Elements based on time and reality, such as language, signs, gestures, memories, communications, coincidences, media recordings, public spaces, and sciences, are incorporated. Within these frameworks, process-oriented constellations unfold that aim at situational perception and collective experience.
Projects have been realized in collaboration with, among others, the Association of Düsseldorf Artists, the Museum Kunstpalast, Kunsthaus Oberhausen, FUHRWERKSWAAGE Cologne, and the Nakanojo Biennale.