Yoshinori NIWA
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Performances and Interventions
Purchasing a Rice Ball at Convenience Stores for 24 Hours
Purchasing a Rice Ball at Convenience Stores for 24 Hours
Requesting People in Taiwan Who I Met by Chance To Declare if They Die, Taiwan Will Disappear
Requesting People in Taiwan Who I Met by Chance To Declare if They Die, Taiwan Will Disappear
Cleaning a Poster During the Election Period Until It Is No Longer Legible
Cleaning a Poster During the Election Period Until It Is No Longer Legible
Living in Someone's Possessions
Living in Someone's Possessions
Providing Standing Guards by Refugees
Providing Standing Guards by Refugees
Refund Items I Have Not Purchased
Refund Items I Have Not Purchased
Narrating Our Possessions
Narrating Our Possessions
Applauding the Products
Applauding the Products
Sending an Invoice to the Museum in Moscow
Sending an Invoice to the Museum in Moscow
Rebroadcasting of the Japanese Language Radio Program in Sri Lanka
Rebroadcasting of the Japanese Language Radio Program in Sri Lanka
Withdrawing Adolf Hitler from a Private Space(2020–21)
Withdrawing Adolf Hitler from a Private Space(2020–21)
Releasing Euro Banknotes into the Danube River and Looking for them as Lost Items in the Countries Downstream
Releasing Euro Banknotes into the Danube River and Looking for them as Lost Items in the Countries Downstream
Reporting Breaking News From Other Side of the World
Reporting Breaking News From Other Side of the World
Forcing People to Speak About What They Don’t Understand(2020)
Forcing People to Speak About What They Don’t Understand(2020)
Immigrants Are Guarding This Country
Immigrants Are Guarding This Country
Manifesting a Newspaper(2020)
Manifesting a Newspaper(2020)
Burning Blood
Burning Blood
Manifesting Pee
Manifesting Pee
Manifesting a Newspaper(2019)
Manifesting a Newspaper(2019)
Hypnotising Land Ownership
Hypnotising Land Ownership
Having Someone's Birthday Party
Having Someone's Birthday Party
We Unanimously Agree on a Plan That Nobody Has Asked For
We Unanimously Agree on a Plan That Nobody Has Asked For
Borrowing Money for 2000 Years
Borrowing Money for 2000 Years
Expecting That the Future That I Am Expecting Is Not Coming
Expecting That the Future That I Am Expecting Is Not Coming
Purchasing Trash with the Company’s Budget
Purchasing Trash with the Company’s Budget
Unavoidable Work in Order to Keep Us Alive
Unavoidable Work in Order to Keep Us Alive
Withdrawing Adolf Hitler from a Private Space
Withdrawing Adolf Hitler from a Private Space
Immigrating to Immigration
Immigrating to Immigration
Pricing Own Belongings at the Market
Pricing Own Belongings at the Market
Requesting the Prime Minister for a Wink During His Speech
Requesting the Prime Minister for a Wink During His Speech
Abolition of Private Property System
Abolition of Private Property System
Towards a Beautiful Country
Towards a Beautiful Country
Resending postcards sent during the Cold War to the intended recipients
Resending postcards sent during the Cold War to the intended recipients
Forcing People to Speak About What They Don't Understand
Forcing People to Speak About What They Don't Understand
The Community We Must Have Imagined
The Community We Must Have Imagined
Paying a Courtesy Call on the Incumbent Mayor by all His Predecessors in History
Paying a Courtesy Call on the Incumbent Mayor by all His Predecessors in History
We’re heading to the place where nobody wants to go by the will of all
We’re heading to the place where nobody wants to go by the will of all
The Younger Ones Educate The Older Ones
The Younger Ones Educate The Older Ones
Giving name to people who haven’t exist
Giving name to people who haven’t exist
Re-recording radio broadcast announcing acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration
Re-recording radio broadcast announcing acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration
Embroidering Names on Shirts, Names of Machine Operators Themselves
Embroidering Names on Shirts, Names of Machine Operators Themselves
Cheering Sakae Osugi at his birthplace
Cheering Sakae Osugi at his birthplace
88 suggestions
88 suggestions
Selling the Right to Name a Pile of Garbage
Selling the Right to Name a Pile of Garbage
Transferring All Your Bank Deposits to the Person Behind You in a Line at a Bank ATM Machine
Transferring All Your Bank Deposits to the Person Behind You in a Line at a Bank ATM Machine
Asking Taiwanese to sing national anthem of Republic of China while listening national anthem of People’s Republic of China
Asking Taiwanese to sing national anthem of Republic of China while listening national anthem of People’s Republic of China
Requesting people in Taiwan who I met by chance to declare if they die, Taiwan will disappear
Requesting people in Taiwan who I met by chance to declare if they die, Taiwan will disappear
Walking through the sites of terrorism : a walk proposed by Yoshinori Niwa
Walking through the sites of terrorism : a walk proposed by Yoshinori Niwa
If it’s undoubtedly a 10 peso coin for me, but it’s undoubtedly a 1000 peso bill for him, what does a revolutionary movement mean for me?
If it’s undoubtedly a 10 peso coin for me, but it’s undoubtedly a 1000 peso bill for him, what does a revolutionary movement mean for me?
Donating Money to People in Manila Without Being Noticed
Donating Money to People in Manila Without Being Noticed
Making a Political Speech Intentionally Translated With a Different Meaning
Making a Political Speech Intentionally Translated With a Different Meaning
Proposing to Hold Up Karl Marx to the Japanese Communist Party
Proposing to Hold Up Karl Marx to the Japanese Communist Party
Celebrating Karl Marx’s birthday with the Japanese Communist Party
Celebrating Karl Marx’s birthday with the Japanese Communist Party
Marching from the Prime Minister's Office to the Top of Mt. Fuji in Demonstration
Marching from the Prime Minister's Office to the Top of Mt. Fuji in Demonstration
Transporting Puddle A to Puddle B(2012)
Transporting Puddle A to Puddle
Replicating and Distributing the Key of My Home
Replicating and Distributing the Key of My Home
Sweeping Trash to the Front of Prime Minister’s Office
Sweeping Trash to the Front of Prime Minister’s Office
Holding the Policeman in Front of the Diet Building
Holding the Policeman in Front of the Diet Building
Marching from the Prime Minister’s Office to the Top of Mt. Fuji in Demonstration(Installation)
Marching from the Prime Minister’s Office to the Top of Mt. Fuji in Demonstration
Depositing All the Money in My Pocket on the Street
Depositing All the Money in My Pocket on the Street
Looking for Vladimir Lenin at Moscow Apartments
Looking for Vladimir Lenin at Moscow Apartments
De-mo-ne Neon Sign
De-mo-ne Neon Sign
Relocating the National Diet Building to a disaster-stricken area
Relocating the National Diet Building to a disaster-stricken area
Applauding Bears in Berne
Applauding Bears in Berne
Walk in the Opposite Direction of a Demonstration Parade
Walk in the Opposite Direction of a Demonstration Parade
Exchanging between Turkish Lire and Euros in Istanbul Until there is Nothing Left
Exchanging between Turkish Lire and Euros in Istanbul Until there is Nothing Left
Piling Rocks from the Seabed on the Summit of Mount Hakkouda
Piling Rocks from the Seabed on the Summit of Mount Hakkouda
Taking Group Photos in Pusan with No Purpose, then Joining the Commemorative Photos of Strangers
Taking Group Photos in Pusan with No Purpose, then Joining the Commemorative Photos of Strangers
Hesitating Neon Sign
Hesitating Neon Sign, 2011
Purchasing My Own Belongings Again in the Downtown
Purchasing My Own Belongings Again in the Downtown
Tossing socialists in the air in Romania
Tossing socialists in the air in Romania
Permitting Neon Sign
Permitting Neon Sign
A bear goes to the zoo to see bears
A bear goes to the zoo to see bears
Re-weaving crow’s nest at gallery’s ceiling
Re-weaving crow’s nest at gallery’s ceiling
Communicating with thieves
Communicating with thieves
For my friends who cannot decide marriage with each other yet, I hold a wedding at 2 am midnight under a streetlight
For my friends who cannot decide marriage with each other yet, I hold a wedding at 2 am midnight under a streetlight
Nonsense group photograph with 76 people
Nonsense group photograph with 76 people
Make Tama Art University PIKAPIKAPIKA
Make Tama Art University PIKAPIKAPIKA
I buy your breath for 1RMB and I sell you someone’s breath for 1RMB
I buy your breath for 1RMB and I sell you someone’s breath for 1RMB
A memory with vegetable
A memory with vegetable
Shaking hands with 100 cats in Norway
Shaking hands with 100 cats in Norway
Going to San Francisco to dispose of my garbage
Going to San Francisco to dispose of my garbage
Yankee chicken farm
Yankee chicken farm
Transporting puddle A to puddle B
Transporting puddle A to puddle B
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Ongoing/Upcoming exhibitions:
Group show: GHOST When the Invisible Visible
Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, JAPAN
20 September–21 December 2025
Solo show: Yoshinori Niwa
Secession, Vienna, AUSTRIA
4 December 2026–21 February 2027
Yoshinori NIWA
Contact studio in Vienna, Austria
niwa@niwa-staff.org
Galleries:
Edel Assanti
1B Little Titchfield Street
London W1W 7BU
United Kingdom
art@edelassanti.com
+44 207 637 8537
http://www.edelassanti.com/
Satoko Oe Contemporary
3-18-8 Shirakawa, Koto
Tokyo 135-0021, JAPAN
info@satokooe.com
+81 3 5809 9517
http://satokooe.com/
GALERIE ZIMMERMANN KRATOCHWILL
Opernring 7
8010 Graz
Austria
office@zimmermann-kratochwill.com
+43 316 82 37 540
http://www.zimmermann-kratochwill.com/
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