Okayama Art Summit 2016 - Development
Okayama, Japan
October 9 – November 27, 2016
Okayama Art Summit 2016 is the first edition of a new triennial contemporary art exhibition to be held in Okayama, Japan. Thirty-one artists from all over the world have been invited to participate, including Cameron Rowland, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rachel Rose, Angela Bulloch, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Katja Novitskova, Trisha Baga, Joan Jonas, Pierre Huyghe, and Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Some of the venues designated for the summit are Okayama Castle, the Hayashibara Museum of Art, the former Fukuoka Soy Sauce Factory, the Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, and the Korakukan Tenjin School.
"All the artists involved in the exhibition play with structures—ideological, formal and political. They do this in very specific ways. Each artist layers their work upon what they encounter. They offer various levels of distance to the given structure. And leave us with different strata for encounter, examination, and experience." - Liam Gillick, Artistic Director