Takashi Sonoda
1989 Born in Kumamoto, Japan
2014 Hiroshima City University, BFA in sculpture
2023 Alanus University of arts and social sciences, MFA in sculpture,
Now lives in Köln, Germany
Awards and Grants
2022 “Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation”
2022 “Rundgang Preis 2022 Alanus Hochschule”
2021 “EU-Japan fest Japana Committe”
2019 “DAAD-Preisträger 2019”
2018 “Pola Art Foundation, Grants for Overseas by Young Artists, Deutschland”
Fellowship Artist in Residence
2024 “AIR motomoto, Japan”
2022 “Kunsthalle Kleinschönach, Deutschland”
Solo Exhibitions
2024 “Green Piece” / AIR motomoto, Japan
2023 “ Wie ist dein Name Jetzt? ” ( What is your name now ?) / BauSchau Düsseldorf, Germany
2023 “ Distant Flowers ” / University of Alanus, Alfter, Germany
2022 “ Flowers of Scotland ” / Freiheitaushalten, Köln, Germany
2022 ” I Am Also Being Watched by Seagulls” / Kurfürstliches Gärtnerhaus, Bonn, Germany
2021 “Orange and Black” / (Haus der Alfterer Geschichte, Germany
2018 “Countershade” / Hiroshima Art Center, Japan
2016 “Sudden Memory of the Name of the Cobblestone I’ve Always Seen” / Yokogawa Souen, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2024
“ARTE CARTE – Art on Paper” / Galerie Rosemarie Bassi
“SANTEN” / Omega B, Überlingen, Germany
“From the Depth of the Surface” / Xian, Rauscherstr. 17, Vienna Brigittenau
2023
“Exhibition in Kleinschönach” / Kunsthalle Kleinschönach, Germany
“the other” / Künstlerforum Bonn, Germany
2022
“ 一席之地 Verortung ” / Externe Ausstellung 2022 Gallery Cubepuls im Topfhaus Alter
Botanischer Garten Kiel, Germany
“ Duo Exhibition Takashi Sonoda, Tatsuma Takeda ” /Seiriki Art Museum, Fukuoka
“ Our Attitudes ” / Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto
“Utopia” / Kunstverein Burgwedel, Isernhagen
“ Somewhere? Gambi ” / Exhibition window in the underground Plaza at the South Exit of
Hiroshima Station, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
“Mixed Bag” / K49, Goltsteinstraße 49, Cologne
“HUMAN ANIMAL” / Künstlerforum Bonn, Germany
2021
“C.A.R.” / Essen, Germany
“Meanwhile” / Gallery cube＋, Kiel, Germany
“Parade.creole” / Pop-Up Pavilion, Kiel, Germany
“Abstecher” / Danziger Straße, Hamburg, Germany
“Space and Art” / Altenburg, Germany
“Virtual Exhibition at Kunstforum 99” / Rheinbach, Germany
2020
“C.A.R. / Essen, Germany
“Discipline and Order” / KUNSTHAUS RHENANIA, Cologne, Germany
2019
“Forms of Salt” / Wohnzimmer Knipsgasse, Alfter, Germany
“Art and Space” / Social Therapeutic Communities Weckelweiler e.V., Germany
“Scheduled” / Künstlerforum, Bonn
“Roisdorf HALLE Exhibition” / Roisdorf Halle, Germany
2018
“TSUSHIMA ART FANTASIA 2018” / Iduharamachi in Tsushima City, Former Tsushima City Kuta Elementary School, Nagasaki
2017
Kikuchi Art Festival vol. 2″ / Ryumon Elementary School, Kumamoto
“DMZ (The Demilitarized Zone) Art Festival” / DMZ, Korea
“Artists Come to Mashiki: Exhibition “Soul and Form of Kumamoto” by Artists from Kumamoto” / Inukai Art Museum, Kumamoto
“Tsushima Art Fantasia 2017” / Shinwa Bank Show Window, Tsushima, Izuharamachi, Nagasaki
“Hachi no hana – hana no hachi (“Bee Flower – Flower Bee”) – Interaction” / Gallery Kosa 611, Hiroshima 2016
“The Second Autumn Festival at Hakata-Hankyu Department Store” / Ground Floor of Hakata-Hankyu Department Store, Fukuoka
“I Have a Cat” / Space Dot, 10 Daecheong-ro Jung-gu, Busan, Korea
“TSUSHIMA ART FANTASIA 2016” / Shinwa Bank Show Window, Izuharamachi in Tsushima City, Nagasaki
“.com” / Hiroshima City University Art Museum, Hiroshima
“Greeting and Saying Goodbye” / The Youth Hostel, Bernkastel-Kues, Germany
2015
“The Early Action of Bees” / Marian House, Pelzstr 11, Alfter, Germany
“The Pleasant Sound” / o.N. Kunst Zeit Raum, Cologne, Germany
“Schrödinger’s Cat” / Science Center Bonn, Germany
“TSUSHIMA ART FANTASIA Hiroshima-Tsushima” / Izumi Museum of Art, Hiroshima
2014
“ZETSU-METSU-KO2” [“Thinking About Extinction 2”] / Hiroshima Art Center, Hiroshima
2013
“5・7・5 of Sculpture – Haiku Sculpture 2013 “Oku no Hosomichi” [“The Narrow Road to the Deep North”] – Sculpting through Form – “
This exhibition was held at the following two locations:
Art Museum of Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, Naha City, July
Breer Gallery of Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai City, September
“Hiroshima-O HiroshimaFukushima” / Former Japan Bank, Hiroshima branch
2010
“Eda no Wakare Saki no Saki” (“Forked Branch, Future of the Future”) / First Phase (Hiroshima Art Center, Hiroshima) ,Second Phase (Handweaving Studio Teoriya LD, Hiroshima)
“Hiroshima-O Art Developed in Hiroshima” / Former Japan Bank, Hiroshima branch
Chi-ku Chi-ku Fresh Contemporary” / Hiroshima Art Center, Hiroshima
Heikin Hatachi” [“Average Twenty Years Old”] / Motomachi CRED, Hiroshima
2009
“CHIKUSENDOCONTEMPORARY” / Gallery Sendo, Hiroshima
“Kawa de Geijutsu” [“Art by the River”] / Hiroshima Motomachi Riverside, Hiroshima
Projects
2018 “TSUSHIMA ART FANTASIA 2018” [Management, Artistic Assistance, Artistic Involvement] / Tsushima City, Nagasaki
2017 “TSUSHIMA ART FANTASIA 2018” [Management, Artistic Assistance, Artistic Involvement] / Tsushima City, Nagasaki
2016 “TSUSHIMA ART FANTASIA 2018” [Management, Artistic Assistance, Artistic Involvement] / Tsushima City, Nagasaki
2014 “TSUSHIMA ART FANTASIA 2018” [Management, Artistic Assistance, Artistic Involvement] / Tsushima City, Nagasaki
2013 “TSUSHIMA ART FANTASIA 2013” [Artistic Assistance] (Tsushima City, Nagasaki)
2013 “Symposium on Stone Sculpture in Senyogahara” [Management, Artistic Assistance] (Jinseki-kogen Senyogahara, Hiroshima)
2012 “Symposium on Stone Sculpture in Senyogahara” [Management, Artistic Assistance, Artistic Involvement] (Jinseki-kogen Senyogahara, Hiroshima)