15.02.25, 16:00, Who is Yoshio Nakajima, Performance by Yoshio Nakajima with Nick Defour and Merzedes Sturm-Lie & lecture by Martin Schibli

With a career spanning over sixty years, Nakajima’s work has alternated between celebrating the sun as a life-giving force and highlighting global threats, shaped by his experience of the atomic bomb and ecological concerns. His recent work also addresses the events in Ukraine and Palestine. In his lecture, Martin Schibli will trace Nakajima’s remarkable journey from 1950s Japan to contemporary Sweden.

Martin Schibli (b. 1967) holds a Master’s degree in Art History from Lund University, Sweden. Over his career, he has curated around 150 exhibitions in Sweden and internationally. He is currently a curator and producer at Dunkers Cultural House in Helsingborg. Schibli has also worked as an artistic director and exhibition director at various Swedish art institutions. Alongside his curatorial work, he teaches and writes about art. Recently, he co-curated a major retrospective of Yoshio Nakajima at Dunkers Kulturhus and co-published the book Yoshio Nakajima – Resa med solen (2024, Appell Förlag).