EXHIBITIONS
Installation
Venue
Nihonbashi/Bakurocho Area
Etoile Kaito Living Bldg.
1-15-15 Higashikanda, Chiyoda-ku
Date
11:30–18:00 (Fri until 19:00)
Closed on Mon and Tue
*Open Nov 3 (Nat’l hol.) and 24 (Subst. hol.).
Piotr Bujak is a Polish interdisciplinary artist and independent researcher interested mainly in cross-cultural, comparative analysis of identity, politics, media and cultural heritage. He employs Do It Yourself, Low Budget, Quick & Dirty and Hit and Run strategies, which he describes as minimalistic punk conceptualism.
Comprising small-scale, pre-existing personal artifacts, this project stems from his ongoing fieldwork that connects civic studies, visual sociology, cultural activism, and experimental anthropology, all carried out through interdisciplinary, research-driven art-making processes. NO.W exemplifies and further customizes this approach by embracing the concept of arte povera-inspired visual haiku.
Rejecting the idea of spectacle and playfully engaging with situationist and post-structuralist concepts of the counter-monument, the overarching aim of NO.W is to create an ambiguous yet subtle environment that questions ideas of home, security, identity, obstacle, neglect, and even haptics, all within the context of public space and urban ethics.
Special Cooperation: Etoile Kaito & Co., Inc.
Map
2 min walk from JR Sobu Line Bakurocho Sta. (Ex. 4)
6 min walk from Toei Shinjuku Line Bakuroyokoyama Sta. (Ex. A1)
Polish interdisciplinary artist and independent researcher born in 1982. Graduate of Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland (MFA 2009), San Francisco Art Institute, California, USA (MFA 2012) and Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan (PhD 2022). As a Fulbright fellow he studied with Lynn Hershman Lesson, Renee Green and Stephanie Syjuco. As a MEXT student was affiliated with Katsuhiko Hibino and Akihiro Kubota labs. In 2023-2025 employed as a JSPS postdoctoral researcher in the Yoshitaka Mouri lab at the School of Global Arts of Tokyo University of the Arts.
Interested mainly in cross-cultural, comparative analysis about identity, politics, media and cultural heritage, he bridges practice-based art research with experimental anthropology and social critique. Employing Do It Yourself, Low Budget, Quick & Dirty and Hit and Run strategies, with references to conceptualism, minimalism, avant-garde and arte povera, his work ranges from and combines time-based media, staged-for-camera performances, installation, sculpture, digital print, found objects, interventions, and vandalism.
Nihonbashi/Bakurocho Area
Etoile Kaito Living Bldg.
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