Shinji Wakasa
An artist based in Berlin and Tokyo.
Through the material construction of sound and music, his work gives spatial and temporal form to the contours of the untouchable.
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Work
Website: https://www.shinjiwakasa.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shinji_wakasa_works/
Shinji Wakasa is a sound and installation artist and composer based in Berlin and Tokyo. His practice explores how sound can shape space, bodily perception, and unstable relations between presence and absence. Through multichannel installations, performance, and sculptural sound environments, he creates ritualized situations of listening in which resonance, distance, and material vibration become central compositional elements. Recent presentations include the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Sony Park Mini, M.A.G.M.A Gallery, Culterim Residency, and Migas Berlin.
Education: Former studies at Osaka University of Arts, Osaka, Japan
Independent, self-directed artistic practice in sound, installation, and composition
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / INSTALLATIONS
2026 Re:light Festival Regensburg — media installation (collab w/ ONION LAB), Re:light (Regensburg, Germany)[Mar 10–23, 2026]
2025 AGAINST THEORY — sound, sculpture installation (with painter Minori Oga, inside SIDE CORE /
Ping paling exhibition) 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Kanazawa, Japan) [Dec 23,
2025 - Jan 13, 2026]
2025 KLANGLICHT 2025 — media installation (collab w/ ONION LAB), KLANGLICHT (Graz, Austria) [Oct
24–27, 2025]
2025 The Caul — sound installation, Culterim Artis in Residence (Berlin, Germany) [July 5, 2025]
2025 The Ghost Sings Here — group exhibition / sound installations, MA2 Gallery (Kamakura, Japan) [Jan
17–26, 2025]
2024 HAKUMEI 2.0 (Twilight 2.0) — solo multichannel sound installation, MAGMA Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
[Sep 13–17, 2024]
2024 Yoake No Oto / DAWN — solo installation, Sony Park Mini (Ginza, Tokyo, Japan) [Jun 15–30, 2024]
2023 HAKUMEI — solo sound installation, AA (Kabutocho, Tokyo, Japan) [Mar 29–Apr 2, 2023]
2020 Life In The “_____”, Claska 8F The 8th Gallery(Meguro, Tokyo, Japan)[Dec 17-19, 2020 ]
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2025 Skeleton of religious art o — performance + Buddhist chant, Ryokakuji Temple in Tsuruga, Fukui
(Japan) [Oct 25, 2025]
2025 PRESENTATION – VOL.0 — live performance (SIDE CORE / Ping paling), Theater 21 / 21st Century
Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Japan) [Aug 4, 2025]
2025 Resonance of a Drop — live performance, Migas (Berlin, Germany) [Jul 10, 2025]
RESIDENCY
2025 Gutshof Dahlewitz (Sommer 2025) — Culterium residency, Germany (production of “The Caul”)
SELECTED COMMISSION / COLLAB (FASHION / PERFORMANCE)
2025 IRENISA — music / performance for Spring–Summer 2025 runway presentation
2025 Bed.jw.Ford — music collaboration for Fall–Winter 2024runway show in Paris fashion week
2024 YOKE — music 2024 for Fall–Winter 2024 runway show in Tokyo fashion week
2023 stein — music 2023 for Fall–Winter 2023 runway show in Tokyo fashion week