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27.06.2025 – 27.07.2025

Satomi Edo u.a. /// Doppelpass – ‚ME‘ – Im Koffer verpackt

GALERIJA MENO PARKAS
Rotušės a. 27
44279 Kaunas, Lietuva

Project Description
A group of Japanese artists currently based in Germany will present an international exhibition and series of events in collaboration with the West German Artists’ Association. The project bagan at the exhibition hall of Hawerkamp in Münster, Germany this year 2024, it will travel to Kaunas, Lithuania, and ultimately to Fukushima, Japan in 2026.

Exhibition Concept
All participating artists in the exhibition “Double Passport – ‘ME’ – Packed in a Suitcase” have left their countries of origin and are engaged in the theme of intercultural dialogue. Many have lived and worked in Germany for years while maintaining deep personal and artistic ties to Japan. 
These dual cultural connections strongly influence their creative practices, including their media choices and cultural identities.

The exhibition explores the ongoing transformation of digital and analogue technologies, cultures, and economies through visually compelling artworks. Participating artists work across a wide range of contemporary art media—painting, printmaking, photography, video, performance, and literature—to express their individual voices and perspectives.

The journey bagan in Münster, Germany, and will continue to Kaunas, Lithuania, before reaching its final destination: the International Art Village in Nishiaizu, Fukushima, Japan. This venue was established in close partnership with the Embassy of Lithuania in Japan. Kaunas, the Lithuanian host city, holds a deep appreciation for the humanitarian actions of former Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara during World War II. It is also a city that embraces profound reflection on human existence and cultural significance—particularly resonant in the complex, post-pandemic world we now face.

Through this project, we aim to open a shared space for exploring questions of identity and belonging with the people of Lithuania, using art as our common language. We are deeply grateful for the opportunity to foster this intercultural dialogue.

Special Program in Lithuania
For the Lithuanian segment of the project, we present a special program that conveys the everyday thoughts and voices of 15 artists who have left their homeland and now navigate the turbulence of a shifting global landscape. Each artist has written a personal letter to their future selves, which will be presented in collaboration with the Meno Parkas Gallery in Kaunas.

These letters—part confession, part reflection—are simultaneously personal records and works of art. We hope their words will resonate with your own voice.

The project is funded by Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Opening Event
27 June 2025, 6:00 PM
Venue: Meno Parkas Gallery, Kaunas

Greetings:
Arvydas Žalpys, Director of Meno Parkas Gallery
or
Ekkehard Neumann, Representative, West German Artists' Association

Readings Across Three Countries; Germany/ Lithuania/ Japan
“Plan / 計画” from Yoko Tawada’s poetry collection Nothing but Where You Are / あなたのいるとこ ろだけ何もない

Performance: “Magical Excution” by Soya Arakawa

Related Event (Separate Venue: Café Kasdienybės Bakehouse)
Intervention: “A proposal for democratic ideas, views and perceptions” by Deborah Ando

Participating Artists
Takako Saito, Mutsumi Okada, Tetsuya Takizawa, Katsutoshi Yuasa, Akane Kimbara, Nana Hirose & Kazuma Nagatani, Soya Arakawa, Tomoko Sato, Sosuke Ueda, Shigeru Takato, Setsuko Fukushima, Deborah Ando, Marie Ogoshi, Satomi Edo

Instagram:
Follow the exhibition on Instagram: @doppel_pass

Graphic Design: Satomi Edo

Patronage: Embassy of Japan in Lithuania
Support: West German Artists’ Association, Meno Parkas Gallery
Project Sponsor: Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia

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