PARASOPHIA 京都国際現代芸術祭2015

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For the fifth Open Research Program, Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015 will present a lecture by the Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima. Sejima was the director of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, and has taken part in many international exhibitions as SANAA, which she co-founded with Ryue Nishizawa in 1995. SANAA has also worked on many art museums, including the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa (2004), the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (2007), and the Louvre-Lens in Lens, France (2012).

About the Open Research Program
The Artistic Director and his curatorial team will conduct part of their research for Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015 publicly, in the form of lectures and other events in this program.

Kazuyo Sejima (妹島和世)
Architect. Born 1956 in Ibaraki prefecture, Japan. Master’s in Architecture, Japan Women’s University, 1981. Worked in office of Toyo Ito before founding Kazuyo Sejima and Associates in 1987. Founded SANAA with Ryue Nishizawa in 1995. Awards won by SANAA include design prizes from the Architectural Institute of Japan (1998 and 2006), the Golden Lion at the 9th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (2004), the Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts (2005), and the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2010). Works by SANAA include the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa, 2004); the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, OH, 2006); Dior Omotesando Store (Tokyo, 2003); the De Kunstlinie Theater and Cultural Center in Almere (Almere, Netherlands, 2006); the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, 2007); the Rolex Learning Center (Lausanne, 2010); le Louvre-Lens (Lens, France, 2012); etc. Sejima was the director of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2010. “NISHINOYAMA HOUSE”, a housing complex designed by Sejima, is currently under construction in Omiya Nishinoyama, Kyoto.