HIKARU SUZUKI 日本語CV
Artist/Filmmaker. Born in Fukushima in 1984. Works in Berlin and Tokyo.
[EDUCATION]
2004-2008
BA video and sculpture at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo
2009-2011
MA focus on cinéma vérité at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) in Gifu, Japan.
2014-2015
BA Montage at Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
2016-2018
Diploma Narrative film and Experimental film at Thomas Arslan class and Nina Fisher class at Berlin art university.
2020
A film program "In meinem Zimmer" given by director Nele Wohlatz at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg.
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Activity
2021
A screening event: 2021.4.29-5.1 Experimental film culture vol.3 in Japan ~porepore alternative: Hikaru Suzuki, Shingo Kanagawa, Katsuya Okuma, Philip Widman, Karsten Krause, María Alche, Nele Wohlatz, Taiga Okamoto, Kohei Kobayashi, Shinichi Takashima + Shu Nakagawa, Kanichi Kanegae, Takayuki Yoshida, Takafumi Katoh, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Shun IkezoeA screening, Japan media arts festival (Kyoto) - BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW Omnibus Vol. 1 “April 2011"
2020
35th Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Buenos Aires) - A video letter project between Buenos Aires and Fukushima, Yokohama
Paris Internationale (Paris) - A video letter project between Buenos Aires and Fukushima, Yokohama
福島映像祭 / Fukushima Film and Media Festival - A video letter project between Buenos Aires and Fukushima, Yokohama (Porepore Higashinakano cinema)
2020.7.01-12 A solo show "when Desktop documentary when" (Art center ongoing, Tokyo)
2020.3.20-21 Experimental film culture vol.2 in Japan～Porepore alternative ~ Filmmaker／Artist：Hikaru Suzuki, Melina Pafundi, Ivan Markovic& Wu Linfeng, Satoshi Nishizawa, Shelly Silver, Bernd Lützeler, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Dane Komljen, Hirofumi Nakamoto, Hiroyuki Oki, Deborah Stratman
2019
Screening event curation：Experimental film culture vol.1 in Japan：Filmmaker/Artist: Melina Pafundi, Ivan Markovic& Wu Linfeng, Satoshi Nishizawa, Shelly Silver, Bernd Lützeler, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Dane Komljen (Art center ongoing, Tokyo)
Noise of Silence: Japanese Art Now2019.8.10 - 9.28 (GOLDEN THREAD GALLERY, Irland)
S/F -Photography, or a Monolith after 200 years
with TOMOO ARAKAWA / CFGNY / ILYA LIPKIN / JASON LOEBS / YURI PATTISON / KAZUHITO TANAKA / SUNG TIEU / ANICKA YI(KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo)
2018
Documentary Dream Show —Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Tokyo 2018
Rundgang screening with Eren Aksu, Hannah Schiefelbein, Yannick Spiess, Hazal Kara, Dane Komljen at Berlin art Universiy
Montage (Gallery KAYOKOYUKI 2018, Japan)
2017
2016
NEO EDEN (Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, china)
Japan media art festival in Niigata (Japan)
Not a trace of doubt in my mind” Exhibition Azamino Contemporary vol.7 (Yokohama, Japan)
Video program by Yukiko Shikata in EEC / ECO EXPANDED CITY in WRO ART CENTER (Wroclaw, Poland)
2015
Art cinema vol.2 Hikaru Suzuki Film show (Art forum Azamino / azamino gallery in Yokohama)
In & Out of Japan Vol 2. (by curator Julian Ross, CAMERA JAPAN Rotterdam)
Asia Selection1: Hors Pistes Tokyo program (Institut français du Japon, Tokyo)
HIKARU SUZUKI SPECIAL (Nippon Visions in Nippon Connection 2015 - Japanese Film Festival, Frankfurter am Main, Germany)
Image Forum Festival 2015 (Japan)
See You on the Planet, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2015 (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography)
Slipping Out of the Circuit (Tokyo art university curated by Riku Iioka)
2014
2013
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW imageforumfestival 2013(Japan)
16th JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL Art Division BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW (Tokyo,Japan)
DENIZ TELERI Presents JAPANISCHER FILMABEND 4 Filme, 4 Filmemacher (Berlin,Germany)
Die Kunst der Intervention II – Projekte 2012 Ausstellung im ratskeller Lichtenberg Studios（Berlin,Germany）
2012
Kashiwa City Jack Asia Pacific Contemporary Media Arts from Daisuke Miyatsu Collection- (Chiba Japan)
Documentary film show - Interviews to speak, to listen, to watsch, ART LABO AICHI (AICHI,Japan))
BEXCO Busan Exhibition & Convention Center (Busan,Korea)
FILM THEATER Ooditoriumu-shibuya and Porepore-higashinakano The Shepherd’s Story / Shinjuku 2009 + Ogaki 2010 (Tokyo,Japan)
FILM THEATER Ooditoriumu-shibuya and Porepore-higashinakano BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW (Tokyo,Japan)
Muestra Joven in Cuba BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW OmnibusVol.9 selected by Hama Haruka (Havana,Cuba)
Tomoniaru Cinema with Us in Tokyo BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW Omnibus Vol.1 04.2011 & Vol.2 05.2011 (Tokyo,Japan)
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions -Improvisational omnibus Films BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW Omnibus 2011-12 (Tokyo,Japan)
Hikaru Suzuki Film Show AOYAMA MEGURO (Tokyo,Japan)
TERATOTERA Festival Kichijouji NEO public MOVIE FUKUSHIMA-BERLIN (Tokyo kichijouji, Baus film theater,Japan)
Independent film festival - CINE DRIVE 2012 (OSAKA) Ms.S, Anrakuto (Osaka,Japan)
2011
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2011 New Asian Currents - The Shepherd's Story / Shinjuku 2009 + Ogaki 2010 (Director:Shinjiro Maeda,Hikaru Suzuki)(Yamagata,Japan)
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2011 New Docs BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW SERIES (Founder:Shinjiro Maeda)(Yamagata,Japan)
The 16th Art Film festival BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW Aichi Art Center (Aichi, Japan)
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions - Improvisational omnibus Films BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW Omnibus 2011-12 (Tokyo,Japan)
let in light curated by Kayoko Yuki (Shinjuku Gankagarou / Tokyo,Japan)
Do you hear my voice？Just forget it,if you don't like. makii masaru fine arts (Tokyo,Japan)
TERATOTERA Festival Baus theater "Mr.S" (Tokyo,Japan)
TAMA NEW WAVE Un Certain Regard „Anrakuto" (Tama,Tokyo)
Ongoing Xmas 2011 (Art Center Ongoing/ Tokyo,Japan)
2010
toratoratora!! (makii masaru fine arts / Tokyo,Japan）
IngIngIng (Art center ongoing / Tokyo,Japan）
House Keep out (Yokohama / Kanagawa,Japan）
Anlakuto (GFAL, Musashino Art University / Tokyo,Japan)
1st The KOENJI Documentary Film Festival 2010 GOD AND FATHER AND ME (Koenji,Tokyo, Japan)
Ongoing Video festival (art center ongoing,Tokyo,Japan）
Suwa Lake Town Art Festial Katakura castle „Anrakuto"（Suwa,Nagano)
2009
WORM HOLE episode 12（magical, ARTROOM/ Tokyo,Japan）
NO FUTURE NO FUTURE (Art Center Ongoing / Tokyo,Japan)
Ongoing X'mas 2009 Art center Ongoing (Tokyo)
Ongoing Movie Festival 2009 (Art Center Ongoing/ Tokyo,Japan)
everything is under control 2 (Jack and Betty/ Kanagawa,Japan)
2008
YOKOHAMA ART & HOME Collection (Show room space next to Yokohama Museum of Art/ Kanagawa,Japan)
The NEXT (Gallery stump/ Kanagawa,Japan)
Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 08 (The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma/ Gunma,Japan)
COW parade 2008（Tokyo,Japan）
10 years after (otto mainzheim gallery/ Tokyo,Japan)
CAAF 2008/24＋6 (Creare Aoyama Art Forum/ Tokyo,Japan)
ART AWARD TOKYO 2008 (Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery/ Tokyo,Japan)
Musashino Art University Degree Show (Musashino Art University/ Tokyo,Japan)
ZAIM Sound & Vision Vol.3 -MIACA- VideoScreening (ZAIM/ Kanagawa,Japan)
Tokyo-London art exchange (The Stephen Lawrence Gallery/ London, England)
Awards / Stipends
2013
2012
2010
2008
An special jury prize of Iida Shihoko, ART AWARD TOKYO 2008 (Tokyo,Japan)
A third prize, Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 2008 (Gunma,Japan)
DVD release
2015
Archive
2017
Lecture
2020
About making film and moving image(In General education at Ritsumeikan University)
2019
About making film and moving image(In design department at Shonan Institute of Technology)
2016
2010
Expression practice for third-year student (in sculptur class at Musashino art university)
Thesis
2011
cinema verite at the present day ~The movie "Anrakuto 安楽島" about Ms.A~
Book
2010
The 3th toxic girls review - Special topic・GOD AND FATHER AND ME
(Graduate School of Letters, Prof. YOSHIOKA Hiroshi(Aesthetics and Art Theory in Kyoto University) criticize about the film - GOD AND FATHER AND ME
Other
Stage
2010
Public collection
2018
tokyo photographic art museum