BankArt Life7 ‘UrbanNesting: Reinhabiting the City’
Enjoying a symbiotic existence with the Yokohama Triennale, the BankArt Life programme of exhibitions has been held in conjunction with every iteration of the Triennale since its inception in 2004. Organised by BankArt 1929, this seventh edition centres on the non-profit arts organisation’s new subterranean headquarters, BankArt Station, and seeks to bring art into ‘everyday spaces and situations’. BankArt Station’s underground space above Shin-Takashima Station is hosting large-scale works by Yukinori Yanagi, Kenjiro Okazaki and Tadashi Kawamata, who are joining several regular BankArt artists in presenting a ‘newfound world’ within the city. Other notable participants in the 42-artist lineup include Yusuke Asai, Kenjiro Okazaki, Junya Kataoka + Rie Iwatake, Muku Kobayashi, Ryudai Takano, Michiko Nakatani, Midori Mitamura, Taichi Yoshimura, and blanClass + Megumi Kamimura. Besides BankArt Station, the exhibition will stretch across Minato Mirai, Kannai and Yokohama Portside. Be sure to keep an eye out for Ishiuchi Miyako’s large-scale photo installation ‘Silk Threaded Memories’ at the concourse of Bashamichi Station, beneath the former centre of Yokohama’s famous silk trade.