Kazuna Taguchi. I’ll never ask you
Exhibition
mumok Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien
13.6.—16.11.2025
Artists: Taguchi Kazuna
Curator: Heike Eipeldauer
Mumok presents the first solo museum exhibition of Kazuna Taguchi outside Japan, an artist who has lived and worked in Vienna since 2013. The artist studied painting at Tokyo University of Arts. Her enigmatic works depict body fragments, gestures, and gazes in the Surrealist tradition of undermining conventional representations of the female body. Drawing from a repository of image sources, Taguchi interweaves different temporalities, narrative spaces, and viewing regimes. In her pictures, the figures seem suspended in a phantasmatic moment between appearance and vanishing. Taguchi’s transitory work at the threshold between painting and photography self-reflexively echoes the historical discourses of both media and draws inspiration from collective visual memory. Her working method privileges repetitive resonance and reanimation over conventions of new creation and linear progression. Time and again, she returns to preexisting images or image fragments, whether her own or those of others. This source material—whether anonymous, mass-media pictures, historical artworks such as from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, private photographs from the artist, or revisions of her own works—is subjected to reworking, translation through her media of choice, and recombination.
Attention: For details on accessibility, please contact the program partner directly.
Attention: For details on accessibility, please contact the program partner directly.
Tue10 AM–6 PM
Wed10 AM–6 PM
Thu10 AM–6 PM
Fri10 AM–6 PM
Sat10 AM–6 PM
Sun10 AM–6 PM
17.00 € Barrier-free
Artists: Taguchi Kazuna
Curator: Heike Eipeldauer
Mumok presents the first solo museum exhibition of Kazuna Taguchi outside Japan, an artist who has lived and worked in Vienna since 2013. The artist studied painting at Tokyo University of Arts. Her enigmatic works depict body fragments, gestures, and gazes in the Surrealist tradition of undermining conventional representations of the female body. Drawing from a repository of image sources, Taguchi interweaves different temporalities, narrative spaces, and viewing regimes. In her pictures, the figures seem suspended in a phantasmatic moment between appearance and vanishing. Taguchi’s transitory work at the threshold between painting and photography self-reflexively echoes the historical discourses of both media and draws inspiration from collective visual memory. Her working method privileges repetitive resonance and reanimation over conventions of new creation and linear progression. Time and again, she returns to preexisting images or image fragments, whether her own or those of others. This source material—whether anonymous, mass-media pictures, historical artworks such as from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, private photographs from the artist, or revisions of her own works—is subjected to reworking, translation through her media of choice, and recombination.
Attention: For details on accessibility, please contact the program partner directly.
Attention: For details on accessibility, please contact the program partner directly.
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Mumok presents the first solo museum exhibition of Kazuna Taguchi outside Japan, an artist who has lived and worked in Vienna since 2013. The artist studied painting at Tokyo University of Arts. Her enigmatic works depict body fragments, gestures, and gazes in the...
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Tue10 AM–6 PM
Wed10 AM–6 PM
Thu10 AM–6 PM
Fri10 AM–6 PM
Sat10 AM–6 PM
Sun10 AM–6 PM
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