Susuki
Bento.
01 — Selected works
Recent paintings, 2023–2025
02 — Statement
On surface, memory, dust
- Born
- Tokyo, 1984
- Lives
- Berlin-Wedding
- Education
- Tokyo University of the Arts, MFA
Städelschule, Frankfurt - Studio
- Soldiner Straße 31, 13359 Berlin
The work begins with surface. I scrape, layer, bury and uncover until the paint behaves like architecture — weight, weather, decay. Each canvas is a record of what a place could not hold onto.
For two decades I have moved between Tokyo and Berlin, two cities defined by the things they have erased. My paintings collect this erasure: dust from demolition sites, charcoal from cleared lots, the colour of a wall before it was repainted. They are quiet objects made from loud absences.
03 — Exhibition history
Selected solo & group, 2022–2026
- 2026 Soft Architectures Kunsthalle Basel, CH Solo
- 2025 The Weight of Surface KW Institute, Berlin Solo
- 2025 Asia Now Monnaie de Paris Group
- 2024 Memory as Material Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong Solo
- 2024 Berlin Biennale 13 Hamburger Bahnhof Group
- 2023 Quiet Geographies Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Solo
- 2022 New Painting / New Asia Tate St Ives Group
04 — Press
In print
FriezeArtforumArtReviewSüddeutsche ZeitungThe Japan TimesMoussee-flux
05 — Contact