In his drawings, Takehito Koganezawa creates relationships between objects from his everyday world of experience and abstract or fictive ones. While they show in part familiar content, they seem to emerge in the realm of a dream world due to their positioning, and are gathered in work groups like ‘forgetting WORDS’, ‘forgetting SELF’, or ‘Superficial Blackhole’. Despite the usually obvious concretion of the visual subject, this verbal refusal of classification or theme is intentional in Koganezawa’s work. “I would really like to see nothingness,” he said in an interview with Hans-Ulrich Obrist. “So I am trying to generate meaning from an object.”

On February 13, the exhibition 'Polyrhythm' opened at BDI Kunstfenster, Breite Strasse 29, Berlin, and will be on view until December 2009.

Last year, Takehito Koganezawa held a fellowship at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. His works have been presented at Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, Otis’ Ben Matz Gallery, Los Angeles, and at the exhibition Out of the Ordinary: New Video Art from Japan at MOCA Los Angeles, and at Museu de Art Moderna in Sao Paulo. After a fellowship at the Artist Residence Program of Kea Island, Greece, his installation could be seen in Qbox, Athens.

He also showed an extensive video exhibition ‘Between This and That’ in November 2008 at Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Japan, and a catalog was published to accompany this exhibition.

On January 18, 2009, a solo exhibition of his work opened at Japan’s MIMOCA, the catalog will be available in March 2009. Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich will show a further exhibition of his work in September 2009.