Natsuko Uchino
Natsuko Uchino creates installations that function as expanded spaces combining objects, images, performance, conviviality
and the living. Her work raises the question of time, touch and use, ageing and patina, as well as those on the permanence of
gestures and the possible reversability of materials.
Natsuko Uchino’s cross-disciplinary practice is inscribed in the polysemic resonnaces of the terms culture/ dirt/ earth.
Drawing on her early experience in permaculture, her approach is shaped both by rural experience and by artisanal techniques
of production and subsistence. Her work is structured by ecological stakes played out in materials, their nature, provenance,
transformation and assembly methods, as well as in the relationships between functional, decorative, sculptural and constructive forms. In this way, she questions the possibilities of production, display, use and arrangement.
NATSUKO UCHINO
Born 1983, in Kumamoto, Japan. Lives and works between Paris and Belvézet, France.
EDUCATION
2013 Research Program, Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Japan
2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cooper Union, New York
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
Fabriques & Folies, Galerie Allen, Paris, FR
2024
Fiction Théorie Panier, Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute Vienne, Château de Rochechouart, FR
Mutual Aid, Curated by Francesco Manacorda, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, IT
Peace More Real, Galerie Allen, Paris, FR
Brussels Mussels, Sorry we are closed, Brussels, BE
SOL ! La biennale du territoire #1 , Un pas de côté. MO.CO. Panacée, Montpellier, FR
Les Flammes - L'Âge de la céramique. Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, FR
Expanded Craft. cur by Nicolas Trembley. Croy Nielsen, Vienna, AT
No guidance from the spirit guides, Cibrian Gallery, San Sebastien, ES
Faire communs. Maison des Arts Georges & Claude Pompidou, Cajarc, FR
Scobies. Galerie Allen, Paris, FR
The Penumbral Age. Land art in the face of the climate crisis. cur. Sebastian Cichocki and Jagna Lewandowska, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie / Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, PL
Mingei Now. cur. Nicolas Trembley, Sokyo gallery, Kyoto, JP
Bronzage, le Design à l'Âge de Bronze. Musée Archéologique Départemental, Jublains, FR
De l'Ile au Monde. Centre Internationale d'Art et du Paysage, Vassivière, FR
TRANS. cur: Anne Dressen. MECA Frac Acquitaine, Bordeaux, FR
Cookbook. cur. Nicolas Bourriaud and Andrea Petrini la Panacée, Montpellier, FR
UB ANDROID. cur: Green Tea Gallery. Freedman and Fitzpatrick, Paris, FR
Etxe Mouton, Etxe Nami. St Jean de Luz, la Petite Escalère, Saint-Laurent-de-Gosse, FR
Minguei and Friends avec Lebensformen et We do not work alone. Le Coeur, Paris, FR
Biennale de Saint Flour. cur. Christian Garcelon, Site Chaliers, Auvergne, FR
Je t'épaule, tu me respires. Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR
Tournedos Café. (with Barthelemy Toguo) cur. Jacob Fabricius. Roskilde Festival, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, DK
Pre-Capital -Formes populaires et rurales dans l'art contemporain. cur. Emmanuelle Luciani, Charlotte Cosson, Nicolas Bourriaud, La Panacée, Montpellier, FR
RURAL. Salon MAD, CNEAI / Maison Rouge, Paris, FR (with Peeping Tom and Piacé le Radieux)
Lab Yaourt. Piacé le Radieux Bezard- Corbusier, FR (with Maroussia Rebecq)
J/E. La Galerie du 5ème, espace culturel des Galeries Lafayette, Rond Point Project, Marseille, FR
City Glance TOKYO. Galerie Le Coeur, Paris, FR
Salon MAD with Pork Salad Press. CNEAI / Maison Rouge, Paris, FR
Moving Landscapes. V8 Plattform für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, DE
KÄLEN. Last Resort gallery, Copenhagen, DK
ACA- Site Specificity and Art in the Natural Landscape. MAXXX Project Space/ ECAV, Sierre, CH
La Célébration. , Programme Hors-Pistes Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2014
Terre Pierre Verre. Cité des Arts Montmartre, Paris, FR
Mi-Art avec Freedman and Fitzpatrick. Milan, IT
Empreintes et Passage à L'Acte. Astérides - Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, FR
Keramikos II. Projektraum 45cbm, Staatlichen Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, DE
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2019
Liquid Modern, What has been cut cannot be mended without a scar. Goethe Institute avec l'Institut Français et le service culturel de l'ambassade de France, Beijing, CN
On Earth and Gardening. Serpentine Cinema, London, UK
La Becque, ECAL, Lausanne, CH
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux , France
CNEAI, France
Fondation Kadist, Paris, France
2020
Wonders in the Heavens and on the Earth, Krakow Photomonth Festival, Foundation for Visual Arts
Marcon, Diego. A Script for Dick, Untitled Association, Rome
A Red Herring and the White Elephant, CCA Kitakyushu