Nobuhiko Murayama

Nobuhiko Murayama is a Japanese artist based in Berlin since 2010.

His work sets the conditions for an image to arrive. An image is not given on the surface; it passes through distance, membrane, support, and site, taking place in the present rather than remaining a fixed record.

Working from specific places, movements, and situations, Murayama creates works in which the moment of photography, the site of exhibition, and different presents meet without becoming one.

Nobuhiko Murayama
Born 1980, Kanagawa, Japan
Lives and works in Berlin

Education

2006–2009 Yotsuya Art Studium, Institute for Cultural and Human Research, Kindai University, Tokyo
1999–2003 BFA, Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts

Solo Exhibitions

2025 wet soil, shadow, thin snow, CAPSULE Gallery, Tokyo
2017 bird, tree and eye, CAPSULE Gallery, Tokyo
2015 moons, Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin, Berlin
2014 blue on the ship, Galerie WangHohmann, Wiesbaden
2012 from a distance, Atelier Überall, Berlin
2009 scene, Gallery Objective Correlative, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021 Die Auflösung der Städte, Bruno Taut residence, Berlin
2021 ARF 2021 in Kyoto, Soda, Kyoto
2017 Light Through the Window, HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo
2016 Nowhere but Somewhere New, Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo
2014 Physis 2014, Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin, Berlin
2013 THE ECHO – spreading of light, Japan Foundation, Cologne
2013 Physis 2013, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Assisi
2013 Physis 2013, Griechische Kulturstiftung, Berlin
2012 Physis 2012, Griechische Kulturstiftung, Berlin
2012 Echo, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin
2011 Aus aktuellem Anlass, Neue Galerie Landshut, Landshut
2010 WE ARE THE ISLANDS, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin
2008 Tentai ni tsugiki suru, Gallery Objective Correlative, Tokyo

Curatorial Projects

2012 Echo Berlin, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin (organizer)
2011 Hilfsaktion für Japan, Berlin (organizer)
2006–2009 Stump, Kamakura (artist-run space, founder)

Residencies & Grants

2013 Physis Residency, Thessaloniki
2012 Physis Residency, Assisi
2010–2011 Pola Art Foundation Overseas Researcher Grant, Berlin

Awards

2012 Dr. Lin Art Encouragement Prize, Dr. Lin Tsung-I Foundation, Taiwan
2008 Maestro Grant, Yotsuya Art Studium, Tokyo