Tomoko Hayashi a été sélectionnée pour une résidence de trois mois à travers le programme Institut français x Cité internationale des arts !
AIR Program in Paris

Tomoko Hayashi
Lauréate 2025/2026 du AIR Program in Paris
Au cours de cette résidence, elle travaillera sur un nouveau projet qui explore les souvenirs et les couches inconscientes qui se cachent sous le paysage urbain de Paris.

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A propos du AIR Program in Paris
AIR Program in Paris est un programme de résidence bilatéral organisé par la Chishima Foundation For Creative Osaka et la Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto), en collaboration avec l’Institut français, la Cité internationale des arts, et le Kyoto Art Center. Ce programme vise à soutenir un artiste, un chercheur ou un conservateur vivant ou travaillant dans la région du Kansai pour développer ses activités au contact de la scène culturelle, sociale et artistique française.
Le lauréat reçoit le soutien des institutions culturelles susmentionnées pour une résidence de recherche et/ou de production de trois mois dans un atelier-logement situé à la Cité internationale des arts.
Modalités
Location
Cité internationale des arts (Marais site)
Period
3 months from January to April
Number of successful applicants
1 artist will be selected for this year’s open call.
*Application as a group is not possible.
Profile
– individual based and working in the Kansai region (Kyoto, Osaka, Shiga, Nara, Wakayama, Hyogo)
– individual having activities as an artist, curator, or art critic
– all artistic disciplines
– all nationalities are accepted
– We are not able to accept students (applications are however accepted if the course has been completed at the moment by the time the residency starts).
Supports during the residency program
– A studio will be allocated to the resident (Marais site)
– flight tickets round trip (direct flight in economy class between KIX and CDG aiports)
– 500 000 yens for living costs and research/production costs
All other expenses will be covered by the applicant.
The successful applicant needs to have an insurance during the residency.
Before the arrival at Cité internationale des arts, payment of deposit for the studio will be required.
Conditions of application
–Applicants must be able to work from Cité internationale des Arts in Paris.
–Applicants must be able to communicate in English or French.
–Applicants must be able to participate in a reporting session or event in Osaka or Kyoto after their stay in Paris.
Les précédents lauréats
Retrouvez ci-dessous les profils des lauréats des précédentes éditions.
2024/2025: Koshiro Hino
2024/2025: Kenta Kuroda
Basé à Kyoto, au Japon, Kenta Kuroda travaille dans le domaine de la danse et au café-hôtel KéFU. Il a participé à des œuvres de MuDA, Super D, HIxTO, RESSENCHKA, Manaki Uno, Emi Ogura, Kazuhiko Hiwa, Aki Kojima, Hokuto Kodama, Osamu Shikichi, Hana×Matsu, Midori Kurata, entre autres.
Depuis 2018, il organise des sessions de danse avec des personnes qu'il rencontre dans la rue, en s'inspirant de leurs expériences; depuis 2022, il mène le projet "Verse paradox", une rétrospective de ces sessions.
2020/2021: Mizuki Kajihara et Soshi Matsunobe
Mizuki Kajihara
Residency period : From October 2020 to January 2021
Especially interested in western classical music, Mizuki Kajihara creates works by decomposing and reconstructing correctly assembled musical scores through physical experience.
By reinterpreting symbols with other informations, the artist explores new ways of connecting classics and current times through music and possibilities in contemporary artistic expression.
Residency project : Le retour à la vie ou
Interested in the way of clearly identifying music as a motif, though not without recalling to the role played by language itself, Mizuki Kajihara proposes individuals to play, repeating like the “broken telephone” game that they heard from the previous players using the most representative phrases in this Berlioz’s masterpiece – The Symphonie fantastique, and records the performances.
The played musical phrases can highlight each participant’s perception formed by his environment and culture, as well as its connection between language and motif.
As Berlioz proposed a theory named idée fixe (fixed idea) and limited the role of music, Mizuki Kajihara explores, by re-abstracting the music which represent the concretion, the «human perceptions» through physical experimentations.
Selected exhibitions
・ KUAD ANNUAL 2020 Fieldwork Contemporary Art as a Guidebook to the World, 2020, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
・ ULTRA GLOBAL AWARD 2017 Exhibition Alchemy for New Fountains – Making and not making, 2017, Galerie Aube , Kyoto
More info : mizukikajiharaportfolio.tumblr.com
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Soshi Matsunobe
Residency period : From January to April 2021
In his work, Soshi Matsunobe explores the way of re-presenting the concepts of hollow, shadow, blank and emptiness, such as a hole (zero-dimensional point) and a gap (one-dimensional line), physically in 2D or 3D spaces.
In recent years, his main concern is with site-specific works, such as wallpaper installations, project of installed stones in cities or outdoor sculptures.
Residency project : Investigation and development of conceptual installations that expresses “ground”
The word “ground” may refer to direct “background” such as walls, floors, or grounds, or may also refer to “background of event (process) ” like materials, rules, and customs.
During his residency period, Soshi Matsunobe explores this statement of “ground”, as «figure and ground” by reconstructing this element from various angles.
Soshi Matsumoto seeks new outlooks to express the “ground” through 3 axis of research, applied on his future installation work. This first one is linked to Daniel Buren’s artistic expression, as well as the range of its developpement, relativizing the existing “ground” and revealing both the environment and situation where the work is made.
Then, the research is conducted in the way to create a space using an original print wallpaper. To finish with, a survey will be conducted on small buildings from the viewpoint of latest architecture and design to be able to dress a definition of the “ground” related to his work.
Selected exhibitions
・KYOTO ART FOR TOMORROW 2020 – Selected Up-and-coming Artists, 2020, The museum of Kyoto, Kyoto
・ SEE THE SHADES 2019, Hagiwara projects, Tokyo
More info : matsunobe.net
Crédits
Portrait Tomoko Hayashi © Yuna Yagi