Kohei Nawa

Kohei Nawa is a sculptor and teacher. He is professor of art and design studies at Kyoto University of the Arts. Constantly exploring new frontiers and potentialities for visual art, he works with beads, prisms, polyurethane foam, silicone oil and other modern materials. Nawa is also the director of SANDWICH INC, a creative platform that he established in Kyoto in 2009 for multidisciplinary creative work involving architects, photographers, designers and other creators, as well as artists. 

In 2011, he presented a solo exhibition, KŌHEI NAWA-SYNTHESIS at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. In 2017, he took part in the exhibition Japanorama, Nouveau regard sur la création contemporaine at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. His monumental sculpture, Throne, was exhibited at the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, between July 2018 and February 2019, as one of the highlights of Japonismes. 

In collaboration with Damien Jalet, he created the shows Vessel, Planet[wanderer], Mirage [transitory] and the film Mist.