DAIKOKU Takayuki
1976 Born in Shiga, Japan
2016 – Based in Shiga, Japan
Artistic Career
2022 Art for breakfast, Asia Society Japan, The International House of Japan, Tokyo
2011-2016 Stayed in Rathenow, Brandenburg, Germany
2001-2003 Stayed in Berlin, Germany
1995-1999 Graduated from BA Fine Art Department, Osaka University of Arts
1999-2001 Graduated from MA Fine Art Department, Osaka University of Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2025 The Genesis of Signs, GALLERY RIN, Tokyo
2024 Ceres and Folded Drawing Dot, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
FINDING ORDER, node hotel, Kyoto
2023 GARDEN, MARUEIDO JAPAN, Tokyo
CERES, FOLDED DRAWING and THE MAKING, KYOTOWAND, Kyoto
2021 Cosmos, The Terminal KYOTO, Kyoto
2020 A Part for the Whole, MARUEIDO JAPAN, Tokyo
Inter-Vibration, Omihachiman City Rooftile Museum, Shiga, Japan
2018 CERES, MARUEIDO JAPAN, Tokyo
Folded Drawings, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
2016 3 × SOLO : TAKAYUKI DAIKOKU -Sculpture & Carve Painting-, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
2015 Land Art Project at Schloss Park Wagenitz, Schloss Park Wagenitz, Havelland, Germany
Fokus Garten-Salon:Takayuki Daikoku, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
2013 renmen – ununterbrochen, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
2011 Before going to Germany, Atelier-exhibition, Shiga, Japan
2009 Hojo Doji, Shinanobashi Gallery apron, Osaka
2008 Rhythm of Sprouting, Art Space Niji, Kyoto
2008 What was left in Pandora’s box, Shinanobashi Gallery apron, Osaka
2006 Rebirth, Dot Art Cosmo, Osaka
2003 Intervention I: Takayuki Daikoku@Ksb, KioskShop Berlin, Berlin
2001 Let’s make flowers bloom on a dead tree, Chihaya Nature and Astronomy Museum, Osaka
2000 Ishizue, Galerie Ou, Osaka
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Ode aus Japan, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
2025 Budding Connections, Honenin, Kyoto
The Current State of Abstraction, Isetan Shinjuku Art Gallery, Tokyo
2024 SC-XXX-13-Collective – SC-XXX-21-Collective, Semjon Contemporary
REBIRTH, the design gallery, Tokyo
2023 abstract, Semjon Contemporary
SC-XXX-09-Collective – SC-XXX-12-Collective, Semjon Contemporary
BERLINCALLING VOL. IV, Mieze Südlich, Gera
quinque, MARUEIDO JAPAN, Tokyo
Early Summer Viewing Room, MARUEIDO JAPAN, Tokyo
ART KAMIYAMA, Private house, Tokyo
2022 SC-XXX-01-Collective – SC-XXX-08-Collective, Semjon Contemporary
RESET to START, Semjon Contemporary
ART MART, MARUEIDO JAPAN, Tokyo
2021 X x X – X Jahre Semjon Contemporary, Semjon Contemporary
GAMPUKU, The Terminal KYOTO, Kyoto
Re:diffusion, MARUEIDO JAPAN, Tokyo
2020 Skulpturen-Boulevard, Birkenwerder–Hohen Neuendorf, Germany
Phase 2, Aso House, Tokyo
2019 Find Your ART for Christmas, MARUEIDO JAPAN, Tokyo
GAMPUKU, MARUEIDO JAPAN, Tokyo
48hrs, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
2018 Accrochage, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
DIFFUSION, MARUEIDO JAPAN, Tokyo
2017 Rencentre -Wismar : Berlin-, gallery Kristine Hamann, Wismar, Germany
Archive for DANDANS, Aso House, Tokyo
Penetrating Paper -Drilled, Cut, Folded-, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
2016 Accrochage, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
2015 Landscape and Garden II, Schloss Ribbeck, Ribbeck, Germany
2014 x/x (+x) Gallery & Artist Editions, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
Dear Artist, Draw for Me! -Part 2: Figuration, Illustration, Notation and Sign, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
Berlin meets Tokyo, Gutshaus Steglitz, Berlin
Dear Artist, Draw for Me! -Part 1: Abstraction, Concretion, Notation and Structure, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
Landscape and Garden I: Takayuki Daikoku und Susanne Knaack, Schloss Ribbeck, Ribbeck, Germary
2013 Accrochage, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
Straßensalon, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
2012 Impressions in memory of a pine, Oster church, Berlin
Salon Cabinet, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
2011 Choice of (II), KioskShop berlin, Berlin
2009 Thing matter time 2009, Shinanobashi gallery, Osaka
2007 Individual work IX, Shinanobashi gallery, Osaka
4.Kunstsalon Berlin, KioskShop berlin, Berlin
2002 Installation series, Otto-Nagel-Galerie, Berlin
1999 Interlinks, Chrystal Tower, Osaka
Art Fairs
2025 ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2025, DANDANS, Tokyo
ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2025, GALLERY RIN, Tokyo
ART OSAKA 2025, GALLERY RIN, Tokyo
ART FAIR TOKYO 2025, GALLERY RIN, Tokyo
2024 Vietnam International Artfair 2024, FMR Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2020 artTNZ produced by AFT with APCA, MARUEIDO JAPAN, Tokyo
2019 ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2019, MARUEIDO JAPAN, Fukuoka
ART in PARK HOTEL TOKYO 2019, MARUEIDO JAPAN, Tokyo
2018 Paper Positions Munich, Semjon Contemporary, Munich
Art Bodensee, Semjon Contemporary, Austria (also ’16, ’15, ’14)
Paper Positions Berlin, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin (also ’15)
Award
2017 FACE 2018 Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award Exhibiton, selected
Artist in Residence
2025 Artist in Residence in Iizuka, Fukuoka (’26)
2003 International Wood Symposium vol. 8, Vogtland, Germany
1998 Takihata Artworking, Osaka
Collections
Havelland District, Brandenburg, Germany
KYOTOWAND, Kyoto