Still image from "The Angels of Testimony" (2019), 3 screen video installation, image courtesy of Annet Gelink Gallery (Amsterdam) & Mujin-to Production (Tokyo)
Artist talkWednesday 30 September 2026
6:00pm – 7:00pm
Meiro Koizumi in Conversation with Professor Anselm Franke
Drinks reception: 7:00pm – 8:00pm
13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle (entrance facing Regent's Park), London NW1 4QP
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
Book your placeTo mark the opening of Meiro Koizumi’s solo exhibition, we are delighted to host an artist talk by Meiro Koizumi. In this artist talk, Meiro Koizumi, one of Japan’s most prominent contemporary artists, internationally acclaimed for his video installations, will discuss with Professor Anselm Franke of Zurich University of the Arts his most recent works, the ideas and inspiration behind them, and his exhibition Spirit of Automatism at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.
Koizumi is internationally acclaimed for video installations that explore socio-political issues through re-enactment. Touching on themes of collective memory, war and psychological impact, he is concerned “to capture the forms of the violent rituals that support rational modern civilisation at a deep level”.
About the contributors
Meiro Koizumi
Meiro Koizumi (b.1976 in Japan) is a contemporary Japanese artist best known for his video installations. He often explores themes of repressed history, nationalism, trauma, war, and crowd psychology in contemporary Japanese society. His experimental VR Theater piece “Prometheus Bound” won the Grand Prize in the 24th Art Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival. He is a co-winner of Artes Mundi Prize (Cardiff, UK) in 2021.
photo: Matadero Madrid & Bego Solís
Anselm Franke
Anselm Franke is Professor of Curatorial Studies and Cultural Critique at Zurich University of the Arts. From 2013 to 2022 he was Head of Visual Arts and Film at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), where he organised exhibitions includingAnimism (2012-2014), Forensis (2014) and Ceremony (2022). Franke has edited numerous publications and regularly contributes articles to magazines such as Metropolis M, e-flux journal, and Parkett. He curated the 2012 Taipei Biennial, and at HKW he co-curated The Whole Earth (2013), After Year Zero (2013), and Forensis.