"The Angels of Testimony", 3 screen video installation, 2025, installation view at De Pont Museum, image courtesy of Annet Gelink Gallery (Amsterdam) & Mujin-to Production (Tokyo)
Special eventWednesday 14 October 2026
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Gallery Tour: 'Spirit of Automatism'
Led by Meiro Koizumi
13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle (entrance facing Regent's Park), London NW1 4QP
the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Organised by
Book your placeJoin us for a gallery tour of Meiro Koizumi’s solo exhibition in the UK, Spirit of Automatism, led by the artist himself.
One of Japan’s most prominent contemporary artists, 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’.
Meiro Koizumi will be in the gallery to lead the tour, offering a special opportunity to hear directly from the artist about his work and the exhibition.
About the contributor
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.
His solo exhibitions include “Theaters of Life” at De Pont Museum (2025), Battlelands” at Minneapolis Institute of Fine Art (2019), “Battlelands” at Perez Art Museum Miami (2018), “Portrait of a Failed Silence”, MUAC, Mexico City (2015), and “Project Series 99: Meiro Koizumi” at Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013). Recent group shows include 14th Gwangju Biennale (2023), “Listen to the Sound of the Earth Turning”, Mori Art Museum (2022), Aichi Triennale (2019), “Leaving Echo Chember”, Sharjah Biennale 14 (2018), “Proregress”, 12th Shanghai Biennale (2018).
His works are included in numerous public collections including Museum of Modern Art (New York), Tate Modern (London), M+ (Hong Kong), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), Museum De Pont (Tilburg, The Netherlands), among others.
Photo: Matadero Madrid & Bego Solís