2025.8.23
(Chinese)
A text summarizing the talk event A Rehearsal: Dialogues on Trauma and Alternative Learning, held as part of the related programs for the exhibition Life Rehearsals, has been published.
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/76eT05F5pmN9yrNZgsRBFg
2025.8.2
Zichen Yin wrote a review of The Heart is Beating.
"Staying with the Incurable"
Review on Wataru Koyama’s The Heart is Beating (2021–2022)
Zichen Yin
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/mKFMCxpf-SciYGXzamC5cA (Chinese)
(English)
2025.7.31
A exhibition review of Life Rehearsals published in the art magazine ARTFORUM.
Exhibition review: 黄柏然
(Chinese)
2025.7.22
Inside-Out Art Museum is currently presenting exhibition Life Rehearsals. We will host the second public event A Rehearsal: Dialogues on Trauma and Alternative Learning, featuring artists Huang Yi and Wataru Koyama.
Public Event
A Rehearsal: Dialogues on Trauma and Alternative Learning
2025.7.27 14:00-18:00
＊Timetable＊
14:00-15:15: Performance Lecture / Huang Yi
15:30-17:00: Artist Talk / Wataru Koyama
17:00-18:00: Screening / Wataru Koyama’s Video Works
Screening list: CRPPP, Snap out of it, Last minute
Venue
Conference Room,
Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/eW6z3shlWwcxJ_Ids7MVIA
2025.6.12
I’m participating in the group show Life Rehearsals, opening this weekend at the Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing.
I’ll be showing the video work The Heart is Beating (2021–2022).
Life Rehearsals
June 14 - September 22, 2025 (Exhibition period change)
Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum
Artistic Directors: Li Mu, Carol Yinghua Lu
Curator: Na Rongkun
Exhibition Coordinator: Cao Liyao
Exhibition Assistant: Li Huiyi
https://www.ioam.org.cn/en/liferehearsalsen/
https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/672122/upcoming-summer-exhibitions/
Artists:
Bethel House, Brittany Thorpe, Daisuke Kosugi, David Bernstein, Desmond Mah, Fu Boren, HASS Lab, He Ziyu, Isaac Chong Wai, Kang Jing, Project YYIN, Shanzhai MFA, Sijben Rosa, Wataru Koyama, Zhao Jianze
2025.4.1
I provided a still image from my work The Heart is Beating as a case study for the article How Do We Understand Vulnerability: Care, Disability, and Networks of Interdependence Today by Na Rongkun, curator at Inside-Out Art Museum, published in the March issue of Artreview China.
2025.1.21
I will be participating in the screening under the Open Call section of the 7th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (BEFF7).
The Open Call section features a total of 14 programs, and my work, CRPPP (2023), is included in Program 13: “On Gazing Deep into the Marginal Intimacy.”
Curated by Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa and Chayanin Tiangpitayagorn.
Date: 25 Jan - 2 Feb 2025
Venue: Theater 2-4, 2nd Floor, One Bangkok Forum
2024.11.19
I was included on the shortlist for the Han Nefkens Foundation - Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Grant 2024.
Shortlist:
Chong Yan Chuah (1992, Malaysia), Pranay Dutta (1993, India), Zike HE (1990, China), Wei HU (1989, China), Wataru Koyama (1992, Japan), Yi-Fan Li (1989, Taiwan), Pallavi Paul (1987, India), Wenmin Tong (1989, China) and Natasha Tontey (1989, Indonesia).
2023.11.22
I'm participating in an exhibition at an art space run by medical aesthetics institution in Xiamen, China.
CRPPP was exhibited.
facetoface.controlnet
2023.11.11 - 12.12
Participating Artists: Yu Araki (JP), Wataru Koyama (JP), Karin Pisarikova (CZ)
Guest Curator/Producer: 羊喘兒SHINKA
LANLANLI＆ONEPIECE GALLERY
3F-B-Block.Huarun Bld. No.95 East-Hubin Rd. Siming District, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, China (Appointment is needed)
2023.9.23
造形思考１－現在の手ざわり－
会期：2023年10月9日（月）～11月25日（土）
営業時間：10:00 - 16:30
入館無料
会場：東京造形大学附属美術館
参加作家：香月恵介、木村直、小山渉、千原真実、ナガタダイスケ、橋立梨乃
https://zoomedia.sakura.ne.jp/project/2023ct01/index.html
Last minute was exhibited.
2023.9.23
EDITION BOX Ⅱ -body of concept-
会期：2023年 9月30(土) - 10月22日(日)
営業時間：10:00- 18:00
会場：藝大アートプラザ
参加作家：
荒木悠、EGOR KRAFT、伊阪柊、奥田栄希、尾﨑藍、キュンチョメ、
小山渉、竹内公太、辻梨絵子、中川陽介、和田昌宏
ゲストキュレーション：中川陽介／企画原案：小山渉
2023.7.15
An exhibition by collector Takeshi Himemoto is being held.
I will exhibit "The Heart is Beating" (2021-2022).
Everything Everywhere All Alive
2023.7.15 - 7.17
Susukimachikado gallery | Kochi, JPN
Participating Artists:
Mio Kaneda, Wataru Koyama, Masaharu Sato, Lieko Shiga, Aya Momose, Aki Yawata, Shuhei Yamada
2023.5.7
Solo show
Snap out of it
2023.5.17 - 6.4
Art Center Ongoing | Tokyo, JPN
EN: https://www.ongoing.jp/en/tag/video/snap/
JP: https://www.ongoing.jp/tag/video/snap/
Statement
(JP/ENG)
2023.3.21
桝田倫広 さん（東京国立近代美術館主任研究員）CRPPPレビュー。
正常と異常、その境界が綻ぶ瞬間
Tomohiro Masuda(Chief Curator at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo") wrote a review of CRPPP.
The moment the boundary between normal and abnormal becomes blurred
(Japanese)
2022.04.2
三菱商事アート・ゲート・プログラムの
インタビュー記事が公開されました。
https://www.mcagp.com/artists/wataru-koyama/
2023.2.15
三菱商事アート・ゲート・プログラム2021-2022 支援アーティスト6組による新作展
会期：2023年2月15日（水）- 26日（日）
時間：11:00-19:00（最終入場18:30）＊最終日は17:00まで
入場料：無料
会場：代官山ヒルサイドフォーラム
参加作家：
飯島 暉子、泉 桐子、岡本 秀、小山 渉、衣 真一郎、female artists meeting
https://www.art-it.asia/top/admin_ed_pics/232755/
(Japanese)
Handout
Text explaining the work:
Naoko Horiuchi (NPO Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT], MCAGP Breakthrough Facilitator)
2022.11.26
Gumyoji Open Studio Autumn 2022
Saturday, November 26 and Sunday, November 27, 2022, 12:00-17:00
Participating artists: Meiro Koizumi, Wataru Koyama, Mio Hanaoka, Ayako Mino, Atsushi Watanabe
2022.5.27
WVlog : personal
参加作家：石居真信、尾﨑藍、黒木結、小山友也、小山渉、斎藤英理
企画提案：尾﨑藍
展示期間：2022年 5月27日(金) - 6月12日(日)
5/28(土)16:00 - Opening party
6/12(日)15:00 - 18:00 artists talk ＋ Ongoing School
ゲスト：
かわかみしんたろう (精神科医)、田辺裕子 (演劇研究者)、野村眞人 (演出家)
2022.3.31
すみっこCRASH☆展、トークの記録を公開。
小山渉×蔵屋美香さん (横浜美術館館長)
2022年3月12日（土）12：30－13：30
A recording of the talk at the Sumikko CRASH exhibition has been released.
Wataru Koyama x Mika Kuraya (Director of Yokohama Museum of Art)
(Japanese)
2022.2.26
Sumikko CRASH
2022.3.5 - 4.3
MUJIN-TO Production | Tokyo, JPN
Artists: Shinya Aoyama, Tatsumi Orimoto, Wataru Koyama, Mariko Tomomasa, Osamu Matsuda
Guest Curator: Mika Kuraya (Director, Yokohama Museum of Art)
Cooperation:Aoyama Meguro, ARTISTS’ GUILD, KA FACTORY, TALION GALLERY, WHITELIGHT
2021.10.1
I’m participating in the exhibition for the Nantan area as part of an art festival held across six regions in Kyoto Prefecture.
Imagination as a Form of Capital (ALTERNATIVE KYOTO)
2021.10.1 - 11.7
Nantan, Kyoto, JPN
Participating artists: Yu Araki / Kano Kamegawa / Yui Kuroki / Wataru Koyama / Harue Yamada / Yang Qinhua
https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/419681/imagination-as-a-form-of-capital/
2021.9.30
The Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program 2021-2022, an initiative to support artists, has selected the artist as one of the recipients in the Breakthrough category. The exhibition is scheduled to be held in the next fiscal year after this year's Learning Program.
アーティストを支援する取り組み、三菱商事アート・ゲート・プログラム2021-2022のブレイクスルー部門で、採択者の一人に選ばれました。
今年度ラーニングプログラムを経て、来年度に展覧会が行われる予定。
2021.5.21
展示に寄せて頂いた田辺裕子さんによるエッセイの公開。
小山渉 個展「心臓が動いている The Heart is Beating」によせて
田辺裕子
‘On Wataru Koyama’s The Heart is Beating,’ Hiroko Tanabe
(Japanese)
2021.5.8
Solo show
The Heart is Beating
2021.4.30 - 5.26
Decameron | Tokyo, JPN
Statement
(JP/ENG)
2021.2.11
