Artist, hunter, and beekeeper born in 1991 and currently residing in Kyoto. Inoue holds a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. Based in the satoyama (a type of managed socio-ecological landscape in rural areas) of Kyoto, she engages in hunting and beekeeping throughout the year alongside her creative practice. Surrounded by hunting dogs, honeybees, and other living things in her daily life, Inoue considers her relationships with them – as well as her sense of distance from them – from an ethnographical perspective, expressing these through various media such as photographs, video, and installations. She has managed the apiary “Mitsubachi Sou [Honeybee Cottage]” since 2022, and the shared studio space “Hachi no Su [The Beehive]” since 2025. Her recent major solo exhibitions include “The Garden” (2023; Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto) and “The piercing eyes” (2019; Amado Art Space, Seoul, S. Korea). She has also participated in group exhibitions such as “Future Echoes” (2025; nichido contemporary art, Tokyo) and “Yeosu International Art Festival” (2024; Yeosu, S. Korea).

https://amiinoue.com/

Born in 1995 and based in Chiba Prefecture. Huang holds a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. She is interested in the relationships between individual and society in urban environments, and her work is concerned primarily with the strengths and vulnerabilities associated with modern urban living. Her depictions of the realities of working life are reflections on the essence of survival, using art to draw society’s attention to these issues. In recent years Huang has focused on research-based art and curation, conceptualizing the art exhibition as a communal space that encourages dialog and the sharing of social research. She initiates dialogs with all kinds of people, regardless of their social status or background, searching for new ways of coexisting that connect people of differing viewpoints. Her recent major projects include the “Sairai Sanya Arts Festival” (direction; 2021-2025; Sanya area, Tokyo), “Karada kara ukabiagaru futashika na nani ka [Something uncertain floating up from the body]” (curation; 2025; mikke gallery, Tokyo), and participation in the group exhibitions “Re; Archive” (2025; mikke gallery, Tokyo), “Synth-Eve” (2025; Spatium Ginza Pony, Tokyo), and “Kyoto Triennale” (2023; Kyoto University of the Arts).

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Born in 1989 and based in the Southland Region [Murihiku] of New Zealand [Aotearoa]. Wells holds an MFA from Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury. Drawing from his childhood experiences living on an apple orchard and his current life on a farm, he is interested in the production and distribution of food, as well as the ways that the agricultural industry shapes landscapes and socioeconomic structures. Based on the close connections he forms with a given place, Wells moves back and forth between hands-on and digital approaches, combining diverse media to express the complex relationships between people, places, and resources. “Because of Where I Live” (2025; Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland [Tāmaki Makaurau]) is one of his recent major solo exhibitions. His works are housed in The Dowse Art Museum, Christchurch Art Gallery, and the William Hodges Fellowship Collection.

* The Māori words for New Zealand place names are included in brackets.

Interdisciplinary artist born in 1990 and based in Greece. Housiada holds an Advanced Masters of Research in Art in Socio-Political Context from Sint Lucas Antwerpen. Her practice is process-oriented and unfolds through participatory events that invite historical, critical, and political dialog. Housiada’s work engages with the politics of care while examining questions of identity, belonging, and cultural performativity. Her recent exhibitions include “Kunst & Zwalm 2025” (2025; Flanders, Belgium) and “IN A BRIGHT GREEN FIELD” (2025; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, USA; DESTE Foundation, Athens, Greece). Her recent residencies include “Kunstenplatform PLAN B” (2024-2025; Flanders, Belgium), “Delfina Foundation” (2024; London, UK), and “AAIR” (2020; Antwerp, Belgium). In addition, she was awarded the “Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS” in 2022.

Asako Iwama lives and works in Berlin and Tokyo. Her background as both cook and artist has led her to organise a series of experimental workshops exploring the social dimensions of food. Her practice seeks to transform our perception of nourishment aesthetically and epistemologically in the relationship with nature and the person. Taking the form of films, installations and interactions, but often through the processes of cooking, her works open up a space for the public to navigate the margins between composition and constitution, affinity and social context, knowledge and history.
From 2005 to 2014, she worked at Studio Olafur Eliasson, where she conceptualized and co-ran “The Kitchen,” a canteen serving daily lunch in the studio, and co-produced TYT (Take Your Time) Vol. 5: The Kitchen (2013), later republished by Phaidon as Studio Olafur Eliasson: The Kitchen (2016). From 2019 to 2020, she was a fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academie. Her exhibitions include IJssel Biennale(Dieren, Netherlands, 2025), São Paulo Biennial (Sesc Vila Mariana, 2025), Punya 2.0 (Kunsthalle Bern, 2024), Yokohama Triennale 2020 Afterglow, Istanbul Design Biennial (2020–2021), Things Entangling (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2020), Foodscape: We are what we eat(Arts Maebashi, 2016–2017), techne, n. (Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, 2014), Europe (to the power of) n (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2012), Scenarios about Europe: Scenario 2 (Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, 2011–2012).