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THE ECHO – ALTHOUGH I AM STILL ALIVE is an exhibition dedicated to showcasing young Japanese artists and thus updating current conventions surrounding contemporary Japanese art. It can be regarded as a statement by a new generation of artists and brings together a multiplicity of artistic positions, both in regards to content and to style.

Participating artists include Futo Akiyoshi, Satoru Aoyama, Ichiro Isobe,Taro Izumi, Kounosuke Kawakami, Keiko Kimoto, Kengo Kito, Kentaro Kobuke, Meiro Koizumi, Sako Kojima, Takeshi Makishima, Toshihiko Mitsuya, Nobuhiko Murayama, Kouichi Tabata, Kei Takemura, Takahiro Ueda and Shingo Yoshida.

All artists – out of which 10 live and work in Berlin – share similar concerns reflected in their work in various ways. They are peers growing up in Japan at a time of oscillation between cultural heritage and the prevalent zeitgeist, of defining the Self and its position in the Here and Now, of foreign influences and changes from within, globally and locally. They also mark a break with the “superflat” aesthetics of their predecessors, and have instead established a visual language that emancipated itself from pop-culture clichés.