Reborn–Art Festival Japan

Celebrating the area’s culture and identity through art, music and food, the Reborn-Art Festival has myriad exhibitions and events, from paintings and sculpture to digital artworks and light and water installations. There are also extravagant operatic performances, poetry readings and traditional Bon dances, plus food workshops and pop-up restaurants. The story behind the festival is both poignant and beautiful: first launched in 2017, the event uses the power of art to help rebuild communities along the Sanriku Coast in Tohoku, which were devastated by the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami.

Under the theme of “Altruism and Fluidity,” Reborn-Art Festival is organized in two terms in, respectively, summer 2021 and summer 2022. At a time when the globe is once again assailed by new uncertainties caused by a disastrous war, we aspire to present a vision of a new world never seen before through sharing a wide range of artistic expression.

Participating Artists:  Mariko Asabuki, Yosuke Amemiya, Kaoru Arima, Yusuke Iseya,  Tetsuya Umeda,  OSGEMEOS Motohiko Odani,  Sachiko Kazama,  Izumi Kato,  Tadashi Kawamata,  Takeshi Kobayashi, SIDE CORE (BIEN / EVERYDAY HOLYDAY SQUAD)  Yuriko Sasaoka, Hiraki Sawa,  Sou Fujimot, 目[mé],  Takeshi Yasura,  Shota Yamauchi, Kanji Yumisashi, Shinjiro Watanabe
Production Zomia Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina,  Aung Myat Htay, Ting Tong Chang, Mech Choulay & Mech Sereyrath, Montika Kham-on.