Aki Kuroda

Painter and versatile artist Aki Kuroda is originally from Kyoto, Japan, but has lived and worked in Paris since 1970. This does not deny his upbringing in a family that made no secret of its openness to European culture. As Kuroda likes to say about himself, he started painting as soon as he could hold a paintbrush. Today, he regularly exhibits his signature symbolic female figures and silhouettes around the world. In 1992, he introduced COSMOGARDEN, a continuous interactive installation of live performances, which he continues to present to this day. Here he explores diverse artistic genres and approaches to creative production.

Aki Kuroda collaborates with prestigious architects and has also created sets for ballet performances. He has inspired famous authors such as Marguerite Duras and Michel Foucault with his progressive work, which often applies numerical ciphers, numerical laws, riddles, myths and fragments of reality. However, he did not stop at paintings and performances, Kuroda went on to explore photography, sculpture and disciplines where life and the world can be conceived as an infinite garden whose boundaries can be constantly pushed. Would you also like to have an original piece by Akihop Kuroda at home? Get, for example, the novel BUNNY/COSMO BUNNY decoration from the distinctive plastic furniture brand SLIDE.