AWARE launches a new
section of its website inJapanese
AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions is proud toannounce, on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, the launch of a new section ofits website in Japanese. This development reflects the breadth of the association’sactivities and its international reach, enabling it to showcase its academic andeducational content to a broader audience.

“I’m very proud to be celebrating AWARE’s 10th anniversary by adding a third
language to our website, broadening our reach to a country and a culture of
extraordinary refinement and history, where there are and have been many
women artists. The work with Japan is part of a wider, long-term project, incollaboration with local partners and specialists. Opening this new section of thewebsite will help enrich our international relations.”
Camille Morineau
Executive director of AWARE

Over the last 10 years, the AWARE website has become a one-of-a-kind resource,with 1,200 artist biographies, texts written by over 500 researchers, curators andart historians from all over the world, and over 100,000 visits per month. The
chronological and geographical scope of the website, as well as the diversity of its
content and multimedia offerings, make it a tool for professionals and the generalpublic alike. To widely disseminate research on women artists and gender studies,
AWARE also organises symposiums, round tables and seminars locally at the Villa
Vassilieff, or in partnership with institutions, universities, museums and otherindependent structures internationally.
The website’s new Japanese-language section is a dedicated entry point fordiscovering Japanese artists, making this content accessible to new audiences.
This section is born from work carried out in the region over the last four years incollaboration with Japanese experts and institutions, thanks to the programmes“Women Artists in Japan: 19th - 21st Century”, “TEAM: Teaching, E-learning,Agency, Mentoring” and “Women Artists in New Media”.
The section of the website highlights women artists born before 1975 working
in the visual arts, with no limitations on medium. With profiles as diverse as theNihonga painter Tamako Kataoka, the video art pioneer Mako Idemitsu and thecontemporary artist Rei Nato, the AWARE platform shows that Japanese womenartists have been present in all artistic movements and at different times. Research
articles allow for a deeper understanding of these artists’ careers and works bycontextualising them within larger artistic movements, societal changes andfeminist thinking.
The Japanese section of AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research andExhibitions has been created thanks to the generous support of the Per Ardua ad
Astra Endowment Fund.

About the research programmes“Women artists in Japan: 19th - 21st century”
Women Artists in Japan: 19th - 21st Century is a four-year research programme
designed to highlight the artistic production and contributions of women artists inJapan to world cultural history. A committee of experts, made up of specialists incontemporary art, photography, nihonga (Japanese painting), yôga (Western-stylepainting) and women artists accompanies the project to represent the diversity ofthe Japanese art scene through the prism of gender.

Members of the advisory board are: Mami Kataoka, Director of the Mori ArtMuseum, Tokyo; Michiko Kasahara, Director of Nagano Prefectural Art Museum;
Reiko Kokatsu, Researcher, art historian, art critic, former chief curator at theTochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, and founder of Asian Women Artists:
Gender/History/Border ; Kaori Tsurumi, Researcher at the Museum of Modern
Art of Tokyo; Yukiko Yokoyama, Curator at the Museum of Modern Art of theCity of Tokyo. This programme is supported by Cartier.
“Women in New Media”
This multi-year project aims to create online resources and organise an event on
women artists in new media, with an international approach and a particularfocus on Japan. It will highlight artists who practised and engaged with video art,
algorithms, digital worlds and technology from the 1960s to the 1990s, in orderto call attention to the presence of women in these fields, reconstruct genealogies
and link them to today’s cyberfeminist reflections.
Members of the advisory board are: Karen Cheung, Curatorial Associate, MediaDepartment, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); SolangeFarkas, Videobrasil; Oulimata Gueye, Curator and Professor at Ecole nationalesupérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon (ENSBA Lyon); Mami Kataoka, Director, Mori
Art Museum; Daria Mille, Curator, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe(ZKM); Rattanamol Singh Johal, Assistant Director of the International
Program, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA); Yukiko Shikata, Curator and art
critic; Soojung Yi, Curator, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Art, Korea (MMCA). This programme is supported by the Per Ardua ad Astra
Endowment Fund.
“TEAM: Teaching, E-Learning, Agency, Mentoring”
TEAM: Teaching, E-Learning, Agency, Mentoring is an international academic
network set up in 2020 with the aim of collecting and publishing resources producedby academics on women artists and training a new generation of researchers
in issues of equality in art history. TEAM is also a network for solidarity andtransnational reflection on the issues shared by these art historians. To date, theTEAM network has 17 members and 80 students (masters and doctorate) whose
research covers 5 continents. Izumi Nakajima, Associate professor at the Graduate
School of Letters at Osaka University, represents Japan in this network.

AWARE in numbers

1 website dedicated to women artistsof the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries,
with 1 library and research centre in
Paris, with over 3,600 books

2 podcast series: Women House andGreat Women of Art
3 languages on the website (French,

100 events - international
conferences, study days and roundtables - organised by AWARE
since 2014 in partnership withinternational museums anduniversities
195 articles published in theEnglish and Japanese)

Magazine section of the AWARE
website10 print publications of interviews

500 contributors to AWARE

15 AWARE Prize-winning artists

1,200 artist biographies

20 episodes of the animated series
Little Stories of Great Women Artists

2,000 artists listed for publication

31 themed guides aimed at all
audiences, especially secondary
school students and/or art lovers

100,000 connections to the site onand conference proceedings

worldwide

over the next few years

average each monthAWARE Team
Co-founded and directed by Camille Morineau, curator and art historian, AWARE
is composed of an international team, with two members particularly dedicated tothe AWARE Japan section.
Nathalie Rigal: Chairwoman of the board
Camille Morineau: Executive Director
Camille Morineau is co-founder and director of AWARE. A graduate of theÉcole normale supérieure and the Institut national du patrimoine, she
worked for twenty years in public cultural institutions in France, including
ten years at the Musée national d’Art moderne - Centre Georges-Pompidou as
curator of contemporary collections. She has curated numerous exhibitions,including elles@centrepompidou, which featured works by women artists
from the MNAM’s collections. From 2016 to October 2019, she was directorof exhibitions and collections at the Monnaie de Paris. In 2022, she was cocurator, with Lucia Pesapane, of the exhibition Pionnières at the Musée duLuxembourg in Paris.
Nina Volz: Head of International Programmes
Matylda Taszycka: Head of Research Programmes
Manuela Danescu: Head of Administration
AWARE Japan section teamMarina Amada, Ambassador for AWARE in Japan
Marina Amada is the ambassador for AWARE in Japan. An independent curator
and art project producer, she is also the co-founder of Spectrum, a non-profit
organisation that promotes diversity in Japan in collaboration with internationalart curators and experts. Amada also served as the chief operating officer of theseventh edition of the international photography festival, KYOTOGRAPHIE.
She received her BA from Keio University and her MA from the Institut d’Études
Supérieures des Arts and has extensive experience in international businessadministration after working for over a decade in finance and in public health.
Mizuho Yamazaki, Research project manager
Mizuho Yamazaki is a research project manager at AWARE. Having completed anMA in Museum Studies at New York University and held positions at the Tokyo
National Museum, MoMA PS1 at the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, and the Mori Art Museum, she is currently a resident atCité internationale des arts in Paris. A writer, researcher, and curator, Yamazaki
has organized numerous exhibitions in Paris, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, and has
written for L’Hebdo du Quotidien de l’Art, KeMCo Review, and REAR.

Camille Morineau ©︎ Valerie ArchenoMarina Amada ©︎ Marie LiesseMizuho Yamazaki © Manuel Abella

Presentation of AWARE
AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions is a non-profit
organisation, co-founded by art historian Camille Morineau in 2014, which works
to make nineteenth and twentieth-century women artists visible by producing andpublishing free, fully bilingual (French/ English) content about their work on its
website. In 10 years, the AWARE website has become a unique online resource,
aimed at professionals in the art world as well as the general public. This resource
currently features over 1200 richly illustrated biographical texts and has over
100,000 visits per month.
AWARE is located in the Villa Vassilieff in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, wherethe artist Marie Vassilieff had her studio in the 1910s. In this highly symbolic
space, reimagined by designer matali crasset, AWARE has set up a research anddocumentation centre entirely dedicated to women artists and feminist art. Theassociation also hosts residencies, events, meetings and workshops for schools.

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