SHIMURAbros
SHIMURAbros are the sister and brother artist duo of Yuka and Kentaro Shimura. Yuka was born in 1976 inYokohama and graduated in 2006 from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design London. Kentaro wasborn in 1979 in Yokohama and graduated in 2003 from Tokyo Polytechnic University, College of Art. They areknown for incorporating elements of sculpture, installation and avant-garde filmmaking. A new expression ofimagery is achieved through their inventions. Their works have been shown at The National Art Centre,
Tokyo; NUS Museum Singapore; MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei); PICA(the Perth Institute ofContemporary Arts Museum), Australia; Museums Quartier, Vienna. "SEKILALA" received theExcellencePrize (Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Prize) at the 13th Japan Media Arts
Festival. SHIMURAbros relocated to Berlin in 2014 on a research grant from the Pola Art Foundation, where
they are currently residence artists at the studio of Olafur Eliasson.
Solo Exhibitions
2020

Evacuation, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo

2018

Film Without Film, Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa
Seeing is Believing, Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo
Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Beijing

2015

Tokyo Story, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo2013Road to Singapore, NUS Museum, Singapore
SHIMURAbros, mercedes-benz-connection, TokyoSHIMURAbros, A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu, China

2012

New Art NEXT 2012: Phantasmagoria, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Japan2010

DAY FOR NIGHT film installation, Proect-314, Moscow, Russia
Film Without Film, Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto, Japan

2009

X-RAY TRAIN / LUMIÈRE BROS to SHIMURABROS., ZAIM Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
LYON to YOKOHAMA / LUMIERE BROS to SHIMURABROS., Creative space 9001,Yokohama, Japan
EICON, RAIL, Brescia, Italy

2008

BankART Bank Under 35 / SHIMURABROS. solo exhibition, BankART Studio NYK
Yokohama, Japan2006

SEKILALA, Galeria 13m3, Bratislava, Slovakia

Selected Group Exhibitions
2021

SUSHI— A World in a Grain of Sand (curated by Xn Office), Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo2019

Migration: Speaking Nearby, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
Sculpture Projects Ping Yao, Ping Yao City (Old Diesel Engine Plant), China

Disappearing Legacies: The World as Forest (curated by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne
Turpin) ,Tieranatomisches Theater (TA T), Hermann von Helmholtz Center for CulturalTechniques, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
New Japan, TSolyanka State Gallery, Russia
2018

Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2018 "Mapping the Invisible"
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Maison franco-japonaise, The Garden Room, Center Squareof Yebisu Garden Place, and related cultural facilities, galleries, etc.
Daikyoto in Maizuru, Kyoto, Maizuru, Fukuchiyama, Kyotanabe

2017

FESTIVAL OF FUTURE NOWS 2017, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
The Case of the Osmanthus Flower Jelly, Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Bard Galleries, NewYork
The Making of an Institution, Nangyamg Technological Unversity CCA Singapore, Singapore

2016

A Figment of Film, Nangyamg Technological Unversity, Singapore

2015

Art+Village+City, SHIMURAbros (as researchers at Studio Olafur Eliasson), Sascha Pohle,Jing Wen, and José Figueroa, Wurster Gallery, UC Berkeley, University of California, USA
TERRADA ART AWARD, T-Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2014

Object Matters, Gallery Voice, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Making through Thinking Thinking through Making -Message from Art and Education-, TheUniversity Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
Neo-Mōrōism, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP,Beijing, China
Find Asia - Asia's Creativities meet in Yokohama, Yokohama Creativecity Centrel, JapanRoppongi Art Night, Roppongi Hills, TokyoMedia Ambition Tokyo (MAT), Roppongi Hills 52F, Tokyo

2013

What did you see?: He Qianli and SHIMURAbros, Yokohama Creativecity Centre, Japan2012

micro salon, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo
Parallel Far East World, A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu, China

2011

14th Japan Media Arts Festival, The National Art Center, Tokyo
PARALLEL WORLD, KYOTO, Japan Media Arts Festival in Kyoto, Kyoto Art Center, Japan
Creative Fantasista 2011, Vacant, Tokyo
Invisibleness is Visibleness: International Contemporary Art Collection of a SalarymanDaisuke Miyatsu, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

2010Akihisa Hirata×SHIMURABROS., Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto, Japan
13th Japan Media Arts Festival, The National Art Center, TokyoSEKILALA SHIMURABROS., Yokohama Creativecity Center, JapanBIG IN JAPAN, Lion Nathan, The Royal Hall Industries, 1000 Pound Bend, Sydney, Melbourne,Australia
Contemporary airy crafts from Japan, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan

2009

CODED CULTURES -Exploring Creative Emergences Binational Festival Austria- Japan 2009,
freiraum quartier21, Wien, Austria
EICON – SHIMURABROS., Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto, JapanInternational Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009: CREAM, Yokohama, Japan2008

BREATHE, presentation at The Viridi-anne's Paris Collection, Gallery eof, Paris
EICON, DEPARTMENTSTORE QUARTIER206, Berlin, Germany
DESIGN TIDE TOKYO 2008 Decinemation, Tokyo Midtown Hall, Japan
Electrical Fantasista 2008, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
Nomadology, SOUVENIR FROM TOKYO, The National Art Center, Tokyo

2007

DESIGN TIDE TOKYO 2007, Design Tide Main Exhibition, National Stadium, Tokyo2006

transgenesis, main building of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, CzechGods, Heroes, Man, Chaos, Serialized Performance, Window Gallery, Charing Cross Load,London, UK
DRABINA JAKUBA -Jacob's Ladder, Cricoteka Theatre, Krakow, Poland
With-Out-With, Experimental Short film, collaborated with Robert Sanchez-Camus, Cochrane
Theatre, London, UKPrizes / Nominations
2016

NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) Residencies

2015

TERRADA ART AWARD First Prize

2014-15

POLA Art Foundation Scholarship

2013

Yokohama-Chengdu Artist-in-Residence Exchange Programmed commissioned by A4
Conteporary Arts Center, China and Yokohama Arts Foundation, Japan2012

The "Project to support for the nurturing of media arts creators" commissioned by the Agency
for Cultural Affairs

2011

FILM WITHOUT FILM, 2011(15th) Japan Media Arts Festival, Art Division JuryRecommended Work2010

X-RAY TRAIN, 2010[14th] Japan Media Arts Festival, Art Division Jury Recommended Work2009

SEKILALA, 2009[13th] Japan Media Arts Festival, Excellence Award of Art Division:
Certificate from Minister of Education, Culture,Sports, Science and Technology

2008

YOKOHAMA Creative core areas competition 2008: Creative space@9001 BankART Bank
Under 35, Yokohama, Kanagawa

2005

BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS, Berlin, Germany

2003

SUBEKARAKUSURUBEKARAZU (Ought to do or Ought not to do),Indie's Movies Festival
Japan, No.7 Prize and No.1 Audience Prize in Yokohama

2002

Image Forum Festival, Young Perspective

2000

Chinbotsu: Sinker, 50 Minutes Screenplay Awards at Up Link Co., Tokyo

Screening / Broadcasting
2010

SEKILALA, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, International Short Film Festival, Moving
Image Archive of Contemporary Art, Oberhausen, Germany
SEKILALA, sendai mediatheque, Miyagi, JapanSEKILALA, PICA Screen Space, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia

2007

SEKILALA, Festival International du Film de Cannes SFC, Cannes, France2006

SEKILALA, FAMU Fest, Czech; Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech

2005

Ought to do or Ought not to do, The 55th Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale TalentCampus, Berlin, GermanyOught to do or Ought not to do, CS, Broadcast on a national cable TV Network in Japan

2002

Amari-ni (45 minutes), Image Forum festival, Tokyo, JapanCollection
Daisuke Miyatsu Collection, Japan
Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa
National University of Singapore