Press Release2024.3.26"Onsen Confidential the Final"
Mai Endo, Chen Qilin, Puck Verkade, Takuya Yamashita
April 6 - April 21【April 28】, 2024
Talion Gallery is pleased to participate in "Onsen Confidential the Final”.
Welcoming Dürst Britt & Mayhew from The Hague, Netherlands and A Thousand Plateaus Art
Space from Chengdu, China as guest galleries, we will present a group show of Mai Endo,
Chen Qilin, Puck Verkade and Takuya Yamashita.

Mai Endo
Born in 1984, Hyogo. Living and working in Tokyo. Exchange student at the Academy of Fine Arts
Vienna in 2018. Completed doctoral program in Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts
Actor and Artist. She practices queer feminist thinking and art using playful methods such as chatting,
DIY, and acting. Her works take diverse forms including performance, drawing, video and writing,layering the gaps between the form of social norms and arts playfully.
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to contemporary art after 65 years” The National Museum of Western Art (2024/Tokyo), solo exhibition
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Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2000. Her works manifest in various mediums including
video, photography, installation and sculpture. Her creation process is constantly in the state of continuous development and progress. With a unique sensitivity, Qiulin keeps introducing new viewpoints andperspectives into frequently discussed social issues.
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Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art (Hawaii) and A4 Art Museum (Chengdu). Her works were collected
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Puck Verkade
Born in The Hague, Netherlands 1987. Lives and works in Berlin. She holds an MFA in Fine Art fromGoldsmiths University, London, and a BFA from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
Verkade has exhibited amongst others at the Biennale de Lyon; Kunstmuseum Basel; Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Poland; Zabludowicz Collection, London; Schimmel Projects Art Centre, Dresden;
Forde, Geneva; Berlin Feminist Film Festival, Berlin; and Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. In 2017-2018
she was resident artist at Sarabande The Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation in London. Her work iscurrently on show at the Yokohama Triennale.
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Rebaudengo in Turin, the Zabludowicz Collection in London, the Servais family collection in Brussels,
the EKARD Collection in Wassenaar, the AKZO Nobel Art Foundation and the Sgabello collection, bothin Amsterdam.

Puck Verkade | Unborn | 2021 | Single channel video installation | 5min looped

Takuya Yamashita
Born in Mie, 1985. Living and Working in Nagoya, Aichi. MFA in Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Kyoto
City University of Arts in 2013.
Using the physical and historical condition of exhibition space and materials, Takuya Yamashita works
on three-dimensional objects, wood block printing, photography and drawing with the motif of mascots
losing the community which they used to belong. Those representations which are deprived of place
where they can exist because of external factors, and they are presented with their phycological situaWLRQUHIOHFWLQJWKHPLQ<DPDVKLWD·VLQVWDOODWLRQWKDWHPSKDVL]HGWKHVSDFHDQGFRORUVH[WUDRUGLQDU\Recent selected exhibitions include solo exhibition "Hope Embedded in Darkness: Bear, Munch,
Cheeseburger, and Others” Digital Art Center Taipei (2023/Taipei), "Sapporo Parallel Museum 2023”(Hokkaido),solo exhibition "Love, Jealousy, Separation (sampling Munch, Kanye, etc.)” CADAN Yurakucho (2023/Tokyo), "Achievement exhibition of Artist in Residence " Art Village Shirakino (2022/Nagasaki).

Takuya Yamashita｜Installation view of "Love, Jealousy, Separation (sampling Munch, Kanye, etc.)”
at CADAN Yurakucho (2023/Tokyo) Photo: Osamu Sakamoto

ー[ Exhibition Informations ]Title"Onsen Confidential the Final"

ArtistMai Endo, Chen Qilin, Puck Verkade, Takuya Yamashita

DateApril 6 - April 21, 2024 11 am - 7 pm
Closed on Monday, Tuesday and Holidays

Venue

TALION GALLERY (2-2-1 B1, Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo)[ Inquiries ]TALION GALLERY
Email: info@taliongallery.com Tel/Fax: +81-3-5927-9858
171-0031 B1 2-2-1 Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo URL: www.taliongallery.com