Atsuko Mochida

1989 Born in Tokyo
2018 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, MFA Intermedia Art Course / Bauhaus-University Weimar, MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies
2017 “Desintegriert Euch!” Maxim Gorki Theater, 3.BERLINER HERBSTSALON (Berlin, Germany)
2018 “YOUNG TALENT PROGRAMME 2018/19” Affordable Art Fair (Singapore)
2018 “Documentation of THE REVOLVING HOUSE OF T.” Salon de Printemps Prize from Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo, Japan)
2018 “Going Away Closer” Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Wifredo Lam (Havana, Cuba)
2018 “Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2018” Jury's Award from Prof. Yusaku Imamura, Gyoko Chika Gallery, (Tokyo, Japan)

Atsuko Mochida’s work breaks with physical boundaries – it turns the space we perceive in daily situation into something threatening, compelling, into a new level of subconscious behavior. Invading both private and public space she is able to translate everyday feelings into physical objects and installations. Her work also refers to ones struggles to adapt to social and structural changes in contemporary life: the question of identity and role in today's world provoked through social and academic educational structures.Entering one of Mochida’s installations can evoke a feeling as if entering a dreamlike state or as if you took a sudden sidetrack while drifting through thoughts. Or to quote Haruki Murakami: Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart. (Stefan Klein, 2015)