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Mizuki Endo
The executive director of Higashiyama Artists Placement Service (HAPS)/The artistic director of Vincom Center for Contemporary Art
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Born in Sapporo, 1975 / based in Hanoi and Osaka
Mizuki Endo is a curator, art consultant and writer. He works as the executive director of Higashiyama Artists Placement Service (HAPS) in Kyoto since 2011, and as the artistic director of Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA) in Hanoi since 2017. Endo established three artists-run spaces in Asia; Art Space Tetra (Fukuoka, 2004), Future Prospects Art Space (Manila, 2005) and Playroom (Mito, 2007). He was awarded the 3rd Lorenzo Bonaldi Art Prize (Bergamo, 2005), was the networking curator of Singapore Biennale 2006, the director of Arcus Project (Moriya, Japan, 2007-2010), the curator of Cream: International Festival for Arts and Media, Yokohama (2009), the collaborative curator of Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2009, the curator of Yutaka Sone: Perfect Moment (Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, 2011), and the residence program director of Kunisaki Art Festival (Oita, Japan, 2014). His major publications are; America MADE: interviews with Shigeo Chiba, Yuko Hasegawa, Chieko Hirano, Isako Kumagai, Takashi Murakami and Koki Tanaka (Tontuu Records, Fukuoka, 2009), Yutaka Sone/Perfect Moment (Getsuyosha, Tokyo, 2011) and The end of the road, the care for the self (Pub, Fukuoka, 2013). He is also one of the translator of James Clifford's Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century.
I recommend artists for the 3331 Art Fair in 2016. One of the artists I chose was Ako Tsubasa, and she was selected as one of the fair’s recommended artists and given the opportunity to have her own exhibition. This art fair does not simply sell artworks as products but allows artists, nominators, collectors, planners, visitors, and others to meet and work closely together. By doing so, it aims to construct its own intimate ecosystem. This makes the work of choosing artists very meaningful as well. This year I chose artists who have a kind of integrity, ethics, graciousness, and necessary darkness. I hope that everyone enjoys their artworks.