Ei Arakawa

Ei Arakawa is a performance artist. Working almost always collaboratively, his projects structurally evade forms of production that could be ascribed to, or referred back to, a single subject.

Along with Henning Bohl and Nora Schultz, he produced "Non-Solo Show, Non-Group Show" at the Franco Soffiantino Gallery in Turin in 2008. Another version of it followed at the Kunsthalle Zurich in 2009.

Since 2005, Arakawa has been part of the collective Grand Openings. Grand Openings creates a temporal situation in which all forms of performances (and objects) coexist and are negotiated. Grand Openings performed at the MUMOK in Vienna in 2008 and at the MoMA in New York in 2011.

Since 2007, Arakawa started to make performances working with paintings created by his fellow artists as well as historical painters. In 2012 he showed "Bodycard Testimonials" together with Nikolas Gambaroff at Meyer Kainer, Vienna.