BIO

[EN]

The duo Ittah Yoda, composed of Virgile Ittah and Kai Yoda, was formed following their meeting at the Royal College of London, where one studied sculpture while the other studied photography and animation. From their beginnings, fascinated by both natural and digital worlds, they began working on the idea of a post-anthropocene world where these two elements would coexist harmoniously in what they call the “symbiocene”. While virtual reality occupies a central place in their work, serving as a matrix and gestation process, all the forms that materialize later in painting, sculpture, and installation present themselves as an ecosystem in themselves, inspired by organic forms and materials and developed through collaborations with numerous artisans. Each Ittah Yoda project represents a step towards the realization of this ideal symbiotic ecosystem, where the mediums used, the objects created, embody and share “genetic-artistic” information from their environment. Although oriented towards an idea of the future, their work is rooted in art history, drawing in particular from references such as cave paintings and pigmentary painting techniques.

Recent exhibitions include, Bally Foundation, Lugano (CH), ROH Projects, Jakarta (ID), Collection Lambert, Avignon (FR), CIAPV, Vassiviere (FR), Paris + by Art Basel, Paris (FR), the Armory Show, New York (US), the Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (FR), Poush Manifesto, Paris (FR), the Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau, Les Lilas (FR), the Musée des Beaux Arts d’Angers (FR) Hagiwara Projects, Tokyo (JP), Sprout Curation, Tokyo (JP), Cité International des Arts, Paris (FR), Frieze N°9 Cork Street, London (UK), ARCO Madrid, Madrid (ES), etc.


[FR]

Le duo Ittah Yoda, composé de Virgile Ittah et Kai Yoda se crée à la suite de leur rencontre au Royal College of London, où l’une étudie la sculpture, tandis que l’autres la photographie et l’image animée. Dès leur débuts, fascinés à la fois par les mondes naturels et numériques, ils commencent à travailler sur l’idée d’un monde post-anthropocène où ces deux éléments coexisteraient harmonieusement dans ce qu’ils appellent le « symbiocène ». Si la réalité virtuelle occupe une place centrale dans leur travail, servant de matrice et processus de gestation, toutes les formes qui se matérialisent ensuite en peinture, sculpture et installation se présentent comme un écosystème en soi, inspiré par les formes et matières organiques et élaboré grâce à des collaborations avec des nombreux artisans. Chaque projet d’Ittah Yoda représente un pas vers la réalisation de cet écosystème symbiotique idéal, où les médiums utilisés, les objets réalisés, incarnent et partagent des informations « génético-artistiques » de leur environnement. Bien que tourné vers une idée du futur, leur travail s’enracine dans l’histoire de l’art, puisant notamment dans des références telles que les grottes pariétales et les techniques de peinture pigmentaire.

Ittah Yoda a déjà bénéficié de nombreuses expositions, notamment à Bally Foundation, Lugano (CH), ROH Projects, Jakarta (ID), Collection Lambert, Avignon (FR), CIAPV, Vassiviere (FR), Paris + by Art Basel, Paris (FR), the Armory Show, New York (US), the Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (FR), Poush Manifesto, Paris (FR), the Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau, Les Lilas (FR), the Musée des Beaux Arts d’Angers (FR) Hagiwara Projects, Tokyo (JP), Sprout Curation, Tokyo (JP), Cité International des Arts, Paris (FR), Frieze N°9 Cork Street, London (UK), ARCO Madrid, Madrid (ES), etc.





contact.   ︎   info@ittahyoda.com     or    GALERIE POGGI





Solo Exhibitions

2024
Art Jakarta, ROH Projects, Jakarta, ID

2023
Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris, FR   
Centre International d’Art et du Paysage, Île de Vassivière, Beaumont-du-Lac, FR

2022
ALTER,  Foreign and Domestic, NYC, US

2021    
Time sparkles and dream is knowledge, Double Séjour, Poush Manifesto, Paris, FR  
No History of Its Own, Rupert at Apiece, Vilnius, LT  

2020     
Le contour de tes rêves, La Petite Galerie, Cite International des Arts, Paris, FR

2018     
body alights - a fragmented memory, Sprout Curation, Tokyo, JP    

2016     
I think mango you say salmon, Annka Kultys Gallery, London, UK
   
          

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
Dreaming Chimera, Hagiwara Projects,  Tokyo, JP    curated by Kazuhito Tanaka + Ittah Yoda
Orbis Tertius, AFALULA x Art Basel Paris, Gallery Joseph Saint Merri, Paris, FR
Par la Fumée, Poush,  Aubervilliers, FR
Paris Augmented, Poush x Zhi Art Museum, Chengdu, CN
Liminal Crossing, Tang Contemporary, Beijing, CN
Arcadia, Bally Foundation, Lugano, CH
D-1006, Sprout Curation, Tokyo, JP
DIG Shibuya, Scramble Art Night, Tokyo, JP
Design Sediments, Huiden Club, Rotterdam, NL
Revenir du présent, Poush x Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR

2023
Artist Running Festival, Vou Kyoto x Soda, Kyoto, JP
Terra, Le Couvent des Jacobins, Burgundy, FR
The First Stone, Poggi Gallery, Paris, FR
Paris + by Art Basel, Paris, FR
Armory Show, NYC, USA
Haniwa Boogie Woogie, Forma, Paris, FR
I’ve got a feeling, Les 5 sens dans l’art contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers, FR
Futurs Antérieurs , Centre Culturel  Jean Cocteau, Les Lilas, FR
Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions 2023,  Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, JP

2022
「50秒」   "50 seconds" , Soda, Kyoto, JP
Palais Augmenté 2 - Un voyage numérique de Paris à Erbi, Erbi, IQ
Noor Riyadh, Riyadh Arts, SA
Paris + by Art Basel, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris, FR
The thread of time, Manifesto Lyon, FR
Armory Show, NYC, USA
ECCE HOMO, Hôtel Puyricard d’Agar, Cavaillon, FR
Palais Augmenté, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris, FR
Power Flower, la Biennale de Nice, Le 109, Nice, FR.   curated by Marie Maertens
Her memory was a breeze blowing in the white curtain of a room in the empty house, Fiminco Foundation, Romainville, FR.  curated by Yomna Osman
The Territories of Abstraction, Frieze No.9 Cork Street, London, UK
La Forme De L’Eau, 7 rue Froissart, Paris, FR.  curated by Nicolas Dewavrin 
ARCO Madrid, ES  

2021
Never the Same Ocean, Galerie Jerome Poggi, Paris, FR.   curated by Camille Bréchignac
The Owls Are Not What They Seem, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, SE.  curaed by Cuno Andréhn Bärtås 
Intrsections, Poush Manifesto, Clichy, FR.  curated by Yvannoé Kruger
Artist Running Festival, soda, Kyoto, JP
Rencontres OVNi, Ovni Festival, FICEP, Hotel Windsor, Nice, FR.   curated by Livia Parmentier
HESTIA, 55bis, Rue des Saints Pères, Paris, FR.   curated by Sacha Guedj Cohen
Never the Same Ocean, soda x HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo, JP.   curated by Kazuhito Tanaka + Ittah Yoda
INCARNATIONS, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, FR
Mutation, Die Akademie Schloss Solitude, Shuttgart, DE  
FANTASMAGORIE, Superzoom, Paris, FR.   curated by Joséphine Dupuy-Chavanat
Lisières, Poush Manifesto, Paris, FR.  curated by Yvannoé Kruger
L'objet de tes rêves, Cite International des Arts, Paris, FR

2020
06, PM/AM Gallery, London, UK           
SLLS: Stop, Look, Listen, and Smell, Direkte Auktion, Jeschke van Vliet, Berlin, DE  curated by NBDBKP    
Dièse, Publication d’Art Non-linéaire, Paris, FR
IN TOUCH - a visual dialogue,  invited by Pakui Hardware, online, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, DE
CADAN X ISETAN: Spring Takeover, Isetan Shinjuku 6F, Sprout Curation, Tokyo, JP  
Unrecognised Creatures, Sprout Curation, Tokyo, JP

2019    
VR inc, Diocletian’s Palace, Split, HR
beneath the beach, seamless paving stones, The Wrong Biennale, online
COLLAPSE ON HOLD, Mocvara Gallery, Zagreb, HR        

2018     
Augmented Sunrise Beneath The Skin, Gr_und, Berlin, DE                    
Dead Air, LARP, Omsk Social Club, Gossamer Fog, Raum Station, Gr_und, UK/CH/DE              
SUV, BSMNT + PANE, Werkschauhalle, Spinnerei Leipzig, DE       
European, Foreign & Domestic, Slate Projects, Averard Hotel, London, UK                                       
Video Tutorials, PANE project + Media Naranja, Marseille, FR
Haggerston Park, ANDOR Gallery, London, UK            

2017     
Delta, ICPE, Bucharest, RO
Artissima, White Rainbow Gallery, Turin, IT                    
Risky Attachments, FOOTHOLD, Polignano a Mare, IT              
Post - Living Room, Shibuya Hikarie 8/ Cube 1.2.3, Sprout Curation, Tokyo, JP                          
SQUISHY: eels swim in snakey, Julius, Berlin, DE                               
Lightness, White Rainbow Gallery, London, UK                  
Still Fuzz, Windows16 Gallery, online
LCN Showcase, SPACE, London, UK       

2016     
Off to Mahoganny, Rye Lane, London, UK     curated by Canan Batur (clearview.ltd)                     
Suggest The Shape of The Wind, Nam Project, Milan, IT
Aujourd'hui je dis oui, Galeria Boavista, Lisbon, PT                        
What is a bird? We simply don’t know, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, RO



Education
2013    MFA in Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London, UK (I)
2011     MFA in Photography and the Moving Image, Royal College of Art, London, UK (Y)
2006    BA in Environmental Information, KEIO University, Tokyo, JP (Y)




Press   ︎please click on the titles to read the interviews
2024
Financial Times    Artists on a quest to an ideal state    by  Caroline Roux
Art Basel Stories    Discover the Swiss Arcadia of Hermann Hesse, Isadora Duncan, and other artists     by Ivan Carvalho

2023
zero deux    I’ve got a feeling. Les 5 sens dans l’art contemporain.     by Philippe Szechter
la belle revue     For an infinite negotiation of adjusted considerations     by  Marie Chênel

2022
Frieze critic’s guides    What to see this gallery weekend    by Salena Barry
The Art Newspaper      London Gallery Weekend : the must see exhibitions    by Ben Luke
Monocle    Weekend Edtion Saturday 

2021
SUB-ROSA    何にも見えず 「全く何にも見えないわけでもない」 存在をつくる     by Anna Kato
Rupert Residency    E14 Ittah Yoda Open Studio    by Romuald Demidenko
Institut Français    Interview Ittah Yoda    by Romain Carlioz
This is Tomorrow  06 PM/AM   by Alexander Harding
le podcast PRÉSENT.E   Ittah Yoda    by Indira Béraud 

2020
Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard    This week, the Foundation recommends Diese Digital
gallerytalk.net    Im Gespräch bleiben "IN TOUCH"- Dialog bei carlier | gebauer   by. 
AQNB   Inside the topsy turvy dreamscape of Ittah Yoda’s abstract universe
Fisheye Magazine   Résidence d’écriture VR : rédiger l’immersion   by Lou Tsatsas

2018     
Elephant Magazine   Eight Noteworthy Berlin Exhibitions  by Alice Bucknell
Garage   I’d invite You to this Rave, But You’ll Need to Mine Crypto and Find a New Identity First   by Emily Mcdermott
Berlin Art LInk     Identity and Belonging in an Increasingly Globalized World     by Samuel Staples
AQNB    Channeling social media + self-promotion in the #videotutorials

2017     
Sleek Magazine    Berlin’s 13 Best Art Shows of 2017      by Sophia Lawler-Dormer

2016     
Art Asia Pacific     I think mango you say salmon     by Ambika Rajgopal
Mousse Magazine   I think mango you say salmon



Residencies / Talks / Grants / Publications
2025
Therapia residency, Paxos, GR (April)

2024
DESA residency x ROH projects, Ubud, ID 
Bally Foundation residency, Lugano, CH

2023
Martell Froundation residency , Cognac, FR
CIAP Vassiviere residency , FR

2022
ISCP Residency, NYC, USA (Institut Français/ Face Foundation)
Fiminco Residency, Romainville, FR
Universite Paris-Saclay residency x workshop, Paris, FR 
Visiting tutor, MA Photography, Materialising Photography, ECAL, CH
Artist Talk, Slade School of Arts, London, UK
Artist Talk, Parsons School of Design and Arts, Paris, FR
Sigg Art Lab residency, AlUla, SA  
 
2021
Universite Paris-Saclay Residency, Paris, FR
Cnap, Paris, FR (I) (Grant)
Mutation Journal, Die Akademie Schloss Solitude, Shuttgart, DE (publication)
Rupert Residency, Vilnius, LT  
Sigg Art Residency, Provence, FR
Ovni Festival Residency, Nice, FR
Visiting tutor, Paris Saclay University x Inria, Hackathon, Paris, FR 

2020
Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, DE (Y)
Visiting tutor,  Installation and Sculpture, School of Fine Art, ESAD, Reims, FR   
VR screenwriting residency, organised by VR Arles Festival & Institut Français, Arles, FR   

2019 
Cite Internationale des arts, Artist in Residency, Montmartre, Paris, FR   

2018     
Artist talk and tutorials, Nagoya Art Universtiy, JP
VR Arts Residency, Format C + SWS, Potsdana, HR

2017  
LCN residency, SPACE, London, UK 

2012  
1 Year Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists, Agency of Cultural Affairs, JP (Y) (Grant)



Collection
FRAC des Pays de la Loire (FR)
FRAC Artotheque Nouvelle Aquitaine (FR)
Château La Coste, Provence (FR)
M. Lewis Collection, London (GB)
Sasanao Collection, Tokyo (JP)
Sigg Art Foundation, Geneva (CH)
Misk Foundation, Riyadh (SA)
Poush Manifesto, Paris (FR) 
Badia Nordenstahl Collection, Chicago (USA)







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