Ittah Yoda is an artist duo formed by Kai Yoda (Japanese–Swedish) and Virgile Ittah (French-Italian-North African), who alternate between living in Berlin, Provence and Tokyo. Hailing from diverse backgrounds as an artistic duo, they have developed their artistic identity through digitally enabled cross-cultural creative collaborations. Focused on a strong interest in the unconscious, insecurity, and anxiety, the therapeutic relation between Ittah and Yoda leads to a potential new understanding of the self through re-enactment of the trauma and repetitive patterns of behaviours. Questions are raised such as: Is it possible to fuse multiple unconscious in order to create new collective forms?
Through this collaboration, real and virtual forms are created that attempt to connect with an archaic heritage of humanity; a collective unconscious universally present in an individual’s psyche. They seek to develop primitive models through forms non-existent in reality to a collective experience, irrespective of their origins in the context of a contemporary multicultural society. By highlighting the performative dimension of their installation through the active participation of the public, Ittah Yoda attempt to create a new reality under a rhizomic network of connections between the work and the viewer, bridging the virtual and physical realities, forming new landscapes and the world to come.
︎ info@ittahyoda.com
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)
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Le contour de tes rêves, La Petite Galerie, Cite International des Arts, Paris, FR: 6-29.Feb
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
2020 how to disappear, Notre-Dame, Paris, FR
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, Averard Hotel, London, UK
Video Tutorials, PANE project + Media Naranja, Marseille, FR
Haggerston Park, ANDOR Gallery, London, UK
2017 Delta, ICPE, Bucharest, RO
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
Suggest The Shape of The Wind, Nam Project, Milan, IT
Aujourd'hui je dis oui, Galeria Boavista, Lisbon, PT
2015 What is a bird? We simply don’t know, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, RO
Press
2020 Beaux Arts Magazine Ittah Yoda, nouveaux explorateurs de mondes artificiels by Julie Ackermann
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
Schön! Magazine interview I ittah yoda by Daisy Schofield
2016 Art Asia Pacific I think mango you say salmon by Ambika Rajgopal
Mousse Magazine I think mango you say salmon
Tique Art Paper Six Questions: Ittah Yoda by Charlotte Boeyden
1 Grannary Ittah Yoda and the Ying and Yang of the artist collaboration by Aric Mille
Residencies/ Grants/ Talk
2019 Cite Internationale des arts, Artist in Residency, Montmartre, Paris, FR (Oct.2019 - Mar.2020)
2018 Artist talk, Nagoya Art Universtiy, JP
2018 VR Arts Residency, Format C + SWS, Potsdana, HR
2017 LCN, SPACE, London, UK
2012 1 Year Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists, Agency of Cultural Affairs, JP (Y)
Through this collaboration, real and virtual forms are created that attempt to connect with an archaic heritage of humanity; a collective unconscious universally present in an individual’s psyche. They seek to develop primitive models through forms non-existent in reality to a collective experience, irrespective of their origins in the context of a contemporary multicultural society. By highlighting the performative dimension of their installation through the active participation of the public, Ittah Yoda attempt to create a new reality under a rhizomic network of connections between the work and the viewer, bridging the virtual and physical realities, forming new landscapes and the world to come.
︎ info@ittahyoda.com
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)
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Le contour de tes rêves, La Petite Galerie, Cite International des Arts, Paris, FR: 6-29.Feb
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
2020 how to disappear, Notre-Dame, Paris, FR
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, Averard Hotel, London, UK
Video Tutorials, PANE project + Media Naranja, Marseille, FR
Haggerston Park, ANDOR Gallery, London, UK
2017 Delta, ICPE, Bucharest, RO
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
Suggest The Shape of The Wind, Nam Project, Milan, IT
Aujourd'hui je dis oui, Galeria Boavista, Lisbon, PT
2015 What is a bird? We simply don’t know, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, RO
Press
2020 Beaux Arts Magazine Ittah Yoda, nouveaux explorateurs de mondes artificiels by Julie Ackermann
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
Schön! Magazine interview I ittah yoda by Daisy Schofield
2016 Art Asia Pacific I think mango you say salmon by Ambika Rajgopal
Mousse Magazine I think mango you say salmon
Tique Art Paper Six Questions: Ittah Yoda by Charlotte Boeyden
1 Grannary Ittah Yoda and the Ying and Yang of the artist collaboration by Aric Mille
Residencies/ Grants/ Talk
2019 Cite Internationale des arts, Artist in Residency, Montmartre, Paris, FR (Oct.2019 - Mar.2020)
2018 Artist talk, Nagoya Art Universtiy, JP
2018 VR Arts Residency, Format C + SWS, Potsdana, HR
2017 LCN, SPACE, London, UK
2012 1 Year Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists, Agency of Cultural Affairs, JP (Y)