Ittah Yoda is formed by Kai Yoda (Japan/Sweden) and Virgile Ittah (France), who live between Berlin, Paris and Tokyo.
Coming from diverse backgrounds, they have developed their artistic identity as a duo through mixing traditional processes with digital technology, a vector of cross-cultural creative collaborations. This collaboration gives rise to real and virtual forms that attempt to connect with an archaic heritage of humanity and a collective unconscious present in the psyche of an individual.
The duo Ittah Yoda highlights the performative dimension of their installation through the active participation of the public. Thus attempts to create a new reality using a rhizomic network of connections between the work and the viewer, linking virtual and physical realities, at the origin of new landscapes and the world to come.
︎ info@ittahyoda.com
Solo Exhibitions
2021
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
2021
The Owls Are Not What They Seem, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, SE
Artist Running Festival, soda, Kyoto, JP
Rencontres OVNi, Ovni Festival, FICEP, Hotel Windsor, Nice, FR
Never the Same Ocean, soda x HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo, JP
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
2015
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
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. Julia Meyer-Brehm
Çinc Zine Worlds without Hierarchies by Flora Leahy
AQNB Inside the topsy turvy dreamscape of Ittah Yoda’s abstract universe
Beaux Arts Magazine Ittah Yoda, nouveaux explorateurs de mondes artificiels by Julie Ackermann
Chronique Curiosité 2020 semaine 10 Crisallomancie by Joël Riff
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
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 / Talks / Grants / Publications
2022
ISCP Residency, NYC, USA (Institut Français/ Face Foundation)
Fiminco Residency, Romainville, FR
2021
Universite Paris-Saclay, Paris, FR
Cnap, Paris, FR (I)
Mutation Journal, Die Akademie Schloss Solitude, Shuttgart, DE
Rupert Residency, Vilnius, LT
Sigg Art Residency, Provence, FR
Ovni Festival Residency, Nice, FR
2020
Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, DE (Y)
Visiting teacher in Installation and Volume, 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, SPACE, London, UK
2012
1 Year Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists, Agency of Cultural Affairs, JP (Y)
Collection
Château La Coste, Provence (FR)
M. Lewis Collection, London (GB)
Sasanao Collection, Tokyo (JP)
Coming from diverse backgrounds, they have developed their artistic identity as a duo through mixing traditional processes with digital technology, a vector of cross-cultural creative collaborations. This collaboration gives rise to real and virtual forms that attempt to connect with an archaic heritage of humanity and a collective unconscious present in the psyche of an individual.
The duo Ittah Yoda highlights the performative dimension of their installation through the active participation of the public. Thus attempts to create a new reality using a rhizomic network of connections between the work and the viewer, linking virtual and physical realities, at the origin of new landscapes and the world to come.
︎ info@ittahyoda.com
Solo Exhibitions
2021
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
2021
The Owls Are Not What They Seem, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, SE
Artist Running Festival, soda, Kyoto, JP
Rencontres OVNi, Ovni Festival, FICEP, Hotel Windsor, Nice, FR
Never the Same Ocean, soda x HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo, JP
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
2015
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
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. Julia Meyer-Brehm
Çinc Zine Worlds without Hierarchies by Flora Leahy
AQNB Inside the topsy turvy dreamscape of Ittah Yoda’s abstract universe
Beaux Arts Magazine Ittah Yoda, nouveaux explorateurs de mondes artificiels by Julie Ackermann
Chronique Curiosité 2020 semaine 10 Crisallomancie by Joël Riff
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
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 / Talks / Grants / Publications
2022
ISCP Residency, NYC, USA (Institut Français/ Face Foundation)
Fiminco Residency, Romainville, FR
2021
Universite Paris-Saclay, Paris, FR
Cnap, Paris, FR (I)
Mutation Journal, Die Akademie Schloss Solitude, Shuttgart, DE
Rupert Residency, Vilnius, LT
Sigg Art Residency, Provence, FR
Ovni Festival Residency, Nice, FR
2020
Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, DE (Y)
Visiting teacher in Installation and Volume, 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, SPACE, London, UK
2012
1 Year Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists, Agency of Cultural Affairs, JP (Y)
Collection
Château La Coste, Provence (FR)
M. Lewis Collection, London (GB)
Sasanao Collection, Tokyo (JP)