BIO [EN]
Ittah Yoda is formed by Kai Yoda and Virgile Ittah based between Berlin, Paris, and Tokyo. They both attended the Royal College of Arts in London. Coming from diverse backgrounds, Ittah Yoda have developed their artistic identity as a duo through digital technology, a vector of cross-cultural creative collaborations. Their collaboration gives birth to real, virtual and participatory forms that connect the heritage of humanity and the collective unconscious. Focusing on the collective and error, they explore the possibility of new collaborations between multiple cultures and space.
Their artwork unfolds as vast generative and performative installations. Hosting a refined Artificial Intelligence, their pieces are continuously changing and ramifying according to their own dreamlike variations, in collaboration with the visitors' gestures. The whole haptic experience falls within a therapeutic approach and forms an attempt to reframe ways of communicating and living together, in the dawn of symbiocene.
BIO [FR]
Formé de Virgile Ittah et Kai Yoda, le duo artistique Ittah Yoda est basé entre Berlin, Paris, la Provence et Tokyo. Tous deux sont diplômés du Royal College of Arts de Londres.
Ittah Yoda construit son identité artistique à travers le numérique, vecteur de métissages et d’hybridations créatives transculturelles. De leur collaboration, voient le jour des formes réelles et virtuelles dont l’inspiration se puise dans la nature, notamment dans la relation de symbiose. Leur œuvre, plus que jamais dans le contexte de bouleversements mondiaux actuels, vise à questionner les nouveaux systèmes rhizomiques via la participation active du public et le libre cours laissé à l’erreur. Leurs expérimentations donnent lieux à des espaces où se déploient de nouvelles imaginations, ouvrant alors le champ vers une nouvelle appréhension, et compréhension, de la réalité. Leur travail s’inscrit dans la volonté de reconsidérer la relation sujet-objet et notre rapport au vivant. Tout cela dans un foisonnant entremêlement des matières et des matérialités, des différentes couches de réalités, tout comme des diverses cultures et des règnes.
BIO [JP]
カイ・ヨダとヴァージル・イッタによって2016年に結成、べルリン、パリ、東京拠点。 Royal College of Art （ロンドン）卒業。多様なバックグラウンドを持つ彼らは、コレクティブを通して伝統的な工芸やプロセスとデジタル・テクノロジーを組み合わせることで、デュオとしての芸術的アイデンティティを発展させた。人類の遺産と集合的無意識をつなぐ、リアル、バーチャル、参加型の形態を生み出す。
複数の文化的背景をもち、制作の方向性も異なるふたりの作品は、お互いのプロセスを上書きしあい、ときに多彩なコラボレーターを交えてアイデアを撹拌することで前進してきた。VR、AI、3Dプリンタなど先進的な技術を用いながらも、どこか原子の生命体のような、有機的なイメージを想起させる作品群を制作してきた。コレクティブとエラーに焦点を当てた異文化と異空間の新しいコラボレーションの可能性を模索する。
︎ info@ittahyoda.com
Solo Exhibitions
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
2021
Never the Same Ocean, Galerie Jerome Poggi, Paris, FR
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
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
Visiting teacher, Paris Saclay University x Inria, Hackathon, Paris, 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)
Sigg Art Foundation, Geneva (CH)
Misk Foundation, Riyadh (SA)
Ittah Yoda is formed by Kai Yoda and Virgile Ittah based between Berlin, Paris, and Tokyo. They both attended the Royal College of Arts in London. Coming from diverse backgrounds, Ittah Yoda have developed their artistic identity as a duo through digital technology, a vector of cross-cultural creative collaborations. Their collaboration gives birth to real, virtual and participatory forms that connect the heritage of humanity and the collective unconscious. Focusing on the collective and error, they explore the possibility of new collaborations between multiple cultures and space.
Their artwork unfolds as vast generative and performative installations. Hosting a refined Artificial Intelligence, their pieces are continuously changing and ramifying according to their own dreamlike variations, in collaboration with the visitors' gestures. The whole haptic experience falls within a therapeutic approach and forms an attempt to reframe ways of communicating and living together, in the dawn of symbiocene.
BIO [FR]
Formé de Virgile Ittah et Kai Yoda, le duo artistique Ittah Yoda est basé entre Berlin, Paris, la Provence et Tokyo. Tous deux sont diplômés du Royal College of Arts de Londres.
Ittah Yoda construit son identité artistique à travers le numérique, vecteur de métissages et d’hybridations créatives transculturelles. De leur collaboration, voient le jour des formes réelles et virtuelles dont l’inspiration se puise dans la nature, notamment dans la relation de symbiose. Leur œuvre, plus que jamais dans le contexte de bouleversements mondiaux actuels, vise à questionner les nouveaux systèmes rhizomiques via la participation active du public et le libre cours laissé à l’erreur. Leurs expérimentations donnent lieux à des espaces où se déploient de nouvelles imaginations, ouvrant alors le champ vers une nouvelle appréhension, et compréhension, de la réalité. Leur travail s’inscrit dans la volonté de reconsidérer la relation sujet-objet et notre rapport au vivant. Tout cela dans un foisonnant entremêlement des matières et des matérialités, des différentes couches de réalités, tout comme des diverses cultures et des règnes.
BIO [JP]
カイ・ヨダとヴァージル・イッタによって2016年に結成、べルリン、パリ、東京拠点。 Royal College of Art （ロンドン）卒業。多様なバックグラウンドを持つ彼らは、コレクティブを通して伝統的な工芸やプロセスとデジタル・テクノロジーを組み合わせることで、デュオとしての芸術的アイデンティティを発展させた。人類の遺産と集合的無意識をつなぐ、リアル、バーチャル、参加型の形態を生み出す。
複数の文化的背景をもち、制作の方向性も異なるふたりの作品は、お互いのプロセスを上書きしあい、ときに多彩なコラボレーターを交えてアイデアを撹拌することで前進してきた。VR、AI、3Dプリンタなど先進的な技術を用いながらも、どこか原子の生命体のような、有機的なイメージを想起させる作品群を制作してきた。コレクティブとエラーに焦点を当てた異文化と異空間の新しいコラボレーションの可能性を模索する。
︎ info@ittahyoda.com
Solo Exhibitions
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
2021
Never the Same Ocean, Galerie Jerome Poggi, Paris, FR
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
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
Visiting teacher, Paris Saclay University x Inria, Hackathon, Paris, 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)
Sigg Art Foundation, Geneva (CH)
Misk Foundation, Riyadh (SA)