Simon Fujiwara Simon Fujiwara

Simon Fujiwara

Born in 1982 in London, United Kingdom. Lives and works in Berlin.
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Exhibition view: Simon Fujiwara, Once Upon a Who?, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2022. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Introduction

At the core of the work of British/Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara is a question - what does it mean to be a ‘Self’ in the 21st century? With humour, inventiveness, delight and rigor, his works reflect on existential quandaries such as: how should one construct a self today? How has technology altered our identities? Is there such thing as an authentic ‘me’? 

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Selected works

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Simon Fujiwara
Who is the Great Wave? (Mass Panic), 2024
Charcoal and colored paper collage on canvas
140 x 200 cm (unframed)
163,2 x 223,3 x 7,5 cm (framed and glazed)
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Simon Fujiwara
Who's Lost in a Sea of Images, 2024
Acrylic, charcoal and pastel on canvas
200 x 260 x 2,5 cm (unframed)
223,6 x 283,6 x 6,1 cm (framed)
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Simon Fujiwara
A Nude Who? (II), 2024
Acrylic and pastel on canvas
100,1 x 100,2 cm (unframed)
119,5 x 119,6 x 6,1 cm (framed)
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Simon Fujiwara
Five Who's?, 2024
Acrylic and pastel on canvas
139,8 x 200 cm (unframed)
164,2 x 224,4 x 6,1 cm (framed)
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Simon Fujiwara
Two Who's: One a Feline, One a Nude?, 2024
Acrylic and pastel on canvas
85,2 x 150,3 cm (unframed)
106,6 x 171,7 x 6,1 cm (framed)
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Simon Fujiwara
Who's Fridays for Future?, 2024
Ink on paper collage
149,8 x 104,9 cm (unframed)
159,6 x 114,7 x 4,2 cm (framed and glazed)
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Simon Fujiwara
Who's Picasso-esque Yogic Gender Binary Contortion Catastrophe?, 2024
Acrylic, charcoal and pastel on canvas
180 x 160 cm (unframed)
196,7 x 176,8 x 8 cm (framed)
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Simon Fujiwara
Study for an Icon (Red and Green Who?), 2024
Pastel, charcoal and acrylic on canvas

128 x 95 cm
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Simon Fujiwara
Who's the Woman Sitting Near the Window?, 2024
Charcoal, pastel and acrylic on canvas
175 x 155 cm (unframed)
195,7 x 175,6 x 6,1 cm (framed)
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Simon Fujiwara
Who are the Two Liberated Femmes Running the Beach?, 2023

Acrylic, charcoal and pastel on canvas

180,3 x 250,5 cm (unframed)
205,5 x 275,5 x 6,1 cm (framed)
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Simon Fujiwara
Who are the Flowers? (Q4), 2023

Acrylic and charcoal on canvas

85 x 85 x 2,5 cm (each, 4 parts) (unframed)
170 x 170 cm (overall) (unframed)
185,8 x 185,8 x 6,1 cm
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Simon Fujiwara
Ceci n'est pas une un Who? (Reclining Baer), 2023
Pastel, charcoal and paper collage
96 x 63 cm (unframed)
107,8 x 74,8 x 3,5 cm (framed and glazed)
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Simon Fujiwara
Who is the Great Goat of the Night?, 2023
Acrylic, pastel and charcoal on canvas
218 x 160 cm (unframed)
245,8 x 185 x 6,2 cm (framed)
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Simon Fujiwara
Who is a Whobist? (Blue Baer), 2023
Pastel on canvas

ø 100 cm
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Simon Fujiwara
Big Bootycelli Who?, 2023
Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, crayon and inkjet print on canvas
190,2 x 90 x 2,5 cm (unframed)
207 x 106,8 x 8 cm (framed and glazed)
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Simon Fujiwara
Who’s Identity Belongs to Who? (Red State), 2022
Acrylic, charcoal and pastel on canvas
140 x 140 (unframed)
155,8 x 155,8 x 6,1 cm (framed)
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Simon Fujiwara
Who’s Iconic? (Spanish Identity), 2022
Charcoal, pastel and ink on canvas
50,3 x 40,1 cm (unframed)
66 x 55,8 x 6 cm (framed)
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Simon Fujiwara
Who's Identity Deep Dive? (Blank Canvas Collage), 2022

Charcoal and paper collage on canvas

129 x 94 x 2,5 cm (unframed)
142 x 107 x 6 cm (framed)
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Simon Fujiwara
Who's Childhood (Moving Target), 2022
Charcoal, pastel, acrylic and inkjet print on canvas
150 x 120 cm (unframed)
173,6 x 143,5 x 8 cm (framed and glazed)
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Simon Fujiwara
Who's in Whollywood? (Identity Anxiety), 2021
Pastel, pencil and inkjet prints on paper, framed in color frames
Set of 8 framed works arranged as a question mark
198 x 93,5 cm (overall)
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Simon Fujiwara
Who's Modernized? (Small Beast), 2021

Painted steel

77,4 x 77 x 56,3 cm (sculpture)
90 x 80 x 70 cm (plinth)
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Simon Fujiwara
Once Upon a Who?, 2021
Installation with stop-motion animation
Duration: 4:48 min.
Reference room size: 4 x 5 m approx.
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Simon Fujiwara
A Dramatically Enlarged Set of Golden Guillotine Earrings Depicting the Severed Heads of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI, 2019

Rigid foam, aluminum, gold leaf
208 x 52,5 x 27 cm each (2 parts)
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Simon Fujiwara
Anne Frank's Birthday Cake, 2018

Wooden panel with custom-made model of a cake, flowers, vintage kitchen- and tableware (kettle, metal plate, tea towels, cake server, two knives, two forks), photographic equipment (camera, tripod, lights, soft-box light diffusers, light reflector, stands), LCD monitors

Dimensions variable
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Simon Fujiwara
Empathy I, 2018

5D simulator installation (with video, sound, motion, water, and wind)
Duration 3:49 min
Outer dimensions of box: 3,71 x 7,6 x 5,35 meters
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Simon Fujiwara
Joanne, 2016/2018

Three free-standing aluminium-clad structures: one with in-built LED monitors screening video and digital print, two lightboxes with digital prints on foil.
Dimensions variable
Duration 12:06 min (video)
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Simon Fujiwara
Masks (Merkel F5) & Masks (Merkel E5.3), 2016

Make-up on canvas
Part 1: 200 x 100 x 5,3 cm (unframed); 206 x 105,7 x 7 cm (framed)
Part 2: 200 x 200 x 5,3 cm (unframed); 206 x 205,6 x 7 cm (framed)
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Simon Fujiwara
Fabulous Beasts (Winter Fox), 2015

Shaved sections of vintage fur coat on wooden stretcher
120 x 90 x 2,6 cm

Gallery Exhibitions

Once Upon a Who? Simon Fujiwara

Once Upon a Who?

Simon Fujiwara
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Once Upon a Who?, Simon Fujiwara's second solo exhibition with the gallery, Once Upon a Who? presents new works from Fujiwara's latest ongoing project – a...
January 15—February 26, 2022
Esther Schipper, Berlin
Whotique x Highsnobiety at Esther Schipper Bookstore Simon Fujiwara

Whotique x Highsnobiety at Esther Schipper Bookstore

Simon Fujiwara
Simon Fujiwara presents the first Whotique on the occasion of his solo exhibition Once Upon a Who? at Esther Schipper.
January 15—February 26, 2022
Esther Schipper Bookstore
En la casa de Marquès Esther Schipper Mallorca

En la casa de Marquès

Esther Schipper Mallorca
Visit us this summer for a special exhibition entitled Inside Marquès House in Palma de Mallorca held at the former residence of Martí Marquès Marquès, a historic house dating back to the...
July 12—31, 2021
Casa Museo Can Marquès, Palma de Mallorca
Empathy I Simon Fujiwara

Empathy I

Simon Fujiwara
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Simon Fujiwara’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The artist, who joined the gallery in January 2018, will present a new large-scale installation, which will feature...
August 31—September 30, 2018
Esther Schipper, Berlin

External Exhibitions

50 Für Bad Berlin With Rosa Barba, Thomas Demand, Simon Fujiwara and Karin Sander

50 Für Bad Berlin

With Rosa Barba, Thomas Demand, Simon Fujiwara and Karin Sander
50 Für Bad Berlin With Rosa Barba, Thomas Demand, Simon Fujiwara and Karin Sander Opening September 11, 2024, 6 – 9 PM September 12, 12 – 5 PM September 13 – 15,...
September 11—15, 2024
Fluss Bad Berlin at Bauakademie
It's a Small World Simon Fujiwara

It's a Small World

Simon Fujiwara
What does it mean to be a “self” in the 21st century? This is the question at the core of British-Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara’s work. His exhibition It’s a Small World features key works from the full span of the...
March 1—October 13, 2024
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
Boogie Woogie Art Museum With Simon Fujiwara

Boogie Woogie Art Museum

With Simon Fujiwara
The exhibition includes works by Simon Fujiwara.
June 8—September 9, 2023
Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan
a cardboard animatronic bear in a colorful gallery space in Tokyo

Who the Bær

Simon Fujiwara
In Tokyo, Prada presents Simon Fujiwara’s exhibition Who the Bær – a new especially conceived version of the show presented for the first time at Fondazione Prada’s Milan venue in 2020.
October 15, 2022—January 30, 2023
Prada Aoyama
LOVELOVELOVE Biennial of Moving Images, Beijing With Simon Fujiwara and Tao Hui

LOVELOVELOVE Biennial of Moving Images, Beijing

With Simon Fujiwara and Tao Hui
U2 by UCCA, in partnership with Centre D'art Contemporain Genève, present a large-scale biennale project in Beijing – LOVELOVELOVE Biennial of Moving Images, Beijing.
July 7—December 25, 2022
U2 by UCCA, Beijing
G2 Schaulager With Simon Fujiwara and General Idea

G2 Schaulager

With Simon Fujiwara and General Idea
After seven years of realizing exhibitions with residential and international artists we will open a new floor in the same building of G2 Kunsthalle.
July 3, 2022—January 15, 2023
G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig
Hello Who? Simon Fujiwara, presented by CIRCA

Hello Who?

Simon Fujiwara, presented by CIRCA
In a new stop-motion animation by Simon Fujiwara, viewers are invited to follow Who the Bær - the cartoon protagonist - on their quest for identity and belonging.
April 1 – 30, 2022
Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Milan, Melbourne, New York, Seoul and Tokyo
new work Simon Fujiwara

new work

Simon Fujiwara
For his first solo exhibition in the Netherlands, the artist presents works from his most recent project Who the Bær. Developed during the lockdown in the spring of 2020, Fujiwara created a...
June 9—September 12, 2021
Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam
Who the Bær Simon Fujiwara

Who the Bær

Simon Fujiwara
For this new site-specific project conceived for the ground floor of the Podium in the Milan premises of Fondazione Prada, Simon Fujiwara introduces audiences to the world of Who the Bær, an...
April 29—September 27, 2021
Fondazione Prada, Milan
Hope House Simon Fujiwara

Hope House

Simon Fujiwara
Simon Fujiwara de-constructs the wistful human desire that underpins tourist attractions, historical icons, celebrities, “edutainment,” and neo-capitalism. In this seductive, if no less fraught arena, his work reveals the paradox of our...
October 31, 2020—March 13, 2021
Blaffer Art Museum, Houston
Manual Override with Simon Fujiwara

Manual Override

with Simon Fujiwara
Manual Override presents Simon Fujiwara's multi-sensory Empathy I. Developed in close collaboration with a company that produces theme park rides, Empathy I is a 5d simulator that was inspired by the artist’s...
November 13, 2019—January 12, 2020
The Shed, New York
Joanne Simon Fujiwara

Joanne

Simon Fujiwara
Over the past decade, Simon Fujiwara has become known for his staging of large, complex exhibitions that explore the deeply rooted mechanisms of identity construction for both individuals and societies. From August...
August 31, 2019—February 2, 2020
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj
Preis der Nationalgalerie. Shortlist exhibition of the four nominated artists 2019 with Simon Fujiwara

Preis der Nationalgalerie. Shortlist exhibition of the four nominated artists 2019

with Simon Fujiwara
In March this year, Simon Fujiwara was shortlisted for the Preis der Nationalgalerie 2019, together with Pauline Curnier Jardin, Flaka Haliti and Katja Novitskova. The museum prize is awarded every two years...
August 16, 2019—February 16, 2020
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Intimate distance. Masterpieces from the Ishikawa Collection with Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe and Anri Sala

Intimate distance. Masterpieces from the Ishikawa Collection

with Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe and Anri Sala
Coinciding with the inauguration of the Hôtel des Collections on June 29, 2019, the MO.CO. unveils the first public presentation of masterpieces from the Ishikawa Collection. This outstanding and relatively recent private...
June 29—September 29, 2019
MO.CO. – Montpellier Contemporain, Hôtel des Collections, Montpellier
Is This Tomorrow? with Simon Fujiwara

Is This Tomorrow?

with Simon Fujiwara
In an era when humanity is facing new challenges posed by big data, bioengineering and climate change, Whitechapel Gallery has invited ten groups of artists, architects and other cultural practitioners, including Simon...
February 14—May 12, 2019
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Revolution Simon Fujiwara

Revolution

Simon Fujiwara
Simon Fujiwara’s Revolution presented at Lafayette Anticipations is the artist's first major solo exhibition in France. Conceived in dialogue with the Fondation’s newly renovated building, Revolution brings together large-scale works and installations,...
October 14, 2018—January 6, 2019
Lafayette Anticipations, Paris
The Soul of the Soulless Simon Fujiwara

The Soul of the Soulless

Simon Fujiwara
Owing to Edouard Malingue Gallery's great commitment, Condo will finally come to Shanghai in July 2018. “Condo”—taken from “Condominium” (com “together” and dominium “right of ownership”, referring to a territory formally shared...
July 7—August 26, 2018
Condo Shanghai: Edouard Malingue Gallery
Joanne Simon Fujiwara

Joanne

Simon Fujiwara
'I feel like I’m cheating if I say: I am a model, I am a teacher, I am a lover, I am an artist, I am a chameleon, I am a fighter…...
April 21—May 26, 2018
Galerie Wedding, Berlin
Hope House Simon Fujiwara

Hope House

Simon Fujiwara
Hope House is a full-scale replica of the Anne Frank House Museum reconstructed within the Kunsthaus Bregenz. A building within a building, a museum within a museum, the ambitious installation takes its...
January 27—April 8, 2018
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
Campaign Simon Fujiwara

Campaign

Simon Fujiwara
April 21, 2017—January 7, 2018
KUB Billboards, Kunsthaus Bregenz
Development Simon Fujiwara

Development

Simon Fujiwara
Okayama Art Summit 2016 was the first edition of a new triennial contemporary art exhibition to be held in Okayama, Japan. It featured 31 important contemporary artists. The artistic director of this...
October 9—November 27, 2016
Okayama Art Summit, Okayama
The Happy Museum Simon Fujiwara

The Happy Museum

Simon Fujiwara
June 4—September 18, 2016
Berlin Biennale 9, Berlin
British Art Show 8 with Simon Fujiwara

British Art Show 8

with Simon Fujiwara
February 13—May 8, 2016
Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

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Simon Fujiwara Hello Who? Presented by CIRCA Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Milan, Melbourne, New York, Seoul and Tokyo April 1 – 30, 2022 Watch online at www.circa.art In a new stop-motion animation...
April 1 – 30, 2022
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Last chance to visit the Whoniverse! Simon Fujiwara's solo exhibition Once Upon a Who? takes a deep dive into the world of Who the Bær, the artist's original, jeans-clad cartoon figure with...
Through February 26, 2022
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Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Once Upon a Who?, Simon Fujiwara's second solo exhibition with the gallery. Once Upon a Who? presents new works from Fujiwara's latest ongoing project – a...
January 15 – February 26, 2022
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Simon Fujiwara and Highsnobiety in Miami

Highsnobiety's HIGHArt is a platform that blends content, commerce, and experience. It will come to life with a blitz of Miami programming including a month-long pop-up HIGHArt Museum Store in the Design...
November 29 – December 31, 2021
Simon Fujiwara – Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2021
Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève

Simon Fujiwara – Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2021

Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement 2021: A Goodbye Letter, A Love Call, A Wake-Up Song With Simon Fujiwara Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève Rue des Vieux-Grenadiers 10 1205 Geneva November 12, 2021 –...
November 12, 2021 – January 30, 2022
Who’s Online! An online experience from Simon Fujiwara
Fondazione Prada, Milan

Who’s Online! An online experience from Simon Fujiwara

Who’s Online! is an online experience conceived in close collaboration with artist Simon Fujiwara as part of his major exhibition Who the Bær currently on view at Fondazione Prada, Milan through September 27, 2021. In...
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Simon Fujiwara, Who the Bær - Online Viewing Room

Esther Schipper and Dvir Gallery are pleased to present parallel Online Viewing Rooms on the occasion of Simon Fujiwara's solo exhibition at Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam (on view through September 12, 2021). Visit our OVR here. For his...
Through July 14, 2021
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Spotlight: Simon Fujiwara

For our Spotlight this month we present Simon Fujiwara's Who’s Childhood?, 2021 The sculptural video installation Who’s Childhood projects an animation depicting a revisionist history of Who's childhood. Housed in a cartoonish sculptural...
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AMTSALON, Kantstraße 79, Berlin

Simon Fujiwara at AMTSALON Berlin

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June 17 – 24, 2021
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Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam

Simon Fujiwara – Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam

For his first solo exhibition in the Netherlands, Simon Fujiwara presents works from his most recent project Who the Bær. Developed during the lockdown in the spring of 2020, Fujiwara created a unique cartoon character...
June 5 – August 22, 2021
Simon Fujiwara – Fondazione Prada, Milan
Fondazione Prada, Milan

Simon Fujiwara – Fondazione Prada, Milan

Fondazione Prada reopens from April 29 Visitor information can be found here. For this new site-specific project conceived for the ground floor of the Podium in the Milan premises of Fondazione Prada,...
Through September 27, 2021
Artist Talk with Simon Fujiwara
Fondazione Prada Instagram

Artist Talk with Simon Fujiwara

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Wednesday ,3 March, 7 pm (CET)
Simon Fujiwara at Fondazione Prada
Fondazione Prada, Milan

Simon Fujiwara at Fondazione Prada

For this new site-specific project conceived for the ground floor of the Podium in the Milan premises of Fondazione Prada, Simon Fujiwara introduces audiences to the fairytale world of Who the Bær, an original cartoon...
March 2 – September 27, 2021
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State of the Arts with Simon Fujiwara
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The exhibition presents one of the most intriguing artistic phenomena of our time: the fusion of the visual and the performing arts. Today, more often than not, a visit to an exhibition...
June 16 – August 16, 2020
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Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

Simon Fujiwara wins Audience Award at Preis der Nationalgalerie Shortlist Exhibition 2019

Esther Schipper congratulates Simon Fujiwara who has won the Audience Award for the Preis der Nationalgalerie shortlist exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof, For the Preis der Nationalgalerie 2019, Simon Fujiwara presented a...
Simon Fujiwara at the 16th Istanbul Biennial
Various venues, Istanbul

Simon Fujiwara at the 16th Istanbul Biennial

It’s a Small World, Simon Fujiwara's project for the 16th Istanbul Biennial, began after he discovered a large quantity of semi-ruined figures of pop icons in the trash of an attractions’ manufacturer...
September 14 – November 10, 2019
Simon Fujiwara at ARKEN Museum of Modern Art
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj

Simon Fujiwara at ARKEN Museum of Modern Art

From August 31 Simon Fujiwara's Joanne is on view for the first time in Denmark at ARKEN Museum of Modern Art. Presented as film and image environment, Joanne depicts the many faces...
August 31 – February 2, 2020
Simon Fujiwara at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

Simon Fujiwara at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart

Simon Fujiwara has been nominated for the Preis der Nationalgalerie 2019 by an international jury. The museum prize is awarded every two years and pays tribute to artists under 40 who live and work...
August 16, 2019 – February 16, 2020
Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe and Anri Sala at MO.CO
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Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe and Anri Sala at MO.CO

Coinciding with the inauguration of the Hôtel des Collections on June 29, the MO.CO. unveils the first public presentation of masterpieces from the Ishikawa Collection. This outstanding and relatively recent private collection...
June 29 – September 29, 2019
Simon Fujiwara shortlisted for the 2019 Preis der Nationalgalerie
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Simon Fujiwara shortlisted for the 2019 Preis der Nationalgalerie

Esther Schipper congratulates Simon Fujiwara, shortlisted for the 2019 Preis der Nationalgalerie. Established in 2000 by the Freunde der Nationalgalerie, the Preis is awarded biennially and promotes young, important positions in contemporary...
Is This Tomorrow? with Simon Fujiwara
Whitechapel Gallery, London

Is This Tomorrow? with Simon Fujiwara

Opening on February 14, Is This Tomorrow? takes as its model Whitechapel Gallery’s landmark exhibition This Is Tomorrow (1956), which featured 37 British architects, painters and sculptors working collaboratively in small groups....
February 14 – May 12, 2019
Esther Schipper announces the representation of Simon Fujiwara
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Films

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Simon Fujiwara on his latest work Who vs Who vs Who?, 2023 At Art Basel 2023

Simon Fujiwara on his latest work Who vs Who vs Who?, 2023

At Art Basel 2023
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Once Upon a Who? Simon Fujiwara

Once Upon a Who?

Simon Fujiwara

A large-scale immersive exhibition, Once Upon a Who? highlights the multifaceted development of, which Simon Fujiwara created in Spring 2020 and first presented at the Fondazione Prada in Milan in summer of that year. Staged within an exhibition design resembling a museum with different rooms devoted to different chapters of their development, visitors encounter Who the Bær: a bear that seemingly has no race, gender, sexuality or nationality. ⁠


Publications

Simon Fujiwara Hope House

Simon Fujiwara

Hope House
The ambivalence between real and fake, present and past, marketing and historical responsibility as well as the often controversial human concerns of the 21st century are the main subjects in the work...
2019