10th

• Period of Exhibition

  Sep. 12, 2014 － Oct. 19, 2014

• Venue

  Ceramics Park MINO

• Theme

  There is no specified theme for the competition.

• Number of applications

  2579

• Award Winning Works

  27

• Works

  188

JUDGES

Ceramics Design Category

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  Masayuki Kurokawa

  Japan

  Architect / Designer

  Architect, Product Designer. Born in Nagoya, Japan in 1937. He established Kurokawa Masayuki Architect Studio (http://www.k-system.net/) in 1967, Butsugaku Research Institute (http://www.k-system.net/butsugaku/) in 1998, and Designtope Co. Ltd. (http://www.designtope.net/) in 2001. He is a guest professor at Kyoto Seika University (Japan), Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design (Japan), and Fudan University (China). Received Ph.D from Kanazawa College of Art (Japan). He is a member of Japan Industrial Designers’ Association, Japan Design Committee, The Japan Institute of Architects, Japan inter-design forum, and more.

  Publications
  “Archigraph” Masayuki Kurokawa×Koichi Inakoshi (1992, TOTO Publishing)
  “Design Mandala” (2004, Kyuryudo)
  “Design No Shujihou (Rhetoric of Design)” (2006, Kyuryudo)
  “Yattsu No Nihon No Biishiki (Eight Japanese Senses of Beauty)” (2006, Kodansha)
  “Design To Shi (Design and Death)” (2009, Socym Shuppan) and more
  Prizes
  Mainichi Design Award (Japan)
  The Good Design Award (Japan)
  iF Design Award (Germany) and more

  Collections
  The Museum of Modern Art in New York (USA), The Denver Art Museum (USA), and Metropolitan Museum of Art (USA) and more

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  Taku Satoh

  Japan

  Graphic Designer

  Graphic Designer. . He graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in the Department of Design in 1979. He completed his master’s degree in 1981. He founded Satoh Taku Design Office in 1984 after working for Dentsu Inc. He has been working on wide variety of projects ever since. He is known for his package designs of “LOTTE XYLITOL Gum”, “Meiji Oishii Gyunyu,” and more. His work in graphic design includes “PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE ” and the logos of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo. He also designed the logo, sign, and furniture for Musashino Art University Museum & Library. He is the project member/art director of TV program, “Nihongo De Asobo” (NHK Educational TV), and general director of TV program, “Design Ah!” (NHK Educational TV). He is also a director of Japan’s first design museum, 21_21 Design Sight (Tokyo, Japan).

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  Kanae Tsukamoto

  Japan

  Design Director

  Design Director. After graduating from Kanazawa College of Art (Japan), she worked for Mitsubishi Electric and GK Design Group. Then she earned master’s degree from The Royal College of Art (UK) and worked as a designer for Dartington Crystal (UK), and Queensberry Hunt Levien Design Office (UK). She came back to Japan and established Kanae Design Labo in 1999. She works on wide variety of design projects with her idea of “from table top to its surroundings.” In fact, she does not just design tableware, home appliances, furniture, lighting fixtures, cosmetics packages, and daily commodities; she does it all, from analyzing market and developing concepts and products to designing sales strategy. Her awarded prizes include the competition grand prize of RSA (UK), Good Design Award (Japan), Red Dot Award (Germany), and more. Her motto is “To think from the consumers’ point of view.” Her private brand is working on project, “Let’s Reconsider the Foundation of Japan” and “Inclusive Design.” She was a guest lecturer of RCA (UK) in 2006. She served as a judge of Good Design Award from 2008 to 2009. Formerly a part-time lecturer at Nihon University (Japan), Tama Art University (Japan), and more. Currently a part-time lecturer at Kanazawa College of Art (Japan) and Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts (Japan). She also works as a member of external evaluation board of Toyama Design Center (Japan). She works on Japan Brand Design Support and Promotion Project by Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

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  Masahiro Karasawa

  Japan

  The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Chief of Craft Section

  Born in Aichi, Japan in 1964. Chief of craft section at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Japan) since 2010/ Judge of Japan Ceramic Society Award/ Member of the International Academy of Ceramics. He received master’s degree in fine arts from Aichi University of Arts (Japan). After he worked as a curator at Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum (Japan), he became the chief researcher at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Japan) in 2003. He is an expert in modern history of craft.

  Publications
  Kamabetsu Guide Nihon no Yakimono Seto(Guide to Japanese Pottery by Kilns in Seto), Tankosha Publishing
  Kamabetsu Guide Nihon no Yakimono Mino(Guide to Japanese Pottery by Kilns in Mino), Tankosha Publishing
  Nihon Yakimonoshi(History of Japanese Pottery), Bijyutsu Shuppansha
  Curatorial Experience
  “Gendai Togei 1950-1990) (Exhibition, “Modern Ceramics 1950-1990”), Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (Japan)
  “Gendai Togei No Wakaki Kishutachi” (Exhibition, “Young Leaders of Modern Ceramics”), Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum (Japan)
  “Momoyamato Ni Miserareta Nananin No Togeika” (Exhibition, “Seven Ceramists Who Were Fascinated by Potteries of Momoyama Era”), Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art (Japan)
  Exhibition, “Daily Vessels by Kenkichi Tomimoto, the Master of Ceramic Art”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Japan)
  Exhibition, “Arakawa, Toyozo and Kato, Tokuro”, Sano Art Museum (Japan)
  Exhibition, “Mineo Okabe: A Retrospective”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Japan)
  Exhibition, “The Power of Decoration―A Viewpoint on Contemporary Kôgei (Studio Crafts)”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Japan)
  “Chato―Zokei To Isho Ni Miru Genzaisei” (Exhibition, “Tea Pottery―The Currency Seen in Molding and Designing”, Gallery VOICE (Japan)
  “About the Tea Ceremony―A Viewpoint on Contemporary Kôgei (Studio Crafts)”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Japan), and more

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  Choi JaeHoon

  Republic of Korea

  Designer

  Born in South Korea in 1965. Designer. After graduating from Keimyung University (Korea) with a degree in industrial art, he came to Japan. He studied under Masahiro Mori, a ceramic designer, in master’s program at Aichi University of Art from 1991 to 1992. He graduated from the university with a master’s degree in fine arts in 1993 and entered INAX Corporation. He spent next ten years for designing housing equipment such as shower toilets, sanitary wares, system toilets. Then, he became in charge of sustainable designing at the space design center of the company. He was responsible for design management, exhibition planning, product development, and planning workshop classes for LIXIL Museums (formerly known as INAX Museums) from 2009. He is now a planning director of Haier Architectural Decoration Design Company-Shanghai (Joint venture of LIXIL Corporation and Haier) since 2011. He works as an in house designer. He creates artistic works for himself and exhibits them as well. He is also taking an active part in cultural design exchange among Japan, China, and Korea.

  Prizes
  Several Japan Good Design Awards

  2002
  Grand Prix in the ceramics design category at The 6th International Ceramics Competition Mino, Japan
  2003
  Bronze Prize in the daily ceramics category at The 2nd International Ceramic Biennale (Korea)
  2004
  Grand Prix at The 2nd CCDO Design Award (Japan)
  2005
  Special Prize in the daily ceramics category at The 3rd International Ceramic Biennale (Korea)
  Exhibitions
  2003
  Personal exhibition at INAX GALLERIA CERAMICA, (Tokyo, Japan)
  2003
  Japan Ceramics Design Exhibition, “Yo to Bi no Product (Products of Use and Beauty)” at Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum (Japan)
  2004
  New Sensation of Ceramics Exhibition, “Choi, Jae Hoon” at INAX TILE MUSEUM (Japan)
  2007
  Special Exhibition, “Choi, Jae Hoon + Idoma, Shin” at Seto Shinseiki Kogenkan (Japan)
  2008
  Personal Exhibition, “Choi, Jae Hoon,” at Hong Zi Lan Gallery (Beijing, China)
  2009
  Exhibition “Ceramics x Design” at Gallery Voice (Gifu, Japan)
  2009
  “Korea, China, Japan Invitation Exhibition” at Seoul Design Olympic
  Projects
  2010
  “Masahiro Mori Exhibition” in “Korea, China, Japan Living Exhibition,” at Seoul Design Fair 2010
  2011
  “Noodle Bowl Exhibition” in “Japan, China, Korea Ceramics Design Exchange Exhibition”
  Judging Experience
  2004
  The 4th International Competition, “Nagoya Design Do!”

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  Rossana Orlandi

  Italy

  Design Gallery Owner / Expert of the Contemporary Design

  The owner of Spazio Rossana Orlandi (Italy), gallery/ design shop. She is known for her brilliant sense in discovering young and upcoming talents. Her purpose is to foresee and promote new type of designers like Maarten Baas, Front, Nacho Carbonell, Piet Hein Eek, Raw Edges, Bokja, and Kiki van Eijk. The works of these designers have fascinated people as art at Design Miami/Basel, and it added greatly to the reputation of her gallery. Spazio Rossana Orlandi has earned its status as the best resource for every person involved in design. She opened a design shop in the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum (Italy) in April 2013. Being a former knitwear designer for Armani and Missoni, she is also familiar with fashion trends and, it makes her easy to stay as a tastemaker and expert of modern design.previousnextclose
  

Ceramics Arts Category

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  Toru Enomoto

  Japan

  Director of Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu

  Chief Judge of Ceramic Arts Category

  Born in 1946, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture. He earned his master’s degree in Art and Design from Tokyo University of Education Graduate School in 1978. He started to work at Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum from 1979 and served as the Vice-Director from 1996. He has been working as the Director of Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu from 2002.

  He wrote many theses such as “Early Hagi Ware in the Literature” (Tokyo National Museum No.471, Museum Press, 1990),”The Mastery of Tea Bowl, Ceramic Art of Kyusetsu Miwa” (Honoh Geijutsu No.57, Abe Publishing Ltd., 1999), “The Change of Style in Hagi Ware Tea Bowl” in the catalogue of “Exhibition of Japanese Tea Bowl Masterpieces Used in Tea Ceremony” (Chado Research Center Galleries, 1999), “The Silk Road of Ceramics, Ceramic Art of Takuo Kato” (Honoh Geijutsu No.85, Abe Publishing Ltd., 2006).

  His main publications are “Ceramic Art, Ryoji Koie” (NHK Press Association, 1990), and “Art in Yamaguchi Prefecture” (Shibunkaku Press, 1995).

  He has curated numerous exhibitions and written for the catalogues including three “Modern Ceramic Art Series” (1982, 1984, and 1986), ”Kohagi, Sono Genryu To Shuhen Ten” (Exhibition, “Kohagi- Its Origin and Surroundings)(1981), “Chugoku Touji Nisennen No Nagare Ten” (Exhibition, “The Flow of 2000 Years of Chinese Ceramics History”) (1985), “The Hagiyaki” (1995) at the Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum, and “Hagiyaki 400nen, Dentou To Kakushin Ten” (Exhibition, “400 Years of Hagiyaki, Tradition and Innovation”) (2000) at Maison de la culture du Japon a Paris and Suntory Museum of Art.

  He served as a judge for many exhibitions, such as the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition, Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition, West Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition, International Ceramics Competition Mino, Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, and numerous art exhibitions at museum in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Hiroshima Prefecture and Mie Prefecture.

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  Kazuko Todate

  Japan

  Art Critic

  Art Critic/Member of the International Academy of Ceramics. Formerly a chief curator of Ibaragi Ceramic Art Museum (Japan). Currently, she teaches on craft history, ceramic history, craft theory, and more at Aichi University of Art, Nagoya University of Arts, Tohoku University of Art & Design, Kyoto University of Art and Design, and Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts. She also curates, writes for catalogues, and gives lectures for museums and universities all over the world, such as “Kosho Ito Virus,” 2002 at Tate St Ives (UK), The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibitions, “Handcrafted Form,” SOFA Chicago, 2007(USA), “Touch Fire” at Smith College (USA), “Creative Tradition” at Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts (Germany), and more. She was a member of advisory committee of the 5th International Ceramic Biennale (Korea) in 2009. She was appointed for writing a new collection catalogue that follows Japanese craft history for Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2013. She writes article, “Gendai Togei No Chihei Kara (From the Horizon of Modern Ceramics)” for a magazine, “Tokobo” and a newspaper “The Kyoto Shimbun News.” She was awarded with Kikuchi Biennale Paper Prize (Top Prize) for her thesis, “Sengo Togeishi Ni Okeru Objet d’art to Yagi Kazuo (Objet d’art in postwar ceramic history and Kazuo Yagi)”. Her publications include “Kingendai Togei No Isseiki- Togeishi Ni Okeru No Imi (A Century of Modern Ceramics- The Meaning of in Ceramic History)” for “Nihon Togei 100nen No Seika (Japanese Ceramics 100 years of Glory)”, and more.

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  Harumi Nakashima

  Japan

  Ceramist

  Born in Gifu in 1950. Professor of ceramics in arts and crafts program at Aichi University of Education/Member of the International Academy of Ceramics. After he graduated from Osaka University of Arts, majored in ceramics in the department of design, he worked for Tajimi City Pottery Design and Technical Center (Japan) from 1973 to 1976.

  Prizes
  1989
  Bronze Award in ceramic arts category at the 2nd International Ceramics Competition Mino, Japan
  1995
  Gold Award in ceramic arts category at the 4th International Ceramics Competition Mino, Japan
  2010
  Japan Ceramics Society Award
  Latest Exhibitions
  2011
  Solo exhibition at Galerie NeC (Paris, France)
  2012
  Exhibition, “Nihon No Waza To Bi―Kindai Kogei No Seika―(The Technique and Beauty of Japan―The Glory of Modern Crafts―)” at The Palazzo Pitti (Italy)
  2012
  “Biennale Internationale de Vallauris” at Musee Magnelli (France)
  2012
  Solo exhibition at Galerie NeC (Hong Kong, China)
  2013
  “Taikan Art @ Kenbi.Com” at Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu (Japan)
  2013
  “New Blue and White” at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (USA)
  2013
  Exhibition, “Borderline Collection” at The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Japan)

  Public Collections
  The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Japan), Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), Museum of Arts and Design (USA), The International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza (Italy), The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Japan), Ibaragi Ceramic Art Museum (Japan), Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum (Japan), Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu (Japan), Takamatsu City Museum of Art (Japan), and more.

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  Kenji Kaneko

  Japan

  Director of Ibaraki Ceramics Art Museum / Director of Tajimi Mino Pottery Museum

  Born in 1949. He finished his master’s degree in aesthetics and art history at Tohoku University in 1978 and he was a member of editorial board of Zauhou kankoukai. Served as a curator of the Suntory Museum of Art, and later since 1984, a curator of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Became the Senior Specialist of Cultural Affairs Department of the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 1999. Since 2000, he has served as Chief Curator of the Craft Gallery at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. In 2010, became the Director of Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum. He also serves as the visiting researcher of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. A member of the International Academy of Ceramics.

  Prizes and Awards
  2003
  Japan Good Design Award for the “Russia the avant-garde ceramic exhibition”
  2009
  the Koyama Fujio Memorial Prize
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  Akihiro Maeta

  Japan

  Ceramist

  Born in Tottori in 1954. Ceramic artist. Executive director of Nihon Kogeikai, secretary general of Nihon Kogeikai Chugoku branch, and member of Shinsho Kogeikai. He graduated from Osaka University of Arts, majored in ceramics in the department of crafts. He was accredited as the holder of Intangible Cultural Properties of Tottori prefecture in the category of ceramics in 2012.

  Prizes and Awards
  1991
  The Mainichi Shinbun Award at “The 11th Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition”
  1993
  Tomimoto Prize at Exhibition, “48th Shinsho Kogei Ten”
  1997
  Excellence Prize at “The 10th MOA Okada, Mokichi Award Exhibition”
  2003
  Bronze Prize at “The 2nd Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale”
  2003
  The 50th Commemorative Exhibition Award at The 50th Japan Traditional Craft Exhibition
  2004
  Japan Ceramics Society Award
  2007
  The Medal with Purple Ribbon
  2010
  Cultural Merit Award of Tottori Prefecture and more
  Exhibitions
  1996
  The special exhibition at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, “New Expression in Porcelain: Development in the 1990s” (Japan)
  1998
  The 5th International Modern Ceramic Triennial (Switzerland),
  1999
  Exhibition, “Nihon No Kogei100sen Ten (Crafts of Japan Selection of 100)” (Paris, France)
  2002
  Contemporary Japanese Crafts Exhibition, “Sozai To Zokei Shiko (Material and Forming Thought)” (Malaysia/Indonesia)
  2007
  “Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan: Celebrating Fifty Years of the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition” at British Museum (UK) and more

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  Ernst Gamperl

  Germany

  Woodwork Artist

  Born in Munich, Germany in 1965. Woodturner/Designer of bowls and vessels.

  After graduating from high school, he was originally trained as cabinet maker and stumbled on woodturning by chance. Starting out an autodidact with no previous knowledge of the art, equipped with a book of woodturning , he was unhampered by convention in his approach to turnery. After a few years, by means of patient autodidactic exercises and research, he has perfected this technique and he already established his first atelier in 1990. And after about three years, he entered the design school, Fachhochschule Hildesheim (Germany), and got the title “Meister”. He exhibits his work extensively throughout Europe, and internationally. His objects have earned him numerous prizes as well as prestigious museum honours, and form part of many private collections all over the world.

  Prizes
  1993
  Danner Award (Germany)
  1993
  1st prize at Hessian State Award: Autumn Fair (Germany)
  1994
  Final winner, Best piece of show, 1st prizes in four other categories at International Woodturning Exhibition and Competition (Australia)
  1999
  Danner Award (Germany) and more
  Exhibitions
  2000
  Exhibition “Volumes in Wood” at Miyake Design Studio Gallery (Japan)
  2001
  Exhibition “A Tavola con il Design” at Dadriade (Italy)
  2003
  Exhibition “Traces of Nature, Hand and Spirit” at Studio Michele de Lucchi (Italy)
  2006
  Exhibition “Un Giro più del Cerchio”at Oratorio San Rocco (Italy)
  2009
  Exhibition “U-Tsu-Wa” with Lucie Rie and Jennifer Lee at 21_21 design Sight (Japan)
  2012
  COLLECT 2012 Gallery Sarah Myerscough Fine Art (UK)
  2013
  COLLECT 2013 Gallery Sarah Myerscough Fine Art (UK), and more
  Collections
  The Victoria & Albert Museum (UK), Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich/Design in the Pinakothek der Moderne(Germany), Private Collection Issey Miyake (Japan), Fond National d’art Contemporain (France), Danner Foundation (Germany), and more.

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  Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere

  United Kingdom

  Research Director of the Sainbury Institue for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures /
  Curator of the Japanese Collections, British Museum

  She received her PhD from Harvard University in 1998. Her research interests include early modern to contemporary ceramics in East Asia and particularly Japan, East Asian trade networks, the history of archaeology and collecting things Japanese. She spent three years on secondment as a Visiting Professor in Cultural Resource Studies at Tokyo University (2006-2009). From 2009 onwards she is a Curator of the Japanese Collections, British Museum. From summer 2011 she is also Research Director of the Sainsbury Institute.

  Prizes
  2010
  30th Anniversary Special Pola Prize for the Promotion of Traditional Japanese Culture
  2011
  Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation
  Curatorial Experiences
  2002-3
  Kazari: The Art of Decoration in Japan from the 17th-19th Centuries. The British Museum (UK)
  2007
  Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan: Celebrating 50 Years of the Japan Arts Crafts Association, The British Museum (UK)
  2011
  Manga at the British Museum, The British Museum (UK)
  2012
  Art du feu / transformation de l’espace : chefs-d’oeuvre de la porcelain japonaise contemporaine, Vallauris (France)
  2012-13
  Objects in Focus: Water and Flame Pots, Ancient Ceramic Art from Japan, The British Museum (UK) and more
  Publications
  Jiki: Porcellana Giapponese tra Oriente e Occidente 1610-1760 (Joint Editor and contributor, Electa Mondadori, 2004)
  ‘Dining on China in Japan: Shifting Taste for Chinese Ceramics in 15th-to 17th-century Japan’ in Transfer: the Influence of China on World Ceramics, Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asia No. 24 (2007)
  Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan (British Museum Press, 2007)
  Professor Munakata’s British Museum Adventure by Hoshino Yukinobu (Editor and translator, British Museum Press, 2011)
  ‘The Dogû Phenomenon’ in Tsuji Nobuo, ed., Dogû Cosmos, (Hatori Shoten 2012)
  Vessels of Influence: China and the Birth of Porcelain in Medieval and Early Modern Japan, (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012)
  *She is completing a book manuscript for the British Museum Press entitled Four Hundred Years of Japanese Porcelain to be published in 2014.

Awards

Other Award-Winning Works