Soshiro Matsubara
49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
22 February – 18 August 2024
As part of its 20th anniversary in 2024, 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine is presenting a group exhibition, which explores how different contexts determine the way audiences access art., To do so, the exhibition interlaces works from its collection with works produced for the exhibition, including works by the Vienna-based Japanese artist Soshiro Matsubara and co-produced by Phileas. Matsubara also conceived the exhibition design within the venue.
With works from the collection of the Frac Lorraine by Diana Blok & Marlo Broekmans, Katinka Bock, Mark Cohen, Lili Dujourie, Hélène Fauquet, Margaret Harrison, Margaret Honda, Dorothy Iannone, Nina Könnemann, David Lamelas, Carol-Marc Lavrillier, Joshua Leon, Ghislaine Leung, Luzie Meyer, Meret Oppenheim, Bruno Pélassy, Gianni Pettena, Charlotte Posenenske, Josephine Pryde, Sarah Rapson, Georgia Sagri, Yuu Takamizawa, Jean-Luc Tartarin, Kathleen White, Ian Wilson.
Soshiro Matsubara (born 1980 in Hokkaido, Japan) is an Austrian-based artist whose practice embraces drawing, painting, sculpture and installation. Recent solo and group exhibitions include MACRO, Rome; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; and Fern Residency, Brussels. He is a co-director of XYZcollective, Tokyo, and founder of the antique store House of Matsubara.
This is his second collaboration with Phileas, following his participation in the exhibition Bruno Pélassy and the Order of the Starfish at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, in 2023.
