Sasaki Gentaro

Sasaki Gentaro has been working at Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto (CAMK) as a curator since 2013. Sasaki is broadly interested in the cultural situation, history and society in the Asian region, with a particular focus on contemporary art in China. With the support of the Japan Association of Art Museums, Sasaki conducted field research on the state of contemporary art in Shanghai in 2017 and based on this research he organised Shanghai Beat: The Dynamism of the Contemporary Art Scene in Shanghai at CAMK. Sasaki also actively collaborates with local artists on projects and one of his representative exhibitions in this field is In Search of Origins: Art Practices Rooted in the Environments of Kyushu in 2021.