Yamamoto plans to make art accessible for kids by creating a play environment allowing everyone to have space – and to build a community. In the exhibition, you will experience art with your whole being. It will be a colourful space full of giant building blocks, a specially constructed amphitheatre, and large, swirling, multicoloured textiles. In the process of building things up and knocking them down, and in dialogue with family, friends and others in the room, communities big and small can take shape and reveal new ways of co-existing with art, and each other.  

The theme of ‘accessibility’ forms the core of this exhibition: What exactly is accessible and what is excluding, and for whom? The project is rooted in a desire to look afresh at the relationship between museums and the visiting public. Yamamoto is interested in laying down a challenge to MUNCH to find new approaches to making the art institution take a more inclusive stance.

Kiyoshi Yamamoto is the fourth artist in our series of exhibitions for children, Come Think With Us!. These explore the role of participation, collaboration and relationships involved when children are at the center.  

About Kiyoshi Yamamoto:

Kiyoshi Yamamoto (born 1982) is a Norwegian-Japanese-Brazilian artist who works with textiles, silkscreen prints, jewellery and performance, among others. They are known for making works that confront social and political structures in society.

In Yamamoto’s artistic practice, there is also a fundamental and genuine interest in the public that encounters the art, and they have created several projects in which children are welcomed into dialogue and collaboration. This, combined with an energetic and extrovert visual style, makes Yamamoto an especially appropriate artist to ‘Come Think With Us!’