CV — Shinji Wakasa

Shinji Wakasa

An artist based in Berlin and Tokyo.
His work explores the materiality of sound and the ontological boundary between life and death. His installations are site-specific, built through multi-channel audio and organic materials layered into spatial compositions that invite audiences into ritualistic sonic experiences.

CV
Work

Email
Instagram

Index

Shinji Wakasa

Sound / Installation Artist, Composer — based in between Berlin and Tokyo.

Website: https://www.shinjiwakasa.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shinji_wakasa_works/

Shinji Wakasa is a sound and installation artist and composer based in Berlin and Tokyo. His practice explores how sound can shape space, bodily perception, and unstable relations between presence and absence. Through multichannel installations, performance, and sculptural sound environments, he creates ritualized situations of listening in which resonance, distance, and material vibration become central compositional elements. Recent presentations include the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Sony Park Mini, M.A.G.M.A Gallery, Culterim Residency, and Migas Berlin.

Education: Former studies at Osaka University of Arts, Osaka, Japan
Independent, self-directed artistic practice in sound, installation, and composition

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / INSTALLATIONS

2026 Re:light Festival Regensburg — media installation (collab w/ ONION LAB), Re:light (Regensburg, Germany)[Mar 10–23, 2026]

2025 AGAINST THEORY — sound, sculpture installation (with painter Minori Oga, inside SIDE CORE /

Ping paling exhibition) 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Kanazawa, Japan) [Dec 23,

2025 - Jan 13, 2026]

2025 KLANGLICHT 2025 — media installation (collab w/ ONION LAB), KLANGLICHT (Graz, Austria) [Oct

24–27, 2025]

2025 The Caul — sound installation, Culterim Artis in Residence (Berlin, Germany) [July 5, 2025]

2025 The Ghost Sings Here — group exhibition / sound installations, MA2 Gallery (Kamakura, Japan) [Jan

17–26, 2025]

2024 HAKUMEI 2.0 (Twilight 2.0) — solo multichannel sound installation, MAGMA Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

[Sep 13–17, 2024]

2024 Yoake No Oto / DAWN — solo installation, Sony Park Mini (Ginza, Tokyo, Japan) [Jun 15–30, 2024]

2023 HAKUMEI — solo sound installation, AA (Kabutocho, Tokyo, Japan) [Mar 29–Apr 2, 2023]

2020　　Life In The “_____”, Claska 8F The 8th Gallery(Meguro, Tokyo, Japan)[Dec 17-19, 2020 ]

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2025 Skeleton of religious art o — performance + Buddhist chant, Ryokakuji Temple in Tsuruga, Fukui

(Japan) [Oct 25, 2025]

2025 PRESENTATION – VOL.0 — live performance (SIDE CORE / Ping paling), Theater 21 / 21st Century

Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Japan) [Aug 4, 2025]

2025 Resonance of a Drop — live performance, Migas (Berlin, Germany) [Jul 10, 2025]

RESIDENCY

2025 Gutshof Dahlewitz (Sommer 2025) — Culterium residency, Germany (production of “The Caul”)

SELECTED COMMISSION / COLLAB (FASHION / PERFORMANCE)

2025 IRENISA — music / performance for Spring–Summer 2025 runway presentation

2025 Bed.jw.Ford — music collaboration for Fall–Winter 2024runway show in Paris fashion week

2024 YOKE — music 2024 for Fall–Winter 2024 runway show in Tokyo fashion week

2023 stein — music 2023 for Fall–Winter 2023 runway show in Tokyo fashion week