Soya Arakawa

Soya Arakawa (born 1984, Hamamatsu, JPN), studied at the Kanazawa College of Art and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Prof. Rita McBride. He lives and works in Krefeld, Germany.

He works in sculpture, drawing, painting, installation and performance – including solo performances on his own and collaborations in various fields in which he performs as a singer, dancer and instrumentalist. He incorporates choreographic methods into his installations and his work often plays with ideas of cultural appropriation, fiction, and self-mythology.