Michikazu Matsune | Artist

Michikazu Matsune is an artist who works in his unique style that incorporates documentarist and conceptualist methods. He utilizes diverse approaches which range from stage-performances, interventions in public and private spaces, to creating text-paintings. Characterized both critical and playful simultaneously, his body of work examines the tension around our cultural ascriptions and social identifications. Matsune is originally from the seaside town of Kobe/Japan and has been based in Vienna since the 1990s. 

His recent stage-solo work Mitsouko & Mitsuko (2021, presented at Wiener Festwochen) is based on stories of two Japanese women with almost the same name, who lived in the turbulence of global modernisation. In reaction to the situation caused by the pandemic, Matsune organised the project Performance Homework (2020, co-presented by Kunsthaus Graz) featuring do-it-yourself-works by over 25 artists that can be performed at home. He also teaches performance-practice and is currently a guest tutor at Art University of Linz and Iceland University of the Arts.