Soshiro Matsubara is an atypical Japanese insofar as he lives at the antipodes of minimalism in the capital of the ornamental: Vienna. His art is the result of a fascinating combination of black humour, refined historical references, aesthetic dandyism and iconographic eccentricity. Soshiro loves pop music as the ultimate repository of collective desires. His favourite song is ‘Sweet Memories’ by Seiko Matsuda, of which he created a memorable cover version.

Soshiro is a samurai of art. He contemplates spaces, objects and people, and then translates them into formally and conceptually rich and layered objects and environments, populated by ceramics, paintings and installations. [Excerpt from the text by Luca Lo Pinto]

Soshiro Matsubara (1980, Hokkaido, Japan) lives and works in Vienna. He has held solo exhibitions at MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome; Croy Nielsen, Vienna; Schiefe Zähne, Berlin; Bel Ami, Los Angeles; Brennan & Griffin, New York; and with the XYZ collective in Tokyo. Recent group exhibitions include Winterfest, Aspen Art Museum and The Sentimental Organisation of the World, Crèvecoeur, Paris.