Judges
Yuji Oshita
(curator)
Curator of Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka. The museum is planning exhibitions such as "Exhibition Taro Okamoto" (2022) and "30 Years After Death: Kayomiyo Kinoshita" (2024). In addition, he was in charge of solo exhibitions of Maya Akashika, Maya Kishi, Kaoru Endo, Kurumi Kotani, Ryosuke Higo, Yuka Kihara, etc. in the series ``Osaka Directory supported by RICHARD MILLE,'' which introduces young artists connected to Kansai. He assumed his current position after working as an assistant curator at the Yokohama Triennale 2017 and a curator at the Yokohama Museum of Art. Specializes in modern and contemporary art history, animal representation, etc. Member of the Human-Animal Relations Society and the Japanese Equine Science Society.
Setsuka Kawahara
(Artist, Filmmaker)
Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts, Graduate School of Painting, Conceptual Design (2021). Influenced by the techniques and expressions of Central and Eastern European and Russian animation, she produces videos using cutout animation. He also creates promotional videos, music videos, and anime OP/EDs as a video production unit qootain (qootain). He was invited to participate in the art festival “Rokko Meets Art Art 2021” (2021), produced 6 episodes of the TV animation “Chainsaw Man” ED/qootain (2022), and produced a nightmare scene for the movie “Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window” (2023).
Megumu TAKASHIMA
(Art and Performing Arts Criticism)
Researcher at Kyoto City University of Arts, Art Resource Research Center.
She writes regularly for the web magazine “artscape” and “Kyoto Shimbun”.
She writes critiques of contemporary art and performing arts across the board, focusing on gender, queer, and the (re)representation of history. She recently co-authored Momose Aya: Interpreter (Bijutsu Shuppansha, 2023).