bio
bio
seiji morimoto
Born in Tokyo 1971, studied musicology at the Kunitachi College of Music, graduating in 1996. During this period he began to play the electronic pieces by John Cage and his own sound performances. Since then he has been creating sound performances, installations and videos.
In 2003 Morimoto moved to Berlin, has performed and exhibited in Europa and Asia.
He runs the label emitter micro with Kris Limbach and Pierce Warnecke. Since 2017 he is the curator of the concert series Experimentik at tik in Berlin-Friedrichshain.
collaboration
collaboration
Morimoto worked in different formats with various artists such as Takehisa Kosugi, Keitetsu Murai, Olivier Di Placido, Francesco Cavaliere, Rinus van Alebeek, Tomoko Sauvage, Olaf Hochherz, Ignaz Schick, Luciano Maggiore, Crys Cole, Felicity Mangan, Kakawaka, Alessandra Eramo, Nicolas Wiese, Seijiro Murayama, Hannes Lingens, Derek Shirley, Eric Wong, Johnny Chang, Mat Pogo, Olaf Rupp, Clare Cooper, Katsura Yamauchi, Piotr Tkacz, Jamie Drouin, Makoto Oshiro, Akiko Nakayama, Yan Jun, Mario de Vega, Liz Allbee, Marie Takahashi, Andreas Voccia, Sayori Izawa, Heather Frasch, Koen Nutters, Eva-Maria Houben, Grgur Savic, Mizuki Ishikawa, Kyoco Taniyama and many more.
exhibitions
selected solo exhibitions
1998 Plaited cord / Gallery Floor 2, Tokyo
1999 Magpie / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
2002 Yellow Painting / Hino Station, Tokyo
2004 100m Strecke / or'est, Berlin
2005 Nocturne / Galerie ZERO, Berlin
2006 Schimmer / petal fugal, Tokyo
2007 Rotes Licht / ausland, Berlin
2009 passage / ohrenhoch, Berlin
2010 Short Summer (Whistle, Minotaure!1) / Grimmuseum, Berlin
floating / mex, Dortmund
Waiting for a cup of tea / Shofukan, Rotterdam
2012 Short Summer / Gallery Naprzeciw, Poznan
2015 Weather Report / Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden
Breathing Garden / Rumpsti Pumsti, Berlin
2018 die Reihe / Universität der Künste + Spektral-Raumohr, Berlin
2019 Breathing Room / Brennerei Zernikow, Brandenburg
2020 Sorrow / Spektral-Raumohr, Berlin
2021 Eternal Moment / C.AR.M.E, Brescia
2022 500 meters stretch / Villa Parco Bolasco, Castelfranco Veneto
2024 Under Constrauction / Gallery 360°, Tokyo
festivals
selected concerts /festivals / projects
1993 John Cage sound installation Essay / P3 art and environment, Tokyo
1994 Rolywholyover a Circus John Cage / Art Tower Mito, Mito
1996 BONUS961005 / Central Public Hall, Osaka
1997 Experimental Music in Japan 60's / Art Tower Mito, Mito
1998 From Cage toward... / Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya
1999 John Cage inside Electronics / Free Space 3, Tokyo
2004 Experimental Music Festival 2004 / Technical University of Munich, Munich
2005 Wyobraznia EKRANU / NRD, Torun
2006 Look at Music / Neues Kunsthaus, Ahrenshoop
2007 THEALTER International / Old Synagogue, Szeged
2008 Styrofoam Cuts and Oscillations Japonaise / M12, Berlin
2009 Experimental Music Festival 2009 / Technical University of Munich, Munich
2010 echtzeitmusiktage 2010 / ausland, Berlin
All Ears Music Festival / Wolfart Projectspaces, Rotterdam
2011 Lunga notte in ascolto / Bologna Modern Art Museum, Bologna
ad libitum X [sic!] / Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
2012 emihal / Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
Who wants to be holy? / deSingel, Antwerp
JCCE2012 / Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
Q-O2 / Beursschouwburg, Brussels
2013 Emitter Micro Festival 2013 / Naherholung Sternchen, Berlin
The Variable Series / O', Milano
2014 Kyoto Protocol / NK Project, Berlin
Experimental Music Festival 2014 / Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
2016 AVALON / VACANT, Tokyo
FRIV Festival / Centrum Amarant, Poznań
2017 Saline / Cervia, Italy
SOLO:DUO:TRIO #4 / OTO Project Space, London
Experimental Music Festival 2017 / Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
2018 ame artsit in residence / 21 Market Place, Huddersfield / UK
2019 Performing Trajectories / Petersburg Art Space, Berlin
2020 blurred edges Festival 2020 / Faktor, Hamburg
2021 SUBETE WO WASURERO / Banlieues Bleues - La Dynamo, Pantin
2022 Experimental Music Festival 2022 / Domagk Ateliers, Munich
2023 Transmisiones Nocturnas / Radio Tsonami
2024 lab.30 / St. Thaddäus, Augsburg
exhibitions
selected group exhibitions
1994 BONUS941211 / Tokyo University, Tokyo
1995 BONUS950827 / Tokyo University, Tokyo
1998 Music and man/ XEBEC, Kobe
2004 DZÜGÜÜÜN / Halle&Galerie DZGN, Berlin
2005 Views from abroad [zeitgenössische Kunst aus Japan] / Stadtgalerie, Kiel
2006 Simultan02 International video/sound experimental festival / Csiky Gergely, Timisoara
2007 Klangkunstfest Mitte 2007 / Glaskasten, Berlin
2008 farb_laut / Galerie Nord, Berlin
2009 ubiquitous oscillations / General Public, Berlin
2010 VERWERTUNG Interdisciplinary Arts Festival / Stattbad Wedding, Berlin
2011 Wir Kinder vom Ueno Zoo / HIGHTI, Tokyo
2013 Radio documenta ! / KUNST ARZT, Kyoto
2014 Case Sparse / Malonno, Italien
2016 Auditiva thirding-as-othering / Villa Brivio, Milan
2017 JNBY Festival n.2 / JNBY Concept store, Beijing
2018 lab.30 / Kulturhaus abraxas, Augsburg
2020 Windows / Closing Soon, Athen
2024 Media Collage_Forced Rhythm / Liebig12, Berlin
grants
grants
2006 residency grant / Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop
2016 composition and sound art stipends, Berlin Senate Chancellery Cultural Affairs
2020 project grant / Musikfonds
2020 working stipends-Neustart Kultur / Musikfonds
2021 working stipends-Neustart Kultur/ GEMA
2021 project grant / Nomura Foundation
2022/23 working stipends-Neustart Kultur/ Musikfonds
2025 The Gwaertler Grant
