Yoshinori Niwa, Travelling Backwards Along the Paths Taken by People Who Left Their Country, 2026. Courtesy des Künstlers
The Japanese artist Yoshinori Niwa, who currently lives in Vienna, explores the dynamics of power, participation and social engagement in a performative practice that blurs the boundaries between artist, audience and institution. His interventions often take the form of socially embedded actions that he stages in public or institutional spaces in order to expose and question codes of behaviour and relations of domination.
Niwa's art draws on the everyday as a site of political investigation and affective exchange. His performances and actions not only criticise power structures; through collective engagement and the activation of marginalised voices, they also put alternatives into practice.