Rei Kakiuchi

photo : Sander van Wettum

Drawing for Carpet Design
“Life in the Cylinder”

2025
ongoing project

Study Drawings for the Film
“Escape into 16-inch Battleship Barrels”

2025
ongoing project

Escapology
01/12/2023-27/12/2023
Grope exhibition “Other Entanglements”
Het Archief, Rotterdam

installation / performance
conch shells, metal shelf, carpets, audio equipments
size variable
photo 1/2/3/4 : Jan Andriaans

Six artists working from research and play, connecting disparate subjects, tying together unlikely loose ends and weaving a new reality. At Het Archief, they present collages and assemblages, books, drawings, ceramics, site-specific sculptures, performance and film. With work by Hillegon Brunt, Rei Kakiuchi, Marjolijn Kok, Patrícia Pinheiro de Sousa, Egied Simons and Heleen Schröder.

Slippery Caligraphy
16 & 17/09/2023
Groot Rotterdam Atelier Weekend
Drievriendenstraat, Rottedam

video / installation
03:34

Names of the four living organisms. Each damp and slimy, moving with a repulsive, sluggish motion, despised and nocturnal, active where no eyes can reach. Unknown in their diet, crawling slowly then suddenly present at one's feet, clinging to rotting flesh, secretive, vanishing with the dawn, inhabiting spaces just beyond human perception—here unseen, but certainly nearby.

Watching someone else write feels like a guilty. It seems glimpsing their true nature. The ugly handwriting of a beautiful person.

This video was captured in night vision mode.

No Sound in the Shell
17/04/2023-30/04/2023
Growing Space Rotterdam

installation
conch shells, woods
4000 x 2500

Escapology
01/09/2022–27/01/2023
Goethe Institute Rotterdam
(Artist Residency)

presentation / performance
photo 3/4 : Sander van Wettum

Rziq - The Gift Shop
29/10/2021-29/01/2022
When the Site Lost the Plot
Amsterdam

handmade wood spoons

Rizq رزق is an Arabic word that can mean livelihood, blessing, income, or work. It is used in different ways and for different reasons; rizq can be about money, but also about love and care. Rizq is a participatory gift shop initiated by Yazan Khalili, with affordable non-art objects by artists on sale. Through this platform we will discuss the current structures of the economy we work within, and produce an economy based on collective practices and sharing of resources.

Archaic Slurp
25/10/2021
Zaagmolendrift 12
Rotterdam

spoon making performance at studio window gallery
photo : Sander van Wettum

Eel Bar
24/05/2018 - 25/05/2018
Kaus Australis
Rotterdam

wood counter, ceramics, cocktail, wall drawing
finger cup ceramics made by Micha Zweifel >>
cocktail “Electric Eel” made by Matthew Stadler
7000 x 4000

as slippery as eel
as mysterious as eel
as lithely as eel
as electric as eel

To escape the captor, to escape society, to escape the city. To smoothly evade. Dispersal over solidarity, solitude over community, fluidity over rigidity.

Finger Cap
Kunstlerhaus Dortmund
(Artist Residency)

5 holes on a glass