Koki Tanaka lives and works in Kyoto. His art practice spanning video, photography, site-specific installation, and interventional projects visualizes and reveals the multiple contexts latent in simple everyday acts. Lately Tanaka has been asking participants to collectively navigate out of ordinary tasks, documenting their unconscious behavior to reveal group dynamics in a micro-society and temporal community. Following the disaster on March 11, 2011 in Japan, Tanaka has employed methods to produce works on the relationality between human beings or “collective acts”: experiments of various sorts that lack fixed destination. He has shown widely at venues including Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; Kunsthaus Graz; Kunsthaus Zurich; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. Biennials include Skulptur Projekte, Münster (2017); 57th Venice Biennale (2017); Liverpool Biennial (2016); 55th Venice Biennale (2013); Yokohama Triennale (2011); Gwangju Biennale (2008); and Taipei Biennial (2006). He received special mention for national participation at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013) and the Deutsche Bank “Artist of the Year” award in 2015.