Art House Project

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Art House Project is a contemporary art initiative on Japan’s Naoshima Island that transforms old village houses and spaces into site-specific artworks and installations.

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instanceOf contemporary art project
site-specific art initiative
artForm contemporary art
environmental art
site-specific installation
associatedWith Benesse Holdings NERFINISHED
Fukutake Foundation NERFINISHED
basedIn Honmura district, Naoshima NERFINISHED
country Japan
hasFeature adaptive reuse of buildings
permanent installations
small-scale village setting
hasWork Go'o Shrine NERFINISHED
Gokaisho NERFINISHED
Haisha NERFINISHED
Ishibashi NERFINISHED
Kadoya NERFINISHED
Kinza NERFINISHED
Minamidera NERFINISHED
languageOfOfficialInformation English
Japanese
locatedIn Japan
Kagawa Prefecture NERFINISHED
Naoshima NERFINISHED
notableArtist Hiroshi Sugimoto NERFINISHED
James Turrell NERFINISHED
Kazuo Katase NERFINISHED
Rei Naito NERFINISHED
Shinro Ohtake NERFINISHED
Tatsuo Miyajima NERFINISHED
openTo public
operatedBy Benesse Art Site Naoshima NERFINISHED
partOf Benesse Art Site Naoshima NERFINISHED
purpose attract cultural tourism
preserve traditional village architecture
promote contemporary art
revitalize local community
startDate late 1990s
theme dialogue between past and present
integration of art, architecture, and everyday life
relationship between light and space
tourismType art tourism destination
uses abandoned houses
former community spaces
old village houses
visitorExperience guided by reservation for some houses

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Naoshima area hasProject Art House Project