Nerhol

Nerhol is an artist duo created in 2007 and composed of Yoshihisa Tanaka and Ryuta Iida. Its members previously worked independently, but decided to work as a unit when they found a shared interest in raising questions relevant to the contemporary period and communicating them to an audience.

Nerhol has participated in exhibitions in museums and galleries in Japan and abroad and consistently produced works that sharply criticize the perennial cycle of consumption, creation, and obsolescence produced by contemporary economic activities. Their major solo exhibitions include, Interview, Portrait, House and Room, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea (2017), Promenade, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa (2016), Index, Foam Museum, Amsterdam (2015).

Tanaka was born in 1980 in Shizuoka Prefecture and has been based in Tokyo since graduating from the Department of Scenography, Display and Fashion Design, Musashino Art University in 2004.

Iida was born in 1981 in Shizuoka Prefecture. He graduated from the Program in Sculpture, Department of Fine Arts, Nihon University College of Art, in 2004 and is currently based in Tokyo.

Courtesy of Yutaka Kikutake Gallery