Tomoko Konoike

鴻池朋子

2024

Play bee

Child wheelchair and Canada Lynx finger puppet

Medicine Infrastructure Map

Nothing-headed eagle

2022

Wolf Bench

Traveling Electrician

Pendulum: Gokinchi no Sensei

Kazuo Fourteen

One Wild Day

Takamatsu→Echizen→Shizuoka→Roppongi
→Soma, Black Kite

2021

"Escape stairs" concept sketch

North Mountain of the National Sanatorium Oshima Seishoen in the Seto Inland Sea, a 1.5 km long circumferential cliff

Maquette of Raccoon droppings

2020

Fusuma-e installation

Shadow picture

Pendulum Earth Baby’s head (scale model)

2019

Leather Black Kite

Setouchi Triennale 2019 installation view
From Ring Wanderung, National Sanatorium Oshima Seisho-en

Wedding cake Tornado

Ringwanderung in Oshima Island

North Mountain of the National Sanatorium Oshima Seishoen in the Seto Inland Sea, reviving a 1.5-km-long circuit.

2018

Kite Bumblebee

Go Ashore (right leg)

Akita Museum of Modern Art installation view

Go Ashore (left leg)

Akita Museum of Modern Art installation view

The old-growth flam deer pen-scratch

Hunter Gatherer

Dream Hunting Ground

Akita Prefectural Museum of Modern Art installation view

Dream Hunting Ground carving painting

Moon Bear Goes Upstream
video works

Performed by Tomoko Konoike

Carving Tableau: Moon Bear Blue

Carving Tableau: Mountain

Carving Tableau: Bats

Carving Tableau: Face No. 1

2017

Shizuka’s Cave

Go Ashore（sea）
Early morning of the day the typhoon washed away

Kalevala–Finnish Epic

Inter-Traveller

installation view at KU Natural History Museum

Go Ashore (cliff)

Oku-Noto Triennale 2017 installation view

Go Ashore (seaside)

Oku-Noto Triennale 2017 installation view

Kalevala
video works

Performed by Tomoko Konoike

2016

The Language of Animals: Beyond Primordial Violence

2015

Drop curtain of cowhide

Unglazed clay

Unglazed clay “Stone axe”

Pottery

A Fable Told by the Wind

Primordial Violence

Narrative of the patched lodge

Where the Wild Things Are

Kanagawa prefectural Gallery installation view

Wolf Hood

Woodblock Print: Face

“Fishes (Belly opening)” painting on cowhide

“Red Water” painting on cowhide

2014

The Storytelling Table Runner project (Suzu, Aniai, Setouchi, Tasmania, Finland)

Hibiya Art Wall

Where the Wild Things Are

2013

Wild Things – Magic of Landscape

WATERRAS

planet #1 first words

Miyu

Stone: haematite

Stone: rock crystal

2012

Wild Things

Pablic art at Minato-ku Children’s institutions

Wild Things
Wild Things in the submarine volcano of Tokyo bay

SUNPORT KONAN

Lodge the Art Museum Project

Mt.Moriyoshi

2011

Donning Animal Skins and Braided Grass

preview at Higashiagano-forest (daytime)

Hidden Mountain
Shining (L)

Hidden Mountain
Shining (s)

picture book “Book Burning−World of Wonder”

Hidden Mountain Reverse (front view)

Hidden Mountain　Reverse (back view)

2010

Earth Baby

installation view, Busan Biennale at Busan Museum of Art, Korea

Inter-Traveller

Busan Biennale installation view at Busan Museum of Art, Korea

2009

Shira – Spirit from the Wild

installation view at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Earth Baby (detail)

installation view at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Hidden Mountain

installation view at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Inter-Traveller

Kirishima Open Air Museum, Kagoshima

Inter-Traveller

installation view at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Shira – Spirit from the Wild (wolf detail)

Shira – Spirit from the Wild (butterfly detail)

“Red room”

narrative paintings

2008

I am not angry but yelling for help / 8th station

installation view

The peak

installation view

Ringwanderung

Hidden Mountain--Fusuma Painting (front)

Hidden Mountain--Fusuma Painting (back)

2007

Virginia−Set Me Free, Fly from My Restraint

Kawaguchi Atolia installation view

The Earth is beginning to freeze again

Down a long corridor, past the tablets of the dead, Imagination flies

Over time a primordial ocean appeared

One day there came a flood And washed everything away

Honeybees hummed, morning dew gave life

2006

The moon was hidden behind the clouds for a while

installation view at Yurinso, Ohara Museum of Art

The moon was hidden behind the clouds for a while

installation view at Yurinso, Ohara Museum of Art

The moon was hidden behind the clouds for a while

installation view at Yurinso, Ohara Museum of Art

The thing that hides in the pupil of the eye of our house

installation view at Yurinso, Ohara Museum of Art

Chapter One

Open Book Series

「Wonderful World」
「silence」
「Willow Tit」
「Globe Cross Section— Ouroboskull Drawing」

Globe Cross Section--Silverly Sleep

The planet is covered by silvery sleep

installation view at Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo

2005

寝室に降る雪

Snow that falls on a bedroom

installation view at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

mimio — Odyssey

mimio — Odyssey

mimio — Odyssey

Chapter Three
“Wreck” emergency landing on the forest (boat)

installation view at Mori Art Museum

Chapter Three “Wreck”

Chapter Two “Giant”

Chapter Three
“Wreck” emergency landing on the forest

installation view at Mori Art Museum

2004

Haphazardly tramping on all the purity, innocence, and neatness that appear in front of you

Chapter Four
“The Return – Sirius Odyssey”

2003

Concerto Angel & Mother Forest

public art at Muza Kwasaki

2001

The scent of newborn flowers, a mossy carpet. The great heaving lungs of the forest

The headlong rush of summer - the smell of droppings from countless living things.

picture book “mimio”

Curled up softly, asleep

Knifer life (detail)

2000

Knifer Life

1998

Soft sculpture Squirrel

Aokigahara-jyukai at Mt.Fuji

Tomoko Konoike

鴻池朋子