Voulkos / Mishima
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy in collaboration with Kazunori Hamana

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Born 1984 in New York, NY Lives and works in Paris, FranceMatthew Lutz-Kinoy works at the intersection of performance, installation, and painting, reclaiming ornament as a charged cultural and political form. His practice challenges the hierarchies that separate decoration from function and artist from artisan. Through scenes, objects, and environments, he transforms the decorative into a structure for collective experience.Most recently, Lutz-Kinoy presented his work in Heavenly Biches, Sogetsu Plaza, Tokyo (2025). This exhibition took as its theme the historic ballet Les Biches, first performed in 1924. Within Isamu Noguchi’s stone garden Heaven, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy’s paintings vividly animated the space, alongside a series of ceramic works jointly created by Lutz-Kinoy and artist Kazunori Hamana. In September 2026, Keramikos Carrier Bag, the first large-scale survey of Lutz-Kinoy and Natsuko Uchino’s long-term ceramic project Keramikos will open at the Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands. Lutz-Kinoy’s solo exhibitions furthermore include Capitain Petzel, Berlin; Mennour, Paris; Mendes Wood DM, New York; The Kitchen and Dia Beacon, New York; Cranford Collection, London; Museum Frieder Burda | Salon Berlin; Vleeshal, Middelburg; Le Consortium, Dijon; and MoMA PS1, New York. His work has also been featured in institutional group exhibitions at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Luma Westbau, Zürich; Z33, Hasselt; Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; Kunsthalle Zürich; FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux; Sharjah Biennial; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Kazunori Hamana is an artist who lives and works in Chiba, Japan, with a background in agriculture and environmental studies. Hamana’s practice is grounded in the materials and conditions of his immediate surroundings. Climate, harmony, and cycles of circulation inform both his daily life and his artistic process. While he is best known in the contemporary art world for his ceramic works, Hamana understands ceramics as part of a broader field of making. For him, creative expression also includes cultivating rice, fishing, preparing food for everyday life, and maintaining the local environment through the renovation of old houses in the area. These activities hold equal value within his practice. Together, they emerge from close attention to the rhythms of daily life and the surrounding environment, reflecting a philosophy rooted in elemental, enduring forms of knowledge and care.His work has been exhibited in public art institutions including at The Warehouse, Dallas, TX (2023); Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (2023); the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (2021); Towada Art Center, Towada, Japan (2017); and Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan (2016).