About
Masako Matsushita, an Italian-Japanese artist, explores movement through research, choreography, installations, and community-driven projects. Her practice investigates the relationship between the body, time, and space, activating sensory perceptions tied to memory and tradition, while creating connections between cultures, aesthetics, and identities.
She collaborates with professionals from various fields and participates in European initiatives focused on art, sustainability, and social engagement. She has developed participatory creative processes combining performance, documentation, and exhibitions, fostering dialogue on the meaning of movement in contemporary contexts. She is also active as a teacher and curator, contributing to projects that integrate art and community towards architectures for socialisation
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She has been artist-in-residence in Europe and overseas, presenting her own works and in collaboration with other artists in festivals including Sånafest (NOR), Drodesera35° Motherlode (IT), 16° Quadriennale d'Arte di Roma (IT), Romaeuropa Festival (IT), OperaEstate Festival Veneto (IT), B.Motion (IT), Swallowsfeet (UK), Neu/Now (NL), ITS Festival (), Haut Festival (DK), Rencontres Chorégraphique (F), Les Plateaux (F), Exentriques (F), Bratislava in Movement (SK), Residency Unlimited NYC (USA).
Beside her works, Masako has been collaborating with the international artists such as: Curandi Katz, Susan Sentler, Sivan Rubinstein, Elisabetta Consonni, Janne Camille Lyester, Josiah McElheny, Jeremy Nelson, Rachel Lopez De La Nieta, Matteo Fargion, Marie Gabrielle Rotie.
Masako is one of the founder of 4bid Gallery Amsterdam.
She is taking part in several Creative Europe Programme of the European Union thanks to the close dialogue and collaboration with CSC Centro per la Scena Contemporanea Città di Bassano del Grappa, such as: Green Learning (2022/2023); Shape IT(2022); VIBES(2021/2022); Dancing Museums -The Democracy of Being (2019/2021); Museum of Human E-Motion (2019/2020).
