About

Sayaka Katsumoto (b. 1984, Kyoto, Japan) is an artist, filmmaker, and anthropologist based in Berlin, Germany. She earned a BA in Photography from Osaka University of Arts in 2006. After working as a producer and production manager at an advertising agency in Tokyo, she moved to Berlin in 2013. She received an MA in Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin in 2018 and an MA in Art in Context from Universität der Künste Berlin in 2024.
Most of her artistic practice primarily involves video and sound projects, based on anthropological research on hidden cultures and minority communities in her native Japan as well as broader East Asian culture and history. She explores themes of historical events from the post-war period to the present, such as; terrorism in the 1960s and 70s, left- and right-wing movements, Christianity as a religious minority, and discrimination rooted in specific regions and professions.
Utilizing contemporary new media and technologies, such as virtual sound spaces with binaural audio, aesthetics in social networks, and 3D avatars, she combines anthropological research with artistic practice, exploring new, contemporary interpretations of these cultures and histories, and the expressive possibilities that certain emotions and sensations evoke, through the incorporation of the method of sensory ethnography.
勝本彩耶可（1984–）は、ドイツ・ベルリン在住のアーティスト、映像作家、人類学者。2006年大阪芸術大学写真学科（学士）。東京の広告写真制作会社にてプロデューサーおよびプロダクションマネージャーとして働いた後、2013年ベルリン移住。2018年ベルリン自由大学 大学院 映像メディア人類学（修士）。2024年ベルリン芸術大学 大学院 アート・イン・コンテクスト（修士）。
母国日本の隠れた文化やマイノリティコミュニティ、より広範な東アジアの文化や歴史に関する人類学的研究に基づき、主に映像やサウンドのプロジェクトを制作。60〜70年代のテロリズム、左翼・右翼運動、宗教的マイノリティとしてのキリスト教、特定の地域や職業に起因する差別など、戦後から現在に至るまでの歴史的出来事をテーマに探求。
バイノーラルサウンドによる仮想音響空間、ソーシャルネットワーキングにおける視覚的美学、3Dアバターなどの現代的なニューメディアやテクノロジーを採用し、人類学的研究と芸術的実践を融合させている。感覚民俗学（sensory ethnography）の手法を採用し、文化・歴史研究における新しい現代的な解釈と、特定の感情や感覚を引き起こす表現の可能性を探求している。
Education
2019–24  
Masterstudiengang Art in Context, Universität der Künste Berlin
2016–18  
MA Visual and Media Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
2002–06  
Diploma, Department of Photography, Faculty of Arts, Osaka University of Arts

Scholarship, Funding
2024 
Projektförderung / interflugs
2023 
Projektförderung / interflugs
2020 
Studienabschlussstipendien für internationale Studierende (STIBET I) / DAAD

Exhibition, Screening
2024 
Group Exhibition for the Shortlist of the Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium des Landes Berlin (NaFöG) / UdK Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibition “Institut für Kunst im Kontext: Master-Ausstellung” / UdK Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibition “OUT OF CONTEXT” / UdK Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2023 
Group Exhibition, Rundgang / UdK Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2022
Group Exhibition "GROUP SHOW Room 252" / UdK Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Screening, Burnt Experimental Video Art and Film Festival
Screening, Short Movie Club Film Festival "NEFILTRAVANAE KINO" / Minsk, Belarus
2021  
Group Exhibition, Rundgang / UdK Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibition, ARE YOU FOR REAL, ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) / online
Screening, ASMRKitten and the Boston Collective Film Festival / online
Screening, Kinesthesia / Middlesex University, London, UK
Group Exhibition, DECONTEXTS / Millepiani, Rome, Italy
2020  
Screening, Ongezien Kort / Cinema Cartoon's, Antwerp, Belgium
2018  
Group Exhibition, Malleable Borders, Shifting Identities / Flutgraben e.V., Berlin, Germany
2017  
Group Exhibition and Forum “Farocki Now: A Temporary Academy” / HKW & silent green, Berlin, Germany
2016  
Screening, British Shorts Film Festival / SPUTNIK KINO, Berlin, Germany
2014  
Solo Exhibition "In Stock" / Gallery Antenna, Kyoto, Japan 
2013  
Portfolio Review, Düsseldorf Photo Weekend / Kraut Magazin, Düsseldorf, Germany

Publication
2022
eigenart #96 / AStA der Universität der Künste Berlin / online
ZEIT Germany Study & Research 2022-2023