Rika Nakashima, Behind the Death of Queen Bees, Installation View, Le Ventre, Basel. 2024. Photo: Demet Lydogan. 

Rika Nakashima is an artist working with multidisciplinary installation, performance and sound. Their practice reflects on the social, political and economic systems that split public and private, visible and invisible, life and death. Revealing the porous threshold between these binaries, Nakashima’s layered installations, often inspired by rituals, uncover gestures of resistance hidden in the everyday. 

Rika Nakashima lives and works in Tokyo. Recent projects include Oh My Head, TALION GALLERY, Tokyo (2024); INTERSTICE, le ventre, Hégenheim (2024); and I tower over my dead body, Gallery TOH, Tokyo (2021). Nakashima has presented performances at Atelier Mondial, Basel (2024); General Museum, Ramania Halal Supermarket, Tokyo (2023); and Goethe Institut Tokyo (2022). Nakashima founded and collectively runs the project space 脱衣所-(a) place to be naked, Tokyo (since 2022) Nakashima has been an artist-in-residence at Atelier Mondial, Basel (2024) and Art Action UK (2021).

This residency is in partnership with Japan House, London.