mumok presents the first solo museum exhibition of Kazuna Taguchi outside Japan, who lives and works in Vienna since 2013. Her enigmatic works at the threshold between painting and photography convey body fragments, gestures, and gazes in the surrealist tradition of undermining conventional representations of the female body. Drawing from a repository of image sources, Taguchi interweaves different temporalities, narrative spaces, and viewing regimes. In her pictures, the figures seem suspended in a phantasmatic moment between appearance and disappearance.

Curated by Heike Eipeldauer

Opening on Thursday, June 12, 2025
Out of respect for the victims of the tragic act of violence in Graz and their families, the opening event for the exhibition Kazuna Taguchi : I'll never ask you, originally scheduled for June 12 at 7 pm, has been canceled. The exhibition will still be accessible to visitors that evening from 6 to 8 pm, with free admission.

The event meets the criteria of the Austrian Ecolabel for Green Events. We would be delighted if you use public transportation to arrive to the opening and support us with this act in organizing our Green Event.

By participating, you give us permission to publish images taken during the event.

Image
Kazuna Taguchi
The eyes of Eurydice #32, 2022
Courtesy of the artist