Double Square 双方藝廊

Florian Claar (b. 1968) was born in Germany and studied sculpture and stage design at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. He currently resides in Japan and Germany. Claar launched a career in new media, installation art and film art after he went to Tokyo in 1994, and was awarded the 1st Prize of the Kajima Sculpture Competition (1998) and the 1st Prize of the Benesse Sculpture Competition. Since 1998 onward, he taught at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan, and was Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Media Art at the California State University Long Beach in California, USA, and later, Assistant Professor at the Department of Sculpture Department at Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan. He has created public art commissions for numerous art institutions and organizations, among which are Midtown-Project Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Changwon Museum of Modern Art, Changwon, Korea; IFS International Finance Center, Chengdu, China; National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts-Weiwuying, Kaohsiung and Taichung International Airport, Taichung, Taiwan. Some of his major solo and group exhibitions in recent years include Waldmärchenat at Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama, Japan (2018); The Micro-cosmos of Florian Claar at Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan (2007); and Yokohama Triennial (2001).