Nakanojo Biennale｜2025中之条雙年展
- Kuenlin
- 13 9 月, 2025
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開放時間｜Open Days of the art festival:
2025.9.13~10.13｜Saturday, September 13 – Monday, October 13, 2025 (National Holiday)
9:30 – 17:00
*期間每日開放｜Open every day for 31 days
The Nakanojo Biennale is an international contemporary art festival held every two years in Nakanojo Town, Gunma Prefecture. Surrounded by magnificent mountain scenery, Ramsar wetlands, hot spring villages with deep histories, sericulture, festivals, and traditional folk events, Nakanojo Town offers visitors the unique opportunity to experience beautiful satoyama culture that cannot be found anywhere else. Artists stay and work in this unique mountain village community and present their creations during the Nakanojo Biennale. For the tenth Nakanojo Biennale 2025, we are calling for a wide range of artists from Japan and abroad with innovative ideas and projects from various fields.
MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT
Silk thread was actively produced in the mountainous village area of northwestern Gunma prefecture since the Edo period. Additionally, iron ore, formed over tens of thousands of years by natural processes, was mined in Gunma Tetsuzan. Long ago in Gunma, families worked together to produce high-quality, shimmering silk threads, which spread across the world. During and after the war, a railroad was built to transport iron ore mined from the deep forests of the mountains. Lights illuminated the station buildings and the villages were bustling with workers.
The population exploded as industry thrived. Today, however, most of the sericulture farms and mulberry fields have disappeared, and the railroad tracks and stations that once transported iron ore were buried and only recently unearthed. We are reminded of that period through the remaining vacant houses, closed schools, and excavated modern ruins. Since the end of the era of silk and iron, a new wind of contemporary art has swept through the region. At the Nakanojo Biennale, the “Mountain of Light” is envisioned as an ideal landscape for the area’s future. Can we reach the utopian “Mountain of Light” as once depicted by folklorists and literary scholars, like Tokoyo, Nirai Kanai, and Ihatov? The Nakanojo Biennale 2025 marks its 10th edition and new developments will begin. We hope the story of these beautiful mountains will inspire hope for the future.
中之條雙年展（Nakanojo Biennale）是每兩年於群馬縣中之條町舉辦一次的國際當代藝術祭。中之條町周圍環繞著壯麗的群山景觀，擁有被列入拉姆薩公約的濕地、歷史悠久的溫泉聚落、養蠶文化、祭典以及傳統民俗活動，讓來訪者得以體驗其他地方所無法取代的美麗里山文化。藝術家們駐留於這座獨特的山村社群中進行創作，並於中之條雙年展期間發表其作品。第十屆中之條雙年展 2025 現正公開徵集來自日本國內外、具創新構想與計畫、涵蓋各領域的廣泛藝術家參與。
光之山
自江戶時代以來，群馬縣西北部的山村地帶便盛行蠶絲生產。此外，在群馬鐵山一帶，也開採著歷經數萬年自然作用形成的鐵礦石。很久以前，群馬的家家戶戶齊心協力，製作出高品質、閃耀動人的絲線，並將其傳播到世界各地。戰時及戰後，為了運送自山林深處開採出的鐵礦石，當地鋪設了鐵路。車站建築燈火通明，村落中往來著許多勞動者，熱鬧繁盛。
隨著產業興盛，人口也急遽增加。然而到了今日，多數養蠶農家與桑田已經消失，昔日運送鐵礦石的鐵道與車站也被掩埋，直到近年才再度出土。那些遺留下來的空屋、廢校，以及被挖掘出的近代遺構，都讓人重新想起那段時代。自蠶絲與鐵礦的時代結束之後，當代藝術這股新風已吹入此地。在中之條雙年展中，「光之山」被構想為這片地域未來的理想風景。
我們是否能抵達那座如同民俗學者與文學研究者所描繪的烏托邦「光之山」？例如常世、Nirai Kanai（ニライカナイ）與 Ihatov（イーハトーヴ）的世界。2025年的中之條雙年展迎來第十屆，也將展開新的發展。我們期盼，這片美麗群山所延續出的故事，能為未來帶來希望。