Kimi Emura

I am a specially appointed Associate Professor of Arts and Cultural Studies in the department of Literature and Human sciences at Osaka City University in Japan. I completed my Ph.D dissertation on the comparative studies between Suprematism and Constructivism of the Russian Avant-Garde Art at Kyoto University. I translated from Russian to Japanese and published От мoльберта к машине by Nikolai Tarabukin, a theorist of Constructivism. Also, I wrote a book of the history of Russian Avant-Garde Art , and some articles about contemporary art concerned with the memories of modernity of Russia and Japan.

My recent research interests are the curatorial and pedagogical activities of Russian art historian Nikolai Punin who visited Japan in 1927 as a curator to prepare the exhibition of "New Russian Art ". And I would consider Japanese modern art in the context of cultural relationships between Russian and Japanese art at the beginning of the 20th century. In addition, I am interested in the reformations of cultural institutions including museums after the October Revolution, from the point of view of the discontinuity and continuation of cultural memory of St. Petersburg in the midst of the drastic change of political circumstances.