Guy Keulemans and Kyoko Hashimoto met in 2000 and have developed their careers separately and together. They were resident artists at Rooftop Studios in Berlin (2010) (collaborating on the concept and design of the Berlin gallery We Are All Made of Stuff) and at JamFactory in Adelaide (2015). Since 2016, they have a renewed focus on their collaborative works with multiple acquisitions by the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of South Australia since 2017.
They also work together through Keulemans’ academic design research and curation on repair, reuse and sustainable futures, such as Object Therapy with Hotel Hotel, funded by a Federal Visions of Australia award to tour around Australia (2016-2020), and Transformative Repair in partnership with UniSA,UNSW, Australian Design Centre and JamFactory, funded by the Australian Research Council (2020-2025). In 2024 they completed a new body of work for Samstag’s Museum’s exhibition Mulka Yata / Knowledge of Place.
Their work proposes ethical and aesthetic challenges to paradigms of material practice in art, craft, design and industry relating to materials. They create objects that address existential threats posed by globalised supply chains and advocate for new forms of sensory expression through bioregional principles of resource extraction. Hashimoto and Keulemans have a love for historical and critical discourse and position their works as tools to open up discussion around objects that transition between exhibition, spatial environments and the body.
Separately and together they have featured on ABC and Al Jazeera television and radio, and have been invited speakers for events by the National Gallery of Victoria, City of Sydney, the Japan Foundation, Craft Victoria, and the Australian Design Centre. They have exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia), SODA (Turkey), Galerie Charactere (Switzerland), Talente and Schmuck (Germany), Pier-2 Art Centre (Taiwan), the Marres Centre (Netherlands), COCA Torun (Poland), KORA (Italy), the Amsterdam Library (NL) and ARS Electronica (Austria).
Australian media includes the Sydney Morning Herald, Canberra Times, Garland Magazine, Artichoke, Belle, Vogue Living and Marmalade, and international media includes Domus (Italy), Artforum (US), Wood Planet (Korea), Cut Magazine (Germany) Der Tagesspiegel (Germany), La Republica (Italy), Axis (Japan), Kaleidoscope (Italy) and Items (Netherlands). In 2021 they were named as one of the Top 100 Game Changers in design by Architectural Digest Italia and in 2022 won the South Australia Museum Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize.
Projects are detailed on their individual sites:
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Works can be purchased via their gallery representation: