WORKS / lectures

2017
Panel discussion: Don't Follow the Wind

Brown University, NY



Connecting People and Community through Art : Past and Future of Art

Art Studyroom, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo




2016
Bazaar Talk : Kenji Kubota × Makoto Murata × Shingo Yamano

Kogane-cho Studio-D , Kanagawa



Camp for Grow up

Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba



Michinoku Art Pilgrims Camp 2016

Shiogama Sugimura Jun Museum of Art, Miyagi



Earthquake disaster and Art
Guest Talk : Kenji Kubota × Hiroyasu Yamauchi


Tama Art University, Tokyo



Guest Talk “Koganecho Review”

Information ‘KOTATSU’, Yokohama



Great East Japan Earthquake “The Possibilities for Art in Disasters”

Iwasaki Koyata Memorial Hall, International House of Japan, Tokyo



Invisible Exhibitions Vol.4 'Don’t Follow the Wind'

Project Room of SIAF (Sapporo International Art Festival), Sapporo

2015
Talk show by the participants of DFW preview

Watari-um, Tokyo



DFW Curator Talk

Watari-um, Tokyo



Where is the Center of Arts in Japan?
Talk by Fram Kitagawa, Yoshiaki Kaihatsu, Osamu Ikeda, Kenji Kubota


Club Hillside Salon, Tokyo



Battlefield of Art

Nao Nakamura, Tokyo



Who’s Next to Us Now?

Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki

2014
Kengo Kuma x Kenji Kubota x Gabin Ito

Red Bull, Tokyo

2013
Art Management Course / Special Lecture

Kogane-cho Studio-D, Kanagawa



Art in the Economic Systems

Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo

2012
Creative Reconstruction: Constructing View Points (-2015)

University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki



The Reason Why the Artists Make Art

Marunouchi cafe SEEK, Tokyo



Japanese Art and Sensibility of Streets after Post Modern

BA-TSU ART GALLERY, Tokyo



Culture and Social Innovation: Tokyo Conference 2012

Japan Foundation, Tokyo



Review: Master course of Tohoku University of Art & Design

Tohoku University of Art & Design, Yamagata

2011
WHO CARES? – Possibilities of Social Engaged Arts (-2012)

UPLINK, Tokyo



Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi Talk – The Direction of Art

Marunouchi Café, Tokyo



CHAIN TALK 001 Kenji Kubota x Masato Nakamura

Island Japan, Tokyo



ARTS FIELD TOKYO - Works of Curator

3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo

2010
Atsuhiro Ito x Kenji Kubota Talk Session

NADiff, Tokyo



NEO NEW WAVE Ichiro Endo x Kenji Kubota

ISLAND, Kashiwa



Roppongi Crossing 2010 – Cross Talk

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

2009
New Tokyo Contemporaries 3

Nikkei Hall, Tokyo



art-Link Ueno-Yanaka 2009

art-Link Ueno-Yanaka committee, Tokyo



a-cita cafe special program vol.12 GRINDER-MAN special★night

Asahi Art Square, Tokyo



Yokohama Triennale Symposium

BANKART, Yokohama

2008
Art as Attitude Hisashi Tenmyoya x Kenji Kubota

UPLINK, Tokyo



Report of Singapore Biennale

Super Deluxe, Tokyo



Discussing the Related Programs at Yokohama Triennale 2008

ZAIM, Yokohama

2007
Market and Art

ZAIM, Yokohama



Museums and Society

Art Initiative Tokyo, Tokyo

2006
Works Related to Art

cocolaboratory, Akita



art-Link Ueno-Yanaka 10th Anniversary Symposium

Nitten Hall, Tokyo



Works of Curator

Art Initiative Tokyo, Tokyo

2005
Volunteer Talk

Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki



Yokohama Triennale 2005 – Possibilities of Expressions on the Streets

ZAIM, Yokohama

2003
Kobe Art Annual 2003 Guest Talk

Kobe Art Village, Hyogo



Revitalizing Town by Art

Ibaraki University, Ibaraki

2001
Mito Short Film Festival - Tomoyasu Murata x Kenji Kubota

Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki



Presentation of East Asian Curators

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1999
Tsuyoshi Ozawa x Kenji Kubota

Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

1997
Inaugural symposium of art-Link Ueno-Yanaka

Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo