Yuka Tokuyama is a curator and researcher in contemporary art in Hamburg, Germany.
Tokuyama’s recent curatorial projects are follows: “Japaner im Revier (Japanese in Ruhr region)” by Naho Kawabe, a research on Japanese immigrant coal miners in Germany and “Aesthetics of Game” with Hiroshi Yoshida and Jérémie Cortial, a series of symposia on the theory and practice of digital games and art. Her interest in relating art with societal issues appears in such an interdisciplinary approach.
Her previous works contain Harald Szeemann: Individual Methodology (JRP Ringier) with the Ecole du Magasin. She worked in the curatorial division in the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan and in parallel, realised a number of projects with local art initiatives. A former fellow of the Program of overseas study for upcoming artists by Japanese government, Tokuyama received her MA in art history from Waseda University, Tokyo and her MA in sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.