Writing & Talks

Talks

1. 2026 Shimmering Light: Women Sculptors in Postwar Art Practicewith Charlotte Matter, Izumi Nakajima, Annalisa Rimmaudo, Nodoka Odawara, Naoyuki Umemura, Gabrielle Schaad Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo × AWARE, Tokyo Moderator
2. 2026 Gender in the Artswith Hiroki Yamamoto, Seiran Tsuno OFBA Women’s Empowerment Committee, Ginza Maison Hermès Le Studio, Tokyo Guest speaker
3. 2026 Traces of the Future: Women Artists in Japan—Then, Now and Beyondwith Michiko Kasahara, Mariko Takeuchi Bunkamura / Hikarie Hall, Tokyo Presenter and moderator
4. 2026 Artists-in-Residence: Experimenting with New Ways of Creating Placewith Tomoko Hayashi, Kenta Kuroda, Isabelle Olivier, Foster Mickley Institut français du Kansai, Kyoto Discussion participant and poetry reader
5. 2026 Art and Gender: Representation, Careers, and Relations of Powerwith Laurianne Jagot Onari Institut français du Kansai, Kyoto Panellist
6. 2026 Conversation between Artist Tomoko Sawada and Curator Marina Amada Thursdays at Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto Conversation partner
7. 2025 Traces of the Future—Women Photographers from Japan and Korea Changing the Perspectives of Their Timewith Miyako Ishiuchi, Kim Honghee T3 Talk Program, Tokyo Midtown Yaesu, Tokyo Co-moderator with Nina Volz
8. 2025 Artist Conversation — REFLECTION 11/03/11with Ai Iwane, Kazuma Obara, Mayumi Suzuki, Lina Selander Landskrona Foto, Landskrona, Sweden Co-moderator with Philippe Séclier
9. 2025 Memory and Synesthesiawith Takayuki Mitsushima black cat day dream, Kyoto Conversation partner
10. 2025 NCAR Talk 003: Artists’ and Curator’s Talk on Les Rencontres d’Arleswith Hikaru Fujii, Ai Iwane National Center for Art Research, Tokyo Presenter and moderator
11. 2024 REFLECTION—11/03/11 — Exhibition Tour Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France Co-led with Philippe Séclier
12. 2024 Gender Balance in Artistic Practice and the Activities of AWARE “Considering Gender,” Academic Frontier Lecture, University of Tokyo, Tokyo Guest lecturer
13. 2024 Presentation on the SPECTRUM Collective Manif d’art 11 — Québec City Biennial, conference, Québec City, Canada Presenter
14. 2023 Confronting Gender Issues as an Independent Curator Tokyo University of the Arts × Mizuho Financial Group “Art and Gender” joint research project, Tokyo Guest lecturer
15. 2023 Radia Femcast Utopia: Feminist Utopia Then and Now Radio LoRa, Zürich, Switzerland Guest interviewee
16. 2023 Radio Cola Bora — Feministas Futuristas Radio Cola Bora (recorded in Sofia), Berlin Radio / Podcast
17. 2021 Kazuma Obara in Conversation with Marina Amada KYOTOGRAPHIE 2021, QUESTION, Kyoto Conversation partner; exhibition curator ↗
18. 2020 Contextualizing Sight: Emerging Approacheswith Takayuki Mitsushima, Kojiro Hirose, Yasuhiro Ishibashi KYOTOGRAPHIE 2020, Atelier Mitsushima Sawa-Tadori, Kyoto / online Moderator; exhibition curator ↗
19. 2020 Q&A: Note for Note — Marie Liesse × Marina Amada KYOTOGRAPHIE 2020, Demachiza, Kyoto Q&A host and interpreter ↗
20. 2019 In Conversation with Weronika Gęsicka & Marina Amada KYOTOGRAPHIE 2019, Shimadai Gallery Kyoto, Kyoto Conversation partner; exhibition curator ↗