Koshihara Keiko is a curator and cultural producer working between the UK and Japan. Her practice explores how contemporary art is shaped, translated and sometimes misread as it moves across different cultural and institutional contexts. She is particularly interested in the gaps between intention and reception in exhibition-making, and how these gaps produce meaning.  

She has developed exhibitions, artist-led initiatives and public programmes across a range of contexts, including the Singapore Biennale, the Yokohama Triennale, MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art) and the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. Alongside institutional work, she has been involved in building independent and commercial platforms for Japanese contemporary art in London. 

She the founder of Schema, an art and exhibition consultancy operating across the UK and Japan. She holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art.

This event is programmed in connection to the exhibition I'm So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers 1950s to now, curated by Lesley A. Martin, Takeuchi Mariko and Pauline Vermare. The exhibition was organised by Aperture in collaboration with the Rencontres d’Arles with support from Kering | Women In Motion, Ishibashi Foundation, Anne Levy Charitable Trust,1970 Japan World's Exposition Memorial Fund and The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. Additional curatorial collaboration for the exhibition in London, with Taous Dahmani, The Photographers’ Gallery.