Tadahiro Hasegawa

I make places where anyone can express themselves and become an artist.

Born in 1980, based in Hiroshima. Hasegawa makes participatory installations in which visitors assemble slit wooden pieces, cut from Hiroshima-grown timber and from A-bombed trees, with their own hands. His principal work, Re:Arch Hiroshima, began on a riverside in Hiroshima in 2025. In 2026 it was held twice in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park with around 500 participants, and on 6 August, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Day, on the pedestrianised Aioi-dori. He also facilitates dialogue-based art appreciation.

1980 Born in Osaka, Japan

2004 BA in Psychology, Doshisha University

2010 Moved to Hiroshima

2022 Co-founded Toshokukan 2.0 (Eikei University, Hiroshima) as co-representative of Tachimachi Shikou Committee. Selected for RING HIROSHIMA (Hiroshima Prefecture); The Good Partnership award

2023 Began making slit wooden pieces; started working as an artist. Representative of Art Aid for All

2025 Launched the participatory installation Re:Arch Hiroshima. Selected for PANORAMA, 2nd cohort (Hiroshima Prefecture)

Currently enrolled at Kyoto University of the Arts, Correspondence Education Division

— Art Projects

Oct 2025 Re:Arch Hiroshima / RiverDo! Field, Hiroshima

Feb 2026 Re:Arch Hiroshima / Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

May 2026 Re:Arch Hiroshima / Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

Aug 2026 Re:Arch Hiroshima / Aioi-dori, Tomosu Hachiroku (6 August, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Day)

— Exhibitions and Events

Aug 2026 Starbucks Coffee Hiroshima Hondori store event, Hiroshima

Nov 2026 Kaitaful Days, 70th anniversary of Kaita Town, Hiroshima

Dec 2026 Mokucolle 2026 Plus, common area, Tokyo Big Sight

— Dialogue-based Art Appreciation

Aug–Sep 2026 Four sessions at Minagarten, Hiroshima

— Press

The Chugoku Shimbun, Hiroshima Home Television