The visual artist Mio Okido (born in 1986 in Niigata, Japan) has been living and working in Berlin since 2015. After completing her Bachelor’s degree in Intermedia Art at the Tokyo University of the Arts, she went on to complete a Master’s degree in Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts, specialising in the culture of remembrance and art in public spaces.
In her artistic practice, Mio Okido uses German commemorative culture as a mirror through which to reflect on the process of coming to terms with and historicising guilt, complicity and collective responsibility. In doing so, she links East Asian and German cultures of remembrance in a way that reveals transnational parallels and historical interconnections.
Interview and production: Jan Henselder