Biography · b. 1987

About the Artist

Masaaki Hasegawa (1987) is a multidisciplinary artist and author based in Spain. His practice investigates painting as a process of embodied perception shaped by temporality, material transformation, and sensory experience.

Working through abstraction and ritualized gesture, he explores how shifting psychological, bodily, and environmental conditions become embedded within physical action and material surfaces. Flowers occupy a central role — functioning simultaneously as tools, perceptual interfaces, and material agents that alter bodily movement, pressure, rhythm, and sensory feedback within the act of painting.

Influenced by long-term engagement with martial arts, underground culture, analytical disciplines, and collaborations with scientific and technical fields, his work operates between painting, performance, and perceptual inquiry.

Hasegawa has realized large-scale projects and exhibited internationally across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, including a 1,926-square-meter site-specific work in Madrid.

Work by Masaaki Hasegawa
From the studio — abstraction through ritualized gesture.
Artist Statement

A temporary field of negotiation.

My practice approaches painting as an embodied and ritualized process through which perception, bodily awareness, movement, and material transformation continuously interact. Rather than beginning from predetermined images, the work emerges through fluctuating psychological, sensory, and environmental conditions experienced in real time.

I am interested in how transient internal states — tension, obsession, instability, concentration, absence, exhaustion, or sensory overload — become physically embedded within gesture, repetition, and material surfaces. Painting functions not as representation, but as a temporal condition in which cognition, bodily action, and material behavior briefly converge.

I do not approach painting as the production of autonomous images, but as the residual trace of an event — a temporary convergence between body, cognition, sensation, environment, and material process. Impermanence is therefore not treated as a theme alone, but as a structural condition underlying perception, memory, and existence itself.

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2018Tokyo CamiiTokyo
2018Kyiv Academy of Media ArtsKyiv
2019Kharkiv State Academy of Design and ArtsKharkiv
2019Alma SensaiMadrid
2020Red Cross MadridMadrid
2020Hotel EurostarsMadrid
2020Palacio de los Barrantes-CervantesTrujillo
2020Molotow HeadquarterLahr
2021O_lumenMadrid
2021IE Business SchoolMadrid
2022White LabMadrid
2022Japan WeekendMadrid
2023HN34 GalleryMadrid
2023CÓMPLICESMadrid
2024SUUSMadrid
2024María Porto GalleryMadrid
2024Club Prim 5Madrid
2024Centro Joaquín Roncal — Fundación CAIZaragoza
2025Espacio JovellanosMadrid
2025Lapislazuli GalleryMadrid
2025Aldama Fabre GalleryBilbao
2026Pelayo50 GalleryMadrid
2026Tierra Y TiempoMadrid

Group Exhibitions

2017Galerie PerahiaParis
2017Orellana 5Madrid
2017Contemporary Museum of CalligraphyMoscow
2017BECURIOUS GalleryMadrid
2017LetstalkaboutArtMadrid
2018Galerie PerahiaParis
2018Urvanity ArtMadrid
2018C.A.L.L.EMadrid
2018Galerie WalllworksParis
2018AkTKyiv
2018Zapadores MuseumMadrid
2020C.A.L.L.EMadrid
2021Madrid Fashion WeekMadrid
2021Madrid Fashion WeekMadrid
2022Madrid Fashion WeekMadrid
2026Dolores PromesaMadrid

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