Ai Hashimoto is a multidisciplinary Japanese artist based in The Hague, the Netherlands. Her diverse practice spans painting, works on paper, sculpture, installation and performance, with each piece revealing her fascination with storytelling as both process and concept.
The act of narration lies at the core of Hashimoto’s work: every artwork begins with a story of her own creation, in which myth, ritual theory and biology intertwine. Through this narrative framework, she explores how symbolic and organic systems shape our understanding of life, transformation and connection.
Hashimoto’s interdisciplinary approach is deeply informed by her academic background: she studied bio-resource science in Japan, social anthropology in Belgium and fine arts at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. This rare combination of disciplines enables her to move fluidly between the empirical and the poetic, the scientific and the spiritual.
By weaving together these diverse strands of knowledge and imagination, she creates works that are both intellectually layered and visually compelling — spaces where research becomes emotion and matter turns into story.
