Ai Hashimoto is a Japanese artist based in The Hague, the Netherlands. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, and performance, she creates works that move fluidly between diverse media.
All of her works originate from fictional narratives of her own creation, informed by anthropology, philosophy, and science. These narratives are often articulated through graphic novels, which expand and enrich the fictional and conceptual worlds from which her artworks emerge.
Her interdisciplinary approach is rooted in her studies of Biological Resource Science in Japan, Social Anthropology in Belgium, and Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. This background, which bridges scientific inquiry, anthropological research, and artistic experimentation, enables her to move between observation and reflection, empirical knowledge and poetic imagination. By bringing different systems of knowledge into dialogue, she explores ways of understanding the world from multiple perspectives.
Central to Hashimoto’s practice is an interest in transformation, liminality, and interdependence. She is particularly interested in transitional states and the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, exploring the relationships that emerge across such thresholds. Through her work, she examines processes of becoming and change, questioning fixed categories and considering how we are shaped through our relationships with others and the world around us.
Her practice creates a space in which scientific thought, anthropological perspectives, and imaginative storytelling coexist, inviting viewers to reflect on the forces that shape life, memory, and our understanding of the world.
