International Connections
MIMAI develops through a network of institutions, independent initiatives, and long-term collaborators across different cultural and disciplinary contexts.
Academic and Institutional Contexts
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Department of Japanese Studies, Düsseldorf, Germany
Academic and research context through the Institute of Modern Japanese Studies.
Osaka University, School of Human Sciences, Osaka, Japan
Research exchange related to social anthropology, migration, collective memory, and forms of lived experience across cultural and geographical boundaries.
Kansai University, Faculty of Letters, Osaka, Japan
Research exchange connecting East Asian literature and cultural history with aesthetics, visual culture, and film and media studies.
Nihon Fukushi University, Faculty of Social Welfare, Aichi, Japan
Research exchange concerning ageing, social memory, community care, and the relationship between individual lives and changing social structures.
Cultural and Project Networks
Taifun Project e.V., Düsseldorf, Germany
A close and ongoing collaboration across exhibitions, publications, and cultural projects, shaped by the active involvement of both MIMAI founders in Taifun Project e.V.
China Culture Connect, London, United Kingdom
Collaboration across documentary production, exhibitions, and international cultural projects.
Asian American Art & Culture Initiative, Houston, United States
Collaboration across artistic projects, research, and documentary work concerning diasporic histories and cross-cultural exchange.
Cultural Institutions
Immermann Kultur e.V., Düsseldorf, Germany
Founded by MIMAI co-founder Shingo Shimada, Immermann Kultur e.V. has long fostered cultural exchange between Japan and Düsseldorf
OAG Tokyo, German East Asiatic Society, Tokyo, Japan
One Art Project, Osaka / Ibaraki, Japan
Neue Fotografie, Düsseldorf, Germany