Alexandre Ferdinand Maubert is a French artist living and working in Kyoto since 2012. He started to live and work in Japan following an artist residency at Villa Kujoyama, a program managed by the French Institute. Since then he has been active in the field of video art, performing arts, mix-media installations, and as a music producer.

After studying cinema at Louis Lumière University, he was selected for the National Photography School in Arles, France, and then for the postgraduate program at the National Studio of Contemporary Arts, Le Fresnoy. His work has joined several public and private collections and has been exhibited in art galleries, museums and art festivals such as: Mori Art Museum in Tokyo – 2016, FILUX festival in Mexico DF – 2014, Casa de Francia in Mexico DF – 2013, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome – 2013, Festival The Rencontres d’Arles – 2012, New York Photo Festival – 2010, and more.

Also Known in the music scene and as an event organizer under the name “Rem Kina”, he started performing in France in the early underground rave movement coming from the UK and soon began to produce his music using hardware drum machines and analog modular synthesizers. After 3 years of work, Ferdinand Maubert is finally releasing his debut album under the label “Roots of the rising”; a project he created to promote and produce emerging artists developing hybrid and multicultural projects. Considering music as an abstract form of storytelling, the 18 tracks of this project titled “Made in Kyoto” is a tale of these 10 years of adventures and life experiences living as a foreigner in the memorial capital of Japan.
His work has been represented in Japan by MORI YU Gallery since 2014.