Chiharu Shiota

Born:
1972
Residence:
Berlin, Germany
Nationality:
German
Trust:
APT Berlin
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  • Chiharu Shiota fills a Savannah institution with crimson yarn and discarded wooden school chairs.

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  • Last month, from February 21-24, the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) held its eight annual edition of deFINE ART, its multi-day event of exhibition openings, talks, lectures, and workshops.

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  • The Savannah College of Art and Design's museum-quality fine art exhibits are a regional jewel.

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  • Named after Italian artist Piero Manzoni’s piece Socle du monde (Base of the World), 1961, the Socle du Monde Biennale is coorganized by the ZERO Foun

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  • Chiharu Shiota continues her exploration of memory in Infinity Lines, a new expansive site-specific installation for SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia. This immersive artwork is the newest iteration of Shiota’s examination of the interconnectivity between possessions and the narratives they hold.

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  • PARIS – To coincide with Chiharu Shiota’s current exhibition Where Are We Going? in Paris, here we look at her textile creations and investigate the way she uses thread as a way to explore memory and belonging.

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  • Opening Wednesday night at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art is the exhibition “Piranesi/ Shiota: Prisons of the Imagination,” which presents a thrilling juxtaposition of etchings by 18th century Italian artist, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720- 1778), with an installation by...

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  • As a one-to-one stand-in for reality, a transformation of space, or an immersive, sensory experience, an installation can communicate in ways that a single painting or sculpture just can’t do. In its embrace of multiple mediums – painting, sculpture, collage, video, photography, light, sound, and more – and its – oftentimes site-specific – entanglement with space, installation presents many challenges to the gallerist, the collector, and the historian. What happens to an installation when the exhibition is over? How do you collect an installation? How can it be displayed again? The following list highlights installations and environments now on view – from new site-specific installations, to historic works, restaged.

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  • Gucci has launched a groundbreaking immersive, collaborative art project channeling the new aesthetic introduced by Creative Director Alessandro Michele.

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  • Predictability is an interesting concept.

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  • Artist Chiharu Shiota has transformed Blain|Southern’s Berlin gallery, using 750,000 metres of thread from 5,000 balls of blood-red yarn.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • Back To Back Theatre's producers might not know exactly what will be in their new play Lady Eats Apple, which has its world premiere at the 2016 Melbourne Festival.

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  • Shiota’s installation is inspired by the everyday movement, life, and thoughts of the individual.

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  • A carefully-curated selection of 15 art works by outstanding international contemporary artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Takashi Murakami, Sterling Ruby, Chiharu Shiota, Huang Yong Ping, and Zhang Enli will highlight the auction that will follow ‘The Art of Giving’ Love Ball by Fondation Louis Vuitton at Paris tonight.

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  • From mass surveillance to the migration crisis, anxiety about a world in political turmoil permeated this year’s Art Basel, the world’s largest contemporary and modern art fair in Switzerland.

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  • The Biennale of Sydney has announced the final list of 83 artists from 35 countries for the forthcoming 20th edition from March 18 to June 5, including an additional 13 artists and collectives whose participation is detailed below.

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  • The Venice Biennale, founded in 1895, now includes 30-plus national pavilion spaces in the Giardini area, a mindboggling abundance of ancillary exhibitions (including especially the group show in the warehouse-like Arsenale), as well as a plethora of performance art, music and theater. No one can see it all.

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  • A mesmerizing, surreal experience awaits anyone entering the Japan Pavilion at this year’s Venice Art Biennale.

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  • Japan’s contribution to the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia is an exhibition by artist Chiharu Shiota entitled The Key in

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  • In this video, artist Chiharu Shiota talks about her installation “The Key in the Hand” in the Japanese Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale. “When people walk through here,” she says, “it’s like walking around human memories and human life.” Comprising over 180,000 keys suspended by threads of red yarn that cluster over a pair of old wooden boats, Shiota’s dazzling installation quickly became one of the most emblematic images of this year’s Biennale.

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  • The Venice Biennale is built on paradox and contradiction: against the grain of globalization, the Biennale follows a model of representation by nation-states, and its non-commercial structure is undermined by the extravagant cost of mounting an exhibition there. These inconvenient facts have been duly pointed out by art critics disembarking en masse onto Venice’s waterlogged streets for the Biennale preview week, with more than one critic seizing the image of “ladies in Louboutins” struggling to keep their footing through the Venice art marathon as the perfect metaphor for the Biennale’s inherent contradictions.

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  • When I visited Chiharu Shiota’s studio a year ago in Berlin, she had just been invited to represent Japan at the Venice Biennale along with the curator...

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  • The numbers at the 56th Venice Biennale are as bewildering as some of the work on display. There were 86 countries initially participating...

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  • There’s an awful lot of fretting about the state of the world in the Biennale’s 88 national pavilions, but little power, wit or bravado. There is a

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  • With new art spaces opening every month and many must-see shows going on simultaneously, it's becoming increasingly hard to decide which one to visit

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  • Berlin-based artist Chiharu Shiota's unique works fall under her chosen theme of "walls."

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  • Sydney-based curator Nina Miall has brought together the work of British-born Sydney-based artist Caroline Rothwell and Japanese-born Berlin-based

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  • Picasso at MoMA, Cézanne at the Met, Benglis, Abbott, Hockney, Riley, Bourgeois, Arcangel and many more

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  • The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, has invited a number of female artists from various cultural backgrounds and genres

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BIOGRAPHY
Chiharu Shiota is primarily known for large scale installations such as The Key In The Hand (2015) with which she represented Japan at the 56th Venice Biennale.
 
The starting points for the majority of Shiota’s installations are collections of used possessions; belongings, haunted with memories, that act as expressions of human acts. Complex networks of yarn are often interlaced around and between objects, linking their inherent narratives and creating a new visual plane, as if painting in mid-air.
 
Born 1972 in Osaka, Japan; Shiota initially studied painting at Seika University, Kyoto. During this time she undertook an exchange residency at Canberra School of Art, Australia. It was here that she began to explore the boundaries of painting, staging her first performance Becoming Painting (1994) in which she used her body as a canvas.
 
She moved to Germany in 1996 and continued her studies, firstly in Braunschweig and later Berlin, where she continues to live today. Her installations began receiving international attention in 2000, primarily through the group exhibition Continental Shift at the Ludwig Forum, Aachen and also the 2001 Yokohama Triennale.
 
Today her work receives critical acclaim internationally and she is the recipient of numerous notable prizes including the Philip Morris Art Awards and the Audience Choice Award at The First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art. Her achievements also include set design for several major theatrical and operatic productions including Daniel Karasek's Tristan and Isolde at Theater Kiel, Germany.
 
Chiharu Shiota’s museum exhibitions include MoMA PS1, New York (2003); National Museum of Art, Osaka (2008); La Maison Rouge, Paris (2011); The Museum of Art, Kochi (2013); Freer and Sackler Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (2014) and Kunstsammlung Düsseldorf, K21, Düsseldorf (2015), to mention a few. She has participated in the Venice Biennale, 2015; Aichi Triennale, 2010; Gwangju Biennale, 2006 and Yokohama Triennale, 2001, amongst others. Her works are included in The Leopold Private Collection, Vienna; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; The Hoffmann Collection, Berlin and The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
 
In 2016 she will participate in the 20th Sydney Biennale.
 

 


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