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Chiharu Shiota is an internationally known installation and performance artist from Japan. Born in Osaka in 1972, Shiota has been living and working in Berlin since 1996. The artist is famous for her monumental net-like constructions made from fabric threads. In her impressive installations the artist broaches issues of existential questions.
- Born on: 20 May 1972
- Birthplace: Osaka, Japan
- Nationality: Japanese
- Studied at: Kyoto Seika University, University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, Braunschweig University of Art, Berlin University of the Arts
- Teachers: Marina Abramović, Rebecca Horn
- Era: contemporary art
- Stylistic direction: performance art, installation art
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Biography
Contemporary artist Chiharu Shiota was born in 1972 in Osaka, Japan. She studied at Seika University in Kyoto, at the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst in Hamburg and at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, where she has lived since the 1990s.
In her art, the Japanese artist deals with themes such as mourning, memory, fear, home, birth and death in the form of installations and performances. Shiota became known worldwide for her large-scale and poetic thread networks made of cotton or wire, which she uses to cover objects or entire rooms. With these installations, the artist has taken a special place in contemporary art.
Already around the world, she had presented her works in solo and group exhibitions. In 2015, she represented Japan at the Venice Biennale. Today, the artist runs a studio on the outskirts of Prenzlauer Berg.
Exhibitions
- 23.09.2021 - 27.03.2022 Chiharu Shiota. Internal Line – Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig.
- 01.04.2021 - 09.05.2021 13th Gwangju Biennale - Gwangju Biennale.
- 17.03.2021 - 11.07.2021 Chiharu Shiota - Connected to Life - ZKM | Karlsruhe.
- 07.09.2020 - 31.01.2021 Push the Limits, Fondazione Merz, Turin.
- 07.05.2020 - 26.07.2020 Körper. Blicke. Macht. Eine Kulturgeschichte des Bades, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.
- 18.04.2020 - 18.10.2020 The Consciousness Flows Within, Asia University Museum of Modern Art, Taichung, Taiwan.
- 15.02.2020 - 10.01.2021 So wie wir sind 2.0, Weserburg – Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen.
- 08.10.2019 - 01.03.2020 The Dark Side. Who is afraid of the Dark?, Musja Rome.
- 20.06.2019 - 27.10.2019 SHIOTA CHIHARU: THE SOUL TREMBLES - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.
- 22.03.2019 - 16.06.2019 And Berlin Will Always Need You - Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin.
- 27.10.2017 - 01.04.2018 Chiharu Shiota - Direction - KODE Art Museums of Bergen.
- 20.05.2017 - 22.07.2017 Chiharu Shiota - Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris.
- 17.09.2017 - 12.11.2016 CHIHARU SHIOTA - UNCERTAIN JOURNEY - BlainSouthern, Berlin.
- 30.08.2014 - 07.06.2015 CHIHARU SHIOTA - Freer Gallery & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington.
Awards
- 2014: Sakuya Kono Hana Prize, Osaka City.
- 2008: Art Encouragement Prize, Japan.
- 2004: Scholarship Visual Arts of the Senate Administration for Science, Research and Culture, Berlin.
- 2002: Philip Morris K.K Art Award.
Literature
- Chiharu Shiota - Gedankenlinien, exhibition catalog, Andrea Firmenich (Publ.), Dortmund 2019.
- Dekalog - lost words - Chiharu Shiota, exhibition catalog, Frizzi Krella & Christhard-Georg Neubert (Publ.), Bielefeld 2018.
- Unter der Haut. Chiharu Shiota, exhibition catalog, Kunsthalle Rostock (Publ.), Berlin 2017.
- An interview with Chiharu Shiota, Andrea Jahn, Berlin, Bielefeld 2016.
- Chiharu Shiota, the key in the hand, exhibition catalog, Masanobu Ito (Publ.), Berlin 2015.
- Chiharu Shiota, exhibition catalog, Anette Hüsch (Publ.), Kiel 2011.
Collections
Germany
- Eberdingen-Nussdorf - Sammlung Alison & Peter W. Klein
- Freiburg - Museum für Neue Kunst
Japan
- Kanazawa - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
- Osaka - National Museum of Art
- Tokyo - The National Museum of Modern Art (MOMAT)
Weblinks
- Chiharu Shiota Kunstaspekte exhibition and collection overview.
- Official Website of the artist.
