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15 YEARS PHOTOBATTLE.
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of »Photobattle« several events took place in Konohana and Juso, Osaka. April 10 Walking through Namba Katja Stuke, Henguchi, Oliver Sieber April 13 Exhibition and Talk Kuromegarou Gallery, Konohana Katja Stuke, Henguchi, Oliver Sieber, Tetsuya Goto and guests April 15 Walking through Juso, Osaka Katja Stuke, Henguchi, Oliver Sieber, Yoshihito…
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Who owns the City?
Workshops, lectures and artist talks in Japan. Since 2005 Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber have been giving lectures, workshops and artist talks in Japan on several occasion, about their work, their artistic practice or photography. Also the question of artist exchage has been a topic of discussions several times. 2013 »On photography« Kyoto University of…
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ANT!FOTO BAR. Sumiyoshi Edition.
2024 Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber were awarded the MO_Kunstpreis, Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U. The exhibition shows the ANT!FOTO BAR including a selection of (rare) book, regarding Japanese artists groups like Gutai, EXPO70 Osaka, books about photography, theorie, some zines and mangas. Also a collection of zines and books by Stuke & Sieber from…
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Ville Invisible.
»A single building’s history can reveal layers of the city that once was, showing how spaces constantly evolve. New cities emerge on top of the old, creating a complex landscape of urban plateaus.« (from the interview with Ivan Vartanian) Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber have been working on »Cartographie Dynamique« since 2017. »Cartographie dynamique« is…
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KONOHANA DREAM.
»Konohana Dream« is a juxtaposition of two videos: one taken 2019 while bicycling through this local disctrict, the other created with Google Street View following the exact same route – an opportuity to reflect upon time, process and progress, transformation or memory. see the video »» »Konohana Dream« 2020two-channel video, 33:36 minwith sound »Discussing EXPO«…
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Moon over Konohana.
Katja Stuke’s and Henguchi’s collaborative exhibition was shown at the JKI Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln (The Japan Foundation) from Nov. 6, 2020 until May 2021. The exhibition was on show for a few weeks. Due to the Corona restrictions, Henguchi was unable to travel from Osaka. In 2022 he was resident artist of the WELTKUNSTZIMMER in…
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North of Mikawashima.
Photopaper 66/67 by Takano Ryudai, Oliver Sieber and Katja Stuke. Published 2021. PHOTOPAPER was a monographic photo publication with a continuously changing editorial team of international experts. These guest editors name photographers or photographic projects which they would like to present to an international public. PHOTOPAPER features this work in single monographic issues of 16…
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ANT!FOTO BAR.
Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber have been working for 25 years with photography as a medium, but also with the various possibilities of exhibiting, researching and publishing photography. Since 2010, they have been organizing ANT!FOTO, an ongoing series of exhibitions and events hosted at various institutions. At its core, the series fosters dialogue around the…
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JAPAN-RELATED EXHIBITIONS.
2019 Sequence as a Dialogue Kunsthalle Gießen »Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber’s photographic work is image production in an understated mode. No photographs of decisivemoments; not even any that search their surroundings for major events or specifically original motifs. Rather, it is casualphotography: serene, attentive, more at a walking pace than that of lightning speed;…
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Discussing EXPO.
In 2019 Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber invited Henguchi and other people from Konohana to discuss EXPO. Architects and artists as well as shop- and hotel-owners, local people talked about their opinion or memory of EXPO 70 and their expectations, hopes and worries regarding EXPO 2025, which takes place in Konohana. The recording of this…
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✴︎ PhotobattleAnata ga Hoshi./ Next Family.
Next Family. DOUBLE GOOD. October 2017As part of FFT Nippon Performance Night, organized by Akiko Okamoto, Henguchi, Mizuuchi Yoshihito and Itoh Tomohisa where invited to WELTKUNSTZIMMER Düsseldorf. As Next Family/Double Good the showed collaborative exhibitions and performances. ANATA GA HOSHI. November 2013The two artists Takuma Uematsu (Osaka) and Yuki Hayashi (Kobe) showed sculptures and video…
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Japanese Lesson.
Since 2006 Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber have been traveling to Japan, working on topics from subculture to surveillance. Since 2011 they are developing an extensive body of work they call the »Japanese Lesson«. At the beginning it was a single one-channel video, dealing with the visual influence, research and overwealming impressions of the Japanese…
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Import Export.
Several Japan related events in Düsseldorf organized by Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber: Oct 21, 2010 »Roadside Japan« A Lecture by Tzusuki KyoichiKünstlerverein Malkasten In cooperation with the Japan Foundation, Cologne Nov 18, 2011»Contemporary Japanese and German Photography« A Lecture by Takashi Homma Künstlerverein Malkasten Jan–Apr 2016 Keiji Uematsu, Invisible Force and Seeing. Exhibition.Künstlerverein Malkasten…
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✴︎ PhotobattleBattle – as a lecture performance.
To introduce their photobook You and Me – within a timeframe of only 15 minutes – Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber decided on a different form of photobattle. This juxtaposition and sequence of images and text later bacame the basis for the two-channel video projection of You and Me. This lecture was also the blueprint…
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A Walk with Henguchi.
24 images following Japanese artist Henguchi while walking through Konohana, 2014. »Walking was always the first choice for us to get to know and explore a new city. In the beginning, however, walking itself was not a conceptual part of the photographic works we created. Walking became an important / main focusin our collaborative artistic…
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Activism and Anarchism.
Tokyo No Hate The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was an energy accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima, initiated primarily by the tsunami following the Tohoku earthquake on 11 March 2011. Since then Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber met activists in Japan, joined protest demonstrations, exchanged with artists and learned a lot…
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Cry Minami.
Cry Minami is an artistic work by Katja Stuke consisting of several different parts. Stuke takes Minami‘s publicly expressed remorse as an opportunity typical of her work – to ask questions about the authenticity and staging of images. »Some years ago Minami Minegishi, a singer of Japanese Idol-Band AKB48 got a some international media attention:…
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COPY AND FAX.
True Copy was an exhibition by Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber at Henguchi’s gallery Kuromegarou in Konohana in 2012.(before it was shown at Florence Loewy in Paris).With True Copy Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber deal with various questions of copy and original. During their first long trip to Beijing, they came across the topic again…
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Second Photobattle.
The second photobattle – the return-match – took place inside the subwaystation Moskauer Straße in Düsseldorf. June 6, 2011Photobattle in DüsseldorfKatja Stuke & Yoshinori Henguchi.Performance: Henguchi,Hino & AchanHandelszentrum/Moskauer Str., Subway Station U 75, Düsseldorf June 15, 2011, Fanzine-Creat-PartyStudio Böhm Kobayashiwith guest musicians: Swen Buckner, Achan & Hino, Shunsuke Oshio
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ANT!FOTO #2
In 2011 several ANT!FOTO exhibitions and events took place in Osaka and Düsseldorf. Two month after the earthquake in Japan all guests came to Düsseldorf nevertheless. Feb 4 – Feb 6, 2011Photobattle in OsakaKatja Stuke & Yoshinori Henguchi:Baikado Gallery & Bloom Gallery, Osaka May 10 – July 3, 2011, Kunstraum Düsseldorfexhibition with: Ryudai Takano, Lieko…
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✴︎ JapanTōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
The Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake, which happened on March 11, 2011, at a magnitude of 9.0, resulted in unprecedented damage in Japan. Disasters, such as fires at the nuclear power plants, occurred one after another. Many people have lost their beloved families and friends, as well as the houses that they have lived in…
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Konohana.
At the same moment as the first ANT!FOTO exhibition in 2010, a first photobattle was realized at Baikado in Konohana and Bloom Gallery in Juso, Osaka. Possible approaches to the question of whether and how photography functions as a visual means of communication, whether it can be a “visual Esperanto”, are fundamental to the various…
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First Photobattle.
Tetsuya Goto also was the one who introduced Katja Stuke and Henguchi in 2010. Stuke was looking for a partner to realise the first Photobattle. They met in Konohana, Osaka, since then the central spot for all exchange activities. They agreed to walk through Namba area the next day, both equipped with small Fuji disposable…
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CCTV – Osaka Public
The images of Osaka Public / Osaka Private, 2006 are based on videos shot by Katja Stuke in the streets of Osaka. The images mostly show passers-by who are unaware of being observed by the media. The images are characterised by a certain fleetingness, the people are in motion, some can only be seen as…
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Character Thieves.
Two of Sieber’s series, Character Thieves and J_Subs, both of which are connected to Japan in different ways, are currently on show in an exhibition entitled Dress Code at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn co-produced with the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and the Kyoto Costume Institute. Sieber’s relationship with Japan actually began in his…
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J_Subs.
The portraits of Oliver Sieber’s J_Subs were taken during the ArtEx residency in Osaka in 2006, the artist book was published some years later in 2009 including a text by Christoph Schaden. J_Subs were later exhibited at Kyotographie Festival in 2015 and at Fotomuseum Winterthur & Fotohof Salzburg. read more »» related: Imaginary Club »»…
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CASO exhibition.
Exhibition by Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber at the Contemporary Art Space Osaka 2006 including Oliver Sieber’s J_Subs and Charachter Thieves, Katja Stuke’s CCTV/Osaka Public, the Naniwa Blog (image) and all zines and publications realised before 2006.
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2006: Kobayashi San.
A chain of visual associations. From Jan 2006 to Jan 2007 with more than 70 international photographers. The blog started during Stuke / Sieber’s first stay in Osaka in 2006. Together with Hisako Nakagawa they invited photographers, artists, friends in Germany, Japan, Canada, Romania, from South America, Turkey, the Baltic Countries, the Netherlands, South Korea…
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2006: ArtEx.
ArtEx was an residency grant and exchange program between Düsseldorf and Osaka Prefecture until 2006. It was funded by the City of Düsseldorf and the Ernst Poensgen Stiftung. Unfortuately it was terminated in 2006, Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber where the last artists from Düsseldorf coming to Osaka. They stayed near Sakaisuji Honmachi in Osaka,…
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Böhm Tradecenter.
The Böhm Tradecenter was an online-exhibition space created by Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber. Using virtual shipping container as a modular exhibition space. Between 2005 and 2010 they showed 28 virtual exhibitions. The first Trandecenter was actually exhibited in a physical container as part of PhotoEspaña in 2005. From Japan they invited Hisako Nakagawa, who…