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In 2006, Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber were fellows of the ArtEX program, an artist exchange between Düsseldorf and Osaka. Since then, they have returned to Japan regularly. After returning from Osaka, they met Marie Ogoshi, who had just arrived in Düsseldorf to study at the Academy. The works exhibited in the exhibition are individual motifs from extensive projects developed over long periods. In their artistic practice, Stuke & Sieber explore social themes, political and social landscapes, and questions of…
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Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber curated the first ANT!FOTO exhibition in 2010. In 2011, as part of the 150th anniversary of German-Japanese friendship, they had the possibility to invite several Japanese artists to Düsseldorf. This was another important moment in their exchange with Osaka, building on their first residency there five years earlier. Feb 4 – Feb 6, 2011Photobattle in OsakaKatja Stuke & Yoshinori Henguchi:Baikado & Bloom Gallery, Osaka May 10 – July 3, 2011Kunstraum Düsseldorfexhibition with: Ryudai Takano, Lieko…
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To celebrate the 15th anniversary of »Photobattle« in 2025 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 Mizuuchi, Atsumi Tagami, Itou Tomohisa, Yosuke Ohtake April 21 Conclusion Session Katja Stuke, Henguchi, Oliver Sieber, Yonago, Naoto Muzobe and guests
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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 Art and Design invited by Mariko Takeuchi 2013 »Neue Fotobücher aus Japan« Fotobookfestival, Kassel 2014 »Blicke auf Japan gestern & heute« Im Rahmen der Ausstellung…
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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 the last years.In the exhibition you find various other bodies of work like »Sumiyoshi Walk« a grid of 36 photographic prints of a »Walk« in…
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»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 a virtual network connecting cities in Japan, Germany, France, China or India with the distinctive photographic works created in each location, often focussing on the…
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»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« Konohana 2019left: Dream Island, Konohana. With a Bike, 2019right: Konohana Parallel, Google Street View, 2020
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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 Düsseldorf for a few weeks. Looking back on the exhibition »Moon over Konohana«, he showed a performance entitled »Moon Molting« in the park near the…
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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 or 32 pages. From a dialogue between Katja Stuke, Olive Sieber and Takano Ryudai: I understand ‚Deep Japan’ as an area left behind by development…
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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 many forms and expressions of photography.One recurring format within this series is the ANT!FOTO BAR. For each edition, Stuke and Sieber – along with invited…
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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; a photography of process, oriented asmuch to time as to space.« Stefanie Diekmann read more »» 2018/2019 Fotografie neu Ordnen/Japanese Lesson Museum für Kunst und…
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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 discussion has been edited and used as sound for Konohana Dream »» Also the zine Sequence as a Dialogue has been published, juxtaposing own images…
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✴︎ PhotobattleNext Family. DOUBLE GOOD. October 2017 As 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 works in the exhibition Anata ga hoshii. I want you at WELTKUNSTZIMMER DÜsseldorf. Together with the curator Tadashi Kobayashi (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe)…
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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 cities, life and culture. Since then their perspective became more elaborated and several new works have been created: photobooks, different photographic series, dealing with topics…
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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 Düsseldorf Feb 21, 2017 Import. Export Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf with Michiko Shida, Katja Stuke, Oliver Sieber, Japanese Lesson, Sake Bar Oct. 23, 2020 Herr Tajima…
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✴︎ PhotobattleTo 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 for Indian Defense, a one-channel video, realised for the Chennai Biennale 2021. Sept. 2015EMOP European Month of Photography BerlinMusuem für Fotografie Berlin
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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 practice in Osaka – more precisely in Konohana – about 10 years ago.Konohana is a district in Osaka, quite central, near the harbour. It is…
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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 abour places, spaces and history in Japan. Tokyo No Hate. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg2018 Tokyo No Hate. PhotobookMuseum Cologne / Tokyo Express2022 SAKAE…
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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: she appeared on Japanese TV, crying with shaved hair — apologizing that she had a sexual affair with a young man. That seems to be…
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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 and again: counterfeit fashion products, pirated copies of films and music, a theme park with small scaled buildings from all continents and even counterfeit banknotes.…
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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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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 Shiga, Yoshinori Henguchi, Nao Nishibata, Ulrike Brückner, Stephen Gill, Jacob Holdt, Adrian Sauer, Juergen Staacklectures by: Duncan Wooldridge and Rainer Gabrielwith support by: Thomas Neumann ,…
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✴︎ JapanThe 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 for a long time.The sadness and anxieties that people hold, frightened by the aftershocks, far exceeds our imagination. Even though we feel uneasy ourselves, we…
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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 photobattle performances, but also recur repeatedly in ANT!FOTO. »Konohana is a district in Osaka, quite central, near the harbour. It is a very local area,…
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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 cameras, capturing what they saw, using this method as a form of communication despite their two different languages and later using these images for their…
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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 back figures. Stuke’s work also alludes to the moment of surveillance cameras and reminds us that we may be at the mercy of unasked and…
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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 hometown of Dusseldorf, a city with a significant Japanese influence that dates back to the post-war period. In 2004, while wandering through the city’s Japan…
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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 »» SkinsModsTeds »»
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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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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 to take part, to post pictures to the blog. Each picture was an answer, an opposite, a challenge, a formal context or a similar topic…
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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, a residency space (image) provided by artist Yoshihito Kawabata and the Clean Brothers group. During this residency Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber also met Tetsuya…
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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 came as ArtEx artist from Osaka to Düsseldorf and Ryudai Takano (for the very first time).And also an installation by Antenna Group, whom they met…