Photobattle

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 Goto for the first time: he was a co-publisher of Tiger-Magazine, one of the first virtual/digital magazines published in Tokyo and Osaka. They collaborate since then.