Kategorie: Artistic Work
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 »»…