Kategorie: Japan
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15 YEARS PHOTOBATTLE.
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…
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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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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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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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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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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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Tōhoku 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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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,…