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 decisive
moments; not even any that search their surroundings for major events or specifically original motifs. Rather, it is casual
photography: serene, attentive, more at a walking pace than that of lightning speed; a photography of process, oriented as
much to time as to space.« Stefanie Diekmann read more »»
2018/2019
Fotografie neu Ordnen/Japanese Lesson
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
As part of the exhibition series Reorganising Photography, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG) invites the artists Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber to juxtapose their own works with historical works from the MKG’s Photography and New Media Collection. Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber have selected around 40 historical photographs and colour woodcuts from the MKG’s collection as well as a series of artists‘ books, which they juxtapose with twelve multi-part photographic and video works from their Japanese Lesson series. They have been working on this extensive project as artists and mediators between Japanese and German culture since 2006. While it began with a single video installation in which the artists processed their fascination with Japan’s visual culture into a captivating stream of found and their own visual material, their exploration of the East Asian country has become increasingly differentiated. Since 2011, they have been exploring various phenomena of contemporary Japan under the title Japanese Lesson, focussing on subcultures, activism and protest or the political landscape of the major cities of Tokyo and Osaka. Stukes and Sieber’s Japanese Lesson is less of a lesson for the viewer than a description of their working method and artistic process: the artists teach themselves about Japanese history and the present in order to gain new perspectives on the situation in their own home country by approaching the foreign culture. more »»
2014
Nothing to my Name.
CASO Osaka
Sequence as a Dialogue.
Sequence as a Dialogue.
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg 2018/2019
Fotografie neu Ordnen: Japanese Lesson
CASO Contemporary Art Space Osaka 2014
Nothing to my Name.
Imaginary Club, Oliver Sieber
Nationalfeiertag, Katja Stuke