Chiharu Shiota - Biography

born 1972 in Osaka, Japan
 
lives and works in Berlin  

 

E d u c a t i o n

 

1992-1996 Kyoto Seika University, Japan
1993-1994 Semester Exchange to Canberra School of Art, Australian National University
1997-1999 Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, Germany
1999-2003 Universität der Künste, Berlin

 

 

S o l o ..E x h i b i t i o n s

 

2008 • waiting, Gallery Goff + Rosenthal, New York, USA  
  • inside / outside, Gallery Goff + Rosenthal, Berlin, Germany  
  • Zustand des Seins / State of Being, CentrePasquArt, Biel / Bienne, Switzerland  
  • Breath of the Spirit, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan  
 

solo show, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

 

2007 • Trauma / Alltag, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  • from in silence / art complex, Kanagawa Arts Foundation, Kenmin Hall, Kanagawa, Japan
 

collaboration with: Dorky Park / Constanza Macras, Toshi Ichiyanagi x young musicians, Leipziger Streichquartett, Yoko Tawada + Aki Takase, Valery Afanassiev

 

2006 • Dialogue from DNA, Wildnis + Kunst, Saarbrücken, Germany
 

• work on paper, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

2005 • Zerbrochene Erinnerung, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  • When Mind Become Form, Gallery Fleur, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan
  • During Sleep (2005), Museum Moderner Kusnt Kärnten, Austria
 

• RAUM / room, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany

 

2004
• Du côté de chez , in the church Sainte Marie Madeleine in Lille, France
• Dialogue from DNA, Manggha, Centre of Japanese Art and Technology, Krakow, Poland
• In Silence, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

• solo show, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

2003
• The Way Into Silence, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
Bleibend von der Stimme ..., Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan  
In Silence (2003), Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Dialogue from DNA, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

 

2002
• Uncertain Daily Life, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• In Silence (2002), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany

 

2001               
• Chiharu Shiota exhibition, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan 
• Under the Skin, Prüss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany

 

2000
• Breathing from Earth, Kunstraum Maximillianstrasse, STADTFORUM München, Munich, Germany
• Bathroom & Bondage, Projectroom ARCO, Madrid, Spain

 

1999
• Dialogue from DNA, Prüss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany

• Where are you from?, Performance, K&S Galerie, Berlin, Germany

 

1998
From Memory to Memory, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany

 

1997
Gods Play, Galerie C. Delank, Bremen, Germany

 

1996
• Similary, Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• Direction of Consciousness, HfbK, Hamburg, Germany
• Return to Consciousness, Galerie im Vorwerkstift, Hamburg, Germany

 

1995
• My existence as a physical extension, Hounenin Temple, Kyoto, Japan

 

1994
• Becoming painting, A.N.U. Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australia
• Accumulation, Hoya Galery, Canberra, Australia

 

1992

 

• Five Paintings, Shunjukan Gallery, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan
• Native-600Masks, Gallery Preview, Kyoto, Japan

 

 

G r o u p ... E x h i b i t i o n s

 

2008 • Trans Figurative, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan  
  • Kunsträume, Museum Friedberg, Friedberg, Germany  
  • Eurasia. Geographic cross-overs in art, MART (Museum of 
  Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Revereto), Italy
  • HEARTQUAKE, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel  
  • Torstrasse 166 - Haus der Vorstellung, Berlin, Germany  
  • Platform, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, 
  Kanazawa, Japan
  • Drawn in the Clouds, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA,  
 

Helsinki, Finland

 

2007 • Fiction for the Real, The National Museum of Mondern Art, Tokyo, Japan
  • The Body Sings of Life, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagaw, Japan
  • Thread, Koroska Gallery of Fine Arts in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
  • Thermocline: New Asian Waves, ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, Germany
 

 

 

2006 • Absolutely Private: On Photography from 2000 to the Present, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
  • March II, Kenji Taki Gallery
  • Imbenge Dreamhouse, In Transit '06, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
  • Tokyo - Berlin / Berlin - Tokyo, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
  • The Joyful House, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
  • Fever Variations, 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006, Gwangju City, Korea
  • Affinity of the Jomon and the Contemporary, Aomori Museum of Art; Aomori, Japan
 

• Bathroom, PI Performance Intermedia Festival, Szczecin, Poland

 

 

 

2005 • Dreaming Now, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, USA
 

• Imbenge Dreamhouse, Durban, South Africa

 

• Parallel Realities: Asian Art Now, 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2005, Fukuoka, Japan

 

• Fairy Tales Forever, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark

 

2004
• Oogstrelend Schoon - Shining Beauty, Apeldoorns Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
• Embroidered Action , Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel
• The joy of my dreams , 1. International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, Sevilla, Spain

• Senatsstipendiaten, Kunstbank, Berlin, Germany

 

2003
• Rest in Space, touring exhibition, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
• First Steps: Emerging Artists from Japan, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Philip Morris K.K. Art Award 2002 ,New York, USA
• Solitude, stage design, Akademie Schloss Solitude, cooperation with Stadttheater Stuttgart and Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart Germany
• Paysages féminins et grondements du monde, Institut franco-japonais de Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan
• Eine Bilanz, Kulturverein Zehntscheuer e.V., Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany
• Walking on Art, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany
• all A lone, stage design, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

 

2002         
• Some kind of Dream, Contemporary Art Museum of North Carolina, Raleigh, USA
• The First Move, Philip Morris K.K. Art Award 2002 ,Tokyo Kokusai Forum, Tokyo, Japan
• de waan, manifestation of both art & psychiatry, Venray, The Netherlands
• Another World-Twelve Bedroom Stories,  Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Schwitzerland
• Miss You, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
• Translated acts, touring exhibition, Museo de arte alvary carment de
carrillogil, Mexico
• A Need For Realism, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
• Rest in Space, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway

 

2001

• Die Welt aus deutscher Sicht, Stichting Odapark, Netherland
• Heimat Kunst, touring exhibition, Kulturverein Zehntscheuer, Rottenburg am Neckar, Rottenburg, Germany
• Exit 2001, Maison Arts Créteil, Paris, France
• Translated Acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
• VIA, Theatre du Maubeuge, Maubeuge, France
• MEGA-WAVE, Yokohama Triennale 2001, Yokohama Japan
• Translated Acts, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
• Marking The Territory, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

 

2000

• Heimat Kunst, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

• Continental Shift, Ludwig Forum, Aachen Germany, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, the Netherlands, Musée d'Art Moderne et contemporaine Liège, Belgium

• Strange Home, Historische Museum, Kestner Museum, Hannover, Germany

• Yume no Ato, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany

• Yume no Ato, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany

• Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany

 

1999
• ...und ab die Post!, Postfuhramt Berlin, Germany
• unfinished business, Marina Abramovic & students, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
• Fresh Air, E-Werk Weimar, Germany
• Open´ 999-2nd International exhibition of sculptures and installations, Venice-Lido, Italy

 

1998
• Finally, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
• Untersicht, Kulturamt Mitte, Galerie Weisser Elephant, Berlin, Germany
• Notes Across Asia, Konzerthaus Berlin, Schauspielhaus, Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin, Germany

 

1997
• Objekte und Stelen im Dorfpark, Dorfpark, Buchholz, Germany

 

1996
• Textil exhibitions, Meguro museum of Art ,Tokyo, Japan

 

1995
• white asia, Kyoto City Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan

 

                         

P r i z e s. /. N o m i n a t i o n s. /. S c h o l a r s h i p s

 

2008 The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology´s Art Encouragement Prize ofr New Artists, Japan
  Sakuya Kono Hana Prize, Osaka City, Japan
2005 Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunka-cho), Japan
2004 Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst 2004, Berliner Senat
2003 Pola Art Foundation
2002 Philip Morris K.K Art Award 2002  
2002 Akademie Schloss Solitude, scholarship for 18 months
1999 Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis 2000, shortlist 
1998 Kunstpreis 1998, Landkreis Gifhorn, Germany 

 

 

 

 

C o l l e c t i o n s

Sammlung Hoffmann Berlin, Germany

 
Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg, Germany  
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan  
KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland  
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan  
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan  

 

 

 

 

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