Chiharu Shiota

Chiharu Shiota (塩田 千春, Shiota Chiharu) (born 1972) is a Japanese performance and installation artist. She has been living and working in Berlin since 1996.[1]

Early life, education and teaching

Shiota was born in Osaka. Her parents ran a business manufacturing fish boxes, producing a thousand wooden boxes a day.[2] She wanted to be an artist since she was twelve. Although her parents didn't directly support her desire to be an artist and worried about her, she was able to formally study art.[3] She studied at the Kyoto Seika University in Kyoto from 1992 to 1996, was an exchange student at Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, 1993-93 and a student at Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, from 1997 to 1999 and at Universität der Künste, Berlin, from 1999 to 2003.[4] In an interview with Andrea Jahn, Shiota mentions that her first installation work was Becoming Painting, which was created with red enamel paint she used on her body. "Taking part in Becoming Painting was indeed an act of liberation. It was my first physical piece of work, using my whole body, rather than a skillful artwork."[5] In Berlin, she was a student of Rebecca Horn and in Braunschweig studied with Marina Abramović.[6]

From 2010 to 2013 Shiota was visiting professor at Kyoto Seika University in Kyoto and in 2011 at the California College of the Arts.

Work

Shiota's oeuvre links various aspects of art performances, sculpture and installation practices. Mostly renowned for her vast, room-spanning webs of threads or hoses, she links abstract networks with concrete everyday objects such as keys, window frames, dresses, shoes, boats and suitcases.[7] Her early works are performance pieces, many of which were recorded in photographs and video, in which, for example, she uses mud, while later large-scale installations integrate personal objects (e.g. shoes) given to her by other people. Materials and colors carry particular meanings in her artistic work, in which menstruation blood is used as artistic material and red threads come to signify human relationships.[8] Shiota acknowledges her teacher Marina Abramovic's influence during her formative years and refers to Christian Boltanski's work as a source of inspiration for some of her later installation works.[9] Places matter to her work and she is strongly interested in psychogeography, the relationship between psyche and space. Shiota's thread installation works developed from the artist's experience of moving between places out of which evolved the desire to cover her possessions in yarn thereby marking a personal territory.[10] In an interview she states that she could not have made her large-scale installations, A Room of Memory (2009) and Memory of Skin (2005), without living in Berlin.[11] She has also created work in collaboration with choreographers and composers such as Toshio Hosokawa, Sasha Waltz[12] and Stefan Goldmann[13] for opera, concert and dance projects, for example by creating the set design for Matsukaze (2011) with Pia Maier Schriever, an opera performance commissioned by Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, in cooperation with Grand Théatre de Luxembourg, Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera and in cooperation with Berliner Staatsoper.[14]

Awards and nominations
  • 2014
    • Selected by The Japan Foundation to represent Japan at the 56th Venice Bienniale
  • 2009:
  • Kyoto Seika University, Distinguished Service Medal
  • Docks Art fair - Montblanc Culture Award, Lyon
  • 2008:
    • The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists, Japan
    • Sakuya Kono Hana Prize, Osaka City, Japan
  • 2005 : Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunka-cho), Japan
  • 2004 : Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst der Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung, Kultur, Berlin
  • 2003 : Pola Art Foundation
  • 2002 :

Exhibitions (selection)
  • 2019 :
    • The Soul Trembles, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
    • Setouchi Art Triennale 2019, Teshima, Japan
    • Collection 3: Image of Something Invisible, The National Museum of Osaka, Japan
    • And Berlin Will Always Need You, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
    • Line of Thought, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany
    • Honolulu Biennial 2019 - To Make Wrong/Right/Now, Honolulu, Hawaii
    • 100 Jahre Revolution – Berlin 1918/19, Podewil, Berlin, Germany; Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany [touring exhibition]
    • Six Boats, Ginza Six, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2018 :
    • Artist's Rooms: Chiharu Shiota, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, UAE
    • Embodied, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
    • Valletta 2018 European Capital of Culture: Constellation Malta, Valletta, Malta
    • Water and Land – Niigata Art Festival 2018, Niigata, Japan
    • The last Image - The Sight of Death in Contemporary Art, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Germany
    • Art Projects 2018: Chiharu Shiota, The Wanås Foundation – Wanås Konst, Knislinge, Sweden
    • The Distance, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden
    • Beyond Time, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
    • Travelers: Stepping into the Unknown, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
    • The Butterfly Dream, Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2018, The Museum of Kyoto, Japan
  • 2017 :
    • Direction, KODE-Art Museum of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
    • Suzu 2017 Oku-Noto Triennale, Suzu, Ishikawa, Japan
    • Lost Words, Museum Nikolaikirche, Berlin, Germany
    • A Summer in Le Havre: 500th Anniversary of Le Havre, Le Havre, France
    • Between the Lines, Noordbrabants Museum 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
    • Under the Skin, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany
    • Body Media II, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
    • Infinity Lines, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA
    • Where are we going?, Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche, Paris
  • 2016 :
    • Uncertain Journey, Blain Southern, Berlin, Germany
    • Spider's Thread - Spinning images of Japanese beauty, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
    • The Locked Room, KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Yokohama, Japan
    • Rain of Memories, Ferenczy Múzeum, Szentendre, Hungary
  • 2015 :
    • The Key in the Hand, Japanese Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia[15]
    • Searching for the Destination, SESC, São Paulo
    • East Asia Feminism: FANTasia, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea; Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou, China [touring exhibition]
    • In the beginning was..., Fundació Sorigué, Lleida, Catalonia
    • A Lond Day, Artist Room, K21 - Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
    • Seven Dresses, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Germany
  • 2014 :
    • Letters of Thanks, Espai d´art contemporani de Castelló, Spain
    • "Small Room", Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
    • Earth and Blood, NF Galeria, Madrid, Spain
    • Dialogues, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
  • 2013 :
    • Other Side, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
    • After the Dream, Carré St. Anne, Montpellier, France
    • Trace of Memory, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, USA
    • "House", Galerie Daniel Templon, Brussels
  • 2012 :
    • Infinity, galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France[16]
    • Me as Others, Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka, Japan
    • Other Side, Haunch of Venison, New York, USA
    • Labyrinth of Memory, La Sucrière, Lyon, France
    • Where Are We Going?, Marugame Inokuma-Genichiro Institute of Modern Art (MIMOCA), Marugame, Kagawa, Japan
    • Synchronizing Strings and Rhizomes, Casa Aisa, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2011 :
    • Home of Memory, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
    • In Silence, Detached, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
  • 2010 :
    • One Place, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
    • Trauma, NF Galeria, Madrid
  • 2009 :
    • Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
    • Flowing Water, Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
    • A long day, Rotwand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
    • Unconscious Anxiety, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France
  • 2008 :
    • Waiting, Gallery Goff + Rosenthal, New York, USA
    • Zustand des Seins / State of Being, CentrePasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland
    • Breath of the Spirit, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
    • Stat of Being, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
  • 2007 :
    • From in Silence / art complex, Kanagawa Arts Foundation, Kenmin Hall, Kanagawa, Japan[17]
    • The Body Sings of Life, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
    • Fiction of the Real, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2006 :
    • Dialogue from DNA, Wildnis + Kunst, Sarrebruck, Germany
    • 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006: Fever Variations, Gwangju, South Korea
  • 2005 :
    • During Sleep, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
    • Raum, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
  • 2004 :
    • Lille 2004 – European Capital of Culture: Du cóté de chez..., église Sainte Marie Madeleine, Lille, France
    • Dialogue from DNA, Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology, Krakow, Poland
    • In Silence, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
  • 2003 :
    • The Way Into Silence, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
    • Dialogue from DNA, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
  • 2002 :
    • Uncertain Daily Life, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
    • In Silence, installation, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2001 :
    • Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art: Mega-Wave – Towards a New Synthesis, Yokohama, Japan
    • Translated Acts: Performances and Body Art from East Asia, 1990-2001, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA; Museo de Arte Alvar y Carmen de Carriloo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico (2002) [touring exhibition]
  • 2000 :
    • Breathing from Earth, Kunstraum Maximilianstrasse, Stadtforum München, Munich, Germany

Collections
  • Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin, Germany
  • Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg, Germany
  • The National Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
  • 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
  • The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland

Bibliography
  • 2019 Shiota Chiharu: The Soul Trembles, Mori Art Museum, Japan, ISBN 978-4-568-10519-3
  • 2014 Chiharu Shiota, Las líneas de la mano, Casa Asia, España, ISBN 978-1-940291-36-9
  • 2011 Chiharu Shiota, edited by Caroline Stummel, Gervasuti Foundation, Venice in cooperation with Haunch of Venison, Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3-7757-3156-0
  • 2009 :
    • Chiharu Shiota, Unconscious Anxiety, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, France
    • Chiharu Shiota - When Mind Takes Shape, lecture book of Kobe Design University, Shinjuku Shobo, Japan, ISBN 978-4-88008-395-7
  • 2008 :
    • Chiharu Shiota, Zustand des Seins / État d´Être / State of Being, CentrePasquArt, Biel / Bienne, Suisse, Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, ISBN 978-3-940748-44-7
    • Chiharu Shiota - Breath of the Spirit, National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka, Japan
  • 2007 : From In Silence – Chiharu Shiota, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Kanagawa Arts Foundation, Kanagawa, Japan
  • 2005 : Chiharu Shiota: Raum / Room, Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin, Germany, ISBN 3-934833-17-9
  • 2003 :
    • Chiharu Shiota / a-i-r- laboratory / December 2003, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, ISBN 83-85142-87-8
    • The Way Into Silence, solo show, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Hrsg: Andrea Jahn, Verlag Das Wunderhorn, ISBN 3-88423-211-8

References
  1. "ARNDT - CHIHARU SHIOTA". www.arndtfineart.com. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  2. Shiota Chiharu: The Soul Trembles. Bijutsu Press. 2019. p. 230. ISBN 978-4-568-10519-3.
  3. Shiota Chiharu: The Soul Trembles. Bijutsu Press. 2019. p. 235. ISBN 978-4-568-10519-3.
  4. Chiharu Shiota. Hatje Cantz. 2011. p. 210. ISBN 978-3-7757-3156-0.
  5. Shiota Chiharu: The Soul Trembles. Bijutsu Press. 2019. p. 225. ISBN 978-4-568-10519-3.
  6. Dal Zotto, Sara. "Chiharu Shiota: An Interview". NASTY Magazine. Nasty Magazine.
  7. "Chiharu Shiota". Mattress Factory.
  8. Interview with Chiharu Shiota by Rosalie Pfleger, in Chiharu Shiota. Art Jameel. 2018. pp. unpaginated. ISBN 978-9948-38-251-5.
  9. A Conversation between Chiharu Shiota and James Putnam, in Chiharu Shiota. Hatje Cantz. 2011. pp. 215–221, 215. ISBN 978-3-7757-3156-0.
  10. A Conversation between Chiharu Shiota and James Putnam, in Chiharu Shiota. Hatje Cantz. 2011. pp. 215–221, 221. ISBN 978-3-7757-3156-0.
  11. A Conversation between Shiota Chiharu and James Putnam, in Shiota Chiharu. Hatje Catz. 2011. pp. 215–221, 217. ISBN 978-3-7757-3156-0.
  12. Die Welt: Wind, der in den Kiefern tanzt. May 5th, 2011
  13. "Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany: Alif". Archived from the original on 2016-04-05. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
  14. "CHIHARU SHIOTA–塩田千春". CHIHARU SHIOTA. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  15. 56th Biennale die Venezia, Japanese Pavilion program
  16. D. Poiret, Chiharu Shiota tisse sa toile à Paris, Libération Next 31/1/2012
  17. (en collaboration avec Dorky Park / Constanza Macras, Toshi Ichiyanagi x young musicians, Leipziger Streichquartett, Yoko Tawada + Aki Takase, Valery Afanassiev)
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