Japanese culture and life in Berlin
Ongoing at Berlin’s Museum of Photography through January 10, 2016, “Pale Pink and Light Blue: Japanese Photography from the Meiji Period (1868-1912)” offers visitors a nuanced glimpse at the nascent but rapidly growing image-making industry in Japan that borrowed certain aesthetic cues from pioneering woodblock printers like Hiroshige and Hokusai, while looking forward to how […]
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The garden of the Japanese Embassay in Berlin today. Copyright: Botschaft von Japan in Deutschland / 在ドイツ日本国大使館
Read MoreAfter Japan surrendered in 1945, ending World War II, Allied forces led by the United States occupied the nation, bringing drastic changes. Japan was disarmed, its empire dissolved, its form of government changed to a democracy, and its economy and education system reorganized and rebuilt. Years of reconstruction were required to recover from thousands of […]
Read MoreNominated for her publication Illuminance, published by Editions Xavier Barral (France, 2011). Hailed for her ability to turn the mundane into the extraordinary and poetic, Kawauchi’s work explores themes of life, death and the everyday. Illuminance, the result of both commissions and personal projects, spans fifteen years of her practice. Using a soft palette of […]
Read MoreMuseum für Fotografie Fri 9 March – Sun 17 June 2012 Metamorphosis of Japan after the War. Photography 1945 – 1964 An exhibition organized by the Japan Foundation in cooperation with the Art Library – National Museums in Berlin, kindly supported by the Japanese-German Center Berlin. In the years following the Second World War in […]
Read MoreKatsura Imperial Villa. Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro 18 January – 12 March 2012 Katsura Imperial Villa, which was constructed in the 17th century and is located in the environs of Kyoto, held great fascination for many European architects who travelled to Japan, including Walter Gropius and Bruno Taut. Ishimoto Yasuhiro numbered among the very few […]
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