Museum 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 […]
Danger zone Japan – One year after Fukushima Opening with Hans-Thies Lehmann and Jürgen Schmid 18.00 – 23.00 – admission 20/9 € Opening with Hans-Thies Lehmann and Jürgen Schmid Lectures by Akira Takayama and Chiaki Soma Polylog Texts from Japan by Nis-Momme Stockmann After the catastrophe a personal report by Sachiko Hara Party with DJ […]
Katsura 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 […]
Studenten der Schlagzeugklassen von Franz Schindlbeck, Rainer Seegers und Li Biao, Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin Bob Becker Mudra Tobias Broström Bridging the World Wejing Guo Parade Toshimitsu Tanaka Persona Andy Pape CaDance 4 2 Eintritt frei [Source]
Simon Fujiwara, 29, operates as an archeologist, private detective, and stunning dramatist of his personal life and family roots. While his spectacular cross-disciplinary activities are almost impossible to pin down, much of his work revolves around the written word, with heavy doses of installation-and performance-based expression. What’s more, nothing from Fujiwara’s autobiography—or his flair for […]
We experience sound with our entire bodies, Yutaka Makino once explained. The ear is only a part of the physiological apparatus with which we perceive sound. In his works, Makino creates situations that demand that the visitor go beyond raw acoustics. In particular, space is a crucial element in his work. Also in his new […]
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin Sat 28 January – Mon 9 April 2012 Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda has conceived an exhibition for the Hamburger Bahnhof that, for the first time, compositionally unites the two symmetrical halls on the upper level of the museum’s east and west wings. The exhibition’s […]
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin Sat 8 October 2011 – Sun 1 January 2012 In 1984, Joseph Beuys spent eight days in Japan on the occasion of a show of his work, held at the Seibu Museum in Tokyo. He was accompanied by a Japanese camera crew that not only filmed him […]