Chiharu Shiota: The Key in the Hand
Distanz 2015
Born Osaka, Japan 1972
Lives and works in Berlin
Over the course of the past three decades, Chiharu Shiota has built a stellar international career, exhibiting widely in major museums across Europe, Asia and Australia.
Chiharu Shiota is best known for intricate and large-scale installations that explore complex relationships between body and mind. She maps elusive sensations of emotion and memory by weaving tangible objects – clothing, musical instruments, furniture, letters, and even an incinerated piano – into extensive, tangled webs created with hundreds of metres of delicate thread. By capturing objects in this way, the artist creates atmospheric, otherworldly environments that inspire reflection on things past and meditation on future dreams.
Shiota has studied in several countries including at Canberra School of Art, Australian National University in 1994, Kyoto Seika University, Japan in 1996, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, Germany in 1999 and at Universität der Künste, Berlin in 2003.
The largest solo exhibition of the artist’s work, The Soul Trembles, curated by Mami Kataoka, has been touring Australasia since its launch in 2019 at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. The Soul Trembles has been presented at Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; Long Museum, Shanghai, China; Museum MACAN, Jakarta, Indonesia; and Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art (QAGoMA), Brisbane, Australia, where it is currently exhibiting. Chiharu Shiota represented Japan at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, presenting The Key in the Hand in the Japanese Pavilion, curated by Hitoshi Nakano. Exhibitions include: Seven Dresses, Stadtgalerie, Saarbrücken (2015); Le Fil Rouge, Espace culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris (2015); Inhabiting the World, Busan Biennale (2014); Progress and Hygiene, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2014); Over the Continents, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (2014); Home of Memory, La Maison Rouge, Paris (2011); Inner Voices, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2011); Walking in My Mind, Hayward Gallery, London (2009); Breath of Spirit, The National Museum of Art, Osaka (2008).
Public and private collections include the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Detached, Hobart; Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg, Germany; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Ömer Koc, Istanbul; Centre PasquArt, Switzerland.
Oliver Beer, Angela de la Cruz, Emily Floyd, Jan Nelson, Rose Nolan, Chiharu Shiota, David Noonan, Taryn Simon
IN HOUSE
17th February – 30th April 2024
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Chiharu Shiota
Chiharu Shiota | Hammer Museum
26th March – 27th August 2023
Hammer Museum
Chiharu Shiota
The Soul Trembles
26th November 2022 – 30th April 2023
Museum MACAN
Chiharu Shiota
State of Being
25th June – 23rd July 2022
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Peter Tyndall, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Chiharu Shiota
I draw, therefore I think
11th September – 23rd October 2021
SOUTH SOUTH
Chiharu Shiota
The Crossing
2nd – 5th August 2018
Melbourne Art Fair
Chiharu Shiota
New Works
1st – 12th August 2018
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Chiharu Shiota
Absent Bodies
7th October – 17th December 2016
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Chiharu Shiota
The Home Within
6th – 23rd October 2016
Melbourne Town Hall
Chiharu Shiota
Conscious Sleep
18th March – 5th June 2016
20th Biennale of Sydney
Chiharu Shiota
The Key in the Hand
9th May – 22nd November 2015
Japan Pavilion 56th Venice Biennale
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