title: We are the islands, Three-Day Exhibition with 30 Artists from Japan
venue: Bethanien Kreuzberg (old location)
address: Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
date: July 25 to July 27, 2010, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
(Opening: 7 p.m. July 25, performances: 8 p.m.)
With recommendation by la-condition-japonaise e.V.
Two members of our committee Megumi Fukuda and Taro Furukata are taking part. Further artists, who are frequently featured by la-condition-japonaise also take part: Atsushi Fukunaga, Shingo Inao and Ayaka Azechi.
And, Are you meaning, Madoka Chiba, Toru Hayashi, Kaoru Hirano, Hideaki Idetsuki, Aisuke Kondo, Kazuki Nakahara, Nozomi Tomoeda, Maki Ueda, Daigorou Yonekura were curated by Taro Furukata for the exhibition “almost the same, but not quite”, showed just one month ago, at Damensalon, Reuterstrasse 39, during 48stunden neukoelln. Click here and here for some more informations.
From here on I copied from the presse release of the organizers of this faboulous exhibition:
We are so far away and so close.
We are so different and so the same.
We are so alone and so communicative.
As each of us is an island, each of us sets course to break a solitary existence, to look for another island, to communicate and share hope. Every new island is a new line of communication, a new set of possibilities, hence, it is not surprising that so many artists travel abroad, change residence, go somewhere else. For the thirty Japanese artists and one Korean artist in this exhibition, who made such a journey, Berlin is the shore of that new island.
This impromptu exhibition attempts to give a glimpse of the diversity of practices represented by Japanese artists living in Berlin, but its interest certainly goes beyond the narrow framework of nationality and rather has developed and is still developing through these artists choice to relocate to Berlin. This exhibition aims to open up a new contemporary intercultural experience beyond nationalities, regions and races, in the international art city of Berlin.
This event will be followed by a series of exhibitions at a new artist run centre at the Bethanien. This space will be dedicated to artists and curators, who are actively engaged in the development of community and the sharing of ideas and resources with each other and with others around the world.
Participating artists:
Are You Meaning Company, Madoka Chiba, Sae Esashi, Megumi Fukuda, Taro Furukata, Atsushi Fukunaga, Hanayo, Toru Hayashi, Kaoru Hirano, Hideaki Idetsuki, Leiko Ikemura, Shingo Inao, Misaki Kawabe, Yuhi Kazama, Kengo Kito, Takehito Koganezawa, Sako Kojima, Aisuke Kondo, Erika Matsunami, Toshihiko Mitsuya, Nobuhiko Murayama, Kazuki Nakahara, Yotaro Niwa, Mayumi Okabayashi, Nozomi Tomoeda, Mamoru Tsukada, Maki Ueda, Tomoyuki Ueno, Tetsuhiro+Kiyomi Uozumi, Daigorou Yonekura
(in alphabetical order)
Two special presentations will take place beginning at 8pm: a dance by Ayaka Azechi (also known through collaboration with Sasha Waltz) and a sound performance, YOUR CHORAL by the Korean, Eunhye Hwang together with singers, Oliver Grutzer, Carmen Hofacker, Irene Vogel and Stefanie Wuest.
This event is organized by Mamoru Tsukada, Miya Yoshida and Aisuke Kondo with the great support of artists and friends, including a financial support from Jonathan Bragdon, special thanks to Irene and Hermann Vogel, Nobuhiko Murayama, Wojciech Olejnik, Sarah Jane Gorlitz, and happens in cooperation with the Tokyo Wonder Site, the Kunstraum/ Bethanien and the Japan Embassy in Germany.