
Recent Discovery CADAN × ISETAN ART GALLERY
02 – 15. Aug. 2023
CADAN: Contemporary Art Dealers Association Nippon
Recent Discovery CADAN × ISETAN ART GALLERY
02 – 15. Aug. 2023
CADAN: Contemporary Art Dealers Association Nippon
de/cipher ARTI et AMICITIAE, Amsterdam
22. April – 21. May 2023
with José Heerkens, Gracia Khouw, Johanna Reich, Marjorie Welish, Carlo Battisti, Julia Bünnagel, Jochen Gerz, Eugen Gomringer, Jill van Grinsven + Jakke Jalink, Keti Kapanadze, Naho Kawabe, Wjm Kok, Joseph Kosuth, Tatjana Macić, Vera Molnar, Franz Mon, Gonzalo Reyes Araos, Gerhard Rühm, Eva-Maria Schön, Anita Stöhr Weber, Timm Ulrichs, Peter Wüthrich, Paul Goede, Jane Brucker + Jeremy Wasser, Timo Berndt
Curated by Susannah Cremer-Bermbach
ARTI et AMICITIAE, Amsterdam
22. January – 16. April 2023
On the semiotic interplay of encoding and decoding and their translation into lines, shapes, colors, patterns, signs, symbols.
Curated by Susannah Cremer-Bermbach
gkg Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung e.V
15. Oktober – 13. November 2022
Duo Exhibition with Hanae Utamura
WAITINROOM, Tokyo
A review of the exhibition “STRATA – Naho Kawabe & Hanae Utamura” by Andrew Durbin FRIEZE online.
Drawing series, 2022, 70 x 50 cm
Photo: Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
Video
https://oase-der-kunst.nahokawabe.net
A change of studio has catapulted me into another world. My old studio life in Hamburg had the advantages of a gentrified district, my new studio is in the City Nord with concrete and empty shops. The break motivated me to make a video collage, because at second glance City Nord turned out to be a place for creative people. With Le Corbusier, it was supposed to be an “office city in the green” and offer a “New Way of Working”. The goal collapsed in the 1990s. Afterwards, studios and clubs called “Ebene+14” sprang up in the now empty spaces. Thanks to good rents, an agile art oasis developed. But the idea of renewing the lousy image of City Nord through culture did not last long: from 2009 onwards, new office blocks were built, the substance renovated, and the artists moved out. The story of these changes is told from the perspective of the activists of “Ebene+14” through interviews, historical photos, 3D reconstructions and current views.
This Project „Das war mal eine tolle Idee. Ebene +14: Oase der Kunst” is a video-collage by Naho Kawabe with narratives by the artists:
Annette Mewes-Thoms
Eva Wehdemeyer
Falk von Traubenberg
Josef Greiner
Jutta Konjer
Oliver Maybohm
Wolfgang Schindler (Art Space KX)
and
Christina Herzig (pharmacist)
Drone: Heiko Neumeister
Camera: Naho Kawabe
3D: René Kusnawijaya
Sound: Veit Kenner
Editing: Naho Kawabe
Title logo: Koichiro Isogai
Transcript: Lea van Hall
Web-Designe: KRYPTOTHEK
This project is supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in Germany
NEUSTART KULTUR
14. January – 19. March 2022
Solo Exhibition
Tom Reichstein Contemporary, Hamburg Germany
Naho Kawabe & Hanae Utamura
15. Oct. – 13. Nov. 2022
Gallery Waitingroom, Tokyo
Das war mal eine ganz tolle Idee.
Ebene 14: Oase der Kunst in der City Nord
Video-Collage
Online-presentation until 30. April 2023
https://oase-der-kunst.nahokawabe.net