23. Februar – 3. March 2024
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Residence Program
The results of the artist-in-residence programme were presented in two installations at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum and the ACF Gallery.
ACF Gallery: In Search of Utopia (-et in Arcadia ego)
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum: Study for a Drawing Room (for the Phantom of FAAM)
Photo: Ittoku Kawasaki
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.
charcoal, motor, barrier tape
https://vimeo.com/523454454
A Project of “Artist in Quarantine” by nachtspeicher23 e.V., Hamburg
charcoal, string, light bulb, battery
Exhibition: Boxes Museum, Guangzhou (CN)
Collection: Boxes Museum, Guangzhou (CN)
charcoal, motor, string, concrete, metal, feather, size variable
The line over charcoal dust sprinkled on the floor shows the jagged line of the Berlin Wall, boundary between East and West Berlin. A spring spinning in a circle, driven by a small motor, wipes away the charcoal dust. The circle describes the loop line of Berlin S-Bahn running also between 1961 and 1989 (time of the Berlin Wall) across the border,
Exhibition: Waitingroom, Tokyo (JP)
single-channel video, 49’15, camera: Saskia Bannasch, Naho Kawabe
The Video shows an action of woman’s hands (re)uniting 3kg fragments of charcoal to a figure of a tree. During the action the Women explains her private memory about her mother and the political and the everyday life situation in Berlin. They have moved in 1956 from DDR/GDR to West Germany. The way of packing using string she has learned by her mother. Strings were considerably used for post-sending before the plastic tape become prevalent. Her mother has sent many packets from West to East Germany during the 1960′ – 70’s. There was no tape in those days. The tying-technique and this special hand movements will soon be lost.
„Eine echte Frau löst jeden Knoten / An authentic woman solves all knots“. This proverb was spoken by a high school teacher in West Germany. When the women in the video heard by her teacher, she was felt provocated. To become a woman needs such a high hurdle .
Exhibitions: Waitingroom, Tokyo (JP) / Boxes Museum, Guangzhou (CN)
Charcoal, glass
Exhibtions: Fukuoka Art Museum, (JP) / Frappant, Hamburg (DE) / Take Maracke & Partner, Kiel (DE) / Schloß Agarthenburg, Agarthenburg (DE)
Images: Catalogue “In Search Of Critical Imagination“
Exhibtion: 8. Kunstfrühling, Bremen (DE)
Images: Catalogue “8. Kunstfrühling” / Catalogue “DELIKATELINIEN” / Book “Transitorisch”
Charcoal, glass, wood, each 40 x 30 x 5 cm
Exhibtion: Kunsthaus Hamburg (DE)
Image: Catalogue “Observer Effect“
Charcoal, spotlight, size variable
Exhibitions: Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo (JP) / Märkisches Museum Witten (DE)
Images: Broschüre “Shiseido Art Egg 05” / Catalogue “boesner art award 2012” / Catalogue “Observer Effect” / Book “Transitorisch“