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Kimoto Keiko - Artist of interest Sept 2008 |
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Kimoto Keiko - Artist of interest Sept 2008
Text by Mariko Mikami 
Kimoto Keiko dancing ather opening at "la condition japonaise" Peter Grafwallner (C) Kimoto Keiko, who studied fine-art under Lother Baumgarten at the University of Art (Universtät der Künste: UdK) from 2001 to 2006, is a young japanese painter, living in Berlin since 1999. In 2006 she won the Walter Hellenthal Prize for Painting, that is awarded to the distinguished student in the same university. She is creating her art-works at her apartment in Prenzlauerberg which is her atelier and home.
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Yui Kawaguchi - Artist of interest May 2008 |
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Yui Kawaguchi - Artist of interest May 2008
Text by Mariko Mikami 
Do you know that a world-class japanese dancer from Chigasaki, Kanagawa prefecture, is living in a small corner in ex-GDR Berlin? Her big, black willful looking eyes, slender trained-up limbs and authentic aura tells us her career as a dancer: she has begun dancing classical ballet at the age of 6, and learning Jazz, Hip-Hop and contemporary dance, as well as acting and singing. Early in her 20s, she joined in Ongakuza, a musical company that shows not foreign musicals but Japanese original ones. Besides she choreographed for TV-Shows, commercials...
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Yuken Teruya: Artist of interest Nov 2007 |
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Yuken Teruya
Free Fish and Asian Money 
Most certainly this artist is a marvelous talent to set up subjects, which clash with each other. His name is Yuken Teruya and he is a very well-known artist, who work with paper bags, that you can easily squash and throw away. Although you might find these paper bags back on the street, the paper bag has a nobility that you can not just throw away, once Yuken Teruya has worked on it. The exhibition called “Free Fish” a soloshow at Asia Society of New York in February 2007 was inspirited by a Ming-dynasty Chinese porcelain (1522- 1566), which is part of a collection by Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd. “Free Fish” is a kimono...
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Megumi Fukuda - Artist of interest July 2007 |
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Megumi Fukuda - Re-mapping Berlin as a young tulipe lady by Shintaro Miyazaki 
If you have seen a strange japanese young women planting some red tulips in some unused deserted space somewhere in Berlin-Mitte then it was maybe Megumi Fukuda.
With her latest public intervention artwork "Eternal Garden Berlin as a stranger" she tried to explore the boundaries between public and private, between her and the metropolis berlin, but also between real and fake, between art and nature, because the tulips were artificial: Made of plastic. Additionally as the title of her work implies she also reflected what is the difference of ephemeral and eternal. "Eternal Garden Berlin as a stranger" was wandering from one unused space to another during a year (from 14th May 2006 to 15th May 2007) and occupied 31 places near Gartenstraße, Tucholskystraße or Alexanderplatz...
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Hirofumi Matsuzaki: Artist of interest June 2007 |
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Hirofumi Matsuzaki - connecting the worlds of here and there by Eri Kawamura 
On the white canvas, there is a curly cord, which connected the phone with the earpiece some years ago. These cords are unlike those phonecords painted in colorful red, pink, orange or skyblue. The cord seems to go out of the canvas forming a half elipsis and then goes right into the center of the image, but unfortunatly disappears at some point. The more the cord reaches the center part of the canvas the more it seems to draw the eye with more speed into a deeper place. The artpiece is part of a serie which is called: "Blume im weissen Raum" (A flower in a white room.) Althought the painting is flat and hung on a wall, it gives you the impressing of looking into a deep well: Superdeep instead of superflat. The center of a well is..
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