contemporary japanese arts and cultures in Berlin http://la-condition-japonaise.com/eng/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:24:45 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://la-condition-japonaise.com/eng//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=29 This site is currently under construction! In meantime please join here (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=106058459437196) (facebook group). Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:55:17 +0100 http://la-condition-japonaise.com/eng//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=30 Kimoto Keiko - Artist of interest Sept 2008Text 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. Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:17:13 +0100 http://la-condition-japonaise.com/eng//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=30 Yui Kawaguchi - Artist of interest May 2008Text 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... Sun, 25 May 2008 20:00:01 +0100 http://la-condition-japonaise.com/eng//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=30 Yuken TeruyaFree Fish and Asian MoneyMost 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... Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:20:16 +0100 http://la-condition-japonaise.com/eng//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=30 Megumi Fukuda - Re-mapping Berlin as a young tulipe ladyby Shintaro MiyazakiIf 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... Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:40:25 +0100