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LIEKO SHIGA

*1980, Präfektur Aichi, Japan, lebt und arbeitet in Miyagi, Japan

* 1980, Aiki Prefecture, Japan, lives and works in Miyagi, Japan

Lieko Shiga, White Mountain, from the series “Canary”, 2007

Lieko Shiga, Whale Tears, from the series “Canary”, 2007

Lieko Shiga, Premonition Dream, from the series “Canary”, 2007, ©Lieko Shiga

Lieko Shiga, Dominique, from the series “Canary”, 2007

Lieko Shiga, Pink House, from the series “Canary”, 2007

LIEKO SHIGA | Full Tide, from the series “Canary”, 2007

Lieko Shiga, My Husband, from the series “Canary”, 2007

LIEKO SHIGA | Remember That, from the series “Canary”, 2007

Lieko Shiga, How to Fly through the Sky, from the series “Canary”, 2007

LIEKO SHIGA | Restaurant Surtaj, from the series “Canary”, 2007

Lieko Shiga, Wedding Veil, from the series “Canary”, 2007

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Aus einem instinktiven Gefühl des Unbehagens gegenüber der Bequemlichkeit und Automatisierung des Alltagslebens entwickelte die japanische Fotografin Lieko Shiga eine künstlerische Praxis, die Fragen nach dem Wesen des Mediums Fotografie mit grundsätzlichen Fragen nach dem Leben und den Möglichkeiten, sich auszudrücken verbindet. 2008 erhielt Lieko Shiga den renommierten Kimura Ihei Photography Award. Ihre Arbeiten wurden vor kurzem in der Gruppenausstellung „In the Wake. Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11“ im Museum of Fine Arts, Boston gezeigt. Lieko Shiga steht auf der Shortlist „New Photography 2015“ des Museum of Modern Art.

In intensiver, geradezu physischer Auseinandersetzung mit ihren Sujets (er)findet Lieko Shiga Bilder, die von verschiedenen Medien wie Surrealismus, Land Art, Happening, Skulptur und japanischen Mythen inspiriert sind. In einer ihrer Werkgruppen erforscht sie die Welt des Traumes, der Mythen und Sagen. Ausgangspunkt ihrer Fotoarbeiten sind häufig Interviews. Darin befragt sie Menschen nach Träumen, Ängsten und Erlebnissen, die diese mit bestimmten Orten verbinden. In Kombination mit eigenen Erinnerungen, Gefühlen oder Erfahrungen kreiert sie anschließend komplexe, fantastische Szenarien, die sie in teilweise sehr aufwändigen Inszenierungen umsetzt. Die in Australien, Singapur und Nordjapan entstandenen Aufnahmen veröffentlichte Lieko Shiga 2007 in dem Fotobuch „Canary“. 2009 zog sie nach Kitakama in der Region Tohoku, wo sie als offizielle Fotografin arbeitete. Dort beschäftigte sie sich mit der Geschichte des Ortes und den persönlichen Geschichten seiner Bewohner. Bei dem großen Erdbeben 2011 verlor sie ihre Wohnung, ihr Studio, Kameras und die Arbeit eines ganzen Jahres. Die in Kitakama entstandenen Arbeiten veröffentlichte Lieko Shiga 2013 in dem Buch „Rasen Kaigan | album“.

„Im Raum der Fotografien gibt es keine Vergangenheit, Gegenwart oder Zukunft: Der Wert der Fotografien ist instabil und wandelbar: mal werden sie wie Papiermüll behandelt, manchmal gelten sie als ebenso wertvoll wie der lebende Mensch oder werden sogar zum Gegenstand religiöser Verehrung.“
– Lieko Shiga

Lieko Shiga, 1980 in der Prefäktur Aichi geboren lebt und arbeitet in Sendai, Japan. Sie hat der Chelsea University of Art and Design, London, studiert und mit einem BA in Fine Arts New Media in 2004 abgeschlossen. Teilname an vielen Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen, u. a. “Rapt! Contemporary Art from Japan”, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2006; “BMW Young Asian Artist Series”, Tyler Print Institute, Singapore, 2008; “Unseen”, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, China, 2008; “Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art? The Creative Potential of New Japan”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; “Aichi Triennale 2010: Arts and Cities”, Aichi Arts Center, Aichi, Japan; “Canary”, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, 2011; “Close Your Eyes And Tell Me What You See”, Gothenbrug Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden 2011; “Canary”, Photomonth in Karakow, Manggha Center of Japanese Art and Technology, Krakow, Poland, 2012; “Rasen Kaigan”, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan, 2012; “Canary”, FOAM Museum, Amsterdam, 2013.

Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)
2022 Lieko Shiga, To me who cannot be judged, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
2022 JAPAN. BODY_PERFORM_LIVE, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2019 Lieko Shiga, “Human Spring”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Lieko Shiga, “Blind Date”, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan
2013 Lieko Shiga, “Canary” Foam Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012 Lieko Shiga, “Rasen Kaigan” Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan
2011 Lieko Shiga, “Canary”, Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan
2011 Lieko Shiga, “Canary” Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
2008 Lieko Shiga, “A Stranding Record”, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norways
2006 Lieko Shiga, “Lilly”, NUKE gallery, Paris, France
2005 Lieko Shiga, “Lilly”, graf media gm, Osaka, Japan
2003 Lieko Shiga, “Jaques saw mw tomorrow morning”, graf media gm, Osaka, Japan
2001 Lieko Shiga, “Floating Occurrence”, graf, Osaka, Japan

Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)

2021 All This Happened: Twenty Nine Years Of RoseGallery ,RoseGallery ,Santa Monica, California, USA
Into the Blue ,RoseGallery ,Santa Monica, California, USA
Off the Wall ,SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ,San Francisco, California, USA
2020 Frequencies of Tradition ,Guangdong Times Museum ,Guangzhou, China
Our Duty Is To Experiment: 20 Years Galerie Priska Pasquer ,Galerie Priska Pasquer ,Cologne, Germany
2019 Undercurrents: A Photobook Exhibition ,Transformer Station ,Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2018 Camera Austria International: Laboratory for Photography and Theory ,Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Mönchsberg ,Salzburg, Austria
Building Romance ,Toyota Municipal Museum of Art ,Toyota, Japan
2017 Lieko Shiga and Risaku Suzuki ,Christophe Guye Galerie ,Zürich, Switzerland
2016 Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now ,SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ,San Francisco, California, USA
In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11 ,Japan Society Gallery ,Murray Hill, New York, USA
2015 “In the Wake | Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, USA
2015 Kimura Ihee Photography Award, 40 Years Memorial Exhibition, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
2015 “The 8TH Asia Pacific Triennal of Contemporay Art”, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia
2015 Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2015 “2ND Beijing Photo Biennal | Unfamiliar Asia”, Beijing, China
2015 “The Younger Generation: Contemporary Japanese Photography”, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2014 “Sleeping Beauty”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2013 “ARTIST FILE 2013 -The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art”, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2013 “Visceral Sensation – Voice So Far, So Near”, 21st Century of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2013 “Aichi Triennale 2013”, Okazaki CIBICO, Aichi, Japan
2013 “All There Is Left”, the Adam Art Gallery, New Zealand
2013 “Towada Oirase Art Festival”, Fisheries rest house, Aomori, Japan
2012 “Visble / Invisible” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2012 “Photomonth in Krakow May 2012”, Manggha Center of Japanese Art and Technology, Krakow, Poland
2012 “Creating with Light / The Manipulated Photograph”, Tokyo Metropolitan Photography Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2012 “Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2012 “Aichi Triennale 2010: Arts and Cities”, Aichi Arts Center/Nagoya City Art Museum/the Choja-machi area, Aichi, Japan
2011 “Art Miyagi 2011”, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan
2011 “ANT!FOTO 2011”, Kunstraum Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
2011 “Close Your Eyes and Tell Me What you See”, Gothenburg Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden
2011 “Mizu no Oto – Sound of Water: Fotografia-Festival Internazationale di Roma”, Roma, Italy
2010 “Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art? The Creative Potential of a New Japan”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2010 “Move on Asia (Single Channel Video art)”, Gallery Loop, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2010 “New York Photo Festival 2010 “Hidden Books, Hidden Stories” Curated by Lou Reed”, St. 2010 Ann’s Warehouse (South), NewYork, United States of America
2010 “3. International Photobook Festival”, documenta-Halle, Kassel, Germany
2009 “Trace Elements”, Performance Space, Sydney, Australia
2009 “Twist and Shout: Contemporary Art from Japan”, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
2009 “Yokohama International Video Festival 2009 CREAM: Creativity for Arts and Media”, Bank ART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan
2009 “Takamatsu Contemporary Art Annual vol.00 -Vision of Captured Time-”, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan
2008 “Unseen”, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, China
2008 “KITA! Japanese Artists meet Indonesia”, Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2008 “Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award Show”, Konica Minolta Plaza Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008 “Trace Elements”, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008 “On Your Body”, Tokyo Metropolitan Photography Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2008 “Singapore Biennale 2008: Wonder”, City Hall, Singapore
2007 “BMW Young Asian Artist Series”, Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
2005 “Art Court Frontier 2005”, Art Court Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2005 “Art Court Frontier 2005”, Art Court Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2004 “Jacques” (video installation), Yamaguchi center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi, Japan
2004 “Stolen Recorder”, Areal28, Berlin, German
2004 “Rapt! Contemporary art from Japan”, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2004 “Re;search, The Art Collaboration with Australia and Japan”, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan

Auszeichnungen

2022 Tokyo Contemporary Art Award 2021-2023
2012 “28th Higashikawa Award – New Photographer”, Japan
2009 “Infinity Award (Young Photographer)” from the International Center of Photography, New York, USA
2008 “Kimura Ihei Photography Award”; New York, USA
2005 “Miho Photo Award – Jurors Award” (Michiko Kasahara), Japan

Weltkunst, May 2016
KSTA, June 2011

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Based on an instinctive feeling of unease with the convenience and automation of daily life, Japanese photographer Lieko Shiga has developed an artistic approach that links questions about the nature of the photographic medium with fundamental questions about life and the means of expressing oneself. Shiga received the coveted Kimura Ihei Photography Award in 2008. Her works were recently shown in the group exhibition “In the Wake. Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Shiga made the New Photography 2015 short list of the Museum of Modern Art.

In an intensive, almost physical encounter with her subject, Shiga weaves together images that are inspired by a wide range of sources like surrealism, land art, happenings, sculpture and Japanese myths. In one of her groups of works she explores the world of dreams, myths and sagas. The starting points for her photographic works are often interviews in which she asks people about the dreams, fears and experiences that they associate with certain places. In combination with her own memories, emotions or experiences, she then creates complex, fantastical scenarios that are staged in often very elaborate forms. In 2007, Shiga published pictures taken in Australia, Singapore and northern Japan in a photo book called “Canary”. In 2009, she moved to Kitakama, in the Tohoku region, where she officially worked as a photographer and took a keen interest in the town’s history and the personal stories of its inhabitants. During the great earthquake of 2011, she lost her flat, her studio, her cameras and an entire year’s work. She published the works from Kitakama in 2013 in the book “Rasen Kaigan | album”.

“In the realm of photography there is no past, present or future: The value of the photos is unstable and mutable: at times they are treated like wastepaper, sometimes they are held up to be just as valuable as the living person or even become the object of religious worship.”
– Lieko Shiga

Lieko Shiga was born in 1980 in the prefecture of Aichi and lives and works in Sendai, Japan. She studied at Chelsea University of Art and Design, London, graduating with a BA in Fine Arts New Media in 2004. She has been involved in many group and individual exhibitions, including “Rapt! Contemporary Art from Japan”, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2006; “BMW Young Asian Artist Series”, Tyler Print Institute, Singapore, 2008; “Unseen”, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, China, 2008; “Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art? The Creative Potential of New Japan”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; “Aichi Triennale 2010: Arts and Cities”, Aichi Arts Center, Aichi, Japan; “Canary”, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, 2011; “Close Your Eyes And Tell Me What You See”, Gothenbrug Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden 2011; “Canary”, Photomonth in Karakow, Manggha Center of Japanese Art and Technology, Krakow, Poland, 2012; “Rasen Kaigan”, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan, 2012; “Canary”, FOAM Museum, Amsterdam, 2013.

Solo Exhibitions
2022 Lieko Shiga, To me who cannot be judged, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
2022 JAPAN. BODY_PERFORM_LIVE, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2019 Lieko Shiga, “Human Spring”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Lieko Shiga, “Blind Date”, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan
2013 Lieko Shiga, “Canary” Foam Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012 Lieko Shiga, “Rasen Kaigan” Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan
2011 Lieko Shiga, “Canary”, Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan
2011 Lieko Shiga, “Canary” Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
2008 Lieko Shiga, “A Stranding Record”, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norways
2006 Lieko Shiga, “Lilly”, NUKE gallery, Paris, France
2005 Lieko Shiga, “Lilly”, graf media gm, Osaka, Japan
2003 Lieko Shiga, “Jaques saw mw tomorrow morning”, graf media gm, Osaka, Japan
2001 Lieko Shiga, “Floating Occurrence”, graf, Osaka, Japan

Group Exhibitions

Awards
2022 Tokyo Contemporary Art Award 2021-2023
2012 “28th Higashikawa Award – New Photographer”, Japan
2009 “Infinity Award (Young Photographer)” from the International Center of Photography, New York, USA
2008 “Kimura Ihei Photography Award”; New York, USA
2005 “Miho Photo Award – Jurors Award” (Michiko Kasahara), Japan

Weltkunst, May 2016
KSTA, June 2011

Now and Then, Japanese Photography and Art

LIEKO SHIGA, Canary at FOAM, Amsterdam

LIEKO SHIGA, Canary at Manggha Center of Japanese Art and Technology, Krakow

Rinko Kawauchi, Lieko Shiga, Asako Narahashi and others, MIZU NO OTO at FotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma

LIEKO SHIGA, Canary

PARIS PHOTO 2010

AIPAD 2011, NEW YORK

RESET I and MODERNISM