Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery is pleased to present a new exhibition dedicated to the works on paper and installations of Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota.
Selected to represent Japan at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, Chiharu Shiota is famous for her performances and monumental installations creating a world both poetic and violent, soft and melancholic. Chiharu Shiota explores subjects such as memory and souvenir, dream, traces of past and childhood. It's also a reflexion about space, thread and three dimension drawing.
Born in Osaka in 1972, Chiharu Shiota has been living and working in Berlin since 1997. She studied at the Berlin University of Fine Arts and the Hamburg University of Fine Arts particularly with Marina Abramovic and Rebecca Horn.
In the last few years her work was the object of numerous museum shows including the Louis Vuitton Espace Culturel (Paris), Smithsonian's Museum of Asian Art (U.S.A.), Rochester Art Center (NY), The New Art Gallery Walsall (U.K.), The Moscow Manege (Moscow), The Museum of Art, Kochi (Japan), Casa Asia (Barcelona) and the Gervasuti Foundation in Venice (Italy). Her Basel "Art Unlimited" installation garnered numerous reviews in 2013. The artist also conceived several site-specific installations at the Sucrière in Lyon in 2012 and at the Carré d'Art Saint Anne de Montpellier in 2013.
Chiharu Shiota's works entered public and private collections such as Museum Leopold Vienna, The National Museum of Art Tokyo or Shiseido Art House.
