Yuken Teruya will be participating in a group exhibition 'Distant Observations. Fukushima in Berlin' at Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien in Berlin.
March 11 2014 will be the third anniversary of Japan’s nuclear disaster in Fukushima; a catastrophe whose true extent cannot even now be predicted or understood. But it is one which threatens to sink into oblivion. To mark the anniversary of Fukushima, the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien will be asking about the potential of art to be a medium of reflection and reaction. On 7 March, an exhibition will open there at 7 p.m., demonstrating the way in which various artists have tackled the nuclear catastrophe in their reflections and reactions.
In addition to Japanese artists living in Berlin, others have been invited who are heavily engaged in Japanese society and culture. Most of them have experienced the nuclear disaster only via the media and from a large distance away. The central theme of the exhibition is therefore the interaction between being personally affected and political opportunities for action in view of the highly complex and enormous event that took place a long way away. In addition, the question arises, what are the consequences of Fukushima for one’s own artistic practice?The artists’ reactions to the events in Fukushima are very varied and range from activist video projects to very personal reflections to a critical technological return to nature.
Artists: Taro Chiezo, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Megumi Fukuda, Yishay Garbasz,
Alireza Ghandchi, Florian Goldmann, Linda Havenstein, Idetsuki Hideaki, Leiko Ikemura,
Satoshi Katono, Ryusuke Kido, Isolde Kille, Kanta Kimura, Yusuke Kimura, Aisuke Kondo,
Azusa Kuno, Soichiro Mihara, OLTA, Aya Onodera, Project Fukushima!, Hikaru Suzuki,
Yuken Teruya, Mamoru Tsukada, Munan Øvrelid, Marcellvs L, Tomoyuki Ueno, Wermke, Leinkauf
*image (left)
© Yuken Teruya
courtesy of the artist and Yumiko Chiba Associates