Shigeyuki Kihara embarks on German residency
Apia and Auckland-based international artist and independent curator Shigeyuki Kihara will commence her research into the shared history between Germany and Samoa courtesy of the Visitor Program funded by the Goethe-Institute New Zealand. She will be Artist-In-Residence at MATCHPOINT, an initiative of the Theater Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin Germany from August to October 2011.
Theatre Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) is one of the leading theatre institutions for contemporary dance, theatre and performance in Europe presenting regularly critically engaging works by important artists including Richard Maxwell, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and William Forsythe. During her time in Germany, Samoan-born artist Shigeyuki Kihara will be researching the shared history between Germany and Samoa, particularly through its forgotten colonial legacy.
Kihara will be investigating the historical archives held in various ethnological museums and meeting with key scholars from institutions including Ethnologisches Museum (Berlin); Linden Museum (Stuttgart); Museum für Völkerkunde (Hamburg) and Weltkuturen Museum (Frankfurt) before presenting the progress of her research in relation to her own art practice as part of the Asian-Pacific weeks 2011 event held at Theatre Hebbel am Ufer.
Kihara’s presentation entitled ‘Weaving and Unweaving His/her/tories’ on 11th September coincide with Kihara’s residency as guest lecturer and mentor at MATCHPOINT, an international exchange programme for young dance choreographers taking place during the festival “Leaving the Comfort Zone” , a programme of the Asian-Pacific-Weeks 2011. “We are honoured to have Shigeyuki Kihara taking part in the programme in various forms”, said Anna Wagner, curator of “Leaving the Comfort Zone” at Theatre Hebbel am Ufer.
Since her solo exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA in 2008 Kihara’s public performance work Talanoa: Walk the Talk VI has been commissioned and featured in The 4th Auckland Triennial Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon in 2010. Other recent curatorial projects have included the BRING YOUR GAME Hip Hop Summit commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre as part of the 2011 Sydney Festival, Australia.
Closer to home, Kihara’s performance video work Taualuga: The Last Dance (2006) is part of the current exhibition Presence: New Acquisitions and Works from the Collection at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, showing until 28 August 2011. Kihara’s work is also included in the upcoming exhibition ‘Oceania’ - a landmark collaborative project between Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand and City Gallery Wellington opening 6th August till 6th November 2011.
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Links:
Goethe Institute Wellington - http://www.goethe.de/nz
Theatre Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin - www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/
Shigeyuki Kihara – www.shigeyukikihara.com
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Shigeyuki KiharaShigeyuki Kihara is an artist and independent curator who is interested in ways that art, performance and the public interact and prompt discussions towards the understanding the complexities of humanity. Many of her works have achieved iconic status and critically discussed in diverse areas of academia both in New Zealand and internationally.
A native of Samoa, Kihara’s work has been represented in number of international contemporary art survey exhibitions including 4th Asia- Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (AUS) and 4th Auckland Triennial (NZ). Kihara’s first solo museum exhibition in North America entitled Shigeyuki Kihara; Living Photographs (2008-09) was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York following the acquisition of her works by the museum for their permanent collection.
Kihara’s solo and group exhibitions has been presented internationally, amongst others, at the de Young Fine Art Museum of San Francisco (USA); Museum of Contemporary Art (AUS); Campbelltown Arts Centre (AUS); 4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (AUS); Gallery of Modern Art (AUS); National Gallery of Victoria International (AUS); Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand; Auckland Art Gallery (NZ); Gus Fisher Gallery University of Auckland (NZ); City Gallery Wellington (NZ); Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan); National Museum of Poznan (Warsaw) and Centro Ricerca Arte Attuale (Italy).
Kihara's public performances has been commissioned and staged at, amongst others, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand; 4th Auckland Triennial (NZ); 4th Asia-Pacific Triennial (AUS); Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin); Musee du Quai Branly (Paris) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (USA).
Kihara was selected as one of five ‘path-breaking artists’ by ArtAsiaPacific Almanac (2008) alongside Mike Parr, NS Harsha, Kimsooja and Huang Yong Ping.
Kihara’s upcoming project include her recent appointment as festival co-presenter of URBAN PACIFIC FESTIVAL – a major multidisciplinary arts festival held at Kampnagel International Centre for Finer Arts, Hamburg Germany 2013 with a focus on Contemporary Maori and Pacific artists and scholars from New Zealand, co-curated with Berlin-based choreographer Jochen Roller.
Examples of Kihara’s work can be found in selected permanent collections internationally including; Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand; Auckland Art Gallery (NZ); Gus Fisher Gallery University of Auckland (NZ); Govett Brewster Art Gallery (NZ); Massey University (NZ); Queensland Art Gallery (AUS); Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (AUS); University of Cambridge Museum of Archeology and Anthropology (UK); Jean Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Kihara’s work is also held in number of private collections internationally, including those of Giorgio Armani.
For more information please visit www.shigeyukikihara.com
