Chiharu Shiota : Beijing

Famous for her performances and monumental installations, Chiharu Shiota creates a world both poetic and violent, soft and melancholic, where she explores subjects such as memory and souvenir, dream, traces of past and childhood.
Born in Osaka in 1972, Chiharu Shiota has been living and working in Berlin since 1997. She studied at the Berlin Uni- versity of Fine Arts then the Hamburg University of Fine Arts. She then worked at Rebecca Horn’ s studio there. After she studied with Marina Abramovic in Hamburg in the 1990s. Her practice is largely influenced by avant-garde art- ists such as Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, or Ana Mendieta, insofar as she both touches on the unconscious and on physical experimentation as well as through her choice of materials traditionally linked to women such as textiles.
Chiharu Shiota presented performances and exhibitions throughout the world. In the last few years her work was the object of numerous museum shows: Pittsburg Mattress Factory (U.S.A.), Rochester Art Center (NY), The New Art Gallery Walsall (U.K.), The Moscow Manege(Moscow), The Museum of Art, Kochi (Japan), Casia Asia (Barcelona) and the Gervasuti Foundation in Venice (Italy). She also pro- duced the sets for the opera "Matsukaze" directed by Sasha Waltz and performed at the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels and in Berlin's Staatsoper in 2011. In 2014 she pro- duced the sets for Kiel's opera "Tristan and Iseult" in Ger- many. Her Basel "Art Unlimited" installation garnered numer- ous reviews in 2013, and she conceived several site-specific installations at the Sucriere in Lyon in 2012 and at the Carré d'Art Saint Anne de Montpellier in 2013.