Chiharu Shiota

The artist

Born in 1972 in the Japanese city of Osaka, Chiharu Shiota has been living and working in Berlin since 1997. Using woven yarn, the artist combines performance, body art and installations in a process that places at its center the body. Her protean artistic approach plays with the notions of temporality, movement and dreams, and demands a dual engagement from the viewer, both physical and emotional. In recent years, Chiharu Shiota has been widely exhibited around the world, including at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2003), the New Museum of Jakarta and the SCAD Museum of Art, USA (2017), the K21 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf (2014), the Smithsonian, Washington DC (2014) and Japan’s Kochi Museum of Art (2013). In 2015 Chiharu Shiota represented Japan at the Venice Biennale with her installation The Key in the Hand. In 2018, she had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Kyoto, and in 2019, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo presented a major survey exhibition highlighting her entire oeuvre.

Exhibitions

Summer Show

June 27 - July 18, 2026
Brussels
Echoes Between

November 6, 2025 - January 22, 2026
New York
Summer Show

June 26 - July 19, 2025
Brussels
Memory Under the Skin

May 24 - July 22, 2023
Paris - Grenier Saint Lazare
Signs of Life

January 19 - March 9, 2023
New York
Living Inside

May 27 - July 17, 2021
Brussels
Inner Universe

May 30 - July 25, 2020
Paris - Grenier Saint Lazare
Black Rain

April 24 - June 1st, 2019
Brussels
Destination

May 20 - July 22, 2017
Paris - Beaubourg
Sleeping is like death

January 14 - February 20, 2016
Brussels
Small Room

June 7 - July 23, 2014
Paris - Beaubourg
House

September 19 - October 30, 2013
Brussels
Infinity

January 7 > February 18, 2012
Paris - Impasse Beaubourg

Biography

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Birth	Born in 1972 in Osaka, Japan
Residence	Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Education	2011 - California College of the Arts (Guest Professor) 2010 – 13 Kyoto Seika University (Guest Professor) 1993 – 03 Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany 1997 – 99 Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, Germany 1993 – 94 exchange semester at The Australian National University School of Art, Canberra, Australia 1992 – 96 Kyoto Seika University, Japan

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2026	The Soul Trembles, Musée des beaux-arts, Montréal, Canada
	Threads of life, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom
	Return to Earth, Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
	Silent Emptines, Red Brick Museum, Beijing, China
	Home Less Home, ICA Watershed, Boston, USA
	In the Light, Museum für Kunst + Geschichte, Fribourg, Switzerland
	My House is your House, Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao, Spain

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	The soul Trembles, Museum of Oriental Art, Turino, Italy
	The World is Yours, Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Mexico
	Another Planet, A4 Art Museum, Chendu, China
	I to Eye, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
	Beyond Consciousness, Musée du Pavillon de Vendôme, Musée des Tapisseries, Chapelle de la Visitation, Aix-en-Provence, France
	Everyone, a Univers, Fondació Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
	A Tide of Emotions, Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
	At the Edge of Fate, Jupiter Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China
2023	A Tide of Emotions, Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, Hanoi, Vietnam The Soul Trembles, Shenzen Museum, Shenzhen, China – Traveling exhibition The ship of memories, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan The Wall Behind the Windows, KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, Germany Who I am Tomorrow, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Austria Duo Exhibition : Song Dong x Shiota Chiharu, Yuelai Art Museum, Chongqing, China Eye to eye, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland Memory Under the Skin, TEMPLON, Paris, France Hammer Projects: Chiharu Shiota, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA Signs of Life, TEMPLON, New York, USA
2022	Invisible Line, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark The Soul Trembles, Museum MACAN, Jakarta, Indonesia – Traveling exhibition ; Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art (QAGoMA), Brisbane, Australia Queensland Art Gallery \| Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia Silent Word, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Germany Home to Home, Kishiwada Jisen Hall, Osaka, Japan Circulating Memories, Beppu City Center, Oita, Japan When I wake up in the morning…, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Across the River, Landesgalerie Niederösterreich, Krems, Austria Living Inside, Musee Guimet, Paris, France Imperfect Game, NF/Nieves Fernandez, Madrid, Spain Letters of Love, MOCA Jacksonville, Florida, USA In Memory, Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea State of Being, Anna Schwartz Gallerye, Melbourne, Autralia Carte Blanche, Musée Guimet, Paris, France Tracing Boundaries, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland Multiple Realities, Cisternerne, Frederiksberg Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021	The Soul Trembles, Long Museum, Shanghai, China - Traveling exhibition ; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Shape of Life, solo show, Naha Cultural Arts Theater NAHart, Naha, Japan Tracing Boundaries, EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finnland One Thousand Springs, installation during Japan Festival, The Royal Gardens at Kew, London, United Kingdom Internal Line, Museum für Bildende Kunst, Leipzig, Germany – Traveling exhibition In the beginning was…, Planta, Lerida, Spain Last Hope, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain Living Inside, solo show, TEMPLON, Brussels, Belgium Holding the Universe in the Hand – Two Person show with Leiko Ikemura, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Direction of Consciousness, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France Memory of Water, Collection at Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan Connected to Life, ZKM \| Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany Lifelines, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil I hope..., KÖNIG Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2020	The Web of Time, Museum of New Zeland Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zeland Navigation the Unknown, König Galerie, London, United Kingdom Between Us, Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea Inner Universe, solo show, TEMPLON, Paris, France Lifelines, Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil (CCBB), Brasilia, Brazil – Traveling exhibition Voyage Voyages, group show, Mucem, Marseille, France Where We Now Stand – In Order to Map the Future [2], 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa, Japan The Infinity Line, Madoka Hall – Kishiwada, Osaka, Japan
2019	The Soul Trembles, solo show, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea – Traveling exhibition Internal Line, Japan House, São Paulo, Brazil – Traveling exhibition Lifelines, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB), São Paulo, Brazil – Traveling exhibition Me Somewhere Else, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium Counting Memories, Muzum Śląskie w Katowicach, Katowice, Poland The Soul Trembles, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Black Rain, TEMPLON, Brussels, Belgium Line of Thought, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany Six Boats, Ginza Six, Tokyo, Japan
2018	Me Somewhere Else, Blain\|Southern, London, United Kingdom Artist’s Rooms: Chiharu Shiota, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Embodied, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Chiharu Shiota, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Art Projects 2018: Chiharu Shiota, The Wanås Foundation - Wanås Konst, Knislinge, Sweden The Distance, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden Beyond Time, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, United Kingdom Remind of..., NF / Nieves Fernández, Madrid, Spain Form of Memory, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan The Butterfly Dream, Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2018, The Museum of Kyoto, Japan
2017	Direction, KODE-Art Museum of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Lost Words, Museum Nikolaikirche, Berlin, Germany Chiharu Shiota, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Between the Lines, Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands Destination, TEMPLON, Paris, France Under the Skin, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany Infinity Lines, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA Where are we going?, Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche, Paris, France
2016	Chiharu Shiota, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Absent Bodies, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Uncertain Journey, Blain\|Southern, Berlin, Germany The Locked Room, KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theater, Yokohama, Japan Rain of Memories, Ferenczy Múzeum, Szentendre, Hungary Follow the Line, Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milano, Italy Sleeping is like Death, TEMPLON, Brussels, Belgium
2015	Follow the Line, Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln, Cologne, Germany; Istituto Giapponese di Cultura, Rome, Italy In the Beginning was... , Fundació Sorigué, Lleida, Spain Searching for the Destination, SESC, São Paulo, Brazil A Long Day, Artist Room, K21 - Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany Form of the House, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Lines of Memory, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan The Key in the Hand, Japan Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Works on Paper, Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, Beijing, China Seven Dresses, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany
2014	First House, Zorlu Performing Arts Center, Istanbul, Turkey Letters of Thanks, Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló (EACC), Castelló, Spain Over the Continents, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA Chiharu Shiota – Maquette, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Il Gattopardo, Marseille Vieille Charité + Ballet National de Marseille, Marseille, France Small Room, TEMPLON, Paris, France A Long Day, La Tenuta dello Scompiglio, Lucca, Italy Presence in the Absence, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Earth and Blood, NF / Nieves Fernández, Madrid, Spain Dialogues, New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, United Kingdom
2013	Other Side, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, United Kingdom After the Dream, Carré St. Anne, Montpellier, France Trace of Memory, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Chiharu Shiota, TEMPLON, Brussels, Belgium Earth and Blood, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Letters of Thanks, Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan Collection+: Chiharu Shiota, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia Crossing Lines, Manege, Moscow, Russia Red Line, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012	Synchronizing Strings and Rhizomes, Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain Me as Others, Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka, Japan Other Side, Haunch of Venison, New York, USA Labyrinth of Memory, La Sucrière, Lyon, France Where Are We Going?, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan State of Being, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Stairway, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany Infinity, TEMPLON, Paris, France
2011	Drawings, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Chiharu Shiota \| Memory of Books, Gervasuti Foundation, in cooperation with Haunch of Venison, Venice, Italy Home of Memory, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France In Silence, Detached, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
2010	Dialogue with Absence, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France Wall, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan One Place, Haunch of Venison, London, United Kingdom Trauma, NF / Nieves Fernández, Madrid, Spain
2009	A Long Day, Rotwand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland Flowing Water, Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama, Japan Chiharu Shiota, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Unconscious Anxiety, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France
2008	State of Being, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Breath of the Spirit, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan Zustand des Seins/State of Being, CentrePasquArt, Biel / Bienne, Switzerland Inside-Outside, Galerie Goff + Rosenthal, Berlin, Germany Waiting, Goff + Rosenthal Gallery, New York, USA
2007	From in Silence, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama, Japan Trauma / Alltag, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2006	Dialogue from DNA, Wildnis + Kunst, Saarbrücken, Germany
2005	Raum, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany During Sleep, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria When Mind Become Form, Gallery Fleur, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan Zerbrochene Erinnerung, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004	Falling Sand, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan In Silence, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2003	Dialogue from DNA, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art [a-i-r laboratory], Warsaw, Poland – Travelin exhibition ; Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology, Krakow, Poland (2004) In Silence, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Bleibend von der Stimme/Behind the Voice, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan The Way into Silence, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
2002	Uncertain Daily Life – Death Bed, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan In Silence, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2001	Chiharu Shiota, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
2000	Breathing from Earth, Kunstraum Maximilianstrasse, Stadtforum München, Munich, Germany
1999	Where are you from?, K&S, Berlin, Germany Dialogue from DNA, Asian Fine Arts Berlin/Prüss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1998	From Memory to Memory, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany
1997	Gods Play, Galerie C. Delank, Bremen, Germany
1996	Direction of Consciousness, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany Order from the Basis, Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Return to Consciousness, Galerie 21 im Vorwerk-Stift, Hamburg, Germany Flow of Energy, Shunjukan Gallery, Kyoto Seika University
1995	My Existence as a Physical Extension, Hōnen-in Temple, Kyoto, Japan
1994	Accumulation, Foyer Gallery at the Australian National University School of Art, Canberra, Australia One Line, The Australian National University School of Art, Canberra, Australia Becoming Painting, The Australian National University School of Art, Canberra, Australia
1993	Native, Gallery Preview, Kyoto, Japan
1997	Gods Play, Galerie C. Delank, Bremen, Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2026	Kaihō: Japanese Women Artists after 1945, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg Summer Show, TEMPLON, Brussels, Belgium Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy, Art Science Museum, Sigapore
2024	High Five, Fondation Opale, Lens, Switzerland The Extended Line, Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan How Did You Come into the World?, Hirosaki Museum Contemporary Art, Aomori, Japan
2023	KAFKA: 1924, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
	Number, Schloß Tarasp, Switzerland
	Kyoto Seika University 55th Anniversary Exhibition : FATHOM, Kyoto Seija University Gallery Terra-S, Kyoto, Japan
	Nuqta, interactive Toninstallation, Chiharu Shiota und TRANSIENT Interdisciplinary Research Ensemble, Jeremias Schwarzer, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany
	Raumschiff Hubertusburg. Ein Schloss im Wandel, Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, Schloss Hubertusburg, Wermsdorf, Germany

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	Blickwechsel : Chiharu Shiota und das Wechselspiel von Innen und Außen, Schenkung Sammlung Hoffman, Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden, Germany
	Renoir, Monet, Gauguin – Images of Floating World. The Kojiro Matsukata and Karl Ernst Osthaus collections, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2021	Kunst & Hallen. Kunstrinn über Mauern Hinweg. Die Kunsthalle Rostock in den Reinbeckhallen, Reinbeckhallen, Berlin, Germany Corpus Domini. From the glorified body to the ruins of the soul, Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy Adam, Eva und die Schlange – Werke aus der Schenkung Sammlung Hoffman, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany Oku-Noto Triennale 2020+, Suzu, Japan Lightness and Being, K11, Shangai, China STILL ALIVE. Werke aus der Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany The 13th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Gwangju, South Korea
2020	OH! MY CITY, Paradise Art Space, Incheon, South Korea Push the Limits, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy Sleeping: Life with ART – From Goya and Rubens to Shiota Chiharu, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Navigating the Unknown, König Galerie, London, United Kingdom Körper. Blicke. Macht. – Eine Kulturgeschichte des Bades, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany The Consciousness Flows Within, Asia University Museum of Modern Art, Taichung, Taiwan Where We Now Stand – In Order to Map the Future [2], 21st Centruy Museum, Kanazawa, Japan Voyage Voyages, Mucem, Marseille, France
2019	2019 Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art - Boundless Encounters, Hangzhou, China The Dark Side – Chi ha paura del buio?, Musja, Rome, Italy Nine Journeys Through Time, YUZ Museum, Shanghai, China From the Paper to the Wall, TEMPLON, Brussels, Belgium Who opens up the world?, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan Setouchi Art Triennale 2019, Teshima, Japan Globe as a Palette; Contemporary Art from The Taguchi Art Collection, Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art – Traveling exhibition ; Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido ; Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido ; Sapporo Art Museum And Berlin Will Always Need You, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany Honolulu Biennial 2019 - To Make Wrong / Right / Now, Honolulu, Hawaii Collection 3: Image of Something Invisible, The National Museum, Osaka, Japan 100 Jahre Revolution - Berlin 1918/19, Kulturprojekte, Berlin, Germany
2018	Whatever happened to my grandmother's doggy?, Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy Persona Grata, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Musée National de l'Immigration, Paris, France Valletta 2018 European Capital of Culture: Constellation Malta, Valletta, Malta 57. Oktobarski Salon : The Marvellous Cacophony, Belgrade, Serbia Water and Land – Niigata Art Festival 2018, Niigata, Japan De fils ou de fibres, CAC Meymac, Meymac, France Doodle & Disegno, Blain\|Southern, Berlin, Germany Welcome to the Labyrinth - Artistic Deception, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany Höhenrausch 2018 - The Other Shore, OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz, Austria Tissage, Tressage, Villa Datris, L'Isle sur la Sorgues, France Nine Journeys Through Time. Alcantara and Art in the Apartment of the Prince, Palazzo Reale Milano, Milan, Italy The last Image - The Sight of Death in Contemporary Art, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany Das letzte Bild. Anischten vom Tod in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst, Stadtgalerie Saarbücken, Saarbücken, Germany Travelers: Stepping into the Unknown, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2017	The Riddle of Art: Takahashi Collection, Sizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan JIWA – Jakarta Biennial 2017, Jakarta, Indonesia The Raft - Art is (not) Lonely, Oostende, Belgium In good times and in bad. How to operate, Museum für neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany Suzu 2017 Oku-Noto Triennale, Suzu, Ishikawa, Japan About the Relations with People When Affection is Involved, Klein Collection, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany OpenArt Biennale, Örebro, Sweden A Summer in Le Havre: 500th Anniversary of Le Havre, Le Havre, France The Other Side, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany 20th anniversary pop-up show: Have a Nice Time, Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Domodossola, Italy Body Media II, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China Socle du Monde Biennale 2017, Herning, Denmark Pafos2017 European Capital of Culture: Open Air Factory, Pafos, Cyprus Kairos Castle. The Art of the Moment, Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Lennik, Belgium Daniel Templon Portrait d'une galerie, Bernard Magrez Institut Culturel, Bordeaux, France
2016	Piranesi \| Shiota: Prisons of the Imagination, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Spider's Thread - Spinning Images of Japanese Beauty, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan From here until Eternity, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium Melbourne Festival, Melbourne, Australia Collection 2 – Diary, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan 20th Biennale of Sydney: The Future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed, Sydney, Australia In your heart \| In your city, KØS, Museum for Art in the Public Space, Køge, Denmark
2015	East Asia Feminism: FANTasia, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea; Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou, China No hablaremos de Picasso, María José Jove Foundation, La Coruña, Spain Le Fil Rouge, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2014	Progress and Hygiene, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Busan Biennale 2014: Inhabiting the World, Busan, South Korea State of Being, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Bilbao, Spain The Pink Gaze, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna Palazzo Collicola - GCAM, Spoleto & Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”, Rome, Italy JapanArtToday, Kunsthaus Interlaken, Switzerland Go-Betweens: The World Seen Through Children, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Adventure in Art, Masterpiece of the National Museum of Art, Osaka, the Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan Qal'at Al Bahrain through the Ages, Qal'at Al Bahrain, Manama, Bahrain Threads, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, Netherlands Konstruktives Widersprechen, Kunstwerk Sammlung Klein, Nussdorf, Germany
2013	16th DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow Exhibition, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan To Be Or Not To Be. Portrait Today, Munich Modern, Munich, Germany Everyone Carries a Room Inside, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel Tisser des liens, Pavillon Vendome, Aix en Provence, France Matrix. Textiles in Art and Applied Arts from Gustav Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan Mindfulness! Takahashi Collection, Sapporo Art Park, Sapporo, Hokkaido; Kirishima Art-Hall, Kagoshima, Japan; Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan Red Queen, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia The Pulse of Time, Future Perfect, Singapore
2012	Vernetzt, OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz, Austria Traces of Time: Francis Bacon and Existential Conditioning in Contemporary Art, Centro di Cultura Contemporaneo Strozzina Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy Sky over My Head, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum – Traveling exhibition ; Okinawa Prefecture Art Museum ; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts (2013) ; Mie Prefectural Art Museum (2013), Japan The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine
2011	Lost in Lace, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom Ainsi soit-il, Collection Antoine de Galbert, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France City-Net Asia 2011, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea Experimenta Utopia, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia Inner Voices, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Biennale internationale d'art contemporain de Melle: Habiter la terre, du battement de cœur à l'emportement du monde, Melle, France Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, Japan Society Gallery, New York, USA
2010	Identity Theft, Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Domodossola, Italy On & On, La Casa Encendida Museum, Madrid, Spain Walk the Line, Kunstverein APEX pro art e.V. Göttingen, Germany Mediations Biennale: Beyond Mediations, Poznan, Poland Experience #1–The Aura, Christophe Gaillard Pop-up Gallery, Berlin, Germany Aichi Triennale 2010: Arts and Cities, Nagoya, Japan Setouchi International Art Festival: 100-Day Art and Sea Adventure, Teshima, Japan Tsubaki-kai 2010 Trans-Figurative, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan In Transit, Rotwand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland On Bathing, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan HomeLessHome, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
2009	3rd Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art: Against Exclusion, Moscow, Russia The World is Yours, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009, Niigata Prefecture, Echigo-Tsumari, Japan Walking in My Mind, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom Hundred Stories about Love, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Tsubaki-kai 2009 Trans-Figurative, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Cherchez la femme, NF / Nieves Fernández, Madrid, Spain
2008	Drawn in the Clouds, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finnland Kanazawa Art Platform 2008, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Torstrasse 166: Das Haus der Vorstellung, Berlin, Germany HeartQuake, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel Eurasia: Geographic Crossovers in Art, MART–Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento and Rovereto, Italy Kunsträume Schloss Friedberg, Museum Friedberg, Friedberg, Germany Tsubaki-kai 2008 Trans-Figurative, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007	Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves, ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany Thread, Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia The Body Sings of Life, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan Fiction for the Real, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
2006	PI Performance & Intermedia Festival, Szczecin-Swinoujscie, Poland Streaming Poesy - Orte des Verwilderns, Wildnis+Kunst, Saarbrücken, Germany Art and Object: Affinity of the Jomon and the Contemporary, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomari, Japan 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006: Fever Variations, Gwangju, South Korea Enjoyable House, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan Berlin-Tokyo / Tokyo-Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Städte, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany Absolutely Private. Contemporary Photography, Vol. 4 On Photography in the Zero Decade: from 2000 to the present, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2005	The 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2005: Parallel Realities – Asian Art Now, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Fairy Tales Forever – Homage to H.C. Andersen, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark Imbenge-Dreamhouse, Durban Cultural and Documentation Centre, Durban, South Africa; In Transit 06, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Dreaming Now, The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
2004	Senatsstipendiaten Bildende Kunst 2004: Bettina Carl und Chiharu Shiota, Kunstbank, Berlin, Germany The Joy of My Dreams, First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, Seville, Spain Embroidered Action, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel Shining Beauty, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands Lille 2004 – European Capital of Culture: Du côté de chez..., Lille, France
2003	Walking on Art – Installation auf dem Fußboden, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany 20 Jahre Kunst in der Zehntscheuer – Eine Bilanz, Kulturverein Zehntscheuer e.V., Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany The Female Landscape - Thunder of the Worlds, Institut franco-japonais de Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan First Steps: Emerging Artists from Japan, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
2002	Rest in Space, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway – Traveling exhibition ; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (2003) A Need For Realism, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland Miss You, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany Another World–Twelve Bedroom Stories, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland De Waan. Manifestatie kunst en psychiatrie, Stichting Odapark: Centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Venray, Netherlands Art in Transition II – Some Kind of Dream, Contemporary Art Museum of North Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
2001	Kunst und Kur / arte e benessere, Kunsthaus Meran, Merano, Italy Marking the Territory, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art: Mega-Wave - Towards a New Synthesis, Yokohama, Japan International Festival EXIT, Maison des Arts Créteil, Paris, France; International Festival VIA, Théâtre du Manège, Mauberge, France Translated Acts: Performance and Body Art from East Asia, 1990-2001, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany – Traveling exhibition ; Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA ; Museo de Arte Alvar y Carmen de Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico (2002) De Wereld Volgens... Duitsland, Stichting Odapark: Centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Venray, Netherlands
2000	Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany Yume no Ato – Was vom Traum blieb ... Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Japan, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany – Traveling exhibition ; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany Strange Home, Historisches Museum and Kestner Museum, Hanover, Germany Continental Shift. Eine Reise zwischen Kulturen, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany – Traveling exhibition ; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands; Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Netherlands; Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporaine Liège, Belgium Heimat Kunst - Kulturelle Vielfalt in Deutschland, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany – Traveling exhibition ; Kulturverein Zehntscheuer, Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany (2001)
1999	Fresh Air, E-Werk Weimar, Weimar, Germany 2nd International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations: Open'999, Venice-Lido, Italy Unfinished Business, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany 3. Festival junger experimenteller Kunst: ...und ab die Post!, Postfuhramt Berlin, Berlin, Germany
1998	Untersicht, Kulturamt Mitte, Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin, Germany Notes Across Asia, Konzerthaus Berlin, Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin, Germany Finally, Kunstverein
1997	Objekte und Stelen im Dorfpark, Dorfpark, Buchholz, Germany
1996	Japanese Textile Exhibition, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1995	White Asia, Kyoto City Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan
2000	Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany Yume no Ato – Was vom Traum blieb ... Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Japan, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany – Traveling exhibition ; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany Strange Home, Historisches Museum and Kestner Museum, Hanover, Germany Continental Shift. Eine Reise zwischen Kulturen, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany – Traveling exhibition ; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands; Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Netherlands; Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporaine Liège, Belgium Heimat Kunst - Kulturelle Vielfalt in Deutschland, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany – Traveling exhibition ; Kulturverein Zehntscheuer, Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany (2001)
1999	Fresh Air, E-Werk Weimar, Weimar, Germany 2nd International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations: Open'999, Venice-Lido, Italy Unfinished Business, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany 3. Festival junger experimenteller Kunst: ...und ab die Post!, Postfuhramt Berlin, Berlin, Germany
1998	Untersicht, Kulturamt Mitte, Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin, Germany Notes Across Asia, Konzerthaus Berlin, Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin, Germany Finally, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany
1997	Objekte und Stelen im Dorfpark, Dorfpark, Buchholz, Germany
1996	Japanese Textile Exhibition, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

PROJECTS

2026	Mudec Museo delle Culture di Milano, Milano, Italy
2024	Idomeneo, re di Creta, stage design dramma per musica by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; directed and choreographed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui in co-production with Dutch National Opera Amsterdam and Théâtres de la ville de Luxembourg dancers from the Ballet du Grand Théâtre and Eastman Grand Théaâtre de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
2023	Carmen Rhapsody, scénographie Institut Culturel Japonais, Cologne, Germany
2022	Nuqta – The beginning, stage design TRANSIENT Interdisciplinary Research Ensemble Konzept and artistic direction by Jermias Schwarzer (Recorder), Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany
2018	Götterdämmerung, stage design with Anna Myga Kasten Opera by Richard Wagner, directed by Daniel Karasek, production by Theater Kiel, Opernhaus Kiel, Germany
2017	Siegfried, stage design Opera by Richard Wagner, directed by Daniel Karasek, production by Theater Kiel, Opernhaus Kiel, Germany
2016	Das Wintermärchen, stage design, play by William Shakespeare (The Winter’s Tale), directed by Daniel Karasek, production by Theater Kiel, Schauspielhaus Kiel, Germany alif::split in the wall - a musical exhibition space, installation, artistic direction by Jeremias Schwarzer, production by Zafraan Ensemble, bastille musique, Sebastian Solte Radialsystem V, Berlin, Germany

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2014	Tristan und Isolde, stage design , Opera by Richard Wagner, directed by Daniel Karasek , production by Theater Kiel, Opernhaus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
2011	Matsukaze, stage design with Pia Maier Schriever, Opera by Toshio Hosokawa, directed and choreographed by Sasha Waltz, production by Sasha Waltz & Guest, commissioned by Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, in cooperation with Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera and in cooperation with Berliner Staatsoper
2009	Oedipus Rex, stage design, Directed and Choreographed by Constanza Macras, production by Constanza Macras \| DorkyPark and HELLERAU Dresden, cooperation with Hebbel am Ufer Berlin and Théâtre de la Place Liege Tattoo, stage design, written by Dea Loher, directed and Choreographed by Toshiki Okada Production by New National Theatre Tokyo, Japan

PRIZES/AWARDS

2019	The Kyoto Prefecture Akebono Award Academy of Fine Arts Prize of the Simone Foundation and Cino Del Duca 4th BVlGARI Rolla Award (Japan)
2018	The 11th Bacon Prize 2018, the A.R.T. foundation (Japan)
2012	The Audience Choice, at the First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art (Ukraine)
2009	Distinguished Service Medal, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan Docks Art Fair – Prix de la culture Montblanc, Lyon, France
2008	Encouragement award for the new artists of the Ministry of Culture, Japan Award Sakuya Kono Hana, Osaka, Japan
2005	Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunka-cho), Japan
2004	Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin, Germany

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2003	Pola Art Foundation, Japan
2002	Philip Morris K.K Art Award 2002, New York, USA
2002	Akademie Schloss Solitude, subvention, Stuttgart, Germany
2000	Dorothea von Stetten Award 2000, short List, Bonn, Germany

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)

2026	Rückblicke / Flashbacks, published by Hatje Cantz Editions and Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland
2024	Chiharu Shiota, Collection Milestones : At the Heart of Creation, SKIRA éditions
2024	Chiharu Shiota, Collection Milestones : At the Heart of Creation, SKIRA edition.
2022	Chiharu Shiota, The Invisible Line, published by ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
	Carte Blanche à Chiharu Shiota, Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet, RMN – Grand Palais editions, Paris
	Chiharu Shiota, Multiple Realities, published by Frederiksberg Muserne, Denmark
2021	The Soul Trembles, Mori Art Museum Editions, Tokyo, Japan

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	Chiharu Shiota, Tracing Boundaries, published by Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
2019	Chiharu Shiota Gedankenlinen / Line of Thought, published by Dr. Andrea Firmenich for Museum Sinclair-Haus, Stiftung Nantesbuch, Germany
2018	Chiharu Shiota, Art Jameel editions, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Chiharu Shiota, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Chiharu Shiota, Beyond Time, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, United Kingdom Dekalog / Lost Words, Kerber Verlang editions, Bielefield, Berlin, Germany
2017	Unter Der Haut – Under the Skin, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Stuttgart and Berlin, Germany Where are we going ?, published by Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche and Le Cherche Midi, Paris, France Chiharu Shiota, Between the Lines, Hans November editions, published by Wbooks and Het Noodbrabants Museum, Netherlands
2016	The locked room, published by KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theater, Yokohama, Japan
2015	The Key in the Hand, The Japan Pavilion at 56th Venice Biennale, Distanz editions, Germany
2014	Presence in the Absence, published by Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
2013	Other Side, published by Twner Gallery, Eastbourne, United Kingdom After the Dream, published by Villa de Montpellier, France Letters of Thanks, published by The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
2012	Where are we going ?, published by Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
2011	Ciharu Shiota, Hatje Cantz, Stuttgart and Berlin, Germany
2009	When Mind Takes Shape, archievement of the lecture at Kobe Design University (2008), edited by Centre for Design Studies, Kobe, Japan
2008	State of Being, Centre PasquART editions, Bienne, Switzerland, published by Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Germany Breath of the Spirit, published by National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2007	From In Silence, published by Kanagawa Arts Foundation, Yokohama, Japan
2005	Chiharu Shiota, Raum, published by Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
2004	In Silence, published by Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
2003	A-I-R- Laboratory, published by Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland The Way into Silence, Württenbergischer Kunstverein and Verlag Das Wundrrhorn, Stuttgart, Germany
2001	Under the Skin 2000/01, published by Asian Fine Arts Berlin - Prüss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)

	Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
	Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
	Centre PasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland
	Detached, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
	Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
	Jupiter Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China
	Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland

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	Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
	Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
	Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
	Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg, Freiburg , Germany
	The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
	The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
	Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin, Germany
	Sorigé Foundation, Lleida, Spain
	Shiseido Art House, Shizuoka, Japan
	Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan
	Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
	Toronto Museum of Art, Toronto, Canada
	The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
	21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

Press

Whitewall - May 2026

How Cover Artist Chiharu Shiota Weaves Memory into Monumental Insallations

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San Fransisco Chronicle - May 2026

"She rips your heart out": This Japanese artist's fiery red installation swallows this S.F. museum

Tony Bravo

British Vogue - March 2026

This Spring's Must-See Contemporary Art Exhibitions, In London And Beyond

The Guardian - March 2026

The Guardian view on an explosion of solo exhibitions by women: move over old masters

Vogue - February 2026

3 expositions à découvrir en marge de la Fashion Week de Milan

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FORBES - February 2026

3 Must-See Art Exhibitions In London - Winter 2026

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Chiharu Shiota
THE FIRST KYIV INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE, ARSENALE 2012(GROUP SHOW)

Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine

From May 24th to July 31th 2012 THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES – REBIRTH AND APOCALYPSE IN CONTEMPORARY ART Echoing the first words of A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Charles Dickens’ famous novel set at the time of the French Revolution, this exhibition jumps forward to the present to consider how contemporary art and aesthetics use the past to express the future. The ideals of Human Rights developed during 18th Century European Enlightenment found their first political expression in the American and French Revolutions. Combining ideology with action, these initiated a continuing wave of national uprisings that still continue to form the world. Yet in spite of good intentions Human Rights have been constricted and each revolution has contained at its core the worst as well as the best of human thought and action. This exhibition reflects on utopian dreams of freedom, equality, and security that are very much at the heart of our lives today, as well as on their opposite: terror, inequity and war. It is the destructive forces of both man and nature that seem to make a more ideal life impossible. (…)

Chiharu Shiota
LABYRINTH OF MEMORY

La Sucrière, Lyon

From May 4th to July 31th 2012 Pour ce premier événement culturel produit par La Sucrière l’artiste réalise une installation monumentale dans une totale intégration de l’architecture du bâtiment. 16 robes blanches, suspendues au plafond dans un réseau de corde noire qui nécessiteront environ 1000 mètres de coton satin et un camion de laine noire (600km de laine). Chaque robe est réalisée par le créateur Mongi Guibane. (…)

Chiharu Shiota
WHERE ARE WE GOING ?

Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan

From March 18th to July 1st 2012 An exhibition devoted to Chiharu Shiota, an artist of rapidly growing reputation based in Berlin. Shiota embodies in art the memories we impart to objects and places, our sense of a presence made stronger by absence, and the anxieties and fears we encounter in daily life. (…)

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Memory Under the Skin

Signs of Life

Living Inside

Inner Universe

Black Rain

From the Paper to the Wall

Destination

Sleeping is like death

Small Room

Chiharu Shiota
THE FIRST KYIV INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE, ARSENALE 2012(GROUP SHOW)

Chiharu Shiota
LABYRINTH OF MEMORY

Chiharu Shiota
WHERE ARE WE GOING ?