CHIHARU SHIOTA
THE SOUL TREMBLES

MUSEUM MACAN, JAKARTA, INDONESIA
26 NOVEMBER – 30 APRIL 2023The subtitle THE SOUL TREMBLES references the artist’s earnest hope to deliver to others soul-trembling experiences derived from nameless emotions. Visitors will have the opportunity to experience almost thirty years of Shiota’s oeuvre in detail; primarily in large installations, sculptural works, video footage of performances, photographs, drawings, and performing arts-related material.THE SOUL TREMBLES is organized by Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, curated by Mami Kataoka, Director of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, and with production support by Alcantra S.p.A.

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FEATURED ARTIST

CHIHARU SHIOTA

Chiharu Shiota (b. 1972 in Osaka, Japan) is currently based in Berlin. Her university career spans several years: She studied at the Kyoto Seika University in Kyoto (Japan) from 1992 to 1996, was an exchange student at The Australian National University School of Art in Canberra (Australia) in 1993-93, and a student at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig (Germany) from 1997 to 1999, and lastly at Universität der Künste Berlin (Germany) from 1999 to 2003.Shiota’s inspiration often emerges from a personal experience or emotion which she expands into universal human concerns such as life, death, and relationships. She has redefi...