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The French newspaper published five interviews with Japanese artists on the earthquake: “One month after the earthquake – five Japanese artists give account”, Le Figaro, April 4, 2011 SHOMEI TOMATSU PHOTOGRAPHE Born in 1930, he is known for his series on Nagasaki ten years after the bombing of the city in 1945. “Civilization went too fast” (…)

Our exhibition “Rinko Kawauchi – A Glimmer in Silence” was reviewed in the Koelner Stadtanzeiger, in the WDR3 radio and mentioned in the art market section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Kölner Stadtanzeiger, review by Damian Zimmermann: Menacing Beauty The Japanese Rinko Kawauchi is the best known women photographer of her country – with her (…)

Rinko Kawauchi - ”the eyes, the ears” Kunstverein Augsburg Vernissage Sunday Oct. 17, 11:30 am Opening address by Christian Thoener Introduction by Ferdinand Brueggemann Exhibition October 17 – December 19, 2010 Holbeinhaus, Vorderer Lech 20 86150 Augsburg With works from the series “Utatane”, 2001 “Aila”, 2004 “the eyes, the ears”,  2005 As slide show: “Cui Cui”, (…)

Rinko Kawauchi will exhibit a new series “Murmuration” at the Brighton Photo Biennal 2010 (Oct 2nd – Nov 14th 2010). The series is commissioned by the Brighton Biennal and will be accompanied by a publication. Acclaimed Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi has been drawn to the spectacle of flocking starlings at Brighton Pier. Here during the (…)

The British Journal of Photography has published a list of top ten books of the decade. Among the top ten is Rinko Kawauchi’s book “Utatane” (Siesta). Rinko Kawauchi had published the book in 2001 and she received for “Utatane” and a second book “Hanabi” (Fireworks) in the following year the Kimura Ihei Award, a leading (…)

The summer edition of ARTnews magazine1  has a review of the Rinko Kawauchi exhibition “Utatane” our partner Antoine de Vilmorin organized in Paris this spring. Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi records the ephemeral scenes that pass by each day barely noticed, searching for the sublime in the banal. The 40 photographs here came from her 2001 (…)

Rinko Kawauchi has currently a solo exhibition: Rinko Kawauchi “Cui Cui” at the Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan (until Sept 9). Since her debut, Rinko Kawauchi has surely established her career both in Japan and overseas. Her works captures ephemeral beauty in everyday life, from life to death, and its circulation, and (…)

Our current summer exhibition: “Review / Preview: Japanese photographs by Osamu Shiihara, Shomei Tomatsu, Daido Moriyama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Issei Suda, Asako Narahashi, Rinko Kawauchi and Mika Ninagawa.” is reviewed in the localnews paper Koelner Stadtanzeiger: Mond, Meer und Sterne [...] Andere Sichtweisen präsentiert auch die Galerie Priska Pasquer mit ihrer Gruppenausstellung japanischer Fotografen wie Daido (…)

Rinko Kawauchi, Mika Ninagawa and Asako Narahashi have been featured in recent publications on photography and art. Rinko Kawauchi and Mika Ninagawa are included in two new books: Photo Art: Photography in the 21st Century Uta Grosenick, Thomas Seelig (editors) Aperture, New York 2008 As digital technologies and the homogenization of trends continue to impact (…)

Last Thursday, April 3, our partner Antoine de Vilmorin opened the Rinko Kawauchi exhibition “Utatane” (Siesta”) in Paris. The opening which took place in an art space in the Marais was well attended.