Chiharu Shiota
The Soul Trembles – Grand Palais
The Grand Palais is dedicating a retrospective exhibition to Chiharu Shiota, co-organized with the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, the largest ever devoted to the artist in Europe. The exhibition will include seven large-scale installations, sculptures, photographs, drawings, performance videos and archival documents.
From December 11, 2024 to March 19, 2025
As a preview of the reopening of all its galleries in June 2025, the Grand Palais is presenting an exhibition dedicated to the poetic and sensitive work of Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota.
Born in Osaka in 1972 and now living in Berlin, Chiharu Shiota is world-renowned for her monumental installations of interlacing wool yarn. These giant canvases often envelop objects from her everyday life and invite the viewer on a majestic, dreamlike journey. Her protean creations explore the notions of temporality, movement and dreams, demanding a dual engagement from the viewer, both mental and physical.
The exhibition, co-organised with the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, is the largest ever devoted to the artist in France. Covering over 1,200 square metres, it offers a sensitive experience. With seven large-scale installations sculptures, photographs, drawings, performance videos and archive documents related to its staging project, the exhibition represents an opportunity for visitors to familiarise themselves with Shiota’s career, which spans over twenty years.
This exhibition is co-organised by the GrandPalaisRmn, Paris and the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.
CURATOR
Mami Kataoka, Director of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 7:30pm, Friday night until 10pm.
- Weekly closure on Mondays
- Exceptional closures: Wednesday, December 25, 2024; Tuesday, January 28; Tuesday, February 11 and Wednesday, February 12; Tuesday, March 11
- Early closures: 6:30pm on December 19, 6pm on December 24 and 31, 24, 5:30pm on February 5.
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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 is exhibiting at the Museum of Kyoto; and in 2019 she exhibited at Mori Art Museum in Tokyo throught a exhibition illuminating the artist's entire works.
