Acclaimed for the singularity of her work, at once melancholy and mysterious, Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, of the Templon gallery, has set up shop at the Grand Palais until March 19, to reveal in a masterly exhibition a body of work shot through with illness, underlined by her compulsive weaving of threads unfolding in dazzling spidery enchantments.

Co-organized by the GrandPalaisRmn in Paris and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, “The Soul Trembles” is the largest exhibition ever devoted to Berlin-based Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota in France, showcasing over two decades of her multifaceted career. Known since the mid-’90s for her monumental installations of interwoven wool that envelop everyday objects like chairs, keys, suitcases, pianos and clothes, she invites visitors into dreamlike, immersive spaces that explore themes of memory, temporality and human connection. “Threads become tangled, intertwined, broken off, unraveled,” she says. “They constantly reflect a part of my mental state, as if they were expressing the state of human relationships. The black expresses the vast expanse of this deep universe, while the red expresses the red threads that connect one person to another, as well as the color of blood. ” Spanning more than 1,200 square meters, the exhibition includes seven large-scale installations alongside sculptures, photographs, videos, drawings and archival materials, offering a comprehensive overview of Shiota’s practice, which combines performance, body art and installations. By presenting these works, she aims to convey the tremors of her soul, drawing from personal experiences of life’s fragility to create a deeply poetic and emotional journey for viewers. She discusses her current show at the newly-renovated Grand Palais in Paris, on view through March 19, 2025.

Poetic and spectacular, Chiharu Shiota's immense swarms of tangled threads have made her famous the world over. The Grand Palais presents the largest exhibition ever devoted to this Japanese artist, born in 1972: “Chiharu Shiota. The Soul Trembles” (December 11 2024 - March 19 2025). Over 1,200 m² of exhibition space is devoted to monumental works and little-known pieces. Far from remaining on the (very Instagrammable) surface of her installations, the exhibition plunges us into the multiple ramifications of her universe.

The Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota is somewhere between sculpture and performance. Since the 2015 Venice Biennale, her popularity has only grown. On December 11, she will be the first artist to grace the renovated Grand Palais. Portrait of a strong woman with a sensitive soul.

This year marks the 51st anniversary of the Japan Foundation Awards, which were launched in 1973, the year after the establishment of the Japan Foundation. For the past 50 years, the Foundation has presented the Japan Foundation Awards to individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to promoting international mutual understanding and friendship between Japan and other countries through academic, artistic, and other cultural pursuits. For 2024, the artist Chiharu Shiota is one of the three recipients selected after the screening of 60 candidates nominated by experts and the general public.

Istanbul Modern is currently hosting the exhibition "Between Worlds" (since Septembre, 6th), featuring a large-scale installation created specifically for the museum by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota. Shiota is well-known for her installations that primarily use thread as the main material. Shiota recently answered questions about the exhibition and her artistic practice.

The Grand Palais reopens its doors after years of renovation with an exhibition, and not just any exhibition, ascontemporary art lovers eagerlyawait the return of this artist to Paris, Chiharu Shiota! The Japanese artist with the red thread returns from December 11, 2024 to March 19, 2025, to weave her web under the capital's most famous glass roof with her unique and poetic installation. Following on from"Memory Under The Skin" at Galerie Templon Grenier Saint-Lazare,"The Soul Trembles" explores the vulnerability of life through a monographic exhibition co-organized with Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, the most important on the artist. The Grand Palais, in a preview to the reopening of its galleries in June 2025, is hosting seven monumental installations, sculptures, photographs, drawings, performance videos and archival documents relating to his staging project and his 20-year career.

I Thought I Lost It! is a project in the form of forum and exhibition that examines how art and architecture can contribute to the social consensus to create the resilient social communities we envision. [...] The invited artists for this project are Oum Jeongsoon from Korea, Ding Yi from China, and Shiota Chiharu from Japan. These artists share a common theme of challenging and exploring the implicit yet inescapable self-identity that humans experience as fate. Their works focus on how art should engage with, mediate, and respond to social change as well as inclusiveness. Additionally, the project investigates how contemporary, motivated, and democratized audiences should reassess art, urban spaces, and architecture. The participating artists also diagnose and validate the human absence and ecological crises subtly imposed by social systems driven by rapid technological advancements.

Collecting ordinary objects such as shoes, keys, beds, chairs and dresses and wrapping them in giant structures made of thread, Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota redefines the concepts of memory and consciousness. Her exhibition titled “Chiharu Shiota: Between Worlds” will meet with the audience at Istanbul Modern starting from September 6 to April 20, 2025. The exhibition, which also includes a large-scale installation created specifically for Istanbul Modern by Chiharu Shiota as part of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Turkey, focuses on topics such as memory, existence, migration, journey and human experience, which the artist frequently uses in various forms of expression such as performance, video, installation and painting

“Chiharu Shiota - Beyond Consciousness” is an exhibition presented from May 18 to October 6, 2024, at the Biennale d'Aix-en-Provence. Questions relating to life and death are delicately interwoven, and also permeate the volatile Collecting Feelings, a monumental work exhibited at the Chapelle de la Visitation, exceptionally open to the public for the occasion. It is presented as a majestic ex-voto: in a shower of red threads, hundreds of children's drawings and letters of gratitude seem to float in suspension. Introspection is the order of the day in this exceptional work, where connection becomes pure communion, celebrating the fragile privilege of existence.

The collective exhibition "Cosmography" (Galerie Templon, New York, on view until August 1, 2024), titled after the study of how researchers map the general features of the universe, will comprise of multi-media works probing into the intersection of mythology, history and mathematics. [...] Japanese performance and installation artist Chiharu Shiota takes a more abstracted approach to showcase how humanity is intrinsically linked to the stars above through a pungent red watercolor composition showcasing a lone stick figure tied to a blob of red matter. “These artists explore a surrealist, cosmic vision of the future,” wrote Templon, “one that is ripe with personal histories and occasions for change.

Once again, Art Basel has taken over the Swiss city with various events, including "Unlimited", the exhibition platform devoted to monumental installations that are larger than a regular art fair booth can hold. The 172,000-square-foot hall reserved for Unlimited is currently home to 76 projects and live performances by Seba Calfuqueo, Resto Pulfer, and Anna Uddenberg and others. Giovanni Carmine, director of the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen in Switzerland, has curated this edition of Unlimited. [...] Below, a look at some of the best and most impressive works on view in Art Basel’s Unlimited section, including works of Chiharu Shiota.