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.

Chiharu Shiota's “Beyond consciousness” is clearly one of the major projects of the second Biennale d'Aix, and will undoubtedly mark the summer season in the southern region. Three major heritage sites in the city of Aix-en-Provence will host works and installations by this internationally renowned artist. Beyond consciousness” will be on show at the Pavillon de Vendôme and the Musée des Tapisseries until October 6, as well as at the Chapelle de la Visitation, exceptionally open for the occasion until September 1.

Chiharu Shiota, a Japanese artist born in 1972 in Osaka (Japan), is known for her immersive installations using woven threads and personal objects. Her works explore themes such as memory, identity and human ties. After studying in Japan and Germany, she exhibited internationally, notably at the 56th Venice Biennale, where she represented her native Japan. Her artistic journey continues this May in Aix-en-Provence, where, in collaboration with the Tremplon gallery, she is taking part in the second edition of the Biennale d'art et de culture. From May 18 to October 6 (and until September 1 at the Chapelle de la Visitation), the “Beyond Consciousness” exhibition plunges visitors from Aix-en-Provence and beyond into Chiharu's world.

Red ropes and larger-than-life dresses float in the tunnel of a former Nazi death camp in Ebensee, Austria, as the exhibition by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota "Where are we now?" opens to the public. More than 8,000 prisoners died at the Ebensee camp between 1943 and 1945, mostly of hunger and malnutrition as they were forced to work on the construction of a huge tunnel network. Opening her exhibition at the site, Shiota says the theme of her work is "absence in the existence".

The exhibition Chiharu Shiota. Everyone, a Universe" (March 22–June 23, 2024) is curated by Imma Prieto, Fundació Antoni Tàpies’ Director. The work of Chiharu Shiota breathes a universality that appeals to the hearts and minds of people of different generations, and from distant geographical locations; the massive scale of her works inviting the viewer to be part of this immersive experience. The artist succeeds in making presence evident in absence, like life and death. She is inspired by memory, trauma and uncertainty; concerns that are shared by all humans. [...]The project is completed with several activities addressed to the general public and families, together with the educational programme, especially an inaugural conversation with the artist and the Memory and trauma seminar with the Fundación Rādika, as well as other unique experiences, within the framework of the Tàpies’ Centenary Year. The aim is to further the knowledge of the work and thought of Antoni Tàpies, contribute to updating the reading of his work and create new ways of looking at his legacy.