09.06. – 17.07.2011
Opening: 08.06.2011, 7 pm
After the earthquake, the following tsunami and the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japanese artist Leiko Ikemura asks what importance art has in such a moment. Due to these recent occurrences, KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin interrupts the exhibition series KW69 to provide space for an interdisciplinary discourse.
Leiko Ikemura invites artists to react to the catastrophe in Japan and to illuminate the conflict between nature, progress, economy and the human. The exhibition will show works which reflect upon the current situation in Fukushima and Northern Japan, questioning our attitude towards the earth and the cycle of creation and destruction.
Participating artists
Curtis Anderson, Katharina Grosse, Jun Kaneko, Boris Mikhailov, Daido Moriyama, Yutaka Takanashi, Shōmei Tōmatsu, Rosemarie Trockel and Wim Wenders, amongst others.
The exhibition preludes a series of interdisciplinary theme evenings and discussions with architects about reconstruction, emergency accommodation, energy efficiency and nuclear power taking place at various venues in Berlin. To provide practical support to the people affected in Japan, Leiko Ikemura plans a benefit auction this fall.
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