Tokyo, Japan – WAITINGROOM is pleased to announce Naho KAWABE Solo Exhibition, Save for the Noon, which is the artist’s second solo exhibition in about a year and the half at our gallery. KAWABE lives and works both in Japan and Germany, and creates video, mixed media sculpture, and installation work in the theme of transforming the materials into something else. In the theme of repetitive hand works, this exhibition consists of the video about the process of putting a clod of small charcoals together by a woman who exiled from former East Germany, sculptures of stitched as a netlike appearance with all the letters ‘I’ cut-out from the novel, floor installation of the black charcoal powder, concept drawings, which are all new works. In conjunction with this exhibition, she is also having another solo exhibition “In Other Words” at konya-gallery in Fukuoka through November 2nd to the 18th.

Left: Solo Exhibition “The Children of Icarus” 2017, installation view (WAITINGROOM, Tokyo), Photo: Kenichi Amano
Center: “Solaris” 2016, almost all “I” from a novel “Solaris” (1961) by Stanislaw Lem, linen strings, binding glue, 650 x 200 x 150 mm
Right: “The Black Cloud” 2017, wood, metal, stings, plastic, paper, 2000 x 300 x 400 mm

About the artist, Naho KAWABE
Born in 1976 in Fukuoka, currently lives and works in Germany and Japan. She graduated from Musashino Art University in 1999 and University of Fine Arts of Hamburg with MFA degree in 2006. Her recent exhibitions include a group exhibition “Landschaft. Gebrochene Idylle” (Schloß Agathenburg, Agathenburg, Germany, 2018), solo exhibition “The Children of Icarus” (WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, 2017), group exhibition “Smart Illumination Yokohama 2017” (Zou no hana Park, Kanazawa, 2017), solo exhibition “delikatelinien” (Ermekeilkaserne, Bonn, Germany, 2016), group exhibition “The Material of Memory” (Frise, Hamburg, Germany, 2016), “Lifestyle” (Westwerk, Hamburg, German, 2016), group exhibition, ”IN SEARCH OF CRITICAL IMAGINATION” (Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, 2014), solo exhibition “Observer Effect” (Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, France, 2013), solo exhibition “Shiseido Art Egg / Open Secret” (Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, 2011) and many others both in Japan and abroad.

Left: Shiseido Art Egg “Open Secret” 2011, installation view (Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo) Photo: Ken Kato
Right: Solo Exhibition “Bluthenstaub” 2012, installation view (Port Gallery T, Osaka) Photo: Kenichi Amano

more info is coming soon…

Left: “Untitled” 2011, charcoal powder, 2000 x 2000 mm
Right: “Meteorit #5” 2016, charcoal, acryl lacquer, glass, 300 x 300 x 30mm

In conjunction with :

Naho KAWABE “In Other Works”

Duration : 11/2 (Fri.) – 11/18 (Sun.), 2018

Opening Reception : 11/2 (Fri.) 18:30-20:30
Curated by Sachiko Shoji (Fukuoka Art Museum)

Venue : konya-gallery  (Fukuoka)
Details: http://konya2023.travelers-project.info/1012-28112-18-konya-gallery-10周年企画-ゲストディレクタープログラムvol/