news - miwa ogasawara

an important exhibition announcement!

Nicola Graef curates the exhibition "FEELINGS" together with Bernhart Schwenk, the director of Contemporary Art at the Pinakothek der Moderne.

my painting "Grau" from 2006 will be shown in the show:

08.11.2019 - 13.09.2020. Pinakothek der Moderne München

Grau, 185 x 260 cm, 2006, Collection JilSander

Summer-Shooting in my studio in Hamburg.

Photograph: Andreas Sibler.

"Die Malerei und das Meer (2/2) ARTE by Grit Lederer

my "ocean" paintings are shown in the documentary film.

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/079449-002-A/die-malerei-und-das-meer-2-2/

Horizon 120x160cm 2018

Horizon 1 80x100cm 2019

Reflection 1 120x100cm 2019

Curtain 2 40x40cm

MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY ART BUSAN 2019 May 31 – June 2, 2019
Artist: Julian Opie, Miwa Ogasawara, Noriko Ambe, Keisuke Tada, Atsushi Kaga

if you are around Brussels on March 22. and 23. 2019,

"Bild" will be presented again

at Kaaitheater in Brussels in the frame of the Festival Performatik

in PERFORMING ART by NOÉ SOULIER replay from

Centre Pompidou, Festival d'Automne a Paris September 2017

a review about "Still" in KUNSTFORUM 259

Text by Jens Asthoff

Still

January 19. - March 16. 2019

Künstleringespräch: mit Nicola Graef

January 19. 16:00

in Kooperation mit der Künstlerförderung der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung,

Trustee-Programm EHF2010

LOOCK Galerie

Potsdamer Strasse 63 10785 Berlin

exhibition's view ©Loock Galerie

In between 150x240cm diptych

Dream 240x170cm

ART021 SHANGHAI CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR

November 8. - 11. 2018

MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY

Indifferent 1 140x160cm 2016

Indifferent 2 140x160cm 2016

Nachwinter 200x170cm 2013

review in the RealTokyo by Sayako Mizuta

こわれもの　kowaremono

September 20. - October 20. 2018

Maho Kubota Gallery

2-4-7 Jingumae Shibuya-ku Tokyo, JAPAN

exhibition views ©MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY

2017

Birds 180x140cm + 180x150cm 2017

PORTRAITS winter show February 7 - 28. 2018

MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY

Virginia 3 60x50cm 2015

"Bild" will be presented in

PERFORMING ART

A CHOREOGRAPHED EXHIBITION NOÉ SOULIER

Centre Pompidou

Festival d'Automne a Paris 13. - 15. September 2017

Bild 190x240cm 2007

Gruppenausstellung 2017

CREATING SPACE

kuratiert von Nicola Graef und Sylvia Volz

BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt

Reinhardstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Kosmos 180x230 2010

10 Jahre EHF-Benefitausstellung

"10 x 10"

9. September - 2. October 2015

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Tiergartenstrasse 35 10785 Berlin

Vessel 19 190x150cm

IM LICHT

30. October - May 2015

Gallery Vera Munro

http://www.galleriesnow.net/shows/miwa-ogasawara/

http://moussemagazine.it

Neon 8 210x160cm 2014

Lightness 80x70cm 2014

Vessel 8 65x50cm 2014

Skin 1 40x40cm 2014

the mysterious device was moving forward

26. June - 16. August 2014

Longhouse Projects

285 Spring Street New York, NY 10013

www.longhouseprojects.com

exhibition view

next room 160x100 cm 2009

Kunstepedemie - Büttner & Scolari

11. - 31. Mai 2014

Feinkunst Krüger

Kohlhöfen 8 20355 Hamburg

www.feinkunst-krueger.de

neon 4 60x65 2013

DOMANI

14. December 2013 - 26. January 2014

NACT National Art Center, Tokyo

www.nact.jp www.domani-ten.com

Living 180x280 2010

カタログ(WINDHAUCH)の翻訳ができました。

ANKOMMEN

23. Juni 2013 - 5. Januar 2014

KUNSTWERK Sammlung Alison und Peter W. Klein

Eberdingen-Nussdorf

www.sammlung-klein.de

Windhauch 230x190 2008

11. April - 18. May 2013

Beyond Silence

SCAI THE BOTHHOUSE in Tokyo.

www.scaithebathhouse.com

Spiegelung 180x250 2013

SCAI 個展 beyond silence のテキスト...

小笠原美環と鏡　保坂健二朗　

小笠原美環　展覧会 beyond silenceに寄せて　河合哲夫

18. Januar - 14. April 2013

Nur hier
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn

www.bundeskunsthalle.de

Badezimmer 170x230cm 2007

elements 150x190 10

13. September 2011

Neue Arbeiten

Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg

daylight 210x170cm 2011

Vague 230x170cm 2011

2010

Hikarikage

1223 Gendaikaiga, Tokyo

bildung 190x230cm 2008

15. Januar 2009

Windhauch

Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg

Katalog: Windhauch

windzug 270x190cm 2008

Twinism

Kunsthaus, Hamburg

AD&A Gallery, Osaka

Reflexion 200x200cm 2009

3. October - 8. November 2008

Hitorigoto

SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo

hitorigoto 230x130cm 2008

hand 55x45cm 2008

26. November 2008

Lob des Schattens

Else-Heiliger-Fonds, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin

geheimgarten 150x200cm 2008

27. April 2007

Nachhall

Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg

grau 185x260cm 2006

28. April 2006

wem vertrauen

plan b Kunstraum Nicola Graef, Hamburg

rosen 50x40cm 2006

Piece of reality

The world as an indeterminable, uncertain reality. Take a group of people in a forest, in a public place or in the park; a girl on a footbridge; a deserted, desolatelandscape. When I put them into a painting, I merely hint at time, place, action - thus allowing viewers to look more closely and seek their own personal level of reality. Free from subjective concerns and stripped of colour. In my paintings, emotions, ordinary contradictions and human frailties are transformed into gentle, quiet, soft, resonances. The human condition I depict comes from mypersonal observations rather than what is fed to us by the media.

Resonance

The resonances appear as a blur which abstract themselves from time and can even span past and future within itself : an extended moment, a present lost in reverie. The source of the resonance is unclear to allow a dreamlike, displaced reality. A sound - quiet but present. What is seen becomes blurred again, rendering the images peculiarly indefinite.

Reducing

I came to the conclusion that colour imparts a powerfully shifting impact on a painting – it can radically change the effect and meaning – and this disturbed me. When we see people, we automatically start to interpret. If I depict people in colour, it is immediately much more of a statement and quickly creates the impression of being overloaded. That is why I have been stripping colour further and further back, or rather, fading it out.

Subtle combined differences

Small canvases are more open whilst portraying blurring, intimations, faintness. With big paintings, it is different. Large surfaces require a self-contained world be depicted. It is a challenge to bring drawing and painting together – to get the balance right between the two techniques. During this unending process of working with reduction, nothing is to be focused and no moment robbed of its continuity. So, looking again and again, you will find – or think you find - images you might not have seen at first glance. I invite my viewers not to trust their eyes too quickly. Take time to see clearly; give space to each look at a painting for a second or third reading of a scene. Behind frivolity lies earnestness, behind lightness there is seriousness. Nothing is static, stable, nothing stays as it seems to be.

Parallelity

What I show in different formats in painting is always a part of the many levels of reality. These levels need each other; idyll and danger, good and evil - their existence is intertwined. Something is amiss if one side is too strong or if one interpretation predominates. So my aim is to captur parallelity of life through in-betweens.

Miwa Ogasawara