Exhibition

Profile

• Born 1976 in Fukuoka, Japan. Based in Hamburg, Germany and Fukuoka, Japan.

Kawabe Naho is an artist with an interdisciplinary approach who works on film, installation, sculpture, drawings, publications, and sometimes on combinations of these genres. In Kawabe’s artistic practice, the outcomes of her historical and socio-cultural research focused on the topic of coal overlap with personal experiences in an attempt to reexamine contemporary social structures. Recent work, based on her research into coal mines, addresses themes related to energy industries in association with the movement of people and materials. After graduating from Musashino Art University (Tokyo, Japan), she took up a DAAD scholarship in Germany in 2001 and studied at the HfbK Hamburg. Since 2006, she has been based and working in both Japan and Germany, participating in many international exhibitions and artist in residency programs.

Selected exhibitions

2024

Japaner im Revier. Aufbruch ins Fremde, Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln (Germany)

2019

Fuzzy Dark Spot. Video art from Hamburg, Falckenberg Collection/Deichtorhallen Hamburg (Germany)

2019

Solo exhibition, Blooming Black, OCT Boxes Art Museum (Guangzhou, China)

2014

In Search of Critical Imagination, Fukuoka Art Museum (Japan)

2011

Archive und Geschichte(n), Hamburg Kunsthalle (Germany)

• “In Search of Utopia - Et in Arcadia ego” (detail) 2024
• Photo: Ittoku Kawasaki