Exhibition
Chiharu Shiota: The Unsettled Soul
28 Nov 2024 – 28 Apr 2025
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 19:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Monday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 21:00
Address
- Klárov 5
- Prague
Prague - 118 00
- Czechia
Travel Information
- We are located near the Malostranská public transport stop. You can easily reach us by metro or tram. Then all you have to do is head north to the Old Castle Stairs and cross Pod Bruskou Street.
The Unsettled Soul is the first solo exhibition in the Czech Republic of Chiharu Shiota, a contemporary Japanese artist renowned internationally for her captivating installations. Playing with themes of existence and absence, her art also spans drawing, sculpture, photography, and video.
About
Chiharu Shiota was born in Osaka, Japan (1972), lives and works in Berlin. In 2008, she received the Art Encouragement Prize from the Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Her exhibitions across the world include Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2023); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2019); Gropius Bau, Berlin (2019); Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (2018); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (2018); Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2017); K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2015); Smithsonian Institution Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C. (2014); the Museum of Art, Kochi (2013); and the National Museum of Art, Osaka (2008), among others. She has also participated in numerous international exhibitions such as Oku-Noto International Art Festival (2017), Sydney Biennale (2016), Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (2009) and Yokohama Triennale (2001). In 2015, Shiota was selected to represent Japan at the 56th Venice Biennale.