Shingo Yoshida and Christoph Rothmeier |

2019.10.19 Sat. 17:00 – 20:00
10.20 Sun – 10.28 Mon. 13:00-19:00 　＊open on Fri, Sat, Sun and 28th
Opening Party : 10.19 Sat 17:00 – 20:00

ポストカードプロジェクト
geister heimsuchen ガイスターハイムズーヘン

(haunting spirits)

Shingo Yoshida
www.shingoyoshida.com

Christoph Rothmeier
www.christophrothmeier.de

ポストカード絵葉書はまだインターネットが無い時代は特に、訪れた場所の記憶を誰かと共有したいという願いを込めて送り、受け取った人は、遠くはなれた友人の生活に思いを馳せ、多くの思い出をつないだことと思います。

しかし、多くのポストカードは時間が経つにつれ紛失されるか、捨てられて、
かつては双方の間に繋がりがあったものが切り離され、徐々に消えていきます。のちにその思い出や、過去の記憶、文化、風俗がたくさん詰まった絵葉書はガイスト（Geist）が宿った新しい存在として、骨董品、アンティーク、ゴミのような形を変えて存在を変えていきます。ガイスト（Geist）という言葉は、ドイツ語において「幽霊」や「亡霊」といった死者の魂のことを意味すると同時に、
生きている人間の「精神」や「心」のことを意味する言葉として用いられている言葉です。それらの古いポストカードを手に、シンゴ・ヨシダとクリストフ・ロットマイヤーは、カードにあるバックデータを元に現在〜過去をつなげ、社会文化的背景を比較調査します。さらにその場所の言い伝えや伝説を知ること、土地文化を理解することとして重要な行動だと考えてます。

そして、カードに宿ったガイスト（Geist）その場所で感じる見えない何か、雰囲気など、消えてなくなってしまった事柄や思い出として生き続けるスピリットのようなものを探しに旅に出てた結果を、作品制作として発表する予定です。

Post-cards are souvenirs, at least the were meant to be. They illustrated memories of visited places and represented the wish to share moments in life with someone abroad. Sending a postcard was a gesture, it aimed to connect lives over great distances.  Once received, and as time goes by, boxes full of postcards got lost or simply got thrown out. Separated from the receiver the cards lost its meaning, and the connection between two people, that it once represented faded away to become “ein Geist (a spirit/ghost)” that still inhabits the object somehow.  Picking up those postcards, Shingo Yoshida and Christoph Rothmeier will try to haunt spirits that inhabit them. They will reconstruct the cards journeys and lead an artistic investigation on their “Geister” with all their possible pasts, to establish connections anew, but in form of an exhibition. For the Project “Geister heimsuchen”  Shingo Yoshida and Christoph Rothmeier cooperate for the first time, to investigate in found Postcards and the eld of socio- cultural phenomena that inhabits them. Their research will depart from images and information shown on backdated postcards, and they will investigate places that are shown, people that are mentioned and the Stories that are written on them.

CV Shingo Yoshida
www.shingoyoshida.com

*1974

Educations
2005-07 Post-graduate diploma – Program La Seine of Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. 2004-05 Post-graduate diploma- Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France
1999-2004 MA with highest honors from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art, Villa Arson, Nice

Collections
– Art Collection of the Ministry of Environment Germany / Sammlung Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit, Deutschland 2017
– Berlinische Galerie (Dr. Thomas Köhler) Berlin, Germany
– Akademie der Künste (Wulf Herzogenrath) Berlin, Germany
– Fluentum-Dahlem (Markus Hannebauer) Berlin, Germany
– Alliance française de Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2006

Selected Exhibitions & Screenings
“HIDDEN PLACES“ Mikiko Sato Gallery, (Hambourg, Germany 2018) – Personal Exhibition
“The Cuckoo ́s Nest : Shingo Yoshida “ Pavillon am Milchhof (Berlin, Germany 2018) – Personal Exhibition UN Conference on Climate Change, COP23 (Berlin & Bonn, Germany 2017) – Screening
„INNER LAND“ ikonoTV ( Berlin / NY / Shanghai Time on the ikonoTV stream. 2017 ) – Screening Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi (Gunma, Japan 2016)
Tokyo Wonder Site / Kunstraum Kreuzberg-Bethanien (Brlin, 2016) – Personal Exhibition

Award & Grant
2015 Award: POLARIZED! Vision 2015 Competition Winner
: Journey to the Center of the Earth November 23, 2015, Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland
2013 Grant : The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japanese Government (Overseas Study Programme ) 2012 Grant : NOMURA FOUNDATION
2010 Grant : SHISEIDO Co.,Ltd.
2006 Grant : Direction des affaires culturelles / Département de l’art dans la Ville de Paris
2005 Grant : D.R.A.C de la region rhone-alpes France

Artist Residency
2018 H – residency Calama Chile, June
2017 The Avian Kingdom Sweden – ARNA, May – June 2017
2016 La Conciergerie / Chambéry France, May – Juin
Tokyo Wonder Site / Kunstraum Kreuzberg-Bethanien / Berlin Germany, January – March

„Photographer and video artist Shingo Yoshida finds inspiration in travelling, myths, traditions and the overwhelming beauty of nature. Yoshida considers the world as his studio and therefore a place of constant creation. In his video and photographic works Yoshida expresses his deep reverence for nature and its power, as well as his sense of wonder at encountering new cultures and ways of living. Shot in Calama, Chile, Shingo Yoshida’s film Réprouvé takes us through a garbage-strewn wasteland at the edge of the city, where the artist creates an oasis of beauty, turning discarded bear bott- les into a sound installation. In an exhibition about water, Réprouvé is striking for its very absence of water. Creating beauty in the most unlikely of places, it is nevertheless a frightening glimpse of what our planet may soon look like if we do not take better care of our most necessary natural resource – water.
„ – Rachel Rits-Volloch

CV Christoph Rothmeier
www.christophrothmeier.de

*1974

1974 geboren in Lindau am Bodensee, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.
1994 allgemeine Hochschulreife
1994-1997 Ausbildung Tischler
1997 Gründung „Diletant Tonträger“ Musiklabel in Berlin
1998-2005 Studium freie Kunst an der Hochschule für Bildende Kunst in Hamburg bei Eran Schaerf und der Villa Arson in Nizza (Frankreich) bei Jerome Joy

2006/2007 Freier Forschungsaufenthalt des DAAD, in Chicago ,
„visiting Artist“ im Department „art and technology“ des School of the Art Institute of Chicago), USA

Lehrätigkeit an Hochschulen:

2015-2017 Kuratierung der Abschlussausstellungen der Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
2015 Kuratierung „seeing as hearing“ studentische Arbeiten der Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
an der Musikhochschule Hanns Eisler, mit Klaas Hübner und Gabriele Werner
2015 Workshops „Pure Data “, MACO Museum Arte Contemporano Oaxaca, Mexico
und „Blackbox “, Burg Giebichtenstein, Halle
2013/2014 Seminare „Sound“ – Abenteuer und Phänomene und „unerhörte Räume“, theoretische und praktische Grundlagen für sound-basiertes künstle- risches Arbeiten an der Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin,

Frei kuratierte Projekte und Ausstellungen (Auswahl):

2014 Unerhörte Räume, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin
mit Klaas Hübner (u.a. mit transstruktura, studenten der weissensee kunsthochschule berlin, jannick dauby ..) 2013/2014 Fifty minutes, Ort für künstlerische Aufführungen,
(mit Shingo Yoshida , Stefan Mörsch, Galerie c+v, Hans Kellet und Kate Donovan)

www.fiftyminutes.de
2009-2011 Garten Eden 2, künstlerisches Forschungsprojekt, Ausstellungsprogramm und Publikation, (u.a. mit Philipp Haffner, Jörn Zehe, Peter Cramer, Michael Cieslak, Jack Waters, Olaf Dreyer)

www.garteneden2.de
2007-2009 Chicago Recordings, 23 Interviews mit speziell dafür entwickeltem Notationsprogramm, Ausstellung und Publikation (u.a. mit Shawn Decker, Eric Leonardson, Jason Roebke, Jeb Bishop, Josh Berman)

www.textem.de
seit 2002 Hungermuzik, Musiklabel und Band (mit Jörg Hochapfel),
Tonträgerveröffentlichungen und Konzerte
(u.a. Hungermusikfilme (2008), Künstlerfilme zur Musik von hunger, mit Eske Schlüters, Shingo Yoshida, Christophe Boursault, Tillmann Terbuyken, Nicole Messenklehner, mauru, Frau Kraushaar ..uvm. )
Screenings, u.a. im Westwerk Hamburg, Galerie A und V Leipzig, Le petite Verseille New York