Chiharu Shiota (* 1972 in Japan, lives in Berlin) also exhibited here for the first time in 1999. She depicts human feelings and fears with her often room-filling installations that are either made of wool fibers and clothes, glass and windows, or her ‘blood-pumps’. The strength of her work often lies within their ambivalence and ambiguity. For the first time in 2002 works by Heri Dono (* 1960 in Indonesia) were exhibited here. His seemingly archaic installations and kinetic objects take on the artistic traditions of his homeland and are given a philosophical and socially critical underlining.
The young artists in this exhibition are Lu Song and Zhao Zhao. Lu Song (* 1982 in China) breaks through the romanticized subjects of his fantastic landscapes through his painting style: every deceptive appearance is lastingly disrupted in a massive, but subtle way. This allows the process of painting to be more connected to intuition than to composition. The critical approach of Zhao Zhao (* 1982 in China) is strongly influenced by the close ties he has with Ai Weiwei. With his performances, installations and paintings, he challenges ideologically coloured conventions, as well as the clichés of art history and current patterns of interpretation.