CISTERNERNE PRESENTS / Chiharu Shiota Multiple Realities

13^th of March – 30^th of November 2022

Both time and gravity seem to be abolished in Chiharu Shiota’s comprehensive exhibition in Cisternerne, where the audience is led into a labyrinthine universe of sensuous installations and spatial displacements

In the exhibition Multiple Realities, the Japanese-born installation artist, Chiharu Shiota, embraces the unique characteristics of Cisternerne in order to create a dream-like scenario. The exhibition, which is experienced from walkways, uses the water and the dark repetitive colonnades in the construction of a labyrinthine course.

The exhibition’s three consecutive spaces are thematically and sequentially connected. Here, cobweb-like yarn structures and rotating textiles reveal themselves concurrently with the audience’s progressive walk above the water that gradually appears more dynamic and intrusive.

Cisternerne is transformed into a magical and unsettling place all at the same time, by sounds, vibrations and reflections, where gauzy fabric constructions draw circular formations in the humid air and where rotating dresses appear to be dancing on the water surface.

As always with Shiota, the audience’s active participation and power of imagination are crucial in the construction of the works and their narration.

Meeting Chiharu Shiota’s autobiographical work is like moving into another dimension. Her monumental and sensuous works are based on a collective and historical consciousness, from which her own biography is beautifully intertwined with the visitor’s own life stories.

The threads, lines and knots that have become her signature stand as a poetic image on the network of threads that bind people together across time, space and life narratives.

About the artist
Chiharu Shiota (b. 1972) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig (1997-1999) and Universität der Künste in Berlin (1999-2003).

For the past two decades, Chiharu Shiota has created entire universes woven from yarn, which has become her signature in the production of deeply moving and large-scale total installations.

Shiota was representative of Japan at the Venice Biennale in 2015 and has had solo exhibitions at galleries and museums all over the world, including The National Museum of Art in Osaka (2008), La Maison Rouge in Paris (2011), Wanås Konst in Skåne (2016) and Göteborgs Art Museum (2018).

About Cisternerne
Cisternerne is an underground art space in the old water reservoir of Copenhagen. Every year, an internationally renowned artist or architect is invited to create an exhibition that embraces the unique architecture, climate, atmosphere and history. Cisternerne is part of the Frederiksberg Museums

Exhibition catalogue
In connection with the exhibition, an illustrated catalogue is published with text by assistant professor at the Department of People and Technology, Ph.D. Kasper Levin.

The exhibition is carried out due to support from
A. P. Møller Fonden, Arbejdernes Landsbank, Augustinus Fonden, Beckett-Fonden, Bestles Fond, Det Obelske Familiefond, Frederiksberg Fonden, Brøchner Hotels, Knud Højgaards Fond, Statens Kunstfonds Projektstøtteudvalg and Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond.

Practical information about the exhibition
Chiharu Shiota: Multiple Realities
Cisternerne in Søndermarken opposite Frederiksberg Palace,
Tuesday – Sunday: 11-18 / Thursday: 11-20,
www.frederiksbergmuseerne.dk

Adults: 115 kr.
Students / young under 27: 90 kr.
Groups (10+): 90 kr./person, Children under 18: free

For additional information contact: PR- and head of communications Sille Brethvad,
M: +4544143310, sbr@frederiksbergmuseerne.d