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Slideshow: The art of Chiharu Shiota

Browse a selection of installations and exhibitions by Chiharu Shiota from the past 20 years.


  • Burnt piano and chair stand in a room. Behind them are an array of chairs connected to each other and the stairs via black wool

    In Silence, 2019

    Installation: burnt piano, burnt chair, Alcantara black thread. Installation view: Shiota Chiharu: The Soul Trembles, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2019. Photo by Sunhi Mang. Courtesy of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. © Copyright Agency, 2020 and the artist


  • Room shaped like a tube containing multiple strands of red fibre woven together across it to resemble a giant web. Behind the web sit two people on chairs

    Lifelines, 2019

    Performance/Installation: red wool, wooden chairs. Kulturprojekte Berlin, Germany. Photo by Sunhi Mang. © Copyright Agency, 2020 and the artist


  • Large room with suitcases suspended from the ceiling by red thread forming a pathway to the roof

    Accumulation-Searching for the Destination, 2019

    Installation: suitcase, motor, red rope. Installation view: Shiota Chiharu: The Soul Trembles, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2019. Photo by Sunhi Mang. Courtesy of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. © Copyright Agency, 2020 and the artist


  • Detail of the artwork ‘Counting Memories’, featuring black strands of wool and white numbers hanging in the voids between the threads

    Counting Memories, 2019

    Wooden desks, chairs, paper, black wool. Silesian Museum in Katowice, Poland. © Copyright Agency, 2020 and the artist. Photo by Sonia Szeląg. © Silesian Museum


  • Large network of red thread fills a room from an old boat on the ground to the ceiling. In the threads hang old keys

    The Key in the Hand, 2015

    Installation: old keys, old wooden boats, red wool. Japan Pavilion, 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy. Photo by Sunhi Mang. © Copyright Agency, 2020 and the artist


  • A room full of black wire framed boats filled with red wool suspended like a web from the ceiling

    Uncertain Journey, 2019

    Installation: metal frame, red wool. Installation view: Shiota Chiharu: The Soul Trembles, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2019. Photo by Sunhi Mang. Courtesy of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. © Copyright Agency, 2020 and the artist