Omoshirogara

01 October 2021– 27 February 2022 / Museum DKM, Duisburg

Omoshirogara kimonos with works by Erika Kobayashi, Jong Ok Ri, Kei Takemura, Yu Araki, Yuichiro Tamura

Curated by Roger M. Buergel, Miwa Negoro, Mariko Mikami

Exhibition view, Museum DKM, 2021, view on Erika Kobayashi, She Waited, 2019/2021, photo: Subaru Moriwaki

Exhibition view, Museum DKM, 2021, view on Jong Ok Ri, Zero, 2015/2021, photo: Christina Wild

Exhibition view, Museum DKM, 2021, view on Kei Takemura, Renovated Series, 2021.

Exhibition view, Museum DKM, 2021, view on Yu Araki, The Last Ball, 2019, photo: Subaru Moriwaki

Exhibition view, Museum DKM, 2021, view on Sketches of Wajirō Kon and Mitsuo Arai (Exhibition Copy), Kogakuin University Library Collection, Tokyo, photo: Christina Wild

Exhibition view, Museum DKM, 2021, view on Tattoo, photographed by Felice Beato, 1870–1899, DKM Collection, photo: Christina Wild

Exhibition view, Museum DKM, 2021, view on Yuichiro Tamura, The Ring, 2021.

The exhibition OMOSHIROGARA addresses Japan's colonial modernity and its global entanglements through a close reading of kimonos from the collection of the textile historian and undisputed expert in the field, Yoshiko Inui (Prof.em., Tokai University, Sapporo). In addition to the kimonos, the exhibition shows works by five contemporary artists, Yu Araki, Erika Kobayashi, Jong Ok Ri, Kei Takemura, and Yuichiro Tamura, as well as historical materials, some of which belong to the DKM Collection. The modern era is far from over and lives on, though sometimes in disguise, in our global present.

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01 October 2021– 27 February 2022 / Museum DKM, Duisburg

Omoshirogara kimonos with works by Erika Kobayashi, Jong Ok Ri, Kei Takemura, Yu Araki, Yuichiro Tamura

Curated by Roger M. Buergel, Miwa Negoro, Mariko Mikami

Supported by Japan Foundation and German Federal Foreign Office