Naoya Hatakeyama

Meets Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst

Naoya Hatakeyama (b. 1958 in Rikuzen-takata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan) is an artist and photographer based in Tokyo. He graduated from the University of Tsukuba in 1984 with a degree in art from Japanese photographer and photo-theoretist Kiyoji Otsuji. Known for a series of extensive works dealing with the relationship between nature and civilisation, he has created a thoughtful panorama of images showing places and landscapes shaped by industrialisation and urbanisation since the 1980s.Artist ProgrammeArtist Meets Archive
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Naoya Hatakeyama
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Naoya Hatakeyama's work features series on landscapes and architecture that document a man-made nature in which he himself, however, no longer appears. In Germany, Hatakeyama photographed, among other things, the controlled detonation of the Westfalen I/II Zeche in 2003. Furthermore, he was awarded the Kimura Ihei Award of Photography in 1997 and the Mainichi Art Award in 2000.

For his exhibition at the Museum of East Asian Art, Naoya Hatakeyama uses photographs of Japanese landmarks from the Meiji era of Japan (1868-1912) as inspiration for his own photographic investigation of these places. He is interested in the temporal aspect that lies between the tourist views of the time and the landscape of today. The playful juxtaposition of archive material and his own photographs also opens up the spectrum between photography as a document and photography as a work of art.

Naoya Hatakeyama at the Photoszene-Festival 2023

 

Naoya Hatakeyama was interviewed by students in the master's programme "Photography Studies and Research", which is led by Prof. Dr. Steffen Siegel. He talks about his artistic practice and his residency project.

Interview with Naoya Hatakeyama

More information about Naoya Hatakeyama:
https://www.takaishiigallery.com
 


 

Naoya Hatakeyama visits the archive at the Museum of East Asian Art

Museum of East Asian Art Cologne

The Museum of East Asian Art of the City of Cologne is the only museum in Germany that specialises exclusively in the art of East Asia. It holds numerous, world-famous works of art from China, Korea and Japan; its highlights include Buddhist painting as well as sculpture and sculpture in great diversity and on the highest international level. Opened in 1913, the museum emerged from the art collection of the married couple Adolf and Frieda Fischer, which they had acquired in East Asia. On their purchasing trips along the European steamship routes, which led via Istanbul to Yokohama, they also gained an extensive collection of photographs from mainly commercial photo studios in the large port cities, which were established by local and European photographers after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 in order to meet the demand for travel photographs. The collection of around 1,500 prints also includes photographs taken by Adolf Fischer himself during his various trips. There is also a series of photoalbums from the estates of German military personnel who were stationed in China and preferred to spend their holidays in Japan. While the images from China often convey colonialist messages, the hand-coloured photographs from the Japanese photo studios refer to the influence of Japanese woodblock prints. After a bombing raid in 1944, the former museum building and parts of the collection were destroyed, including the glass plates from the photo collection. After initially being forgotten, the surviving collection was rediscovered in the 1990s and acquired its own status within the museum collection, which has since received greater focus ever since.

Artist Meets Archive Ausstellungen & Veranstaltungen auf dem Photoszene-Festival 2023
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    Artist Meets Archive 01

    Yokohama Souvenirs

    Naoya Hatakeyama

    Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln
    12.05. – 05.11.2023

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    Artist Meets Archive 02

    The Opening. an institution, a depot, the boxes

    Pablo Lerma

    NS-Dokumentationszentrum der Stadt Köln
    12.05. – 18.06.2023

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    Artist Meets Archive 03

    Ghosts@Work

    Lilly Lulay

    Rheinisches Bildarchiv zu Gast in der Handwerkskammer zu Köln
    12.05. – 11.06.2023

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    Shall you Return Everything, but the Burden

    Lebohang Kganye

    Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
    12.05. – 05.10.2023

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    Dates & Special Events

    Artist Meets Archive

    Artist Meets Archive Museen
    10.05. – 21.05.2023

  • Artist Meets Archive

    Research Meets Artist

    Dialogue Symposium on the Third Edition of Artist Meets Archive

    Rheinisches Bildarchiv im Historischen Archiv

  • Artist Meets Archive

    International Museum Day 21th May 2023

    Artist Meets Archive

    Artist Meets Archive Museen
    21.05.2023

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