Daimler Contemporary
11 October - 1 March 2009
Forwards
08
Daimler Awards for Contemporary Art in Japan, South Africa and USA
Yuken Teruya
Dawn
Art Scope 2007 / 2008
Art Scope Daimler Japan is the name of a promotion program for young Japanese artists launched in 1991.
In 2005, the Award program was restructured to provide an Artist-in-Residence program in Berlin and Tokyo. The works of the four Award winners in 2005 - Kohei Nawa and Hiroharu Mori from Japan, Katja Strunz and Georg Winter from Germany - were jointly presented in the fall of 2006, initially in the Hara Museum for Contemporary Art in Tokyo.
For the second time after 2004, the works of the winners of the 'Artist-in-Residence' Award, a groundbreaking program for Japan, have also be shown 2007 in Haus Huth, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. The exhibition comprised some 20 pictures, photographs, objects and installations part of which were specifically created for this project.
The Award winners 2007 - Izumi Kato (*1969) and Yuken Teruya (*1973) from Japan, as well as Eva Teppe (*1973) and Ascan Pinckernelle (*1970) - are exhibited in Japan and Berlin in 2008.
The selected Award winners for 2009/2010 are Jan Scharrelman (*1975, D), Eva Berendes (*1974 D) and Hiroe Saeki (*1978) as well as Meiro Koizumi (*1976).