Nobuyoshi Araki

Intro Bio Exhibitions

Background Information about Nobuyoshi Araki

Introduction

Nobuyoshi Araki is Japan's best-known photographer and its most controversial cultural export. Documenting Tokyo he captures its obscene energy and inhuman emptiness in the sex clubs and entertainment district, crowded streets, buildings and skies. His work is infused with an intense sexuality. Renowned for clashing with the authorities, in 1988 police ordered the removal from sale the magazine Shashin Jidai, which featured Araki's photographs; obscenity charges were levelled against the artist during a 1992 exhibition and 1993 saw the arrest of a gallery curator who dared to display Araki's graphic nudes. One gets the sense that Araki is a rebel bucking the system. Araki has been working as a photographer since the 1960s and has published over 200 books and exhibited extensively worldwide, including Tokyo, London, and Paris.

Bio


1940	born in in Minowa, Tokyo
	lives and works in Tokyo

Collections

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Sammlung Goetz, München

Exhibitions


2006	Nobuyoshi Araki Pinakothek der Moderne, München
2005	Art Basel Miami Beach 2005 Art Basel Miami Beach
	BLUMENSTÜCK Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
	Boost in the Shell // De Bond Aeroplastics, Brüssel
	Die sinnliche Linie Museum der Moderne Salzburg
	Corpus 05 Brügge Musea Brugge, Brügge
	fotografia 2005 fotografia Roma
	Coleccion Helga de Alvear Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano, Badajoz
	Der fotografierte Mensch Neues Museum Nürnberg
	Europe in Art National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bukarest
	Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Fundacion Juan March, Madrid
	CANTOS Casino Luxembourg, Luxemburg
2004	COLD PLAY Fotomuseum Winterthur
	15 Jahre Deichtorhallen Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
	In Bed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi
	The Flower as Image Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
	Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach 2004 Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach
	10 Year Anniversary Exhibition Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
	Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
	Nobuyoshi Araki Zonca & Zonca, Mailand
	Colección Sandretto Re Rebaudengo IVAM Valencia
	Strange Days Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
	La vita delle forme Galleria Civica Modena
	Female Turbulence Aeroplastics, Brüssel
	Works Seldom Seen at ShanghART ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
2003	Fables de l´identité Jeu de Paume, Paris
	Phantom der Lust Neue Galerie, Graz
	update #6 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
	short cuts Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2002	Keine Kleinigkeit Kunsthalle Basel
	Trottoirs - Sidewalks Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
	Open City Hirshhorn Museum, Washington
	Desire Galleria d´Arte Moderna, Bologna
	Retrospektive a-d Miami, Miami; Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris; Moscow House of Photography, Moskau; Shine Gallery, London
2001	Kunsthalle Kiel; Ikon Gallery, London; Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo; Jablonka Galerie, Köln; Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
	Contemporary Photography from Japan De Pont, Tilburg
	Desire Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal
2000	Centre National de la Photographie, Paris; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Ars Futura, Zürich; Asprey Jacques, London; Gallerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
1999	Kunsthaus Bregenz; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo: "Sentimental Photography, Sentimental Life"; Egg Gallery, Tokyo; Art & Public, Genf
1998	Private ficcions Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
	Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; De Appel, Amsterdam: ""Life Is A Bitch"; Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo: "COSMOSCO"
1996	Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Kunsthalle Basel; Jablonka Galerie, Köln
1995	Fondation Cartier, Paris; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
1994	Luhring Augustine, New York
1990	Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
1981	Veröffentlichung "Photograph novel" Fotosammlung und Essay
1972	Performance: "Super Photo Concert"