KYOTOGRAPHIE 2021 Exhibition design @ The Museum of Kyoto Annex

This year, the exhibition was held at the Museum of Kyoto Annex and we designed the exhibition for Erwin Olaf.The exhibition was set in a historical building, with two different artworks and a space that allows visitors to experience a continuous narrative that immerses them in the world of the artworks.


Erwin Olaf
Born in 1959 in Hilversum, The Netherlands. Lives and works in Amsterdam.
Erwin Olaf is an internationally exhibiting artist whose diverse practice centers around society’s marginalized individuals, including women, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community.
This KYOTOGRAPHIE exhibition will feature the latest work made in 2020. Mainly consisting of two major series - the portraits and scenery photography from “Im Wald (in the forest)”, the video and the photography work from “April Fool”. In the series “Im Wald”, a few photographs are inspired by Romantic paintings from the 19th century, created in Northern Europe, depicting the indifferent power of nature, the human arrogance towards that same nature and the endless need for displacements, with the enormous consequences thereof. In “April Fool”, Olaf himself became a model being watched by cameras as if it’s a photographic and video work of a human being’s daily life during the self-quarantine in a pandemic crisis. In addition to that, a slideshow of the selected representative works over the years will be also presented.

#1 Erwin Olaf - Annus Mirabilis -
supported by MATSUSHIMA
Co-organizer | Kyoto Prefecture
The Museum of Kyoto Annex
10:00–19:00 | Closed: 9/21, 27, 10/4, 11
Adult ¥1,200
Students ¥900 (Please present your student ID)
* Admission accepted 30 mins before the venue closes.

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KYOTOGRAPHIE 2021　 #1 Erwin Olaf
KYOTOGRAPHIE 2020
KYOTOGRAPHIE 2019