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Guest Talk by Kasahara Michiko Related to the Exhibition “Unprecedented: Women Photographers from the GDR”
Kasahara Michiko gives a guest talk related to the Exhibition “Unprecedented: Women Photographers from the GDR”.
Date: Saturday, July 11, 2026
Time: 14:00–16:00 (Doors open at 13:45)
Guest: Kasahara Michiko (Director, Nagano Prefecture Art Museum)
Venue: Hayama, Auditorium
Capacity: 60 (first-come basis)
Fee: Free
* Seats on the day will be unreserved (first-come basis).
* Free entry, advance registration required.
* The talk is given in Japanese.
Registration via the form below (e-Kanagawa electronic application):
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Guest
Kasahara Michiko(1957- )
Director of Nagano Prefectural Art Museum since 2024. Vice Director of Artizon Museum (former Bridgestone Museum of Art), Ishibashi Foundation from 2018 to 2024. Chief Curator of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum from 2006 to 2018. Curator of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum from 1989 to 2002. Curator of Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo from 2002 to 2006. Selected curatorial works: “I know something about love, Asian Contemporary Photography”, 2018, “Dayanita Singh, Museum Bhavan”, 2017, ”somewhere between me and this world – Japanese contemporary photography”, 2012, “Love’s Body – Art in the age of AIDS”, 2010, “on your body, Japanese contemporary photography”, 2008; “ishiuchi miyako, mother’s 2000 – 2005, traces of the future”, as a commissioner of Japanese pavilion of the 51st Venice biennale,2005. “mot annual, life actually, the works of contemporary japanese women”, the museum of contemporary art, Tokyo, 2005; “Kiss in the Dark: Contemporary Japanese Photography”, 2001; “Love’s Body — Rethinking the Naked and the Nude in Photography”, 1998; “Alfred Stieglitz and his Contemporaries”, 1997; “Gender Beyond Memory, The Works of Contemporary Women Artists”, 1996; “American Documents in the fringe”, 1991; “Exploring the Unknown Self — Self-portraits of Contemporary Women”, 1991
Selected Books: Essays On Photography from Gender Perspective, 1991 – 2017, Satoyama-sha, 2018, Tokyo, “photographs of the war, its history and meaning”, The Politics Behind the War, Seikyu-sha, Tokyo, 2004; Photography as a Bulwark Against Era, Seikyu-sha, Tokyo, 2002; The Politics Behind the Nude, Chikuma Shobo, Tokyo, 1998