Hana Usui

Hana Usui ( Japanese笛 吹 花, Usui Hana , born April 17, 1974 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese artist.

Life

Hana Usui studied art history at Waseda University in Tokyo and learned calligraphy from Japanese masters for about twenty years . In 1999 she left the “way of writing” , she completely broke away from the characters and since then has devoted herself to the fine arts. She uses white and black oil paint for her abstract drawings. The Indian ink is now used exclusively for the background design of her compositions on paper. From 2000 she worked mainly in Berlin. She has lived and worked in Vienna and Bolzano since 2011 .

“Hana Usui broke away from her starting point in Japanese calligraphy, without completely giving up its intellectual and formal foundations, in order to find a free line formation that was extraordinarily varied despite its reduction. This can lead to stronger concentrations, extreme scarcity, graphic clarity or linear rhythmic play up to striking gestural expression. This includes the relationship between graphic form and free space and the tension it creates. A level of meaning is never completely given up, symbolic and indicative ideas resonate in different ways, but they always remain unobtrusive. In addition, the use of oil paint leads to an intensification of the graphic image, just as the brush wash on a second sheet underlaid with the drawing increases the spatial and painterly richness. This variety of drawing possibilities and the openness written in all sheets are entirely in the service of the stylistic unity of the graphic work. "

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2019 Vienna Art Week: Bei Uns , WOP - Works on Paper, Vienna / AT
• 2018 To Life , Artcurial Austria, Vienna / AT
• 2018 Black End , Galerie Dittmar, Berlin / DE
• 2016 High & Slow , with Thilo Westermann, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren / DE
• 2015 Black Rain , Bildraum 01, Vienna / AT
• 2015 Hana Usui - works on paper , Galerie Dittmar, Berlin / DE
• 2015 Hana Usui - works on paper , Galerie Daniela and Cora Hölzl - EY5, Düsseldorf / DE
• 2013 Hana Usui - drawings , Galerie Dittmar, Berlin / DE
• 2012 Vienna Art Week: Hana Usui. Drawings on paper 2006-2012 , Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz / AT (catalog presentation and retrospective)
• 2009 Prace na papierze / Works on Paper , Museum of Japanese Art and Technology Manggha , Krakow / PL
• 2009 A line is a line , with Friederike Maltz, Essenheimer Kunstverein / DE
• 2009 Works on paper , Waidspeicher Gallery in the Haus zum Güldenen Krönbacken , Municipal Gallery in Erfurt / DE
• 2008 From Japanese calligraphy to free art , Schwartzsche Villa , municipal gallery in Berlin / DE
• 2008 Open Art: Kiku , Galerie Lichtpunkt, Munich / DE
• 2008 Kataru Sen - Disegno a cacciavite , 41 artecontemporanea, Turin / IT
• 2007 Asia-Pacific Weeks: Negative , Galerie oko, Berlin / DE
• 2006 Works on paper and objects , with Michel Sauer , Kunstkontor Rampoldt, Berlin / DE
• 2005 Loneliness in Berlin , Galerie oko, Berlin / DE
• 2002 Kuso Galleria, Tokyo / JP
• 1998 Kuso Galleria, Tokyo / JP

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 2019 Japan Unlimited , frei_raum Q21 exhibition space MuseumsQuartier Wien / AT
• 2019 Works from the collection, Rimini City Museum / IT
• 2018 Show me your wound , Dom Museum Vienna / AT (until 2019)
• 2017 Works from the collection of the Kupferstichkabinett, Kunsthalle Bremen / DE
• 2017 Parallel Vienna : Parallel and concordant / AT
• 2016 Drawing Biennale : Profili del mondo: L'umano paesaggio da Giudo Reni a Kiki Smith , FAR - Fabbrica Arte Rimini, Rimini City Museum / IT
• 2016 Parallel Vienna : Border Crossing / AT
• 2015 Vienna Art Week: Perpetuum Mobile , Garage - Kunst Haus Wien / AT
• 2014 Salotto.Vienna Wiener Kunstsalon presented by the MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, ex Pescheria - Salone degli Incanti, Trieste / IT (presentation and performance with Casaluce Geiger)
• 2014 Vienna Art Week: No more Fukushimas , Marcello Farabegoli Projects im Verein08, Vienna / AT
• 2013 At the Nexus of Painting and Writing , Seoul Arts Center / KR
• 2011 The spirit of gestures. Hans Hartung, Informel and its consequences , Gut Altenkamp, ​​Papenburg / DE
• 2010 The esprit of gestures. Hans Hartung, Informel and its consequences , Kupferstichkabinett - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / DE
• 2010 KAMI. Silence action. Japanese contemporary art on paper , Kupferstich-Kabinett - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden / DE
• 2010 Art to GO II , Kommunale Galerie Berlin / DE
• 2009 Sensai / Weiss - the purity of form in Japanese art , Museum Residenzgalerie Salzburg / AT
• 2008 Parallel event of Manifesta 7: the pix of signs , City Gallery Bozen / IT
• 2005 Japan Now , Manggha Center of Japanese Art and Technology - The National Museum in Krakow / JP
• 1994–98 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum / AT

Collections (selection)

• Academy of Fine Arts Vienna - Kupferstichkabinett / AT
• Albertina , Vienna / AT
• Angermuseum Erfurt / DE
• Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Berlinische Galerie - State Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture , Berlin / DE
• Dom Museum Vienna - Otto Mauer Contemporary / AT
• Municipal gallery Berlin / DE
• Kunsthalle Bremen / DE
• Museo della Cittá di Rimini / IT
• Museum of Japanese Art and Technology Manggha , Krakow / PL
• Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf / DE
• Museum der Moderne Salzburg / AT
• New Berlin Art Association / DE
• New National Gallery , Berlin / DE
• Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden - Kupferstich-Kabinett / DE
• State Museums in Berlin - Kupferstichkabinett / DE
• Central and State Library Berlin / DE

Bibliography (selection)

• Niklas Maak : Linientreu: The Japanese painter Hana Usui at Oko Berlin . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 26, 2006
• Brigitte Hammer: A black line defines a whole world - thoughts on some of Hana USUI's works . In: Hana USUI , ed. Galerie oko and Kunstkontor Rampoldt, Berlin, 2006
• Marcello Farabegoli: From Japanese Calligraphy to Free Art - Works on Paper by Hana Usui , In: From Japanese Calligraphy to Free Art: Works on Paper by Hana Usui . Edited by the Steglitz-Zehlendorf District Office, Berlin, 2008
• Niklas Maak : Lines that lead into the future . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 26, 2010
• Bernhard Maaz : Affektstrich und Explosionsblatt . In: Hana Usui - Drawings on paper 2006-2012 , Ed. Marcello Farabegoli, Vienna, 2012
• Andreas Schalhorn: On the trail of the line - To the drawings by Hana Usui . In: Hana Usui - Drawings on paper 2006-2012 , Ed. Marcello Farabegoli, Vienna, 2012
• Niklas Maak : Artwork of the week: “Hana Usui's Fukushima picture” . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, August 9, 2015
• Peter Dittmar: Introduction . In: Hana Usui , ed. Galerie Dittmar, Berlin, 2015.
• Michael Astroh: Between drawing and painting. For image design in the work of Hana Usui . In: Hana Usui , ed. Galerie Dittmar, Berlin, 2015
• Reinhard Ermen : Signs at the moment: Hana Usui . In: KUNSTFORUM international , Vol. 253, April-May 2018.
• Marietta Mautner Markhof : Hana Usui - Schwarzer Regen : In: Hana Usui , ed. Galerie Dittmar, Berlin, 2015 and in: Hana Usui: Political and sociocritical works 2014 - 2019 / Political and sociocritical works 2014 - 2019 , ed. Marcello Farabegoli Projects , Vienna, 2019
• Bernhard Maaz: Exercises in black and white: On the art of Hana Usui and Thilo Westermann . In: High & Slow: Hana Usui - Thilo Westermann , publisher Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, 2016
• Anne Buschhoff: Hana Usui. From the way of writing to the way of drawing . In: High & Slow: Hana Usui - Thilo Westermann , publisher Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, 2016
• Monika Knofler: Abstraction as Code , In: fair - Magazine for Art and Architecture, 01/2018 and in: Hana Usui: Political and sociocritical works 2014 - 2019 / Political and sociocritical works 2014 - 2019 , Ed. Marcello Farabegoli Projects, Vienna, 2019
• Nina Schedlmayer: People made of paper. Hana Usui's complex of works on the death penalty in Japan . In: Hana Usui: Political and sociocritical works 2014 - 2019 / Political and sociocritical works 2014 - 2019 , Ed. Marcello Farabegoli Projects, Vienna, 2019
• Liesa Nonami: Hana Usui - To life . In: Hana Usui: Political and sociocritical works 2014 - 2019 / Political and sociocritical works 2014 - 2019 , Ed. Marcello Farabegoli Projects, Vienna, 2019
• Klaus Speidel: Traces of Discrimination in Urban Space. A practical semiotics of exclusion . In: Hana Usui: Political and sociocritical works 2014 - 2019 / Political and sociocritical works 2014 - 2019 , Ed. Marcello Farabegoli Projects, Vienna, 2019
• Konrad Paul Liesmann: Man-made emptiness . On the Fukushima cycle by Hana Usui : In: Hana Usui: Political and sociocritical works 2014 - 2019 / Political and sociocritical works 2014 - 2019 , Ed. Marcello Farabegoli Projects, Vienna, 2019

Web links

• Homepage of the artist
• Gallery Dittmar Berlin
• fruehsorge contemporary drawings
• Marcello Farabegoli Projects

Individual evidence

• Hana USUI , ed. Galerie oko and Kunstkontor Rampoldt, Berlin, 2006
• From Japanese calligraphy to fine art: Works on paper by Hana Usui , Ed. District Office Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin, 2008
• Hana Usui - Drawings on paper 2006-2012 , Ed. Marcello Farabegoli, Vienna, 2012
• Contemporary Art and Calligraphy: At the Nexus of Painting and Writing , Ed. Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, 2013
• Hana Usui , ed. Galerie Dittmar, Berlin, 2015.
• High & Slow: Hana Usui - Thilo Westermann , ed. Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, 2016
• Profili del mondo , Ed. City of Rimini, 2016
• Parallel & concordant: Artists and mediators in symbiotic life relationships private & public , Eds. Marcello Farabegoli and Lucas Gehrmann, Vienna, 2017
• Hana Usui: Political and sociocritical works 2014 - 2019 / Political and sociocritical works 2014 - 2019 , Ed. Marcello Farabegoli Projects, Vienna, 2019

1. ↑ Hana Usui - Drawings on paper 2006-2012 . Accessed April 2020.
2. ^ Quote from the text of the 2013 solo exhibition in the Dittmar Gallery by Dr. Peter Dittmar, Berlin, 2013 (can be found on the homepage of Galerie Dittmar under "Artist: Hana Usui") . Accessed April 2020.
3. ↑ With us - WOP . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
4. ↑ With us - WOP . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
5. ↑ With us - WOP . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
6. ↑ To Life - Artcurial . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
7. ↑ To Life - Artcurial . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
8. ^ Black End - Galerie Dittmar . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
9. ^ Black End - Galerie Dittmar . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
10. ^ High & Slow - Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
11. ^ High & Slow - Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
12. ^ High & Slow - Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
13. ↑ Black Rain - Bildraum 01 . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
14. ↑ Black Rain - Bildraum 01 . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
15. ↑ Works on paper - Galerie Dittmar . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
16. ↑ Works on paper - Galerie Dittmar . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
17. ↑ Works on paper - Galerie Cora Hölzl . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
18. ↑ Drawings - Galerie Dittmar . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
19. ↑ Drawings - Galerie Dittmar . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
20. ↑ Drawings on paper 2006-2012 - Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
21. ↑ Drawings on paper 2006-2012 - Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
22. ^ Works on Paper - Museum Manggha . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
23. ^ Works on Paper - Museum Manggha . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
24. ↑ A line is a line - Essenheimer Kunstverein . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
25. ↑ Works on paper - Galerie Waidspeicher . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
26. ↑ Works on paper - Galerie Waidspeicher . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
27. ↑ From Japanese Calligraphy to Free Art - Schwartzsche Villa . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
28. ↑ From Japanese Calligraphy to Free Art - Schwartzsche Villa . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
29. ↑ Kiku - Gallery Lichtpunkt . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
30. ↑ Kataru Sen - 41artecontemporanea . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
31. ↑ Kataru Sen - 41artecontemporanea . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
32. ↑ Negative - Galerie oko . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
33. ↑ Negative - Galerie oko . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
34. ↑ Works on paper and objects - Kunstkontor Rampoldt . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
35. ↑ Loneliness in Berlin - Galerie oko . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
36. ↑ Hana Usui - Kuso Galleria . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
37. ↑ Hana Usui - Kuso Galleria . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
38. ^ Japan Unlimited - MuseumsQuartier Wien . Retrieved April 3, 2020.
39. ↑ Press release for Japan Unlimited. e-flux, September 17th, 2019 .
40. ^ Japan Unlimited - MuseumsQuartier Wien . Retrieved April 3, 2020.
41. ^ The Japanese Embassy in Austria Has Withdrawn Support for a Show That Includes Controversial Japanese Artists. Artnet, November 6, 2019 .
42. ^ Political art supposedly harmless. Courier, November 9, 2019 .
43. ↑ Japan Unlimited - Giappone vs Austria by “colpa” di una mostra. Artribune, November 11, 2019 .
44. ^ Biennale Disegno - Rimini City Museum . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
45. ^ Biennale Disegno - Rimini City Museum . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
46. ↑ Show me your wound - Dom Museum Vienna . Retrieved April 11, 2020.
47. ↑ Show me your wound - Dom Museum Vienna . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
48. ↑ Show me your wound - Dom Museum Vienna . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
49. ↑ Show me your wound - Dom Museum Vienna . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
50. ↑ Collection exhibition - Kunsthalle Bremen . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
51. ↑ Collection exhibition - Kunsthalle Bremen . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
52. ^ Parallel and concordant - Parallel Vienna 2017 . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
53. ↑ Parallel and concordant. Parnassus Art Magazine, September 22, 2017 . Retrieved April 4, 2020.
54. ^ Profili del mondo - Rimini City Museum . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
55. ↑ Parallel Vienna 2016 . Retrieved February 24, 2018.
56. ↑ Border Crossing - Parallel Vienna 2016 . Retrieved February 24, 2018.
57. ^ Perpetuum Mobile - Kunst Haus Wien (Aviso) . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
58. ^ Perpetuum Mobile - Art House Vienna . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
59. ^ Perpetuum Mobile - Art House Vienna . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
60. ↑ Salotto.Vienna - MAK Museum Vienna . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
61. ↑ No more Fukushimas - Association08 . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
62. ↑ Article by Anne Katrin Feßler in Der Standard , November 20, 2014
63. ^ Fukushima Mon Amour - la mostra dell'anno a Vienna. Artribune, December 6, 2014 . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
64. ^ At the Nexus of Painting and Writing - Seoul Arts Center . Retrieved April 23, 2020.
65. ^ At the Nexus of Painting and Writing - Seoul Arts Center . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
66. ↑ Lee Woo-young: Influence of calligraphy on contemporary art . In: The Korea Herald , April 8, 2013. 
67. ↑ On the esprit of gestures - Gut Altenkamp . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
68. ↑ On the Esprit of Gestures - Kupferstichkabinett of the State Museums in Berlin . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
69. ↑ On the Esprit of Gestures - Kupferstichkabinett of the State Museums in Berlin . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
70. ^ Kami - Kupferstich-Kabinett of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
71. ^ Sensai - Residenzgalerie Salzburg . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
72. ↑ the pix of signs - City Gallery Bozen . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
73. ^ Japan Now - Manggha Museum . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
74. ↑ Dom Museum Vienna . Retrieved April 28, 2020.
75. ↑ Albertina . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
76. ↑ Kunsthalle Bremen . Retrieved April 24, 2020.
77. ↑ Kunsthalle Bremen . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
78. ↑ Kunsthalle Bremen . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
79. ^ Biennale Disegno Rimini . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
80. ^ Biennale Disegno Rimini . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
81. ^ Museum Kunstpalast . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
82. ^ New Berlin Art Association . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
83. ↑ Central u. State Library Berlin . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
84. ↑ Central u. State Library Berlin . Retrieved April 6, 2020.