Dates: Weekends from May 17 to June 15 [10 days in total].
Time: 10:00 – 16:00
Location: Kyushu University Hakozaki Satellite /the former main building of the Faculty of Engineering, 1st Floor, Room 146
Fee (Admission fee): Free
On the invitation of the Faculty of Design of Kyushu University, in collaboration with Yuka Yugetsu artist residency on Noko Island, the Austrian artist Karina Nimmerfall stayed in Fukuoka from February to March 2025, to research the collections of Kyushu University Museum.
The outcome is an art project that takes place in two chapters: The first chapter was an exhibition at Ohashi Campus in March 2025, which involved transferring historic wooden furniture from the museum storage to the campus gallery space, where it was displayed together with reading materials encompassing topics including design, forestry, environmental history, imperialism, material knowledge, transhistorical exhibition practices, and strategies of display.
Now on view at Kyushu University Museum is the second chapter of her project, an artistic intervention in the museum space in the form of a cafe-like reading room.
Nimmerfall’s work takes as its starting point the University’s collections relating to forestry, biodiversity, and Japan’s history of lumber-trade in pre- and post WWII. It comprises a narrative text by the artist that activates the collection’s holdings and includes reflections on the artist’s research, working process, and on the relationship between art and science. Themes and motives from the artist’s text can be re-discovered in the books and reading materials that are presented on a shelf. The audience is invited to take their time and browse through the diverse materials according to their own interests.
A performative reading will be held on Sunday, June 15, at 1 pm, 2 pm, and 3 pm.
Karina Nimmerfall is a visual artist and educator based in Berlin and Cologne, Germany. Blending documentary and speculative approaches, her work interweaves sculptural installation and language, with forms of photographic, computer-generated, or moving imagery. She has exhibited internationally including at Camera Austria, Graz (AT); MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (US); BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna (AT); the Bucharest Biennale 3; and the 8th Havana Biennale (CU). Her work has received numerous awards, such as the fellowship for contemporary German photography from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation in 2018.
ASYNCHRONOUS OBJECTS by Karina Nimmerfall was conceived at the invitation of the Kakenhi funded research project, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C): Theoretical Survey and Exhibition Practice on Art Intervention in University Museums (Project No.: 24K03582, Principal Investigator: Madoka Yuki (Kyushu University), Co-Investigator: Ariane Beyn (Kyushu University)), and in collaboration with the Kyushu University Museum. Supported by the Federal Ministry Republic of Austria – Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.
Time: 10:00 – 16:00
Location: Kyushu University Hakozaki Satellite /the former main building of the Faculty of Engineering, 1st Floor, Room 146
Fee (Admission fee): Free
On the invitation of the Faculty of Design of Kyushu University, in collaboration with Yuka Yugetsu artist residency on Noko Island, the Austrian artist Karina Nimmerfall stayed in Fukuoka from February to March 2025, to research the collections of Kyushu University Museum.
The outcome is an art project that takes place in two chapters: The first chapter was an exhibition at Ohashi Campus in March 2025, which involved transferring historic wooden furniture from the museum storage to the campus gallery space, where it was displayed together with reading materials encompassing topics including design, forestry, environmental history, imperialism, material knowledge, transhistorical exhibition practices, and strategies of display.
Now on view at Kyushu University Museum is the second chapter of her project, an artistic intervention in the museum space in the form of a cafe-like reading room.
Nimmerfall’s work takes as its starting point the University’s collections relating to forestry, biodiversity, and Japan’s history of lumber-trade in pre- and post WWII. It comprises a narrative text by the artist that activates the collection’s holdings and includes reflections on the artist’s research, working process, and on the relationship between art and science. Themes and motives from the artist’s text can be re-discovered in the books and reading materials that are presented on a shelf. The audience is invited to take their time and browse through the diverse materials according to their own interests.
A performative reading will be held on Sunday, June 15, at 1 pm, 2 pm, and 3 pm.
Karina Nimmerfall is a visual artist and educator based in Berlin and Cologne, Germany. Blending documentary and speculative approaches, her work interweaves sculptural installation and language, with forms of photographic, computer-generated, or moving imagery. She has exhibited internationally including at Camera Austria, Graz (AT); MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (US); BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna (AT); the Bucharest Biennale 3; and the 8th Havana Biennale (CU). Her work has received numerous awards, such as the fellowship for contemporary German photography from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation in 2018.
ASYNCHRONOUS OBJECTS by Karina Nimmerfall was conceived at the invitation of the Kakenhi funded research project, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C): Theoretical Survey and Exhibition Practice on Art Intervention in University Museums (Project No.: 24K03582, Principal Investigator: Madoka Yuki (Kyushu University), Co-Investigator: Ariane Beyn (Kyushu University)), and in collaboration with the Kyushu University Museum. Supported by the Federal Ministry Republic of Austria – Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.