MASAYO KAJIMURA
 
 
 
 
 
The video series "traveling time series" is an ongoing long term project, where video sequences are created, which deal with the theme of time and space. Images which have been collected over the years, images from distant places and times fuse into a flow of movements.
"traveling time series - Ahrenshoop version 01" was shot during the residency at Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop, Germany. The artist filmed the landscape for one month every day. The tide, day and night, the full moon set, an infinitely repeating process becomes a play of light.
 

Masayo Kajimura

1976 born in Berlin, Germany

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Education

2005-2006 research at IAMAS (Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences) Gifu/Japan
2004 M.A. in cultural studies and art history at Humboldt-University Berlin

Grants

2008
project grant for film project “Home Affairs” by the Zeit Foundation
artist in residence stipend in the artist house Lukas in Ahrenshoop/ Germany by the Zeit Foundation and the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

2007
project grant for the video dance piece “La place mystérieuse” by the Japanese Fund for the Promotion of the Arts and Culture and by the EU Japan Fest

2005-2006
research stipend of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

2005
exhibition grant for the video art exhibition “Screen Fields” by the German IFA (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations) and the Japanese Nomura Cultural Foundation

2004
three months working stipend of the video and film section of the women artists program of the City of Berlin

Solo Exhibitions

„Masayo Kajimura: Filme und Gespräch“ b_books, Berlin
„One Year Japan“ miss hecker, Berlin

Group Exhibitions

2009
„InterART City 2009“ Salle Anneessens, Brüssel
EXPERIMENTAL 3, Ciné Nouveau, Osaka
Salon Qi, Berlin
„100sai kara no nikki“ with Mademoiselle Cinema and Tsumugine, Session House, Tokyo
„frombeetobee“, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg
„body. space. time.“ Galerie station/Mousonturm, Frankfurt a.M.
„2. Ke-Hei Art Salon“ Hoftheater, Berlin
"Contemporary Flanerie: Reconfiguring Cities“ Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester/USA

2008
Spread Videoart Project/SVP, Tokyo
Japan-Bulgaria Film Art Exhibition, Sofia/Bulgarien
„Fushigi na basho – la place mystérieuse“ with Mademoiselle Cinema, Session House, Tokyo, Ministry of Culture 63rd Art Festival
Ogaki Biennale 2008, Ogaki/Japan
„cityscape - landscape“, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
„miss hecker urlaub" hinterconti, Hamburg
„Fushigi na basho – la place mystérieuse“ with Mademoiselle Cinema, Sibiu International Theater Festival, Sibiu/Romania
„Zensors Night“ 103studio, Berlin
Nippon Connection, Frankfurt
Asian Hot Shots Festival, Berlin

2007
Amsterdam Film Experience Amsterdam, Netherlands
„Fushigi na basho – la place mystérieuse“ Japan tour with Mademoiselle Cinema, Tokyo, Iwakuni, Matsumoto
„miss hecker zu besuch im hinterconti“ hinterconti, Hamburg
„Das Wohnzimmer.Festival für urbane Kunst“, intercultural women center S.U.S.I., Berlin
„Euro Art Festival 2007“, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
NATFA (National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts), Sofia, Bulgaria
„Strassenzwerge“ miss hecker, Berlin

2006
„kurz gesehen: Best of 2006” Lichtblick Kino, Berlin
„Weihnachtsausstellung 2006” miss hecker, Berlin
Okayama Filmfestival 2006, Okayama City Digital Museum, Okayama
„Fushigi na basho – la place mystérieuse“ with Mademoiselle Cinema, Session House, Tokyo, Ministry of Culture 61st Art Festival
„fragmented sequences“ with Hiroko Tanahashi, Lichtblick Kino, Berlin
„self protrait“ miss hecker at hinterconti, Hamburg
„Genjitsu shinkiro” with Mademoiselle Cinema, Session House, Tokyo
„IAMAS2006 Wanderer’s Engawa in the Era of Technocodes” Softopia, Ogaki

2005
„Künstlerinnenprogramm” Arsenal, Berlin
„Kunst und Design“ DAAD, Tokyo
„Screen Fields” Session House, Tokyo
„Kyoto Media Art Week 2005” Goethe Institute, Studio KINO, Kyoto
„Open House 2005” IAMAS, Ogaki

2004
„Borderline” Ladyfest 2004, Arsenal, Berlin

2003
7. Black Nights Filmfestival, Goethe Institute, Tallinn/Estonia
„My Migrant Soul” Blickpilotin e.V., Berlin
49th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

Projects

traveling time series (ongoing video project)
La place mystérieuse (video dance piece with Mademoiselle Cinema)
HOME AFFAIRS (documentary film with Rita Bakacs and Graziella Tomasi)
Berlin time - Tokyo time (ongoing audiovisual project with composer Yasuno Miyauchi)
Made in Germany (curation of a film series at Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin)

Links

Mademoiselle Cinema: http://www.session-house.net/mc/e_01_top.html
Werkstatt der Kulturen: http://www.werkstatt-der-kulturen.de/
beetobee.net: www.frombeetobee.net

 

Contact

MASAYO KAJIMURA

Hobrechtstr. 31
12047 Berlin
Germany

masayo05@iamas.ac.jp