> order book at tubuk.com
> order book at amazon.co.jp
> buy at these Japanese bookstores [download .rtf, 4KB]
> watch book excerpt [pdf, 767KB]

Project #001

Japanese Rooms (photo project and book)
How do the Japanese live in Japan? How do they live abroad? Do they create their own culture in foreign cities? What do they take with them from home? Feelings, things – sensuous or tangible memories?
The artist and graphic designer Sven Ingmar Thies gained insight into the lives of 82 Japanese citizens in five global cities over the course of nine years: Tokyo, Berlin, New York, Shanghai and Vienna.

> visit Japanese Rooms at Facebook
> watch Sven Ingmar Thies‘ speech at Youtube

Japanese Rooms was awarded the iF gold selection 2008 after it had already won the iF communication design award in the categories photography and book design. The book is nominated for the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2010.

The book is available at tubuk.com (Schwarzerfreitag Publishing), all bookshops and online. (Sven Ingmar Thies, Japanese Rooms, ISBN 3937623906)

Exhibitions

- 17.10.-23.10.2011 at OAG House Tokyo, Japan
- 05.05.-10.07.2011 at Übersee Museum Bremen, Germany
- 24.03.-28.04.2011 at Wissenschaftzentrum Bonn, Germany
- 29.05.-20.06.2010 at EKO-House, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 21.04.-08.09.2009 at the Museum of Ethnology Vienna, Austria
- 06.02.-05.03.2009 at Japanese-German Center Berlin, Germany

Contact/Press

> e-mail our Managing Director Marco Büscher
> e-mail our PR coordinator Jockel Weichert
> download project information and media clippings in English [zip, 4,2MB]
> download press releases in English, Japanese and German [zip, 8KB]

About Kaitenart

Kaitenart is an art and publishing project focusing on Japanese arts and culture as well as on art in a Japanese context. It is a collaboration between Sven Ingmar Thies (www.thiesdesign.com), Marco Büscher, and Schwarzerfreitag Publishing, an independent publisher.


Legal: Sven Ingmar Thies, Baererstrasse 35, 21073 Hamburg, +49-175-40 48 48 8