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In this masterclass, Düsseldorf-based artists Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber (2015 KYOTOGRAPHIE artist) invite participants to explore urban identity through photography, sound, and video. Through hands-on experimentation, participants will craft layered narratives that reveal the hidden forces shaping urban life.
Stuke & Sieber's recent photobook, La Ville Invisible (The Invisible City) raises questions about who owns the city and explores issues of ownership and publicness within urban spaces. Echoing KYOTOGRAPHIE 2025’s theme, HUMANITY, and exhibitions including JR’s JR, The Chronicles of Kyoto, 2024 and Martin Parr’s Small World, this masterclass challenges participants to turn their lenses on their own cities. Before the session, they’ll document urban spaces through images and recorded sounds and in the workshop, they will edit, arrange, and transform these elements into immersive micro-urban installations.
More than a technical exercise, Who Owns the City? is a chance to question how urban landscapes shape human experience—and how we, in turn, shape them. Whether you're a photographer, an urban explorer, or simply curious, this masterclass offers a new way to see, hear, and rethink the city around you.
- Important Notice
- For applications and inquiries, please mail to masterclass@kyotographie.jp
Lecturer Lecturer
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Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber
Katja Stuke (1968) and Oliver Sieber (1966) live and work in Düsseldorf/Germany. They cover a broad spectrum of identities: photographer and artist, curator and initiator of exhibitions, designer and publisher of artists‘ books.
Since 2005, Stuke and Sieber have regularly worked abroad, including artist residencies in Osaka, Tokyo, Cité International des Arts Paris, Chicago, Rotterdam, Chongqing, Sarajevo and Toronto. In 2017, they won the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award at the Rencontres d‘Arles. In 2014, Oliver Sieber‘s Imaginary Club was named Book of the Year by the jury of the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. Several books of Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber were shortlisted at the Book of the Year Award in Arles.
Works by Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber are in public and private collections. They have been teaching at FH-Dortmund and Folkwang University of the Arts. Currently, they are teaching 'International Perspectives' at HSD Peter Behrens School of Arts in Düsseldorf and CEPV Vevey.
Date 日時
2025.4.1910:30–17:30
Venue 会場
TIME'S 3F
- Address
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92 Nakashima-cho, Higashiiri, Kawaramachi, Sanjo-dori, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto
- Access
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Subway Tozai Line ”Sanjo-Keihan” Station, or Keihan Line "Sanjo" Station, 3 min on foot
Fees 料金
15,000yen