14/ 05/ 2020
189 strips of my Amsterdam canals panorama images are online at Amsterdam City Archives
26/ 05/ 2019
Opening Photo festival Naarden
25/ 05/ 2019
Book launch “Standbeelden in Nederland” in
Photo festival Naarden. Published by Lecturis
14/ 05/ 2019
Presentation “Oranda Loci” Yoshii district, Ukiha Fukuoka
11/ 12 /2018
Campaign portraiture of Tomoko Mukaiyama “Pianist” in Ginza Maison Hermès
28/ 06/ 2018 ~ 13/ 07 /2018
Group exhibition IMA VISION (IMA Gallery Tokyo)
– Shinji Otani, Riyo Nemeth, Yuji Hamada, Kenji Hirasawa
10/ 05/ 2018
IMA ONLINE interview (Japanese only)
26/ 04/ 2018
Interview about the statue project in Noordhollands Dagblad
26/ 04/ 2018
Presentation/ Interview at De Donkere Kamer #35
23/04/2018
Standbeelden in Nederland special website launched.
11/ 30/ 2017
Interview: Jury of the Grolsch Unseen Residency Award, together with Tristan Lund (art consultant & curator) and Salvatore Vitale (photographer, editor & co-founder of YET Magazine)
16/ 02 ~ 19/ 03/ 2017
Solo exhibition OTANI NIEUWENHUIZE
Opening: 16/ 02 19:00~22:00
Artist Talk: 19/ 03 15:00~
feature in L’Oeil de la Photographie
Review: Trendbeheer.com
10~13/ 11/ 2016
Participating Offprint Paris 2016
Beaux-Arts de Paris (Booth #59 OTANI NIEUWENHUIZE)
29/ 10 ~ 18/ 12/ 2016
Solo exhibition OTANI NIEUWENHUIZE Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine Museum, Fukuoka Japan
Review: Trendbeheer.com
30/ 09/ 2016~23/ 10/2016
OTANI NIEUWENHUIZE solo show in POST Tokyo
Book Preview: OTANI NIEUWENHUIZE
Launched at Unseen Book Market Amsterdam 2016 BUY THIS BOOK
24/ 03/ 2016~
Project OTANI NIEUWENHUIZE started.
Japanese photographer Shinji Otani and Dutch photographer Johan Nieuwenhuize recognise a similar state of mind in each other’s work. They share a large overlap in working methods, but their concepts and fascinations differ a lot. Both lens-based artists walk the city and take their images instinctively and continuously. Both work from their own image archive and combine images made in different cities and from different periods. Otani works from a documentary perspective, Nieuwenhuize deals with his subject in an abstract manner.
The transactive memory theory shows us that people working in duo’s or groups build up a larger collective memory than do two individuals. When two friends walk a city they remember things selectively, subconsciously depending on the other to remember the other things for them. Shinji Otani and Johan Nieuwenhuize investigate the collective memory developing between the two of them, when they photograph the same subject at the same day.
With their project OTANI NIEUWENHUIZE, the artists look into Japanese and Dutch culture and into cultural tourism. Behaving as tourists themselves they photograph places where culture is being “consumed”. In the Netherlands they’ll visit the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and De Efteling. In April 2016 they travel to Japan to visit theme park Huis ten Bosch and the historic site of the former Dutch trading post Dejima in Nagasaki. They will also visit the shrines of Dazaifu Tenman-gū in Dazaifu on Kyushu.
03/2016
Commission work of the Dutch national portrait gallery/ the ministry of foreign affairs of the Netherlands exposed in the Europagebouw of EU2016 in Amsterdam
21/ 09/ 2015~
Metro station Amsterdam central covered with 20m canal panorama picture from the book De Grachten van Amsterdam/ The Canals of Amsterdam.
In collaboration with Foam photography museum Amsterdam and GVB municipal public transport Amsterdam.
