From 10 September to 2 October 2011 the Dortmund U is the centre of contemporary art and pop culture from Japan: film, photography, music, games, manga and anime are presented in a lively and varied exhibition.

Every year the Japan Media Arts Festival fascinates thousands of visitors by a top-class programme of vanguard media art, entertainment, anime and manga in Tokyo. The most ambitious and excellent works win the award and will be exhibited all over the world. After Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Vienna and Istanbul the Dortmund U is the next location for the 6th Japan Media Arts Festival Over Sea Exhibition. The prize winners of the last festival were chosen for this show. Among these awardees are well known artists like the director Hayao Miyazaki and newly discovered talents like Shinya Uchida, an iPad-magician. Current anime and milestones of the Japanese film genre can also be enjoyed as part of the broaden film programme. These films are seldom showed on a big screen in Germany.

The Japan Media Arts Festival is part of the focus at Dortmund U in 2011 of dealing with exclusive representatives of Japanese contemporary art and pop culture. At the same time the HMKV presents the exhibition Proto Anime Cut – spaces and visions in Japanese animation with original drawings of the most important directors and illustrators of Japanese animated films on the 3rd floor.

Duration:
Saturday, September 10 - Sunday, October 2 2011
HMKV at Dortmund U

Opening: Friday, September 9 2011, 18:00

Venue:
Dortmund U - Centre for Art and Creativity
HMKV at the Dortmunder U (various locations)
Leonie-Reygers-Terasse
44137 Dortmund
Germany

Admisson Fee: €5

Organized by: Agency for Cultural Affairs, HMKV in Dortmund U
Operated by: NHK International

Under the aegis of the Japanese Consulate-General in Dusseldorf, and the cooperation of both the Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne and the Goethe-Institut Tokyo.
*This exhibition is being held in acknowledgement of the150th anniversary of Germany-Japan exchanges.

Curated by:
Stefan Riekeles (Les Jardins des Pilotes, Berlin)