The sunlight, which rarely came in during the whole winter in Germany, came in through the window onto my drawing, and the light went over it. 18.01.2024, 13:16
I walked deeper into the forest, following colorful birds and cool insects. I ventured down an unmarked trail, weaving through the grass and branches that clung to me. Suddenly, I became so focused on the ‘gesture’ of my body—which seemed to be stitching the grass in front of me—that I lost track of where I was.
Where could I go?
Let’s turn the pencil upside down and stand it upright like an Antenna. Let’s try to stretch it higher—high enough to get a bird’s-eye view of the entire forest.
Then, if I find a spot where the light filters through, like a hole in the darkness(Lichtungen), I’ll go there.
Kazuki Nakahara
was born in 1980 in Kagawa, Japan, and grew up in Tokyo. Father and grandfather both avant-garde calligraphers. From 2005, Nakahara studied drawing at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee. He completed his master’s degree there in 2011 under Hanns Schimansky. 2014, he lived and worked in London as a grantee of the Pola Art Foundation. He has been awarded the Christine Perthen Prize for Etching from Berlinische Galerie in 2017 and the Egmont Schaefer Prize for Drawing from Berliner Kabinett in 2020.
Nakahara has been exhibiting in galleries and art institutions in Germany and abroad. He lives and works in Berlin.
kazuki nakahara, “untitled”, 2024, colored Pencil, charcoal on handmade paper by Ulbricht Gangolf, 180 x 287cm, Photo by Eric Tschernowdrawing on the floor in his Studio, 2024
I walked deeper into the forest, following colorful birds and cool insects. I ventured down an unmarked trail, weaving through the grass and branches that clung to me. Suddenly, I became so focused on the ‘gesture’ of my body—which seemed to be stitching the grass in front of me—that I lost track of where I was.
Where could I go?
Let’s turn the pencil upside down and stand it upright like an Antenna. Let’s try to stretch it higher—high enough to get a bird’s-eye view of the entire forest.
Then, if I find a spot where the light filters through, like a hole in the darkness(Lichtungen), I’ll go there.
Kazuki Nakahara
was born in 1980 in Kagawa, Japan, and grew up in Tokyo. Father and grandfather both avant-garde calligraphers. From 2005, Nakahara studied drawing at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee. He completed his master’s degree there in 2011 under Hanns Schimansky. 2014, he lived and worked in London as a grantee of the Pola Art Foundation. He has been awarded the Christine Perthen Prize for Etching from Berlinische Galerie in 2017 and the Egmont Schaefer Prize for Drawing from Berliner Kabinett in 2020.
Nakahara has been exhibiting in galleries and art institutions in Germany and abroad. He lives and works in Berlin.
website : http://kazukinakahara.com/
instagram : @kazukinakahara_
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