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until 17.01. | #4877ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from thursday, 27. November 2025, the exhibition “Innige Landschaften” the exhibition Shuji Hijiya.
Shuji Hijiya (1942–2018) was a Japanese painter who spent most of his life in Germany. After his first exhibitions in the 1970s, he withdrew from the art world to continue working in complete seclusion. Many of his works remained unseen until his death – paintings that are only now coming to light, decades after they were created.
Born in Japanese-occupied China in 1942, the painter first studied sociology in Tokyo before moving to Vienna and later to Germany. Over the course of decades, he developed his own unique, Western-influenced visual language in Ostholstein and Berlin. At the same time, his painting remained imbued with a Far Eastern sense of emptiness, time and transience.
The exhibition “Intimate Landscapes” invites visitors to discover this work. In his paintings, Hijiya develops a form of still life of the soul: not a naturalistic representation, but a condensation of perception and memory.
Opening: Saturday, 29. November 2025, 2 pm.
Exhibition dates: Thursday, 27. November 2025 until Saturday, 17. January 2026
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Title image caption: Shuji Hijiya, o.T. (confidence) I (Ausschnitt) I Öl/Lw | Künstlerrahmen | 65 x 60 cm | 1975-1985
Exhibition Shuji Hijiya – Galerie Mutare | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
