(2 May 2025)
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Berlin, Germany – 2 May 2025
1. High shot, beginning of ”Fog sculpture” by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya (2025)
2. Various of “Fog sculpture” by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya (2025)
3. SOUNDBITE (German) Lisa Botti, curator:
“We are showing a fog sculpture by the artist Fujiko Nakaya. She was born in 1933 in Japan, meaning that she is now 92-years-old. But she was still here just a few weeks ago to install the sculpture. In 1970, she invented the world’s first fog sculpture in Osaka for the World Expo. What’s special is that she views fog not as a natural phenomenon, but as an artistic material."
4. Various of “Fog sculpture” by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya (2025)
5. SOUNDBITE (German) Lisa Botti, curator:
“This is a structure characterised by strict geometry, clear lines, stone, steel and glass. And then it meets Fujiko Nakaya’s sculptures, which naturally have a soft, gentle and dynamic influence. This combination is beautiful.”
6. Various of “Fog sculpture” by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya (2025)
7. SOUNDBITE (German) Lisa Botti, curator:
“What’s special here is that you can view the artwork from different perspectives. You can walk through the artwork, but you can also see it like an aquarium from the collection because we have a 90-metre-long glass facade here. You can also see it from the terrace above and watch the fog slowly rising.”
8. Various of “Fog sculpture” by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya (2025)
9. SOUNDBITE (German) Lisa Botti, curator:
We show the exhibition until September, and you can see it at the top of each hour, exactly at 12, 1, 2… And it runs for about eight minutes.”
10. Wide of permanent exhibition at the New National Gallery
11. Various of “German Ballet” by Hans Ticha (1984)
12. Man looking at paintings
13. Close of “Bratsk landscape” by Wolfgang Mattheuer (1967)
14. Various of permanent exhibition
15. Various of “Fog sculpture” by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya (2025)
16. SOUNDBITE (German) Lisa Botti, curator:
“What’s special is that it’s not made from chemicals, but from drinking water. That’s why you can walk through it. You can breathe it in, it’s drinking water sprayed in a way that it appears like natural fog.”
17. “Fog sculpture” by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya (2025)
18. New National Gallery entrance
STORYLINE:
LEADIN:
To mark the start of Berlin’s Gallery Weekend art festival, the German capital’s New National Gallery is presenting a site-specific fog sculpture.
Created by Fujiko Nakaya, the pioneer of fog as an artistic medium, the sculpture generates a hazy mist in the museum’s courtyard.
STORYLINE:
A wave of mist sweeps into Berlin – courtesy of Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya.
In a new installation at Berlin’s New National Gallery, Nakaya’s signature fog sculpture transforms the museum’s sculpture garden into a living, breathing artwork.
Hoses positioned throughout the courtyard pump out mist, sending it rolling from one side of the space to the other, enveloping visitors in its path.
Fujiko Nakaya was born in 1933 in Japan, but she still made the trip to Berlin to install the artwork.
But she returned home before the opening.
"In 1970, she invented the world’s first fog sculpture in Osaka for the World Expo. What’s special is that she views fog not as a natural phenomenon, but as an artistic material," explains the exhibit’s curator, Lisa Botti.
For roughly eight minutes each hour, fog drifts through the space in unpredictable formations, winding around permanent sculptures.
It then stays on display till September 14.
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