October 22 2025 -> June 28 2026

MAO Museo d'arte orientale
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10129 Torino
Italy

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MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale, Turin, presents Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles, curated by Mami Kataoka, director of the Mori Art Museum and originator of the exhibition concept, and Davide Quadrio, director of MAO, with curatorial assistance from Anna Musini and Francesca Filisetti.

This major monographic exhibition marks Shiota’s Italian debut and, for the first time, her work will be presented at an Asian art museum. The show follows its presentation at a series of prestigious international institutions, including the Grand Palais, Paris; Busan Museum of Art; Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; and Shenzhen Art Museum.

The exhibition is wide-ranging, complex, and powerfully expressive, encompassing drawings, photographs, sculptures, and some of Shiota’s most iconic environmental and monumental installations. Often inspired by personal experiences, her work explores the intangible, memories, emotions, dreamlike images, and visions, offering contemplative, silent spaces while addressing universal and existential questions such as identity, relationships with the Other, and life and death.
Crossing temporal and spatial boundaries, Shiota’s art engages with the most intimate and vulnerable aspects of human experience.