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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Encounters with Umbrella House: Book Launch + Exhibition | Fri 5 June, 6–9pm | Continues: Sat 6 – Sun 7 June
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Contemporary art that explores the historical, social and material contexts of various sites and architecture
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Encounters with Kazuo Shinohara’s Umbrella House
Book Launch: Fri 5 June, 6–9pm, with live readings at 7pm
Exhibition continues: Sat 6 – Sun 7 June, 12–5pm
Address: Passengers, 110 Foundling Court, The Brunswick Centre (Entrance 3)
Marchmont Street, London, WC1N 1AN*
RSVP via Eventbrite
* For access please ring 110 at Entrance 3, opposite the Marquis of Cornwallis.Full directions and a map can be found on the Visit page of our website here.
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Dear Romke,
Please join us on Friday 5 June, 6-9pm to celebrate the launch of Michaela Nettell's new artist's book, Encounters with Kazuo Shinohara's Umbrella House, developed over three years in collaboration with 20 international artists, architects and writers. With live readings at 7pm from: translator Polly Barton; artist filmmaker Emily Richardson; writer/curator Yuki Sumner; architect and calligraphy artist Mónica Verdejo Ruiz. Artworks and films by project contributors: Kevin Gauld & Julie F Hill, Sawako Nakayasu, Michaela Nettell, Emily Richardson, Ana Ruepp and Emily Speed.
Readings will also be broadcast on Instagram Live @passen_gers
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Built in Tokyo in 1961, Umbrella House is one of the smallest residential buildings designed by celebrated Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006). Considered a masterpiece of his First Style, it represents a pivotal moment in Shinohara’s career before he began moving away from decorative concerns towards his search for an abstract space. It was recently saved from demolition and reconstructed on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany.
Bringing together contemporary responses to Umbrella House by international practitioners working across fine art, filmmaking, creative writing, architecture and calligraphy, Encounters offers timely new readings of Shinohara’s work. Foregrounding the voices and positions of women, the project expands existing technical, historical, and almost exclusively masculine narratives around one of the most influential architects of Japan’s postwar generation.
Contributors: Estefania Araujo Bianchi, DEHLI GROLIMUND, Kyoko Hanawa (Emi Kawai) & Yuki Sumner, Kevin Gauld & Julie F Hill, Sawako Nakayasu, Ana Ruepp, Emily Richardson, Lera Samovich, Tomoka Shibasaki (tr. Polly Barton), Emily Speed, Mónica Verdejo Ruiz and Leigh Wells.
Roundtable participants: Marcela Aragüez, Christian Dehli, Simona Ferrari, Andrea Grolimund, Takashi Hayatsu, Michaela Nettell, Emily Richardson, Lera Samovich and Emily Speed.
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Michaela Nettell’s background in experimental animation informs her studio process, which involves sequencing, montage and analogue photography in the making of collages, films, maquettes and books. She has exhibited in galleries across the UK, Europe and the US, and in moving image festivals internationally. Her first artist’s book Less a building: Interactions with the London Zoo Aviary was published by Passengers in 2021.
www.michaela-nettell.com @michaelanettell
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Passengers is an artist-led platform that commissions and curates contemporary art that explores the historical, social and material contexts of various sites and architecture. The initiative was formed in 2016 by artist Julie F Hill in collaboration with the architectural practice Gauld Architecture. For its inaugural series, supported by Arts Council England, artists presented work sequentially to explore the real and imaginative associations of the Brunswick Centre, a Modernist, mixed residential and commercial development in Bloomsbury, London. The project has since expanded to incorporate offsite exhibitions, residencies and publications.
www.passen-gers.co.uk @passen_gers
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Encounters with Kazuo Shinohara’s
Umbrella House
Published by Passengers, June 2026
130 × 200mm, 174pp
ISBN: 978-1-7399141-0-3
RRP: £18
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Image captions: Encounters publication mock-up, design by Marit Münzberg; Umbrella House at the Vitra Campus, June 2023. Photos: Michaela Nettell; Encounters mock-up spreads showing work by (L–R) Lera Samovich, Leigh Wells, Michaela Nettell and Estefania Araujo Bianchi.
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How to find us:
Passengers, 110 Foundling Court,
The Brunswick Centre, Entrance 3,
Marchmont St, London, WC1N 1AN
For access please ring 110 at Entrance 3
of The Brunswick Centre, opposite the Marquis
of Cornwallis on Marchmont Street
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