© Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Foto: Frank Sperling
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© Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Foto: Frank Sperling
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In this guided tour, you will approach Buddhist figures and their visible and invisible hands together with the artist Yuko Matsuyama and the mediator Hans-Werner Klohe. By imitating the figures’ hand gestures (mudras), you will create a personal connection to them. Follow their hands and accompany them on Buddhism’s journey through Asia.

With Yuko Matsuyama and Hans-Werner Klohe

Screenshot from the film clip for the tandem tour ‘Invisible hands – The way is half as far with two people'
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst

Participants

Yuko Matsuyama is a voice and movement artist. Her mother and master of Nihon Buyoh ( Japanese classical dance) Fujima Kankyohmi brought her into dance as age of two. After graduated the musical and theater academy Takarazuka Music School in Japan, the last three decades she performed countless productions: musical, revue, opera, drama, concerts, experimental music, improvisation and Tanztheater. Since 2010 she is residence artist in Haus Schwarzenberg in Berlin Mitte. In 2017 she received her MA Choreography at HZT Berlin (HfS Ernst Busch and UDK Berlin).

 

© 2023 Henryk Weiffenbach

Hans-Werner Klohe is an art historian, art mediator and cultural educator. He studied art history in a global context with a focus on South Asia and East Asia at Freie Universität Berlin. He obtained his Ph.D. in Central Asian Studies with a focus on Tibetan Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research focuses on Buddhist art of India, Tibet and the Himalayas.

Practical Notes

  • Meeting point & time

    The meeting point for guided tours and the location for workshops can be found on your booking confirmation. In order for the tour to begin punctually, please arrive 15 minutes before the programme is due to start. We ask that you allow for this additional quarter hour when planning your visit.

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