Daisuke Nakashima

Daisuke Nakashima was born in 1977, in Nagasaki. After graduating high school, he moved on to culinary school in Tokushima and graduated with honors.
He trained at the renowned Japanese restaurant Kiccho in Kyoto for eight years, then moved to Germany.
He was the chef at the Japanese Ambassador’s residence in Germany, and was manager/head chef for the upscale deep-fried skewer restaurant “Kushinoya”.
In Japan, in addition to cooking, he studied calligraphy, flower arrangement, ceremonial tea preparation, pottery, knife sharpening, fish preparation, including blowfish, and the skills of a vegetable sommelier.
In Germany/Europe, he studied Western cooking, always striving to create innovative Japanese food.

Personal history

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam April 1996 – March 1997 Ecole Culinaire Heisei
・Received “Yamasa Shoyu Award” at Culinary School Contest.
・Graduated with honors.
March 1997 – May 2005 Kyoto Kiccho
・Acquired license to prepare blowfish in Shiga Prefecture.
Oct. 2005 – Oct. 2008 Chef at Japanese Ambassador’s residence in Germany
・Served food to the Prime Minister, German cabinet members and celebrities.
Dec. 2008 – Jan. 2012 High class deep-fried skewer restaurant “Kushinoya”
・Involved in restaurant’s restructure.

FRONT and BACK

Title	FRONT and BACK
Opening reception	August 4th, 2012 6pm – 12am
Date	Show will run August 4th – 19th, 2012 Gallery open Tuesday – Sunday, 3-9pm
Venue	ULA berlin Anklamerstrasse 8 10115 Berlin
Contact	030 189 37 79570 info@ula-berlin.com
Concept	The theme of our first exhibition at ULA BERLIN* Gallery is omote and ura (Obverse and Reverse/ Reversible). Throughtout the turbulent history of the 20th century, Berlin has become a city considered as a new metropolis in Europe. In Berlin, various people of different ethnicity, nationality or religion, who, influenced by this city history and traditions, are creating their own culture, art, and society. This explicitly indicates diversity in Berlin, and also two objects, “Face and Mind- Visible and Invisible“, which are to be considered separately. This expression “Face and Mind- Visible and Invisible “ can be rendered as omote and ura in Japanese, standing for a certain Japanese way of thought. Like brightness and darkness, omote and ura are dichotomous concepts. “We speak of the omote-ura of things, referring to the two sides of everything, and we also use them as opposing concepts. An omote-dori is a busy main street; an ura dori is a lonely back alley. An artist’s popular and well-known performance is omote-gei; ura-gei is a hidden talent. “Even when we use them separately, one term implies the other. Furthermore, ura and omote means kao (face) and kokoro (mind). In this meaning, omote and ura , the aspect of its dichotomous relationship cited above is also obviously implied. For example, kao ga kagayaite iru superficially means “a person’s face is aglow”, but it actually includes his mind “as it appears on the face.” In this way, ura and omote have a close relationship. They do not place separately but coexist. Combining the Berlin cultural background’s “Face and Mind” with the Japanese concept of omote and ura, ULA BERLIN will start its gallery activity by August in 2012 in the center of this modern city. To our first exhibition on August 4th, we will invite young and energetic artists. Although there are some antagonistic notions in the work of each artist, we will focus on finding dialectic relations between them: such an examination corresponds to the representation of two sides – Face and Mind- in Berlin.
Artists	Alisa Lisa Madoka Chiba Yuki Itoda Shantell Martin Inner Science
Curated by	Nanae Manabe

Biography

	LISA ALISA Lisa Alisa is a female artist, New York City based.She is known for provocative images of young girls that bear a strong self-portrait resemblance. Alisa’s work addresses issues of independence, youth, environment and natural conservation.Through paintings Alisa exhibits her fascination with life as she knows it: nature, animals, music, sound, human behavior and interaction between different cultures. The vibrant dynamics and color of her work and the coy but honest expression of her paintings, though fantastical, accurately mirror the artist’s straightforwardness. Alisa is heavily inspired by nature – both it’s magnificence and horror – and is constantly aware that it is the core of true beauty. http://lisa-alisa.com
	Madoka Chiba The projects of mine have being based on a new viewpoint of the relationship between nature and art ever since 2009. My home country, Japan, has a lot of natural disasters. At the same time, new technologies are developed always and try to prevent damages for society. There is a constant competition between the two. We live in nature, love it, but have to take control guarding ourselves. Light is a classical theme in the art world, independent of time and culture. Artists get inspiration from it and create new images. In my artworks natural and artificial lightings are often used and play an central role. These are not just beautiful, like a general existing image of light, but present also another side of this material. For example, the LED lights, which can raise a plant more efficinet than sunlight. They shine on plants in dark rooms and let them grow up faster. These ideas come from the Japanese nature and other involved situations like the above mentioned. The nature does not change but the technologies are continually advancing. Perhaps human technology can be more superior than nature in some aspects already. The project which embodies this is called “Utopia”. Plants which grow up with artificial LED-light can be faster than the those under sunlight theoretically. Only a certain wavelength of the lightspectrum is able to be absorbed by the plant. Namely, it is very efficient for the plant. And it can shine 24 hours. Another project, “Licht”, shows a violent side of the sun. The sunlight through a magnify glass is condensed and makes a very hot point-spot. The point scorches (sometimes burns) surfaces of a canvas. The color of burned dots depends on the time, weather, season and other environmental parameters. Fear of the sun created the idea for burning with the sunlight itself. Nature brings benefits into life, but from time to time also presents hazards. Nowadays, it is not a tabu in Japan to say that art is more superior than nature. There are vegetable factories, which are producing in aseptic rooms under artificial conditions; with LED lights and others. We notice this as an next generation agriculture. But perfect artificial life doesn’t exist yet, the original still remains in nature. In the contemporary situation, we feel a transition for mankind and it is meaningful to visualize such relationship between nature and art. We humans can relate to artworks and have our own opinion on it, which stays with us for some days and guides us for the next step on our walk of life. http://chiba-madoka.net/
	Yuki Itoda Yuki Itoda was born in Japan in 1982, a third generation Tokyo resident. He works in a variety of media, including oil, acrylic, spray paint, and neon. His work draws on an array of techniques ranging from traditional oil painting to graffiti and experimental video. Sometimes starkly simple, elsewhere striped and patterned like tacky retro jumpsuits seen through a kaleidoscope, his works alternate between an endearing vulnerability and an infectious retinal assault. Prolific Japanese artist and founder of Geisai, Takashi Murakami, took early notice of his work and became Yuki’s first commercial collector in 2006. In 2007, Itoda collaborated with the group AVAF on the exhibition“Space for your Future: Recombining the DNA of Art and Design” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT). More recently, Itoda was invited to participate in the 2009 Armory Show VIP Reception at the St. Regis Residences. The group show, to which Itoda contributed over 70 paintings, was titled “The Girls from Kyoto and other Japanese Contemporary Masters,” and received immediate critical attention. http://yukiitoda.com
	Shantell Martin From London to Tokyo to New York, internationally acclaimed visual artist Shantell Martin is expanding conventional definitions of drawing and animation to transform visual experience in the design, fashion and music industries. Her dazzling light projections have been featured in iconic spots such as New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the megaclubs of Tokyo and London, and on the enormous screens at Shibuya and Harajuku crossings in Japan. Martin has quickly infiltrated popular culture stateside — she’s been cast as herself on quintessential New York show Gossip Girl, interviewed on CNN, appeared on an NBC morning show, and deemed a muse of super-hip design blog, PSFK. In October 2011, she was interviewed in French Glamour as New York’s “coolest it girl.” Her recent work includes a collaboration with celebrity photographer Nigel Barker from America’s Next Top model, where she created digital sets for a 10 page Tatler Asia editorial with supermodel Christina Garcia. She is working on an exhibition with acclaimed photographer Ben Watts, featuring Watts’ pictures of supermodels and actresses doning Martin’s hand-illustrated 3×1 luxury denim products at the famous MILK Gallery in New York City. Martin’s brand collaborations include a screening in Dell’s 2011 experiential pop up workspace in New York City, drawings in Adidas Japan’s 2008 Spring/Summer look book, and illustrations for luxury fragrance line La Labo, to name a few. She also has created murals in a range of contexts – from the private homes of celebrities to the faces of models and friends. http://www.shantellmartin.com
	Inner Science Inner Science- A solo project by Masumi Nishimura. In which he creates an original kind of electronic music using his signature shimmering tones and melodies along with a wide spectrum of rhythms that is uncategorisable to conventional genres. In his performance, he plays his own materials by editing and applying dub mix on the fly, or DJs with broad selection of records that reflects his diverse musical tastes, not only in clubs and live venues, but also in multimedia/ art events, as well as at open air parties catering many types of audiences day and night. Latest album “Elegant Confections” has been released by a set of 2CD(Original and Ambient ver.) http://masuminishimura.com/
	Nanae Manabe March 21, 1986 Born in Ehime, Japan Apr. 2008 – Mar. 2011 Master of Arts in German Studies and History, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan Oct. 2009 – Sep. 2010 Universität Freiburg. Fach Kunstgeschichte. Austauschstudent, Freiburg, Germany Apr. 2004 – Mar. 2008 Bachelor of Arts in English Studies and German Studies, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, Nagoya, Japan Job Experience Apr. 2012 – Current Curator, ULA Gallery, Berlin, Germany Apr. 2011 – Current Curator assistant, STANDING PINE-cube, Nagoya, Japan Apr. 2011 – March. 2012 English teacher, Toho High School, Nagoya, Japan Scholarship Oct. 2009 JASSO Scholarship Oct. 2009 Das Baden-Württemberg- STIPENDIUM Apr. 2008 JASSO Scholarship Apr. 2004 JASSO Scholarship Degree Mar. 2011 Master of Arts Mar. 2008 Bachelor of Arts Certificate Mar. 2008 Teaching Certificate (English)

DETOUR

Introduction

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about

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Chef

  sato takasi

TATOO

Introduction

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Japanese culture has passed through its history of traditions to become what it is today. Our mission is to have this fact more widely known.
We have been involved in versatile entertainment projects, including management of clubs and restaurants based in Tokyo, operation of a large-scale music festival attracting over 20,000 audiences, and producing a restaurant in Ibiza, Spain. Our next destination is Berlin. We arrive here to open a restaurant with a gallery ULA-Berlin.

Provided here is creative modern Japanese cuisine by our practiced craftsman, who has worked at established restaurants, and it is served with especially guest-oriented Japanese hospitality – Omotenashi. Live presentation of japanese tattoos, for example, creators from various fields of arts and music present here at our Gallery their craftsmanship with detailed delicate characteristic of Japanese taste. The Gallery offers the presentation and sharing of their value with the artists in Berlin.

ULA kitchen GmbH provides not only the dishes as well as the variety of japanese cultures. Our hope for this project is to be the place of dispatch of the Japanese culture today which is the traditional culture re-born through the modern history.

Associated companies and events

Restaurant & Club
-TOKYO-

alife nishiazabu	http://www.e-alife.net
feria tokyo	http://lounge-feria.jp
WAREHOUSE702	http://warehouse702.com

-IBIZA-

alife sands

http://www.sandsibiza.com

Music Festival
-TOKYO-

BIG BEACH FESTIVAL

http://bigbeach-fes.com