7-9-2 (Akiya Serie)
| Edition | Limited Edition |
|---|---|
| Sujet | Architectural Art |
| Technique | Printmaking |
| Height | 109.1 cm |
| Width | 78.8 cm |
| Length/Depth | 0.1 cm |
Material/Technique: Screen printing on Japanese Kent paper (256 g/m²)
Year of creation: 2024–2025
Limited to 13 copies
Paper size: 109.1 x 78.8 cm
Print size: approx. 60 x 50 cm (depending on the motif)
Hand-signed and numbered on the front
The screen print is dispatched unframed
“The ‘Akiya’ art project (Japanese for ‘vacant house’) was created during a year-long stay abroad. There are currently over nine million such properties in Japan. For me, they became windows into Japan’s recent history and visible traces of urban change. In my neighbourhood in Tokyo, there were a great many of these houses, which I visited by bike and sketched and photographed on site.
I then combined my drawing and the photograph using a two-stage screen-printing process to capture the atmosphere of this liminal state. The titles of the prints refer to the Japanese addressing system, which consists of district, block and building, rather than a street address.”
Paul Graßl
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“In my work, I seek out places where something contemporary is emerging or where shifts are becoming visible. I am interested in the surfaces, colours and forms through which these changes materialise, and how they affect me. I trace these traces and attempt to translate them into painting and drawing.”
Ex
hibitions2026 ‘Working with Fire and Steel’, two-artist exhibition, NoDepressionRoom, Munich, DE
2025 Karl & Faber Prize Exhibition, group exhibition, Karl & Faber, Munich, DE
2025 Große Kunst Exhibition, group exhibition, Arbeitskreis 68, Wasserburg am Inn, DE
2025 What makes a house a house, solo exhibition with guest artist, Kobo Chika Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2025 ‘Empty, but not abandoned’, solo exhibition, MIDORI.so Gallery Nakameguro, Tokyo, JP
2024 ‘PINXIT’, group exhibition, Catholic Academy of Bavaria, Munich, DE
2023 ‘Where are my boundaries?’, Two-artist exhibition, Eckstein – Space for Contemporary Art, Munich,
GER Residencies
2026 Courtyard Hiroo, (Tokyo, JP)
2025 SAKIA Artist in Residence, (Awaji Island, JP)
2023 International Summer Academy for Fine Arts, (Salzburg, AT)
Scholarships & Awards
2024–2025 DAAD
Annual Scholarship 2015–2016 ERASMUS Scholarship
