SANAA / Niedermayr

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa are together part of SANAA, one of the world's most notable architectural firms, which is based in Tokyo. Their latest buildings, which include the 21st-Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa (Japan, 2004) and the Zollverein School of Management and Design in Essen (Germany, 2006).

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa are together part of SANAA, one of the world's most notable architectural firms, which is based in Tokyo. Their latest buildings, which include the 21st-Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa (Japan, 2004) and the Zollverein School of Management and Design in Essen (Germany, 2006), and their projects currently under construction, including the New Museum in New York (2007) and Louvre-Lens in Northern France (2009), confirm their status as leading twenty-first century architects.

The photographer Walter Niedermayr has now been keeping track of their work for five years. His diptychs, usually large format, and his double projections, are not straightforward depictions of SANAA's work, but interpret their seemingly light, almost ephemeral architecture. This exhibition, in a setting created specifically for deSingel, and the accompanying publication, present this collaboration between the architects and the photographer for the first time.

SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa) / Walter Niedermayr
Out of the light / Into the shadow