Artists: Momoyo Kaijima / Atelier Bow-Wow in conversation with Haris Giannouras

<p>This episode is a conversation between architect and Atelier Bow-Wow-founding-member Momoyo Kaijima and curator Haris Giannouras. It was recorded right after the opening of the exhibition <em>Suturing Together</em> by Atelier Bow-Wow on 12 September 2025.</p> <p>Their discussion focuses on care work in architecture, books and their forms in designing and understanding the build environment, 1980s Japanese comedy shows, Sutemi Horiguchi, and the importance of love in building someone’s home.</p> <p>Atelier Bow-Wow<br /> <em>Suturing Together</em><br /> 12.9. – 16.11.2025</p> <p>The exhibition Suturing Together includes a site-specific intervention covering almost the entire right arch of the Secession’s foyer, an extended archive showing the studio’s practice spanning over the last 30 years, a thatch-seating made using thatch in collaboration with students from Vienna and a poster with detailed essays and an analytical index of Atelier Bow-Wow’s past projects. Exploring material networks, supply chains and ad hoc architecture, the term “Suturing” becomes a stand-in for the studio’s synergetic approach: piecing together things that have been torn up, forms, communities, histories and memories. This episode was recorded on 12 September 2025 at the Secession.</p>