Galerie Omotesando - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Galerie Omotesando. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Toyomi Hoshina Exhibition
Born in Nagano prefecture in 1953. Graduated from the Masters program in the painting department of Tokyo University of the Arts. Currently assistant professor in the art department of the same university. (...)
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Masamitsu Miyayama Exhibition
Born in 1958. Moved to live in America in 1978, after which he enrolled at the Academy of Art College and the College of Art and Craft. Miyayama has exhibited widely in Tokyo and throughout Japan. He worked (...)
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"Flow" Exhibition
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Shinji Maeomi + Satomi Matsumoto Exhibition
Released first painting collection + CD "Bronze & Willow - Satomi Matsumoto's copperplate prints and music" late last year. Matsumoto's light taste and delicately wrought copperplate prints are not (...)
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Shichio Minato + Miki Nakamura Exhibition
Minato put an end to his activities in France and Belgium in 2006 and returned to Japan to assume a post as assistant professor in the art department at Fukui University. He has previously exhibited his (...)
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Chitose Suzuki + Fumi Ishida Exhibition
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John L Tran Exhibition
London-born photographer John Tran grew to become interested in Japan after living there for several years and then went on to earn a Master's in the history of Japanese landscape photography at Chelsea (...)
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Fumitoshi Eto Exhibition
This year, with the cooperation of lacquer paint manufacturer Kanpe Hapio, participating artist Fumitoshi Eto has produced a series of self-proclaimed Japanese Pop Art pieces that mirror the original American (...)
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Yuji Kawana Exhibition
[Image: "Color Viyella" (2008) Panel, hemp paper, natural pigments 227.3 × 181.8cm]
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Tetsuo Ichikawa Exhibition
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Steven Berkowitz Exhibition
Steven Berkowitz is currently a professor of computer technology at Temple University in New York, lecturing summer courses at the satellite campus in Roppongi, Tokyo. This exhibition features work from (...)
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Yasutaka Yano "Strangers When We Meet"
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Yomi Chin Exhibition
Born 1964 in Tokyo. Joined the Korean newspaper company Shinhosha in 1992 and became a freelance photographer after leaving the company. Graduated from the research department of the Tokyo Sogo Photography (...)
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Kensaku Yamaguchi Exhibition
Yamaguchi's rich, poetic oil paintings of nature scenes depict a world whose gentleness has long been forgotten in the midst of the modern city.
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Chizuru Kasai "My Life"
Kasai has been creating a rapidly growing body of work since her 1991 installation at the Ryogoku station warehouse. Using unique, faux-primitive techniques, her work calls to mind small tools that allow (...)
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Yoshio Ogawa Exhibition
Painter Yoshio Ogawa exhibited in the first VOCA Award exhibition in 1994. He is one of the leading young painters nowadays. After 12 years of staying in Paris, he is coming back to Japan with a new line (...)
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Ceramic Workshop Studio Yellow Clay Exhibition
This is a group exhibition of a ceramic workshop studio in Ebisu. The students have created works based on "sound" as the main theme. On March 20th at 15:00, a critique session will be held, open to the (...)
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Manako Okamoto "Longing, Remember"
Manako Okamono's photographs and slide presentations are on view. Location: Galerie Omotesando + Musee F
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"Musashino Art University αM Project 2007" Exhibition
This exhibition presents works by three artists using organic motifs in holography, painting, and photogram. Using beautiful forms found in nature, they have created their own science journals. Reception (...)
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"Heart of Roppongi Exhibition"
Three freelance photographers present their works.
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"Hello, Goodbye" Exhibition
Various works by 6 art students of Tama Art University are on display.
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Shiho Kagabu Exhibition
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Yasuka Numata "Island in My Mind - Memories of Paradise"
Artist's website: http://www.yasuka-web.net/
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Gima Tomotatsu "Front and Back"
Concepts that Tomotatsu Gima deals with in his recent works are "reborn" and "re-die." He collects things from daily life and creates work from them.
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Tohoku University of Art & Design x Kyoto University of Fine Art & Design Sculpture Exhibition "Space for Affinity"
This is Tohoku University of Art & Design and Kyoto University of Fine Art & Design's third collaborative sculpture exhibition. A discussion with invited critics and established sculptors is also (...)
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Chikako Enomoto "Absolute Reasons"
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Tetsuo Ichikawa Exhibition
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"Kaoru Yamaguchi and his Students" Exhibition
Kaoru Yamaguchi was born in Misato-machi in Gunma Prefecture and created expressive paintings of nature and animals with sophisticated colors. His achievement as an artist is remarkably significant in (...)
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Rina Yano Exhibition
Rina Yano studied printmaking at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music and returned to university as a research student after raising her family. She currently teaches art at a child welfare (...)
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Kukie Tahara "The Overlapping Things"
Kikue Tahara mainly takes pictures of the Kawasaki and Yokohama city areas, finding various street scenes that characterize each area. From old storefronts to young people, her photographs reveal different (...)
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Kanako Kimura Exhibition
Kanako Kimura completed the graduate program of Okinawa Prefectural University of Art and currently teaches at a school in Saitama, where she is originally from. Returning to the Kanto area, Kimura has (...)
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John Tran "Return to Fairyland"
John Tran is a Vietnamese-British photographer who studied in London and currently teaches at Tsukuba University. This exhibition features his photographs entitled "Return to Fairyland" from the "Utopia" (...)
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Shichio Minato "Echo"
"Imagine yourself standing before a pine forest. Even in broad daylight, it's like there's only dusk among those trees. A strange form of expectation falls on you as you cross the border between your reality (...)
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"Magma" Exhibition
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Hokuto Asami Exhibition
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Akira Tatsumura Exhibition
This is a retrospective exhibition of Akira Tatsumura who worked on his art mainly in France and Italy. The exhibition is organized by his wife to the theme "Light from the Heaven". His paintings evolved (...)
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"Trait d'union21" Exhibition
This exhibition introduces contemporary photography by three artists. Otake's sculptural glass spheres glowing in the dark show surrounding scenes. Shimozono takes photographs of the surfaces of buildings, (...)
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"Mess" Exhibition
All of the participating artists have shown at the Konica Minolta Gallery between 2005 and 2006. They all come from different schools, ranging from a colleges broad to Kochi University. [Image: Satomi (...)
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Steven Berkowitz Exhibition
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Setsuko Hayashida Exhibition
[Image: "Looking through Forest" 2006]
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Tetsuo Ichikawa Exhibition
Born in Yokohama and a graduate of Waseda University, Tetsuo Ichikawa continues to take photographs aside from his job in an architecture. He looks for social landscapes in which he sees "beauty and uglyness" (...)
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Itsuji Hirata Exhibition
Hirata's works are "human machines that a human skull and mechanical body - humorous depictions of human beings who have evolved out of the mechanical technology of industrialized society. With a background (...)
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Kensaku Yamaguchi Exhibition
Graduating from Aichi Prefectual University of Fine Arts and Music, Kensaku Yamaguchi still lives and works in Nagakute, Aichi. He deals with nature around Nagakute, and his body of works shows a gradual (...)
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Akitaka Kamijo Exhibition
[Image: "Kodama (Spirit)" 2007]
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Yukio Hirata Exhibition
The paintings in this exhibition are all made with tempera, a quick-drying painting process that particularly suits artists who favor a linear style and clean, matte finish. Tempera clearly fits Yukio (...)
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"4WD" Exhibition
The participating artists met when they were in art prep school. In media varying from illustration to photography, each artist shows his or her originality. Sometimes the work is a form of social criticism, (...)
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“Blue Spiral" Exhibition
This exhibition is organized by Noriko Ishida, a founder of the art group, Blue Spiral. Including 2D works and sculptures, each of the group member brings in unique elements for this group exhibition.
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"Pottery Class Yellow Clay" Exhibition”
This exhibition is taking place at Omotesando Gallery and Musée F at the same time. Students from an Ebisu-based pottery class called Yellow Clay are showing their works.
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”Spring Season" Exhibition
This is an exhibition by the students of Waseda University Photography Club, which exhibits each spring, with all students from freshman to seniors participating to conclude the year with a show of unique (...)
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Kumiko Nakagawa + Kazumi Fukazawa Exhibition
Nakagawa and Fukazawa met when they were at prep school for art. They have one thing in common: their need to be critical, even skeptical of any subject matter. Both of them appropriate materials and motifs (...)
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Paul Knight + Kristian Haggblom + Philip Samartzis "Promiscuous"
"Promiscuous" is an exhibition of color photographs by two Australian photographers, Paul Night and Christian Hagblom. There will also be a sound installation work by contemporary artist and fellow Australian (...)
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Asami Toyoda Group Exhibition
An exhibition of works by the students of American Tole's Asami Toyoda. Small works will be on sale, with part of the proceedings will going to WWF-Japan.
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"F+F project in Tokyo" Exhibition
Art Conference GAZE is a month-long artist in residence experience, in which Finnish and Japanese artists live and work together, and exhibit their works for a week. This is an exploration of what reflects (...)
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Charity Bazaar 2006
The annual charity sale to end the year.
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Akihiko Okumura + Ryusuke Suzuki Exhibition
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"Guu" Exhibition
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"Space of Affinity" Exhibition
This is an interactive exhibition between Tohoku University of Art and Design and Kyoto University of Art and Design. Gallery talk: November 20th, 14:00-16:00 With the artists, sculptor Hirosumi (...)
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Hirotoshi Sakaguchi Exhibition
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"Awake New Mind" Exhibition
A group exhibition by four students studying on the Visual Design Course at Asagaya College of Art and Design. The works express what their current emotional state is like, and what has caught their interest (...)
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Takahiro Ando + Jio Shimizu Exhibition
An exhibition by two media artists who visualize everyday phenomenona in different ways. An example of Takahiro Ando's work is a film on light created from capturing on a photon level the light that (...)
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Tomomi Tsutsui Exhibition
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Chizuru Kasai "How to Walk the World"
Chizuru Kasai has exhibited in many public spaces in Niigata, Yamanashi, Kochi and Tokyo since 1991. Her work consists of moving sculptures, made possible by springs, motors, and pendulums. Kasai calls (...)
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Wakako Kawakami "Wakako's Palace"
Wakako Kawakami started her career as an artist in 1995. She has exhibited at Japan Media Arts Festival and Mito Art Museum, and has received the Phillip Morris Award and Taro Okamoto Contemporary Art (...)
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"Three by Six" Exhibition
This is a exhibition of silkscreen prints by a group of graduates from Bigakko Silkscreen Studio in Kanda.
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"Natural Lineage" Exhibition
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Shoji Asaba Exhibition
Run by Galerie Omotesando, this project aims to connect artists and business enterprises. With this film installation using a next-generation transparent EL display, Shoji Asaba recreates the gap between (...)
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Sanae Takahata Exhibition
This exhibition, curated by Miyako Takeshita, consists of painted dresses with elaborate beadworks by Sanae Takahata. [Sanae Takahata, "Wear Me #5"]
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Tokyo Photography Month 2006 - Kikue Tahara Exhibition
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Steven Berkowitz Exhibition
Steven Berkowitz started experimenting with computer programs to capture the essence of his drawings in the 1970s. They later developed into photography, computer graphic, and sound installation works. (...)
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Tokyo Photography Month 2006 - Kazuto and Mutsumi Imura Exhibition
[Mutsumi Imura: Panic, No picnic!]
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Joji Shimozono Exhibition
There are countless people that take photographs of buildings, but Joji Shimozono is unique in the sense that he takes photographs of, more specifically, walls of buildings. The closeups of tiles and (...)
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Rina Yano "Transparent Figure - The Other Shape"
Like many other artists, Rina Yano has always been inspired and motivated by her experiences in life to create artwork. Through the installation for this exhibition, Yano explored the method of directly (...)
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Kensaku Yamaguchi Exhibition
The fourth solo exhibition here by Kensaku Yamaguchi, a graduate of Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music. Nature surrounding the town of Nagakute is his inspiration, as well as the subject (...)
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"Far Beyond April Artists" Exhibition
This autumn will see a joint exhibition between Seishi Ogura who will be working as a critic at the 15th Paris Biennale and Hiroshi Itami, an artist who also runs a workshop. The 15th Paris Biennale in (...)
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Toyomi Hoshina Exhibition
Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music is holding an exhibition of Toyomi Hoshina, who is joining their teaching staff. This exhibition also aims to welcome art critic Akihiko Takami to the university. (...)
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The Yellow Clay Ceramic Studio: Works by Students
This exhibition features ceramic works created by the students of the Yellow Clay Ceramic Studio in Ebisu. The studio, hosted by a former curator of the Azabu Museum of Art and Craft, is knows for its (...)
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Waseda University Photography Club
Group exhibition by fifteen members of the Waseda University Photography Club, introducing their activities and achievements.
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Nao Suzuki "3+5+6+8"
Composed of photographic and film works shot abroad, this exhibition is a chance to take a close look at urban life and the emotions it stirs up through the eyes of a young woman. Charming, sunlit shopfronts (...)
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Aki Amanuma Exhibition
Aki Amanuma graduated from the Tama Art University, Arts and Crafts Department, with a major in glass. Combining glass with carton boards, woodblocks or cloth, Amanuma's works celebrate glass' transparency. (...)
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Dog Stories
This second exhibition celebrating the Year of the Dog re-examines the relationship between dogs and humans and explores the characteristics and tendencies of dog-like and cat-like people.
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Big Dogs
This is an exhibition showcasing the long friendship of man and dog to celebrate the 'year of the dog'. Twenty-one dog-loving art school students participated in the creation of the works.
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WWF Charity Bazaar
The popular charity bazaar held each year in early December is back. Works exhibited by visiting artists will be sold on the spot. All proceedings will go to 'World Wide Fund for Nature Japan'.
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Satoshi Yano Exhibition
Calligraphy exhibition by Satoshi Yano, owner of "Donsoko", an old-school Shinjuku store. His interest in calligraphy and painting reaches back to his childhood in Hiroshima, where he founded a fine arts (...)
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Space of Friendship
Selected works from third year students at two famous Japanese art schools. Moe Oba, Maki Miyamura, Akiko Mikami, and Rie Morishita from the Tohoku University of Art and Design, and Seijiro Okamura, Daiki (...)
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Food Exhibition
A group exhibition by five students from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music to the theme "This is seasoning, dishes and spices". They would like you to experience the same feeling of (...)
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Takashi Kawada Exhibition
A solo exhibition of fifteen new works by metal artist Takashi Kawada. Kawada, based in Gunma Prefecture, aims to introduce the charm of iron to a wider audience. Personal Homepage : http://irondeco.jp/show.html (...)
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has3 Exhibition
A group exhibition of modern art and photographs: Hitoshi Sekiguchi "Erosion", Ayaki Hosaka "Monster Crawling Around Trees", and Shingo Fuse "air en plastique".
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Kunio Sekiguchi Exhibition - One More Night
Movie by Kunio Sekiguchi, who has a cult following, and newcomer Takuma Ishikawa. This exhibition is presented by art critic Akihiko Takami and MUSEE F at Omotesando Underground Cinetake, so called because (...)
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Tadamasa Yamagata Exhibition - Symbiosis with Forests
Yamagata is a graduate of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He uses a variety of styles such as oil paintings, silkscreen, and installations with wood to create delicate but shrewd works (...)
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Ryo Hamada Exhibition
Originally a painter, Hamada later found it more comfortable to express himself through photography. Hamada's photographs are like ambiguous visual experiences that transcend records and become memories, (...)
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Chitose Suzuki Exhibition


