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Calm & Punk Gallery - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for Calm & Punk Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

Akira Somekawa "Akirasomecamera" Publication Release Reception
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- Media: Photography - Art Party
- 2009-06-05 - 2009-06-05
This reception is being held to mark the publication of Akira Somekawa's first photo book, Akirasomecamera. Somekawa's work was shown at Calm and Punk in June 2007. The impressive individuality of his...More »
"Calm & Punk Perspective 2009 Spring" Exhibition
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- Media: Other - Installation
- 2009-03-10 - 2009-03-21
In the past, art was about extracting natural beauty, safeguarding unique cultures and traditions and conveying them to others. Amid the bewildering change in technology and culture in contemporary society,...More »
Maki Taguchi + Tomoko Ozaki "Fighting Annabel Lee"
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- Media: Photography - Performance Art
- 2009-03-07 - 2009-03-07
At a time when forms of art are changing in different ways, printed photographic works are perhaps only one narrow interpretation of the medium. "Fighting Annabel Lee" is a project by photographer and...More »
"Calm & Punk x Calm & Punk x Alcohol" Event
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- Media: Photography - Art Party
- 2009-02-11 - 2009-02-11
F.I.B Journal's 4th album "Calm & Punk," a fusion of avant-garde and pop, was released on January 14th (Wed). The title of the album was, as you might expect, inspired by Calm & Punk Gallery. To...More »
Katsuki Tanaka "I Shall be Van Gappo! The Life of Katsuki Tanaka, the Artist of Fire"
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- Media: Painting - Other - Video installation - Art Talk
- 2008-12-19 - 2009-02-01
This is a landscape. We see the beauty in nature’s symmetry, patterns, textures and shades, in flowers or insects or other things. Art began by attempting to extract such beauty. Advances in science...More »
Neasden Control Centre "Take Away"
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- Media: Other - Installation - Art Party
- 2008-12-01 - 2008-12-14
CALM & PUNK GALLERY is proud to announce Neasden Control Centre’s first solo exhibition in Japan. Taking its roots from the humble traditional British caff or tearoom, ‘TAKE AWAY’ explores the development,...More »
Ryudai Takano "Flicker"
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- Media: Photography - Video installation - Art Party
- 2008-11-07 - 2008-11-26
The passing of time is not experienced at a constant speed. It speeds up, slows down, stretches and shrinks, in accordance with our changing moods. In this exhibition, the artist looks at time and its...More »
Nerhol "Source"
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- Media: Other - Art Party - Art Talk
- 2008-08-21 - 2008-09-03
Nerhol is an artist unit composed of Yoshihisa Tanaka, who "kneads" ideas, and Ryuta Iida, who "sculpts" them. Taking as their theme assemblages and accumulations of words and letters (such as books and...More »
David Schmidlapp "Off Camera"
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- Media: Photography - Art Party
- 2008-08-08 - 2008-08-09
Renowned New York fine artist David Schmidlapp is holding a two-day only exhibition at Calm and Punk. Schmidlapp is a documentary photographer who has been based in NYC since the 1970s, capturing the best...More »
Akinori Ikeda + Ani Watanabe "Saigon for Two"
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- Media: Photography - Art Party - Art Talk
- 2008-07-18 - 2008-07-30
The annual "Holiday for Two" exhibition is back! This exhibition features the travel exploits of photographers Akinori Ikeda and Ani Watanabe, a project in which both artists experience the same place...More »
The Melting Pot Group Show "Time Changes"
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Prints - Art Party - Art Talk
- 2008-06-07 - 2008-06-08
Chris Mendoza, Aiko Nakagawa, Martha Cooper and Chris Rubino are 4 New York-based artists. Although working in different media and across generations, they will collectively present this exhibition that...More »
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Yuichi Higashionna "Refract!"
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- 2008-05-16 - 2008-06-05
Reverberation and refraction. Vertigo and awakening. A humorous, sexy thrill... Yuichi Higashionna is an artist working in painting, art objects, video and installation, crossing genres, and mixing...More »
Wataru Komachi "Fuck Forever"
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Product - Art Party
- 2008-03-07 - 2008-03-19
This is an exhibition of new works by this artist who specializes in collage technique and sculpture. The theme for this exhibition is "chaotic world" and the title "Fuck Forever" meaning "Disappear! Leave...More »
"Morikage Shirt Tokyo 2008" Exhibition
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- Media: Fashion
- 2008-02-08 - 2008-02-11
The popular and sophisticated shirt maker, Morikage Shirt, based in Kyoto, presents this product exhibition for a limited time in Tokyo. On Feb. 2nd: 16:00-20:00 Feb. 9th through 11th: 11:00-19:00...More »
Rie fu "Art of Music"
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- Media: Painting
- 2007-12-05 - 2007-12-11
Rie fu is a singer-songwriter as well as an artist. After graduating from London's Central Saint Martin's in the summer of this year, she has been working on music activities in Japan. This exhibition...More »
"Animal Figurines from Germany: Schleich × Uresica" Exhibition
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- Media: Illustration - Sculpture - Product
- 2007-09-21 - 2007-09-23
The specialist shop Uresica follows the principle of ‘products chosen by creators and products made by creators.’ The shop stocks new picture books and also older more classic titles. On their shelves...More »
Akinori Ikeda + Ani Watanabe "Two Photographers in Shanghai"
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- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2007-07-20 - 2007-07-31
This exhibition is celebrating the 1st year that has passed since the artist created the "two people traveling" series of work. This series is the product of photographers Akinori Ikeda and Ani Watanabe's...More »
Akira Somekawa "Akirasomecamera"
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- Media: Photography - Art Party
- 2007-06-22 - 2007-07-02
This artist continues to take many photographs from his world view of "disconstruction" (destroying in order to create, creating as a rejection of destruction). His works express frozen beauty and the...More »
Paradise Workshop "Playing with Light"
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- Media: Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2007-05-27 - 2007-05-27
This is the second workshop using "light", organized by performance group "Flowers". In this workshop, participants will learn how to express themselves through their body and their hearts, and will also...More »
Flowers "Paradise"
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- Media: Performance Art
- 2007-04-26 - 2007-04-28
This is a performance by the performance group "Flowers", which has been active since 1995 and makes use of a variety of spaces, such as reading rooms, ruins and garages. Their performances are based on...More »
"Fight me now!" Exhibition
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- Media: Performance Art
- 2007-04-14 - 2007-04-14
Have you experienced the many forms of expression that contemporary dance has to offer? This event is the 3rd presentation in Tokyo of "Fight me now!", a dance performance by Michael Schumacher, who held...More »
Ryo Matsuoka "Pray Play Paint!"
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- Media: Painting
- 2007-04-09 - 2007-04-22
Ryo Matsuoka is able to channel his earliest memories into beautifully painted images. Seeing painting as a form of travel, for this exhibition he will be creating a 5-metre large work that explores the...More »
"Paradise Workshop - Playing with Light"
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- Media: Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2007-04-01 - 2007-04-01
Flowers is a performative group that produces unique works not only in performance spaces such as theatres but also makes use of reading rooms, ruins, college and other attractive places such as stages....More »
Symbolon "Syndrome"
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- Media: Illustration - Prints - Art Party - Art Talk
- 2007-03-02 - 2007-03-12
Symbolon is increasing her activities as a global artist with her cute, sexy illustrations based on fantastical, bold shadow pictures, made under the theme "a world that men cannot enter". Symbolon's fantastical...More »
Seesaw Exhibition 07 "Rock"
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- Media: Graphics - Illustration - Painting - Art Party
- 2007-02-14 - 2007-02-15
Taking "Rock" as its theme, this exhibition brings together 9 artists in collaboration. Reception Party: February 14th, 19:00-21:00More »
Enamel 7th Collection
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- Media: Sculpture - Ceramics
- 2006-12-13 - 2006-12-27
This is Enamel's 7th exhibition, focusing on soil and stone designs similar to leopard or zebra-type patterns. Lately, Enamel has been handling many ceramic and porcelain works, which are made of soil...More »