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Art Lab Tokyo - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for Art Lab Tokyo. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

Hiromichi Ishiyama Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2012-01-16 - 2012-01-28
The first Tokyo solo exhibition for this energetic artist who has been making waves since his teens.More »
Hiroko Higuchi Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2011-10-31 - 2011-11-12
A former graphic and manga artist, Hiroko Higuchi began making ornamental, Japanese-inflected paintings in 2008. This exhibition showcases a selection of her new works. [Image: Hiroko Higuchi, "Mermaid...More »
Natsuki Ohtake "twinkle"
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- Media: Painting
- 2011-05-16 - 2011-05-28
Natsuki Ohtake is an artist who works with a traditional Japanese wax-resist textile dyeing technique. Her vividly colored compositions that resemble computer screen images are included in important...More »
Nadeshico Rin "Rin-Pa"
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- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2011-04-18 - 2011-04-30
Works on the theme of Japanese high school girl culture by Nadeshico Rin, nicknamed "Hokusai's daughter". [Image: "Mt. Fuji Girls' Orchestra" (2011) 1303×1621mm wooden panel, canvas, acrylic gouache]...More »
Takashi Taruya "Yokai - Contemporary Landscape Paintings"
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- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2011-04-04 - 2011-04-16
Takashi Taruya is a contemporary painter who offers a fresh take on the ancient Japanese animist beliefs embodied by "yokai" monsters and spirits. This exhibition showcases an experimental series inspired...More »
"Hanami" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Prints - Art Party
- 2011-03-28 - 2011-04-02
Sakura Dori, the main thoroughfare in front of Art Lab Tokyo that runs from the north exit of Tokyo station until Kayabacho, is one of the most beautiful "hanami" spots in Chuo Ward. This exhibition commemorates...More »
Satomi Kondo Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2011-02-14 - 2011-02-26
Solo show by Satomi Kondo (b. 1985), who came to Tokyo from her native Hiroshima at the age of 18 and started painting. On display are works that depict "intestinal rooms" and "skin-like rooms". [ Image:...More »
Kaori Fukushima "Boundary Layer"
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- Media: Sculpture - Art Party
- 2010-11-01 - 2010-11-13
Kaori Fukushima makes human figures out of clay that draw attention to the surface texture and quality of both pottery and the human body.More »
Rena Masuyama "Woman Train"
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- Media: Painting - Film - Art Party
- 2010-04-12 - 2010-04-24
Exhibition of paintings and new films, directed by and starring Rena Masuyama. These works are based on Masuyama's own candid sexual experiences, and feature her in "cosplay" uniforms that transform her...More »
Takashi Taruya "Yokai - Tsukumogami"
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- Media: Painting
- 2010-03-29 - 2010-04-10
The "tsukumogami" in the title of this exhibition refers to the spirits and deities that reside in the old tools and livestock that belong to a household, instilling the notion of fear in us and encouraging...More »
"The Princess x Princess" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2010-03-15 - 2010-03-27
Features works that meld the sensibilities of Japanese "girly" painting with those of European feminine painting.More »
"WE・ART・ LOVE" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2010-02-08 - 2010-02-13
"We Art Love" is a charity fundraising exhibition of contemporary art whose artists are donating a portion of all proceeds from sales to children in Iraq who have contracted diseases as a result of the...More »
Makito Fumita "Pandemic"
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- Media: Painting - Digital - Art Party
- 2010-01-18 - 2010-01-30
Painting with oils over 3D computer graphics, up-and-coming artist Makito Fumita portrays the various problems that human beings are faced with, from the environmental problems, new viruses, war and economic...More »
Noboru Owada Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Art Party
- 2009-11-16 - 2009-11-28
Noboru Owada's landscape photos of Yokohama, suburban Yokosuka and Misaki feature neglected and dilapidated factories, pylons and mundane street corners, but each of these subjects has a strong sense of...More »
Takashi Taruya "Tsukumogami"
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- Media: Painting
- 2009-11-02 - 2009-11-14
Takashi Taruya, who calls himself "an impoverished child born into a country of plenty", experienced a rich and varied life before coming under the spell of gold leaf paintings. His childhood was spent...More »
"Kehai - Atmosphere" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Art Party
- 2009-10-19 - 2009-10-31
A piece of clothing on a hanger redolent of its owner, or the recollection of what it feels like to sit on a swing when you see it blown about in the wind: these are signs of absence, means by which we...More »
Akira Otsubo "Isn't it OK to be Free?"
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- Media: Photography
- 2009-09-28 - 2009-10-10
This photography exhibition features work by Akira Otsubo, a promising new artist and good friend of the four directors of the gallery. Although this is Otsubo's first solo show, his works refuse to be...More »
Noriko Ito "It Has Gone And It Never Returns"
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- Media: Painting
- 2009-08-27 - 2009-09-07
Exhibition of new works by Noriko Ito, who has an unusual predilection for "girliness". Ito's paintings express the cute aesthetic that has made Cool Japan's name all over the world. In 2006, the Japan...More »
Dada Docot + Keiko Kamma "Non/Appearance"
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- Media: Installation - Video installation - Art Party
- 2009-08-07 - 2009-08-09
Dada Docot was planned to be exhibited at the gallery from August 7th to 9th but due to her visa application being rejected by the Japanese government she cannot attend the exhibition. Her response...More »
Rei Tanaka "The Organic Sight"
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- Media: Painting
- 2009-07-20 - 2009-07-25
Hiroko Higuchi "The Kissho Girls"
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- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2009-06-29 - 2009-07-11
Solo exhibition by Hiroko Higuchi, a "reverse import" artist who is currently enjoying a startling wave of popularity in Asia. Just like how it was the Europeans who first "discovered" ukiyo-e woodblock...More »
Keitoku Toizumi "Breaking the Habit"
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- Media: Painting - Other
- 2009-05-18 - 2009-05-30
Toizumi has been creating works based on various food-related problems - standouts include images of beef drawn on mahjong tiles and his convenience store bento lunchbox series painted onto hot water bottles....More »
Rena Masuyama "Neo Shunga - Ishtar Fundamentalism"
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- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2009-04-13 - 2009-04-25
Ishtar was an ancient Babylonian goddess and guardian deity of sex, war, fertility worshiped around 2300 BC. Taking ancient myths as her subject, Rena Masuyama detaches herself and her work from male-dominated...More »
Tomoyoshi Sakamoto Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2009-03-23 - 2009-04-04
This is the second solo exhibition by up-and-coming young artist Tomoyoshi Sakamoto, who was born in 1985. Sakamoto belongs to a school of post-otaku art, using girly Tokyo girls as his motif to create...More »
Yuko Yamada Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Other
- 2009-03-02 - 2009-03-14
This exhibition features around 20 new works by Yuko Yamada, known for her Megu-chan series of girls in maid uniforms. In addition to an extensive career as a ballet dancer, Yamada also creates unique...More »
"The Moon" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Art Party
- 2009-02-16 - 2009-02-28
A light installation by contemporary artists from England and Japan on the theme of the moon was held in three temples in Kyoto from October through December 2008 - Kodai-ji, Gesshin-in and Korin-in. This...More »
Haruka Asakawa Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Performance Art
- 2009-02-02 - 2009-02-14
First solo exhibition by Haruka Asakawa, the favorite disciple of Yoshihiro Kato of the legendary avant-garde art group Zero Dimension. February 8th (Sun) Tantric performance Please gather in front...More »
"Juliet and Juliet" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2009-01-13 - 2009-01-24
This is a group exhibition of "girly" paintings, following the previous highly acclaimed "Ophelia" exhibition. More than actual gender, these carefully selected new works are concerned with femininity;...More »
"Silence" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2008-12-13 - 2008-12-21
Although one might argue that silence is merely another state of sound, one defines it through comparison to the condition of non-silence. The artists in this exhibition all graduated from the Master's...More »
Mitsuharu Nakagawa Exhibition
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- Media: Other
- 2008-11-10 - 2008-11-15
Konosuke Kindaichi "Ingredients - What Does It Contain?"
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- Media: Photography
- 2008-11-03 - 2008-11-08
A look at the colors of the ingredients that various foods contain, in an attempt to discover what kind of impressions we form of these foods, and how our appetites are influenced by them.More »
Nam Choi "Forest Exchange Project"
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- Media: Painting - Installation - Art Party
- 2008-10-22 - 2008-11-02
This is Nam Choi's second project at Ginza Geijutsu Laboratory, based on exchanging pictures of trees and forests drawn by the artist and visitors alike in order to grow a "forest of art" within the gallery...More »
Tomoyoshi Sakamoto Exhibition
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- 2008-10-06 - 2008-10-18
Sakamoto is an up-and-coming young artist who graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts only this year, but has already won much acclaim at his graduation and group exhibitions. Sakamoto's paintings...More »
Maiko Tsuboi Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2008-09-22 - 2008-09-28
Tamara Muller Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Video installation - Art Party
- 2008-09-08 - 2008-09-20
Solo exhibition by promising young Dutch artist Tamara Muller consisting of 10 paintings (oil acrylic on canvas) and video installation. This is her first solo show in Japan. The most remarkable feature...More »
Noriko Ito "Thank You and Hello!"
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- 2008-08-25 - 2008-09-05
In relation to the three orders as propounded by Lacan, the symbolic masculine order is in decline, while the imaginary feminine order continues to spread and diffuse. Negri's notion of the multitude also...More »
Taisuke Morishita "MacArthur Note Retrospective"
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- Media: Installation - Film - Art Party - Art Talk
- 2008-08-13 - 2008-08-23
August 15th this year marks the anniversary commemorating the end of WWII. For some, however, it is more correctly the anniversary that marks defeat in the war. On February 3rd, 1946, GHQ director MacArthur...More »
Wataru Fujita "Plant Journal"
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- Media: Drawing - Sculpture - Art Party
- 2008-07-22 - 2008-08-10
Wataru Fujita is a current graduate student of Tokyo University of the Arts, studying sculpture. This young, talented artist is deeply engaged in his studio work, developing a deep, delicate, and tranquil...More »
Eitaro Miyajima "Eels from Hamamatsu"
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- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2008-06-30 - 2008-07-12
Miyajima's painting incorporates elements that resemble those found in European modern painting by artists such as Klee, Miro, Mondrian and Kandinsky, while also borrowing motifs that recall local scenery...More »
Minoru Sugiyama + Yoshikazu Yanagi Exhibition
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- Media: Prints - Sculpture - Art Party
- 2008-05-22 - 2008-06-03
Japanese art has "evolved" from more traditional painting and sculpture towards manga and figurines, helped along by the influence of various subcultures. This trend also goes in the other direction, though:...More »
"Outlet: Non-artwork Collage" Exhibition
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- Media: Other - Art Party
- 2008-05-05 - 2008-05-18
Curated by anthropologist Tomo Nakajima, this exhibition features three artists who were thrown the challenge of considering what sort of trace artworks leave behind them. What sort of response did the...More »
Yoshimitsu Takano "Tokyo Coscape"
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- Media: Photography - Art Party
- 2008-04-21 - 2008-05-02
Takano has long documented Akihabara's chaotic and fast-forwarded cityscape, as well as the "cosplay" girls that gather there. This exhibition features the electric landscape of "Akiba" in all its gaudy...More »
"My Childhood Friend, Buckie" Exhibition
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- Media: Art Party
- 2008-04-14 - 2008-04-19
Recent media darling in the newspapers and weeklies, "My Childhood Friend, Buckie" is the revenge of the post-bubble "Lost Generation" in Japan, consistently ignored by the rest of society. Portraits that...More »
Ginken Art Fair
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Art Party
- 2008-04-03 - 2008-04-12
April, and the art fair season is upon us. Apart from Art Fair Tokyo and the 101 Art Fair from April 3rd through 6th, the Shinwa Art Auction will also be happening on April 5th. Ginza Geijutsu Laboratory...More »
Kevin Jones "Celestial / Terrestrial"
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- Media: Graphics - Installation - Digital - Art Party
- 2008-03-13 - 2008-03-29
Kevin H. Jones’s work explores the relationship between science and technology through the use of digital prints, video and interactive installations. The work found in Celestial / Terrestrial juxtaposes...More »
Tetsuo Ikeda "Kaiko Fragments"
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- Media: Painting
- 2008-02-25 - 2008-03-08
"Rocket to the Moon" Exhibition
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- 2008-02-12 - 2008-02-26
A number of international artists were asked to create paintings fitting the title of this exhibition. A reception party will be held on Saturday, February 16th, beginning at 17:00.More »
"Eco Asianism Environmental Art Exhibition in Ginza"
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- Media: Painting - Installation - Performance Art
- 2008-01-28 - 2008-02-09
This exhibition provides a shared space for viewers and artists to influence each other. "Cute and funny" eco-friendly products were produced for this exhibition with corporate support. By combining the...More »
"New Year Exhibition 2008 Artlink Project @g3"
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- Media: Photography - Installation
- 2008-01-12 - 2008-01-19
"Farewell 2007" Exhibition
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- Media: Graphics - Painting - Sculpture
- 2007-12-17 - 2007-12-25
"Ophelia" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2007-12-03 - 2007-12-15
Ophelia, from Shakespeare's Hamlet is one of the best known tragic female figures, but has also had an influence on the styles of young women in Japan. This exhibition explores issues raised by the figure...More »
Keitoku Toizumi "Saran Wrap"
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- 2007-11-19 - 2007-12-01
Keitoku Toizumi uses scissors as a motif in his works. The scissors symbolize cutting things into small parts, making new things, cutting ties, and also symbolize items used by women, as scissors are used...More »
Keiko Kanma "Smoke and the Maiden"
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- Media: Graphics - Painting - Installation
- 2007-11-05 - 2007-11-17
This Exhibition, "Smoke and the Maiden" brings together Keiko Kanma's paintings from three separate series. The title of the first series "Cloud, Smoke and Blast―The Great World 'Rule' way," is...More »
Duncan Mountford "A Sense of Wonder and the Problem of Knowledge"
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- 2007-10-22 - 2007-11-03
The mechanism isolates the image of the object, removing all clues of scale and origin. It is as much part of what is seen as the image, the whole is the context in which the trace of something is seen. In...More »
Lewis Yuichi "The Colour and Zero"
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- Media: Painting - Photography
- 2007-10-10 - 2007-10-20
Making something strange from everyday objects could be my primary concern. That my work should be somehow fascinating, yet ambiguous, is a possible element of the concept of my practice. I believe that...More »
Masaharu Futoyu "Ouroboros"
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- 2007-09-01 - 2007-09-14
This is a large-scale solo installation exhibition by this young artist who was the grand prize winner of the 24th Hitotsubo competition. "Currency" is a theme that is essential to our daily lives....More »
Jomi Kim "Pre-Fab - Temporary Living of Home"
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- Media: Sculpture - Art Party
- 2007-08-07 - 2007-08-18
This artist's delicate works embody existence and absence, and a "ma" (in between space) where a kind of uncertainty leads the way. She depicts her life abroad as a way to deepen her understanding of "home"...More »
Dislocate – Festival for Art, Technology and Locality
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- Media: Video installation - Digital - Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2007-07-24 - 2007-08-05
2006 saw the launch of "Dislocate", a project exploring the relationship between art, technology and our locality. This year the events will focus on our ability to reconnect with our location, seeking...More »
"Immediate Report from Venice Biennale" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Installation - Other - Art Talk
- 2007-07-07 - 2007-07-21
Lecture: "Venice Report" July 8th (Sun) from 15:00, ¥500 (including one drink) This talk will address the future of Japanese art as well as reports from the biennale. (Japanese only) The 52nd Venice...More »
Reina Masuyama "Neo Shunga"
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- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2007-06-18 - 2007-06-30
Reina Masuyama is a highly active artist who was shortlisted for this year's Taro Okamoto Prize, and critically acclaimed for her curation of the "Art LAN@Asia" exhibition of Chinese, Korean and Japanese...More »
Taisuke Morishita "A Plan for the Relocation and Reconstruction of Kisho Kurokawa's Mansion"
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- Media: Architecture - Installation
- 2007-05-14 - 2007-05-26
This exhibition reveals the way in which Morishita works with "Eco-Art". For many years, Morishita had his studio in the Nakagin capsule tower, designed by Kisho Kurokawa, that was later found to have...More »
Toshisato Hagihara "Landscape and Pistol"
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- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2007-05-01 - 2007-05-12
Toshisato Hagihara's paintings are mysterious. At first glance, his well-crafted landscapes appear to be real, but in fact they do not exist in the world as we know it. He does not make preparatory sketches...More »
Shingo Iguchi "Black Tulip"
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- Media: Painting
- 2007-04-16 - 2007-04-29
Makito Ayata "Images of Mother and Child"
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- Media: Graphics - Painting - Art Party
- 2007-04-02 - 2007-04-14
One could say that the history of art is in fact the history of image processing. This is one of the important elements dealt with in the work of Makito Ayata, who sees an inherent progression from painting...More »
"Fice" Exhibition
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- Media: Graphics - Photography - Product - Art Party
- 2007-03-19 - 2007-03-30
With its name composed of the two Japanese characters "En" and "Hyo" ("fire" and "ice"), "Fice" is a performance unit that incorporates the "cosplay" (costume play) aesthetic of manga culture, as popularized...More »
Chihiro Wakabayashi "Choice"
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- Media: Photography - Other - Video installation - Art Party
- 2007-01-25 - 2007-02-10
Chihiro Wakabayashi has until now mostly worked with photography, but for this exhibition she will be making free use of the gallery space to set up an installation incorporating photography, collage and...More »
"DE/Prayers of Young Girls" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2007-01-05 - 2007-01-20
This exhibition explores the themes of gender brought up in Keiko Kamma's exhibition in July 2006 and Taisuke Morishita's exhibition in 2003. By bringing together artists who one can say have been influenced...More »
Taisuke Morishita "Installation Views 1998-2006"
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- Media: Installation - Art Party
- 2006-12-18 - 2006-12-26
Taisuke Morishita sees the bar code as a symbol of all the problems that arise from capitalism and uses that as the starting point for how he thinks about his art. For this exhibition he is taking a new...More »
Kiku Sakota Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2006-12-11 - 2006-12-16
"Tokyo x Tokyo" Exhibition
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- Media: Video installation - Art Party
- 2006-11-27 - 2006-12-09
Students from an art university in Holland came to stay in Tokyo for two weeks, experience life here and make works inspired by their experiences. "Tokyo x Tokyo" is a screening of DVD works made before...More »
Keiko Kamma "The Niagara Tale"
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- Media: Installation - Video installation - Art Party
- 2006-10-30 - 2006-11-11
My new piece, "The Niagara Tale" is an installation consisting of words, materials, images and sounds, which have nothing to do with each other. In the gallery, viewers will see some scripted or printed...More »
Choi Seung Hee "Inner Self"
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- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2006-10-17 - 2006-10-29
Choi Seung Hee is a promising young artist who was brought up in Seoul. Having graduated from Seoul University, she studied for her MA at Tsukuba University and is now doing a PhD course there. Gifted...More »
Shalom Neuman Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2006-09-25 - 2006-10-07
This is the first exhibition in Japan for this artist whose work portrays life in the Lower East Side of New York. Born in Prague in the Czech Republic, Neuman specialized in painting and sculpture at...More »
Kumiko Ito Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2006-09-18 - 2006-09-23
Ito's work is made from a base layer of chalk, covered with a layer of chalk mixed with glue. She then paints on the uniformly white surface of her work with white paint, and the resulting images reveal...More »
"Dislocate" International Group Exhibition
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- Media: Video installation - Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2006-07-28 - 2006-08-18
This exhibition is directed by Emma Lewis who is a British curator, in association with Trampoline, which is a new media art organisation based in Nottingham, UK and Berlin, Germany. She has selected a...More »

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