SCAI The Bathhouse - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for SCAI The Bathhouse. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
Nobuko Tsuchiya "We are living in a time machine"
[29][5]- Media: Drawing - Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-11-18 - 2012-01-28
Nobuko Tsuchiya returned to Japan last year after a decade living and working in London. Her first major exhibition was at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, and she has worked internationally thereafter,...More »
Naoki Ishikawa "8848"
[92][13]- Media: Photography
- 2011-09-09 - 2011-10-22
This exhibition displays photographs taken by Ishikawa during his climb up Mount Everest, under conditions that demanded every last bit of his strength and concentration. They record scenes from the icefall,...More »
"Beyond" Exhibition
[30][3]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2011-06-03 - 2011-07-02
Art definitely has something akin to concepts and rules, but they are manipulated by artists using visual and other language that readily goes beyond general ideas and concepts. The artists in this exhibition...More »
Noriko Abe "Time Lag"
[20][3]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-03-25 - 2011-05-14
Most of Ambe's art is made using Yupo®, a type of synthetic paper made from polypropylene that is smooth, crisp, and snow white. Her works take form through the quiet, conscientious repetition of simple...More »
Lee Ufan Exhibition
[83][8]- Media: Painting
- 2011-01-14 - 2011-03-05
Lee Ufan was born in Korea in 1936, and came to Japan in 1956. Active in the latter half of the 1960s as one of the leaders of Mono-Ha ("School of Things"), Lee's work has continued to enjoy international...More »
Tatsuo Miyajima "Warp Time with Warp Self"
[49][6]- Media: Installation
- 2010-11-12 - 2010-12-22
Tatsuo Miyajima is a contemporary artist highly acclaimed internationally for his distinctive works utilizing digital counters made from light-emitting diodes (LEDs). He is well known in Japan thanks to...More »
Kohei Nawa "Synthesis"
[94][14]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2010-09-24 - 2010-10-30
Kohei Nawa was born in Osaka, Japan in 1975. Following "GUSH," his 2006 solo exhibition at SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Nawa became remarkably productive, receiving exceptional acclaim from around the world. Last...More »
William Eggleston "21st Century"
[131][15]- Media: Photography
- 2010-07-02 - 2010-08-04
This exhibition, "William Eggleston: 21st Century," showcases Eggleston's photographs taken since 2000, providing a comprehensive view of the recent work of this leading photographer. Although the works...More »
Anish Kapoor Exhibition
[154][26]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2010-04-27 - 2010-06-19
Anish Kapoor was born in Mumbai, India in 1954 and currently lives in London. He represented the UK at the Venice Biennale in 1990, and was awarded the Turner Prize the following year, making him one of...More »
Apichatpong Weerasethakul "Native Land"
[73][9]- Media: Photography - Installation
- 2010-03-12 - 2010-04-17
Apichatpong Weerasethakul was born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1970. Working in film, video, and photography, he is the recipient of many film awards, including two awards from the Cannes Film Festival as...More »
Tomoaki Suzuki Exhibition
[31][3]- Media: Sculpture
- 2010-01-22 - 2010-02-20
These small wooden figures of humans, each carefully proportioned and around 60 cm high, are all individualistic and fashionable. At first glance, each appears stylish, but closer examination reveals that...More »
Jeon Joonho "Bless You"
[24][1]- Media: Sculpture - Video installation
- 2009-11-20 - 2009-12-25
Jeon Joonho is one of the key figures that have brought Korean contemporary art to the attention of the international contemporary art community since 2000. His international reputation was cemented by...More »
Julian Opie Exhibition
[69][12]- Media: Painting - Video installation
- 2009-10-16 - 2009-11-14
Julian Opie started painting portraits in around 1997, creating a large number of such works over the next ten years. At first he took as his subjects those close to him, whether friends or family, but...More »
Mariko Mori "Flat Stone"
[35][3]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2009-09-08 - 2009-10-03
Mariko Mori appeared on the international art scene in the latter half of the 90s. A Menzioni d'Onore awarded at the 47th Venice Biennale confirmed her international reputation in 1997, and in the intervening...More »
"A House is not A Home" Exhibition
[64][9]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture
- 2009-06-26 - 2009-07-25
What is this vessel that houses our spirit? How big is it? What does it feel like? What shape does it take? These are the questions that creep into our consciousness as we confront the world views of Noriko...More »
Natsuyuki Nakanishi "Behind, Circle"
[55][4]- Media: Painting
- 2009-04-17 - 2009-06-06
Natsuyuki Nakanishi was born in Tokyo in 1935. After graduating from the department of oil painting at Tokyo University of the Arts, he formed the avant-garde art group High Red Center in 1963 along with...More »
Daisuke Ohba "The Light Field"
[37][6]- Media: Painting
- 2009-03-06 - 2009-04-04
Opening on March 6th 2009, Scai The Bathhouse will present "The Light Field," a solo exhibition by Daisuke Ohba. Ohba, born in 1981, is one of the most outstanding of today's up-and-coming painters. Since...More »
Jeppe Hein "Kuru Kuru"
[99][10]- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Art Talk
- 2009-01-16 - 2009-02-28
Born in Denmark in 1974, Jeppe Hein works out of Berlin and Copenhagen. Jeppe Hein’s works are fun. One of his installations is a labyrinth made from mirrors that confuse the viewer's visual and spatial...More »
Darren Almond Exhibition
[56][11]- Media: Photography
- 2008-11-14 - 2008-12-20
SCAI The Bathhouse is delighted to present Darren Almond's first solo exhibition in Japan. Born in 1971, Darren Almond participated in the controversial exhibition "Sensation," which first took the revolutionary...More »
Miwa Ogasawara "Soliloquy"
[12][4]- Media: Painting
- 2008-10-03 - 2008-11-08
Miwa Ogasawara is based in Hamburg, Germany. Her work has been collected by various institutions in Europe such as the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Burger Collection in Switzerland, and various important...More »
Tomoko Shioyasu "Cutting Insights"
[50][10]- Media: Installation
- 2008-08-29 - 2008-09-27
Born in 1981, Tomoko Shioyasu majored in sculpture at the Kyoto City University of Arts. In 2005, the year after graduating, she won the Grand Prix at the 6th Spiral Independent Creators Festival (SICF)....More »
Min Tanaka "Locus Focus"
[2][1]- Media: Art Party - Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2008-07-04 - 2008-07-08
SCAI The Bathhouse is organizing performances and a recording exhibition by Min Tanaka from July 4-8, 2008. Tanaka was born in Tokyo in 1945. He started practicing as a dancer from the early 1970s onwards,...More »
Choe U Ram "Anima Machines"
[55][11]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2008-05-27 - 2008-06-28
Born in 1970 in Seoul, Choe U Ram has already established an international reputation through the application of his knowledge of robotic engineering in the creation of mysterious life forms as works of...More »
Shinko Okuhara "Sleeping Person"
[13][4]- Media: Painting
- 2008-04-11 - 2008-05-17
This artist has gained a broad fan base for her depictions of mysterious scenes lurking in daily urban scenes. This is her first solo exhibition comprising large scale paintings. Sleeping people can be...More »
Tadanori Yokoo Exhibition
[31][7]- Media: Painting
- 2008-02-01 - 2008-04-05
"Selected Works" February 1st (Fri) - March 1st (Sat) "New Paintings" March 7th (Fri) － April 5th (Sat) Tadanori Yokoo was born in Nishiwaki City, Hyogo Prefecture in 1936. Since debuting with striking...More »
Apichatpong Weerasethakul "Replicas"
[33][5]- Media: Drawing - Photography - Video installation
- 2008-01-09 - 2008-01-26
Apichatpong Weerasethakul was born in 1970 in Bangkok, Thailand. After obtaining a first degree in architecture in Thailand, he studied fine arts and filmmaking in Chicago. He started to make film and...More »
Naoki Ishikawa "Polar"
[66][12]- Media: Photography
- 2007-11-16 - 2007-12-22
Naoki Ishikawa is an artist who creates pictures of "somewhere other than here," featuring the places he encounters in his travels. Better known as the young adventurer who accomplished great feats such...More »
Lee Ufan Exhibition
[20][5]- Media: Painting
- 2007-09-14 - 2007-10-27
Born in Korea in 1936, Lee Ufan has lived and worked in Japan since 1956. He also has a base in Europe, and has recently spent an increasing proportion of his time outside Japan. Lee has been internationally...More »
Atsushi Saga + Kazuma Koike + Didier Courbot "Casino Royale"
[8][2]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2007-07-20 - 2007-08-31
Ordinary art enthusiasts, as opposed to art critics or curators, often advocate either enjoying an art piece just as it is or, alternatively, say that you need to try to understand the artist's ideas that...More »
Nobuko Tsuchiya "Once Upon a Time, in a Distant Place There Was a Parking Fish Project"
[15][5]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2007-05-18 - 2007-06-30
Born in Japan in 1972, Nobuko Tsuchiya is a young, upcoming artist who works in London, where she has lived since 2000. Tsuchiya's elusive and indescribable works have had an intense impact in Europe and...More »
Brian Alfred "Global Warning"
[32][8]- Media: Painting - Other
- 2007-03-23 - 2007-04-28
For many 21st century New York artists, 9.11 was a disaster that was intensely personal and traumatic. The same applies to Brian Alfred, who was 27 at the time, and the incident marked a major turning...More »
Jeppe Hein Exhibition
[104][20]- Media: Installation
- 2007-01-19 - 2007-03-03
Jeppe Hein, born 1974 in Denmark and currently based in Berlin and Copenhagen, is a young artist who has been involved in many exhibitions in galleries/museums around the world, and recently has been the...More »
Dzine "Stealing Dreams"
[8][1]- Media: Painting
- 2006-10-27 - 2006-12-09
Two years ago, American painter Dzine held a hugely successful solo exhibition in Japan where all of his works were sold out in Tokyo and Osaka, despite being virtually unknown to the Japanese audience....More »
Jenny Holzer Exhibition
[82][11]- Media: Photography - Installation - Performance Art
- 2006-09-07 - 2006-10-14
Jennifer Holzer was born in Ohio in 1950, and currently lives in NY. Since the 70s, she has created art in various media that feature text, the most famous being her LED works. In 1990, she received the...More »
Toru Kamiya Exhibition
[28][11]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2006-06-30 - 2006-07-29
This exhibition showcases Toru Kamiya's new sketches of people and landscapes drawn in delicate outlines, giving a sense of depth and translucency. The two types of works, using completely different techniques,...More »
Mariko Mori "Tom Na H-iu"
[23][6]- Media: Installation
- 2006-04-21 - 2006-06-03
"Tom Na H-iu" is a place where souls waited to pass onto their next life in ancient Celts lore. The "standing stones" that were built according to these ancient myths inspired Mariko Mori to create a present...More »
Tatsuo Miyajima "Fragile"
[52][18]- Media: Installation
- 2006-03-03 - 2006-04-08
Tatsuo Miyajima's new work "Counter Fragile" takes an almost paradoxical turn from his large-scale and dense works of the past few years, and instead reveals untangible, fragile forms. The composition...More »
Kohei Nawa "Gush"
[35][6]- Media: Sculpture
- 2006-01-20 - 2006-02-25
Kohei Nawa was born in Osaka in 1975. Since completing his Ph.D in fine art sculpture from Kyoto City University of Art in 2003, he has won several awards including the Kirin Art Award 2003, confirming...More »
Anish Kapoor - Japanese Mirrors
[32][15]- Media: Sculpture - Crafts
- 2005-11-18 - 2005-12-22
This exhibition will feature works created using the traditional Japanese material of lacquer. Active internationally and currently residing in London, Anish Kapoor has been producing works in Japan since...More »
Lee Bul
[25][7]- Media: Sculpture
- 2005-09-29 - 2005-10-29
Lee Bul, based in Seoul, has been one of the leading figures of contemporary art since the 90's. She has been showing very frequently both in Europe and America but also Asia and Australia. In this exhibition,...More »
Hiroyuki Oki - Fiction
[4][1]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2005-06-23 - 2005-07-23
On display are 2 video works in progress: "Namu" shot in Israel, Palestine, Turkey, Kagawa, Nepal and Tibet (since 2004) and "Love in Yanaka" shot in Ueno and Yanaka (since 2000).More »
Julian Opie - Films and Paintings
[4][9]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Film
- 2005-05-12 - 2005-06-18
In recent years, in addition to his many solo exhibitions throughout Europe, Julian Opie's works in public spaces, going beyond the "white cube" environment of galleries or art museums, have been attracting...More »
Authentic Man
[5][1]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2005-04-09 - 2005-05-07
This is Izumi Kato's first major solo exhibition. He depicts "life forms", which manifest a strong impression of what could only be described as "being itself". "I want to be on equal terms with my...More »
Toshikatsu Endo Exhibition
[3][1]- Media: Sculpture
- 2005-02-25 - 2005-03-26
Having been featured at exhibitions in Korea, Europe, and the United States, Toshikatsu Endo has been one of Japan's leading contemporary artists since the 1970s. The theme of this exhibition is his...More »
Candy Horror
[1][0]- Media: Photography
- 2004-12-17 - 2005-02-05
This is Yurie Nagashima's first major exhibition in four years. Approximately thirty pieces taken during this period will be on display. Ranging from landscapes to still objects, the series as a whole...More »
Tadanori Yokoo - In The Bath
[1][1]- Media: Painting
- 2004-10-19 - 2004-11-27
Tadanori Yokoo has always shocked the audience with his innovative art works. In this exhibition at the renovated bath house, his new works of geisha-like female nude figures in the bath will be on display....More »
Kentaro Kobuke Live Drawing
[0][0]- Media: Drawing
- 2004-09-25 - 2004-09-25
Kentaro Kobuke Live Drawing with Ogurusu Norihide.More »
Kentaro Kobuke "PARFAIT"
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Drawing
- 2004-09-10 - 2004-10-11
Exhibition of Kentaro Kobuke, one of the hottest young artists. Working mainly with color pencils, he creates colorful portraits of people and animals and landscapes with straightforward simplicity and...More »
