Yamamoto Gendai - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Yamamoto Gendai. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
Edgar Martins "The Time Machine: An Incomplete and Semi-Objective Survey of Hydropower Stations"
[22][2]- Media: Photography - Art Party
- 2011-11-19 - 2011-12-17
Edgar Martins was born in Portugal in 1977, and grew up in Macau until he was 19. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2002, and now lives and works in London. Last year, his extensive solo exhibition...More »
Natsumi Hirakawa "Utopia"
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2011-10-08 - 2011-11-05
Born in 1987 and living and working in her native Oita prefecture, Natsumi Hirakawa had her solo museum exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto last year, and a number of her works have become...More »
"Subjective Objects" Exhibition
[18][1]- Media: Sculpture - Art Party
- 2011-09-03 - 2011-10-01
This group show features sculptures from gallery artists and others, as a follow-up to the February exhibition "Visions/Recollections", which focused on 2D work. In Japan the concept of "sculpture"...More »
Kenji Yanobe "Atom Suit Project: Antenna of the Earth"
[48][8]- Media: Installation - Art Party
- 2011-07-02 - 2011-07-30
Atom Suit Project: Antenna of the Earth is an installation of a life-size figure of the artist himself in a radiation-detecting Atom Suit equipped with Geiger counters - an appropriation of the well-known...More »
Muneteru Ujino "Transcribed"
[9][0]- Media: Installation
- 2011-05-21 - 2011-06-18
This exhibition is expected to be the first solo presentation by the artist in Japan in the 7 years since 2004, featuring an extension of Ujino's own long-standing “research on the material world", showcasing...More »
"Visions/Recollections" Exhibition
[6][0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Video installation - Art Party
- 2011-02-19 - 2011-03-12
This group exhibition features a selection of 2D works by gallery artists. The "Visions" in the title alludes to the notion of illusion and future prospects in addition to the idea of visual sight, while...More »
Tiger Tateishi "Online Radar"
[6][3]- Media: Painting
- 2011-01-08 - 2011-02-05
Yamamoto Gendai is pleased to present Online Radar, a solo exhibition by Tiger Tateishi from January 8th through February 5th 2011. This will be the first opportunity to publicly introduce three paintings...More »
Kohei Kobayashi + Core of Bells Performance
[0][0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2010-12-18 - 2010-12-18
Performance by video artist Kohei Kobayashi and hardcore band Core of Bells.More »
Kenji Yanobe "Levitation"
[17][1]- Media: Installation - Art Party
- 2010-11-06 - 2010-12-04
Yamamoto Gendai is delighted to present "Levitation", a solo exhibition by Kenji Yanobe from October 11th through December 14th 2010. On view will be selected pieces from an entirely new series that operates...More »
Masakatsu Takagi "Ymene"
[52][9]- Media: Video installation
- 2010-09-25 - 2010-10-16
On view is the artist's latest video work "Ymene". It is a work in progress which is being created like an animation in which the artist works on and pieces together the footage that he has accumulated...More »
Yayoi Deki "Pineapple"
[10][1]- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2010-08-21 - 2010-09-11
Yayoi Deki's first solo show at Yamamoto Gendai in 3 years.More »
Osamu Mori "Can't Help Falling in Love"
[11][0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2010-07-03 - 2010-07-31
Osamu Mori was born in 1983 and earned a Master’s degree in sculpture from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2009. At the group exhibition “Sculpture － Blues & Low Blow” at TUA, he presented the bizarre,...More »
Kei Imazu "Flash"
[11][2]- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2010-05-22 - 2010-06-19
Kei Imazu (b.1980), a VOCA exhibition prize winner, is known for her semi-abstract painting style that expresses a characteristic limpid world created by combining motifs from various landscapes and human...More »
Erina Matsui "One-Touch Time Machine"
[11][3]- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2010-04-03 - 2010-05-01
We are pleased to announce Erina Matsui’s solo exhibition One-touch time machiiiine! from April 3rd to May 1st 2010. Two and a half years since her last solo exhibition in Japan, Matsui will present a...More »
Kohei Kobayashi + Yasuyuki Nishino + Keita Sugiura “Town Nobody”
[28][5]- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Art Party
- 2010-02-20 - 2010-03-20
We are please to announce our group exhibition “Town Nobody” from February 20th to March 20th 2010 featuring works by Kohei Kobayashi, Yasuyuki Nishio, and Keita Sugiura. A video work “1-10-1” by Kohei...More »
Tsukasa Ohtake “VINYL”
[4][1]- Media: Painting
- 2010-01-09 - 2010-02-06
Ohtake is a Nagoya based artist working mainly with two-dimensional works. He studied traditional Japanese painting and depicted landscapes and plants with natural mineral pigments. However, he felt uncertain...More »
"Good to be a Mummy" Exhibition
[8][2]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture
- 2009-12-18 - 2009-12-22
Etsuko Fukaya "Wind Erosion"
[10][2]- Media: Drawing - Prints - Art Party
- 2009-11-07 - 2009-12-05
After holding her debut solo show "Natsumegiku" at Yamamoto Gendai in Tokyo in 2006, Fukaya participated in the ArtChinaKoreaJapanArt exhibition (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Italy) that same year,...More »
Kohei Kobayashi "Right is Blue, Blue is Left, Left is Yellow, Yellow is Right"
[10][1]- Media: Video installation
- 2009-09-26 - 2009-10-24
Kohei Kobayashi was a leading figure in the Nagoya art scene of the late 1990s, as well as a main member of the independent artist space Art Space Dot. Recently, he has been working actively as a video...More »
"I Love Art -Love & Capitalism Vol.2- Art Lover’s Gokon"
[0][0]- Media: Art Party
- 2009-08-29 - 2009-08-29
In order for galleries and museums to function as places for casual social gathering, the factor of romance is essential. This event will employ the time-tested format of gokon (matchmaking party) in order...More »
"Unfamiliar Landscape" Exhibition
[1][1]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2009-08-22 - 2009-09-12
This group exhibition showcases "unfamiliar landscapes" by four artists - Tiger Tateishi, Keisuke Tanaka, Natsumi Hirakawa and Shoko Matsumiya. These works represent a compilation of imaginary worlds assembled...More »
Chim Pom "Good to be Human"
[47][5]- Media: Installation - Video installation - Art Party
- 2009-06-27 - 2009-07-25
For their second presentation of the "Chim Pom + Mujin-to production －drift-" project, Chim Pom has cast ashore to YAMAMOTO GENDAI. This time they have come up with the phrase "Ningen te iina = how good...More »
Ruriko Murayama "Color and Cloak"
[12][2]- Media: Sculpture - Fashion - Crafts
- 2009-05-16 - 2009-06-13
Yamamoto Gendai presents new sculptures and cloth works by Ruriko Murayama. Her "cloaks" seem at first glance to be just draped black cloth hanging downwards, but closer inspection reveals beads, ribbons,...More »
Motohiko Odani "SP4 'the specter' in modern sculpture"
[33][2]- Media: Sculpture
- 2009-04-04 - 2009-05-02
At this solo exhibition, Odani presents a series of life-sized figures on horseback and female nudes - perhaps two of the original prototypes of sculpture as a medium. Figurative expression in terms...More »
Li Yan "Snippet"
[10][0]- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2009-02-21 - 2009-03-21
This is Li Yan's (b. 1977, China) first solo exhibition in Japan. His work was acquired by the Saatchi Collection in London last year. Using images and footage taken from everyday media, Li exhibits...More »
Yasuyuki Nishio "Drown"
[12][4]- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Art Party
- 2009-01-10 - 2009-02-07
This is Yasuyuki's third solo exhibition at Yamamoto Gendai, following "Transform" and "Yurei", entitled "Drown." Nishio almost drowned in the sea when he was a child. Ever since, he has been haunted...More »
Hermann Nitsch Exhibition
[13][3]- Media: Painting - Photography - Other - Video installation - Art Party
- 2008-11-12 - 2008-12-06
Hermann Nitsch is an artist, composer and author. Since the 1960s he has been staging intense performances as part of the Viennese Actionism movement. Nitsch cuts open animal carcasses and hangs them...More »
Jimmy Owenns "Lien"
[3][0]- Media: Drawing - Installation
- 2008-10-28 - 2008-11-08
This exhibition is part of the series of "Paris-Tokyo: Upground, Foreign Seeds" events commemorating the 150th anniversary of Franco-Japanese friendship. Yamamoto Gendai is holding an exhibition of the...More »
Keisuke Tanaka "Seizan"
[7][0]- Media: Sculpture - Art Party
- 2008-10-04 - 2008-10-24
Keisuke Tanaka was born in Chiba prefecture in 1976 and studied sculpture at the Tokyo University of the Arts. He makes primarily wooden sculptures: a 10 sq cm pillar of camphor "carcass" was carved into...More »
Masakatsu Takagi "Itako"
[51][11]- Media: Painting
- 2008-08-30 - 2008-09-27
"Ukawartchives #1" Exhibition
[10][1]- Media: Other - Other - Art Party
- 2008-06-21 - 2008-07-19
Naohiro Ukawa is a rare artist working with perhaps the most freedom anywhere in Japan, erasing the existing frameworks dividing fine art from mass culture. Any object or phenomenon is fair game and potential...More »
"Yamamoto Gendai Future Feature vol. 4: The Third" Exhibition
[4][2]- Media: Painting
- 2008-05-10 - 2008-06-07
Yamamoto Gendai is proud to present the exhibition "Yamamoto Gendai Future Feature vol.4: The Third". This exhibition features two emerging young painters, Kaori Kobayashi and Natsumi Hirakawa. Kobayashi...More »
Sako Kojima "Orphan and the Old Single"
[11][7]- Media: Installation - Art Party - Performance Art
- 2008-03-15 - 2008-04-19
Opening reception: March 15th (Sat) 18:00-20:00 Performance by the artist: March 15th (Sat) 19:00-More »
"Dream of the Skull" Exhibition
[10][6]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation - Art Party
- 2008-01-19 - 2008-03-01
Opening Reception: January 19th, 18:00-21:00More »
"Drive You Insane" Exhibition
[4][1]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2007-10-15 - 2007-11-02
Erina Matsui "My Cosmo"
[12][2]- Media: Painting
- 2007-08-25 - 2007-09-21
Erina Matsui creates self portraits that you cannot easily forget once you see them. She has been featured in many articles after winning a first prize with a painting entitled "I Love Ebi-Chili" in a...More »
Motohiko Odani "SP2 New Born"
[35][3]- Media: Sculpture - Art Party
- 2007-06-30 - 2007-07-25
Motohiko Odani's new works are sculpture pieces which remind one of bones with matte white surfaces. He constructs a series of complicated forms out of these unique pieces, referencing the Futurist movement...More »
Ruriko Murayama "Noble Hands"
[4][1]- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Fashion
- 2007-05-12 - 2007-06-07
This exhibition features Ruriko Murayama's recent works, a lacquer series which was critically acclaimed at her exhibition last year. They are assemblages of various materials shaped to look like her arms,...More »
Yayoi Deki Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Painting
- 2007-04-07 - 2007-04-28
Sako Kojima "The Gloaming"
[5][1]- Media: Painting
- 2007-03-17 - 2007-04-04
Sako Kojima is known for her performance and sculptural works, but this exhibition features mostly paintings. Her paintings have a rough and quick feel to them; they consist of multiple layers of paint...More »
Ichiro Isobe "X-eye"
[4][0]- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2007-01-27 - 2007-03-03
This is Ichiro Isobe's first solo exhibition in two years. Since graduating from B-semi Learning System of Contemporary Art, Isobe has exhibited at Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito and Yamamoto...More »
Yasuyuki Nishio "Yuurei"
[7][2]- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2006-10-28 - 2006-12-02
Yasuyuki Nishio's first exhibition in two years consists of paintings of elegant ghosts. Nishio's ghosts aren't the ordinary legless Japanese ghosts, but women that have attained eternal youth. They...More »
Etsuko Fukaya Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Prints
- 2006-09-09 - 2006-10-14
This is the first solo exhibition by Etsuko Fukaya, who is currently studying at Tokyo Geijutsu University. At first glance, her work looks like a pitch-black square, but by taking a closer look, the...More »
Tsukasa Ohtake "Cream"
[3][1]- Media: Painting
- 2006-07-22 - 2006-08-12
Through 'Yamamoto Gendai Future Feature', the gallery invites talented newcomers and promising artists to show their works for three weeks. The first artist to be featured is Nagoya-based Tsukasa Ohtake,...More »
The Universe of Mt. Fuji of Tiger
[10][6]- Media: Painting
- 2006-04-15 - 2006-05-20
Sideshow
[0][0]- Media: Other
- 2006-03-04 - 2006-03-25
Chimerical Garden
[11][2]- Media: Painting - Photography - Other
- 2005-12-13 - 2006-02-10
Otani will be presenting his photographic work from "Jackal", a video shown at the Mori Art Museum last spring. Nishio has created a new batch of oil paintings titled "Giantis" which were painted specifically...More »
Yuichi Higashionna "Chandelier!"
[4][1]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2005-10-22 - 2005-11-26
Yuichi Higashionna freely traverses the mediums of painting, video, and installation to explore and pry loose preconceived ideas of 'perception'. On the surface of his works, a similar vernacular as found...More »
Kohei Kobayashi - 6
[9][4]- Media: Photography - Video installation
- 2005-09-03 - 2005-10-08
Since the late 90's, Kobayashi Kohei and the independent artist collective "art space dot" have come to play a prominent role in the Nagoya art scene. At the '99 Fukui Biennale, Kobayashi burst out on...More »
Wolfgang Stiller - Aspects of Life
[1][0]- Media: Drawing
- 2005-07-09 - 2005-08-06
For Wolfgang Stiller's 4th exhibition in Japan since 1993, "Aspects of Life" will show 2000 of his drawings.More »
Scenery to the next world
[2][1]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2005-05-21 - 2005-06-25
Yamamoto Gendai is proud to announce a new series of "Collective Charms", a project first organized in 2002 around works of Ruriko Murayama. The current exhibition, with the title "Scenery to the next...More »
Ichiro Isobe
[0][1]- Media: Drawing
- 2005-04-02 - 2005-05-07
Ichiro Isobe creates various "faces" through pencil drawings. His drawings are not the usual two-dimensional work but, rather combine many spatial elements such as buildings and scenery in order to create...More »
