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.
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Masakatsu Takagi "Itako"
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"Ukawartchives #1" Exhibition
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 (...)
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"Yamamoto Gendai Future Feature vol. 4: The Third" Exhibition
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 (...)
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Sako Kojima "Orphan and the Old Single"
Opening reception: March 15th (Sat) 18:00-20:00 Performance by the artist: March 15th (Sat) 19:00-
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"Dream of the Skull" Exhibition
Opening Reception: January 19th, 18:00-21:00
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"Drive You Insane" Exhibition
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Erina Matsui "My Cosmo"
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 (...)
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Motohiko Odani "SP2 New Born"
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 (...)
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Ruriko Murayama "Noble Hands"
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, (...)
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Yayoi Deki Exhibition
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Sako Kojima "The Gloaming"
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 (...)
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Ichiro Isobe "X-eye"
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 (...)
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Yasuyuki Nishio "Yuurei"
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 (...)
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Etsuko Fukaya Exhibition
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 (...)
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Tsukasa Ohtake "Cream"
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, (...)
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The Universe of Mt. Fuji of Tiger
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Sideshow
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Chimerical Garden
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 (...)
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Yuichi Higashionna "Chandelier!"
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 (...)
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Kohei Kobayashi - 6
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 (...)
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Wolfgang Stiller - Aspects of Life
For Wolfgang Stiller's 4th exhibition in Japan since 1993, "Aspects of Life" will show 2000 of his drawings.
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Scenery to the next world
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 (...)
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Ichiro Isobe
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 (...)





