Café Pause - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Café Pause. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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"Luce Luce Luce Tempera Painting Vol. 5" Exhibition
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chee + Mie Yagi "Birthday Cafe"
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Jean Snow "Snow Magazine Cafe"
This event, produced by Pause's art director Jean Snow, features a selection of magazines from around the world, including rare foreign publications, that visitors can browse freely.More »
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"Kuromasa Hatter" Exhibition
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"Summer" Exhibition
Live drawing and painting by Shantell Martin and Hiroaki Koshiba. Two canvases, two artists, two live interpretations of summer.More »
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Hiroaki Koshiba "Polkadots and Loops"
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The Urban Paper Show
The Urban Paper show opening Sept. 7th at Café Pause in Ikebukuro is the latest stop of an international tour of paper toys first published in the book, Urban Paper. Tour stops have included Los Angles...More »
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"Little Pink" Exhibition
Starting April 21st, Cafe Pause is hosting the "Little Pink" exhibition, a collaboration between Alexander Gelman and Shantell Martin. It’s a fun project: Shantell drew over — or as she would say, "bombed"...More »
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Bianca Beuttel "Japanese Memoscapes"
"Japanese Memoscapes" are details taken from the Japanese cityscape transformed into lined papers offering a unique space to take notes. The exhibition shows "Japanese Memoscapes" in their contexts and...More »
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5th Anniversary Party
Cafe Pause's 5th anniversary party, held over two evenings - February 21st and 22nd, starting at 19:00. Koji Kimura will be exhibiting all the chairs he has been designing for the cafe over the past 5...More »
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"Sound vs. Color 2" Live Painting
Live painting by Hiroaki Koshiba with music from Finnish electro musician Jaakko Eino Kalevi. More »
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Gudrun Rau "Cut Mars Black"
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Chris Kirby "Negative Series"
Reversing the positive/negative relationship between mold and object, Chris Kirby introduces a new line of porcelain ware that captures the unexpected shape of negative spaces. The artist will be at...More »
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Takamitsu Nagano + Hiroaki Koshiba "Sound Lines"
Collaborative performance between Takamitsu Nagano (music) and Hiroaki Koshiba (live painting). Nagano is a minimal music composer who is involved with the Futura music festival in France among others....More »
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Speakerdog Papertoys Exhibition
Design guru and Speakerdog fan Jean Snow has been lovely enough to host a Speakerdog Papertoys exhibition at Cafe Pause, Tokyo! They will be exhibiting their favorite selection of papertoys designed by...More »
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Yuki Nakano "Tokyo-London 06-07"
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Shantell Martin + Hiroaki Koshiba "Live Painting"
Spring is the first of a four-part collaboration. Catch a special live collaborative interpretation of spring this Sunday, the 16th. Hiroaki Kishiba and Shantell Martin will paint and draw live on two...More »
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Hiroaki Koshiba "Harmonic Lines"
March 2nd (Sun) 19:00- Live painting by artist with musical performance by Takaaki Koshiba 18:00-22:00 Opening Party (music by Café DJ Takunori)More »
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Yuka Yamaguchi “Strict! Japanese High School”
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ML4G "Angya"
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"Creative GBG in Tokyo" Exhibition
- Media: Photography - Architecture - Product - Fashion - Film - Art Party
- 2007-10-29 - 2007-11-08
Creative GBG in Tokyo plans on giving Tokyo a taste of what Gothenburg's creative community is all about. During Tokyo Design Week, twelve creators and companies from Gothenburg, Sweden, will participate...More »
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Tomoko Oosuki "A Woman Alone in Ikebukuro"
Artist website: http://www.sepia.dti.ne.jp/tomo/More »
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Ooito + Th' Rezidents Exhibition
The show will be divided in two phases. December 11-17: Pourian's streetwear line Ooito (launching with a Spring 2007 collection, so this will act as a preview) and Chow's Rezidents characters. December...More »
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Andrew Conti "Connections and Combinations"
Tokyo-based American artist Andrew Conti presents a series of drawings and three-dimensional works that reflect the numerous processes and patterns – be they biological, emotional or mathematical - that...More »
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Nudie Café
Next Century Modern & Jean Snow invite you to Nudie Café, a temporary café event featuring an exhibition where graphic artist PMKFA (SWE) have remixed clothes by Swedish brand Nudie Jeans, and more. The...More »
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Karl Escritt Exhibition
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Hiroaki Koshiba "Rhythm of the Composition"
Hiroaki Koshiba's simple abstract paintings communicate a sort of rythm to the viewers and seem to have been born out of sounds. A perfect match for the cozy atmosphere of Café Pause, the 25 works on show...More »
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Happy Time
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PMKFA "It’s Our Thing"
The newly started t-shirt label 'It's Our Thing' is displaying their new goods at Café Pause in Ikebukuro. It's Our Thing consists of graphic designer and illustrator PMKFA and Sweatshop Union, Osaka's...More »
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Yuri Arai "Cock-Tail"
As a form of decoration, and to indicate that the drink contains alcohol, some places put a feather in the glass. This feather is taken from the tailfeathers of a rooster (cock) and so it is thought that...More »
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Canadian Style
Canadian Style is a 12-day event celebrating "Canadiana" in its many forms. Installations by designer Sonia Chow and photographer Marc Xavier LeBlanc will be accompanied by visual projections, music compilations,...More »
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The Son of a Gun Birthday Party
Everybody is invited to come and experience a traditional Swedish birthday party with free cake, candy and silly games. Swedish magazine Nöjesguiden will be handing out a limited amount of free copies...More »
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"Mother Gun says: Take a PAUSE" Mamma Gun säger: Ta en Paus
A temporary Swedish café hosted by Gun Larsson and her son, featuring interior installations by design unit Next Century Modern, hand knitting with Emma&Malena, screenings of selected Swedish videos...More »





