Art & River Bank - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Art & River Bank. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Yoshifusa Yamane "Stand for the World"
Yoshifusa Yamane's new work "stand for the world" is an installation that consists of books, video projection, and photos, and is based on his project in which he stacks books. His project is conducted (...)
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Kotaro Matsui "anon. diary"
Kotaro Matsui's exhibition, "anon. diary," is an installation predominantly composed of photos and drawings, which are combined with objects. At first glance, his drawings look as if nothing has been depicted. (...)
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Takeshi Fujimura "With a Light, Across the Water"
Takeshi Fujimura's new work, "With a Light, Across the Water," is an installation composed of photos and texts. Though each photo can be seen as a part of a sequence of scenes, each also looks like an (...)
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Migakikko Exhibition
Migakikko is the name of an artistic unit of members Takayuki Yamamoto, who has shown his work in the exhibition "All About Laughter" (Mori Art Museum, 2007), and Naohiro Deguchi, who runs an alternative (...)
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"Depositors Meeting in Almanac 06" Event
The 6th "Almanac" event will be held at Art & River Bank. The "Depositors Meeting" is where artists and curators present their portfolios to exchange ideas and also to discover new talents. During (...)
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"Screaming Video Screening 2" Exhibition
In this second video screening exhibition at Art & River Bank, video works by seven national and international artists are on view. Works by Portuguese artists, Joao Tabarra and Miguel Palma are (...)
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Isamu Morisawa + Ken Morisawa "Morisawa Photo Shop"
This exhibition is by two artists named Morisawa -- Isamu Morisawa who opened a photo laboratory in a shopping arcade in Kyu-Karuizawa over 60 years ago, and Ken Morisawa who was awarded for his underwater (...)
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Yasuyuki Komatsu "Caterpillar Nagisa"
The new works by Yasuyuki Komatsu in this exhibition consist of an unique video documentation of a group performance. He creates a video installation which invites viewers to his world. The surrounding (...)
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"Thinking about dog's death 6" Exhibition
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Masaharu Hata "Journey to the End of the Night"
Similar to his past works, Masaharu Hatta's new works, which were created under the same title as Louis F. Celine's debut novel "Voyage au bout la nuit," are enveloped within stories that possess a sense (...)
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Motohiro Tomii "How to Make the World"
Motohiro Tomii's "How to Make the World" is an ambitious installation that allows viewers to review his past works, while also exploring the next stage of his work. Tomii has continuously created works (...)
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Yukiko Tasaki "Eight Invisible Stories"
Yukiko Tasaki's solo exhibition, "eight invisible stories", is a video project consisting of monologues by eight people who all work in different fields. The eight people are either Japanese or English; (...)
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Yoko Hayakawa "Low Altitude Flying of a Little Bird"
Yoko Hayakawa's new work consists of a wall drawing installation. Tinted silhouettes of plants and animals drawn onto circular glass plates overlap with the lines of mountain ridges drawn directly on the (...)
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Yamane Hidefusa "You are out of you"
This is an installation centered around Hidefusa Yamane's newest photography work, 'you are out of you'. At first glance, the light blue image looks like it has been stretched sideways, but it has actually (...)
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Hirofumi Katayama "Vectorscapes"
The works on display in this exhibition are the first new "vectorscape" works that Katayama has made in three years. The photographs are sceneries that are at first shot with a large format camera, and (...)
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Yoko Oyama "She, Sheep"
Opening reception: November 11th, 17:00-
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Juka Izusawa "Forest of Silence"
Installations of paintings and drawings drawn on fabrics, paper, boxes and plates Opening party: October 14th, 17:00-
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Tomoaki Maruhashi "Sketch Show"
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Alternative Rooms
Recently, so-called 'alternative' spaces and projects have been growing in number. Alternative spaces started in the United States in the 70s to showcase works that weren't considered suitable for existing (...)
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"Being In Right Places"
Fujimura Takeshi's first solo exhibition consists of an installation that is predominantly composed of photography, but also utilizes voices, words and film. At first glance, the photos that form the (...)
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Kazutaka Yoshida "There's Definitely Something There"
An installation exhibition composed out of actions and various other elements. One's first impression of this show - which includes the merging of words and image pixels, podcasting, and physical realisations (...)
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Masashi Okamoto "I will forget"
Masashi Okamoto's most recent work, entitled "I will forget," is an installation consisting of books of photo catalogues, bound in colorful covers that might remind one of children's picture books. Each (...)
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Susumu Harada Exhibition "Window Scape - Politics"
In his previous works, Harada pointed out problems inherent to the mass media entrenched in our society. He undertook this through the use of seemingly incoherent images on a TV monitor, including football (...)
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Kenichi Kohgo Exhibition "Within 10 km of Mine"
"within 10km of mine" by Kenichi Kohgo are pictures slightly modified with computer graphics. Those images are daily life scenes that have been modified to question notions of honesty, reality etc... Kohgo's (...)
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Koichi Kuroda Exhibition "Ballistics"
Koichi Kuroda's first solo exhibition "ballistics" features a series of photographs that follow the track of bullets as they shoot through the sky at night.
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Shinji Koizumi Exhibition "Travis being lighted"
Shinji Koizumi's newest work is an installation centered on images taken with original filming techniques. His visuals are focused on the projection window that stands between a projector and a film screen. (...)
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Yasuto Masumoto "All Notes On"
"All Notes On" is the new installation exhibition by Yasuto Masumoto. This installation consists of a variety of items such as images, photographs and drawings, and that seem to be just an ordinary bunch (...)
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Thinking About Dog's Death 4
Even the cheapest suspense novels reveal how the victim died. Some might say that this is a moral duty. Yet there are so many people whose death conditions were never fully explained or known. Please (...)
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A Book Reader
This recent art work by Kim Seonyoung is an installation composed of video, photos, text and other media. By presenting her work in several languages such as Korean, Japanese, English and French, she tries (...)
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Yoko Matsuyama - Her Three Holes
Unique motion and 3D installation involving the gallery space itself. While the title of the show, "Her Three Holes", evokes a sexual image, one maybe surprised by the straightforward interpretation of (...)
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Cover
"Cover", the latest series by photographer Eiji Ina, features urban buildings undergoing renovation. Like the works of Christo, these structures are wrapped in sheets, panels, and scaffolding. "Cover"ed (...)
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Tomoko Fukushi "Phenomenology of Closeness"
The unique works from Tomoko Fukushi's exhibition "Phenomenology of Closeness" combine her two dimensional works with manga. The two dimensional works are pallid and abstract, with concrete shapes coming (...)
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flaws in the flow
These new works by Yajima are all in a long horizontal format, capturing the tension and detail of nature. opening reception 3.26 17:00 -
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reading water
Installation exhibition of video, drawing and photography works by Chika Kato.
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Site-Seeing
On display are works by 3 artists who have been approaching photography in a new way. This show coincides with the Site Graphics Exhibition at Kawasaki City Museum.
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almanac 3: depositors meeting
art & river bank will host our 3rd year-end event, "almanac". Various "files" created by users, curators and critics will be on display for visitors to browse through and look back at the year.
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do fim ao fim
This show was originally planned to be exhibited at Casa da Monica, an alternative art space in Lisbon, Portugal. As it was cancelled there, it was decided to hold the show here in Tokyo.
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Yoko Hayakawa: Facing North
In this new works titled Facing North, the artist Yoko Hayakawa experiments with collecting the motifs, which had been addressed individually, into one space and have them reflect each other.
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Masaharu Hatta: Other Voices, Other Rooms
The new works by Masaharu Hatta has borrowed its title from Truman Capote's novel and it shares the mysterious mood with Hatta's previous work. At first glance, these portraits, landscapes and snap shots (...)
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Hinterland
A collection of photographs mostly of tourist spots. These images may give viewers a bit of uneasiness: all the people in the photos are slightly out of focus. Within the traditional compositions, people (...)





