Gallery ef - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Gallery ef. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
Paule Saviano "FROM ABOVE：DRESDEN／TOKYO"
[6][0]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2011-02-04 - 2011-02-27
This exhibition by American photographer Paule Saviano showcases a series of portraits depicting 11 victims of the firebombing in Dresden and 6 victims of the Tokyo air raids during WWII. These photos...More »
Hidetoshi Yamada "Home Made"
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Other - Art Party
- 2010-10-29 - 2010-11-28
More than 80 works will be shown in "Home Made", including the works 1999 - the latest in 2010.Hidetoshi Yamada's art works for "Home Made" harmonize will harmonize in whole traditional gallery and cafe...More »
"Voices From Above Hiroshima" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2010-10-02 - 2010-10-03
Photography project focusing on the work of American photographer Paule Saviano. An exhibition to be held concurrently in both Asakusa and Dresden is slated for 2011.More »
Cherry Typhoon "Scare! Crow"
[0][0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2010-05-22 - 2010-05-22
Burlesque show based on the story of a scroll discovered in an old warehouse. 15:00-, 19:30- Capacity: 20 per session Reservation required.More »
Orie Endo + Yuca "NüShu: Art x Academia Crossover"
[11][0]- Media: Installation
- 2010-03-26 - 2010-05-09
Gallery éf presents a site-specific show on NüShu, a unique collaboration between an artist and an academic. NüShu is an original script that was created and used only by women in a region of Hunan...More »
"3.10 Words from 100,000 People"
[0][0]- Media: Digital - Performance Art
- 2010-03-09 - 2010-03-10
"3.10 Words from 100,000 People" is a dance performance and sound collage that has been staged every year since 2005 on the same date. The title is a reference to March 10th, 1945, when eastern Tokyo was...More »
Takeshi Kanno "Alocasia Odora"
[1][0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2010-02-19 - 2010-02-28
Alocasia Odora is the name of one of Kanno's models, as well as the name of an ornamental house plant. This long-awaited solo exhibition by Kanno features a sculptural installation inspired by the form...More »
J.P. Hol "Gay Squirrel and the Tail/Tale of the Cat on the Moon"
[2][0]- Media: Installation - Film
- 2009-10-16 - 2009-11-08
Artist Johan Peter Hol portrays a world full of closets, attics and boxes full of furry animals, animated cardboard scenes, armies of mice and disquieting drawings. Like a dusty playroom full of abandoned...More »
Arigatou/TENKI "Dream of the Tides"
[4][0]- Media: Photography - Installation
- 2009-09-18 - 2009-10-04
Arigatou is a group of designers made up of Butoh dancer Nobuyoshi Asai, photographer Kenta Arai and designer Maya Umeya. Their virgin project "Dream of the Tides" is a photographic documentation of Asai's...More »
Tyler Starr "Wallowing Series"
[1][1]- Media: Drawing - Other - Art Party
- 2009-08-07 - 2009-08-30
The work of American artist Tyler Starr, born in 1974, explores symbolic scenes from the 1960s and 70s, offering a view analogous to that in the rearview mirror of a car - images of police and unruly crowds,...More »
Paule Saviano "From Above"
[13][5]- Media: Photography - Art Party
- 2009-03-13 - 2009-04-12
American photographer Paule Saviano releases his newest series that portrays atomic bomb survivors from Nagasaki and air raid survivors from Tokyo. These images reflect how these people steeled themselves...More »
"3.10 - Words from 100,000 People" Dance Performance
[0][0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2009-03-09 - 2009-03-10
In the early morning of March 10th, 1945, eastern Tokyo was heavily bombed by the US air force. More than 100,000 people were killed that morning, with most of the victims being elderly people, women and...More »
"Mitsuo － Out of his four scrapbooks" Exhibition
[12][1]- Media: Photography
- 2009-01-01 - 2009-02-28
In the summer of 2006, four old scrapbooks were discovered at the house of a long-established family in Tokyo. The books contained a veritable treasure trove of film negatives and prints. The person who...More »
Taku Anekawa Exhibition vol. 2
[4][1]- Media: Other - Installation
- 2008-10-31 - 2008-11-30
Taku Anekawa is an artist who continually works with thread as a material and theme. He draws graphics onto canvases and then sews thread in an instinctive manner onto them, winning high accolades for...More »
Kakushin Tomoyoshi "Hanaichikan"
[0][0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2008-10-18 - 2008-10-18
This is the 7th year and the 6th time that the "Biwa Kyoen" performance series is being held. Biwa (Japanese lute) master Kakushin Tomoyoshi will present a performance exploring the possibilities of this...More »
Taku Anekawa Exhibition
[6][0]- Media: Other - Installation
- 2008-09-26 - 2008-10-13
Taku Anekawa is an artist who works with thread, making drawings or silkscreening graphics onto a canvas, and then sewing thread onto them. Anekawa's sewing method is different from that used in regular...More »
Kin Taii "Sky, Earth and Mankind"
[5][1]- Media: Video installation
- 2008-08-08 - 2008-08-31
Kin Taii is a Chinese-born artist whose work expresses the inner world of humans and a sense of sympathy with nature through the artistic media of music, video art, drawing, and spatial installation. In...More »
Yuji Nishijima "An Indication of Existence"
[0][0]- Media: Sculpture - Art Party
- 2008-07-04 - 2008-07-21
Yuji Nishijima is a sculptor in search of his own notion of the medium, creating works using materials such as iron, concrete and wire. His interest lies not only in the works themselves, but also with...More »
Takanori Ishii "Edirne"
[5][2]- Media: Photography - Art Party
- 2008-05-29 - 2008-06-16
Takanori Ishii has been photographing portraits of the Turkish national sport "Yagli Guresler" (Turkish oil wrestling) over the past four years. A compilation of these images of proud wrestlers will be...More »
Elisabeth Kopf "Air Cigarette Tokyo Ideal"
[3][0]- Media: Graphics - Art Party
- 2008-04-25 - 2008-05-19
This is the first solo exhibition in Japan by Elisabeth Kopf, an illustrious Austrian graphic designer based in Vienna. She was selected to become a member of the prestigious AGI (International Association...More »
Tsurushin Tomoyoshi "Encounter with the world of Biwa (Japanese lute)"
[0][0]- Media: Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2008-04-19 - 2008-04-19
Gallery ef in Asakusa, Tokyo presents a satsuma biwa (Japanese lute) concert and speech by Tsurushin Tomoyoshi. Date and time: April 19th (Sat) 15:00- and 19:00- Fee: ¥5000 Limited to around 25...More »
Risa Fukui "KI RI GA"
[4][0]- Media: Other - Film
- 2008-03-14 - 2008-04-13
This artist was born in Shizuoka in 1975. She graduated from the Graphic Design Department of Tama Art University in 1999, and has received the JACA Japan Visual Art Exhibition Award. She is known for...More »
"3.10 100,000 People's Words" Dance Performance
[0][0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2008-03-09 - 2008-03-10
In the early morning of March 10th, 1945, eastern Tokyo was heavily bombed by the US air force. More than 100,000 people were killed that morning, with most of the victims being elderly, women, and children. Artist...More »
Thomas Bohle "Chibi-Toh"
[2][1]- Media: Ceramics - Art Party
- 2008-01-01 - 2008-01-21
The Austrian ceramist Thomas Bohle works in Dornbirn, located in the Alpine Rhine Valley of Austria. Originally a trained nurse, he switched careers in his thirties and did not take long to establish his...More »
Ian Jehle "Here's to You"
[6][1]- Media: Drawing - Art Party
- 2007-11-09 - 2007-11-26
Ian Jehle presents "Here's to You," an exhibition of contemporary portrait drawings which trace the influences that led the artist to Japan. The exhibition begins with two large drawings of Donald Richie,...More »
J. P. Hol "Forgotten"
[5][0]- Media: Other - Sculpture - Film - Art Party
- 2007-10-17 - 2007-11-04
Dutch artist J.P. Hol studied mass media in the Netherlands, then moved to Milan, Italy to study decoration and begin activities as an international artist. Hol's world is full of fairy tales presented...More »
Kakushin Tomoyoshi "Hana Ichi Kan"
[0][0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2007-10-11 - 2007-10-13
The series "New Classics" introduces works that biwa (Japanese lute) musician Kakushin Tomoyoshi has written in collaboration with Osamu Hashimoto. In this third performance Kakushin Tomoyoshi will perform...More »
Ryo Yamashita "Kyouka"
[5][1]- Media: Product - Crafts - Art Party
- 2007-09-14 - 2007-10-08
Ryo Yamashita is one of the rare glasses artists who creates from the design stage to the cast stage, using wrought metal techniques. After learning the techniques at a historic glasses studio, he established...More »
Joelle Bitton "Abstract"
[14][0]- Media: Installation - Video installation - Art Party
- 2007-08-03 - 2007-09-02
Joelle Bitton is a French artist creating interactive installation works with digital media. Even though she uses advanced technologies, she created her works and events with themes of organic communication...More »
Josef Bernhardt "House of Birds"
[7][0]- Media: Installation
- 2007-07-06 - 2007-07-16
Austrian artist Josef Bernhardt uses photography, video and performance to highlight the fragile border between life and death. His photographic work consists of records of bird's habits and the bodies...More »
Paule Saviano "Striptease Burlesque"
[29][14]- Media: Photography - Art Party - Performance Art
- 2007-06-01 - 2007-06-24
Burlesque is a popular performance that was born in the United States in the late 19th century when massive wave of immigration from Europe came to the country. In the country, where diverse cultural ethnicities...More »
"Alzheimer Cafe" Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2007-04-29 - 2007-05-20
Japan has become an aging society with 15% of its population over 65 years old. Alzheimer's Disease is one of the problems that Japan will face from hereon. This disease, which affects both memory and...More »
Adam Booth "Eternal Spring"
[14][6]- Media: Painting
- 2007-03-16 - 2007-04-15
Tokyo-based British artist Adam Booth will exhibit his newly painted works at Gallery ef in Asakusa this Spring, which is a particularly special time during which the Japanese appreciate the scenery of...More »
Performance "3.10 - The words of 100,000 people"
[0][1]- Media: Performance Art
- 2007-03-10 - 2007-03-10
In the early morning of March 10th, 1945, eastern Tokyo was heavily bombed by the US air force. More than 100,000 people were killed that morning, with most of victims being elderly, women, and children. Not...More »
"Mitsuo − Out of his four scrapbooks"
[9][2]- Media: Photography
- 2007-02-01 - 2007-02-18
In the summer of 2006, four old scrapbooks were discovered at the house of a long-established family in Tokyo. The books contained substantial numbers of negative films and prints. The person who took...More »
Koji Ohno "The Revelation"
[2][0]- Media: Sculpture - Art Party
- 2006-10-27 - 2006-11-26
Kouji Ohno distinguished himself as a wooden sculptor while an art student at Tama Art University. After the graduate course he began serious activity as an artist, holding solo exhibitions almost every...More »
Seiwa Hada "Emptiness"
[2][0]- Media: Crafts
- 2006-09-29 - 2006-10-22
Seiwa Hada's work is all made of tin. After having graduated from university with a major in ceramics, he a variety of different traditional crafts fields so as to find his artistic direction and found...More »
Leonardo Pellegatta with ROUROU "Indefinite Path"
[8][0]- Media: Photography - Fashion
- 2006-09-14 - 2006-09-24
The body of photographs "Indefinite Path" is a journey through a real landscape. The journey is unsure, unconscious, lasting for an unknown length of time; it has no preconceived direction or goals, but...More »
Yasuhiro Otani "Sweet Color of Sound"
[2][0]- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2006-07-28 - 2006-09-03
Three live performances by Yasuhiro Itani and a special guest will be held during this period. Opening at 19:30 (¥3000 including 1 drink). Limited seats/ Reservations required 2006-08-03 (Thu) Yoko...More »
Manabu Kikuchi "Rust Colored Kimono"
[5][2]- Media: Fashion - Crafts
- 2006-06-16 - 2006-07-17
Manabu Kikuchi has been a main textile designer for the Issey Miyake Men line since 1988. In his continued development of new materials and fibers as a textile designer, he created 'sabizome', the rust...More »
Toshi Ota & Keeda Oikawa "Le Pittoresque au Japon" with Store house 2006
[6][1]- Media: Painting - Photography
- 2006-04-28 - 2006-06-04
Photographer Toshi Ota and painter Keeda Oikawa started the collaboration work series "Le Pittoresque au Japon" in 2002. Both artists, well regarded in their respective fields, inspire each other and create...More »
Hidetoshi Yamada "Breath"
[1][0]- Media: Drawing
- 2006-03-24 - 2006-04-17
Hidetoshi Yamada started working as an artist for the Ozone Community in 1991 and following a series of solo exhibitions with them, in 1999 he moved to England. There, he developed his creative activities,...More »
Pink
[7][2]- Media: Painting - Photography - Crafts
- 2006-01-01 - 2006-02-05
What does "Eros" mean anyway? Is it an emotional impulse? Perhaps a point of inspiration? An impetus for creativity? For this exhibition, two artists - one oriental and one occidental - will give us hints...More »
Kin Taii Video Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Video installation
- 2005-11-02 - 2005-11-27
Kin Taii and Project Tao have started a project that will go from Tokyo to Mount Fuji, from November 2005 till February 2006. It will include four exhibitions in Tokyo and Shizuoka featuring videos, music,...More »
Susan Pietzsch - Kostbarkeiten - kakegai no nai mono
[40][2]- Media: Fashion - Crafts
- 2005-09-22 - 2005-10-16
In the exhibition of the German artist Susan Pietzsch there is a reference to its specific spatial circumstances. The gallery space is situated in a former warehouse (called "KURA" in Japanese). This space...More »
Tohru Ukai
[1][3]- Media: Photography
- 2005-08-05 - 2005-08-28
Alexandre Imai
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2005-06-10 - 2005-06-26
Kenji Kobayashi - Where Thought Meets Form
[0][0]- Media: Sculpture - Crafts - Art Talk
- 2005-05-11 - 2005-06-05
Gallery ef 8th anniversary exhibition. In conjuction with the artist's lectures on May 14 and June 5, the first floor of the gallery will exhibit a wide-ranging selection of works by Kenji Kobayashi; his...More »
Reciprocity
[0][0]- Media: Drawing - Other - Performance Art
- 2005-04-01 - 2005-04-17
Austrian artist Heimo Wallner and his experimental music unit "FUGU and the Cosmic Mumu (FCM)" present music improvisation performances collaborating with various artists and musicians, in his exhibition...More »
Reciprocity Opening Party
[0][0]- Media: Drawing - Art Party - Performance Art
- 2005-03-31 - 2005-03-31
Fugu and the Cosmic Mumu (FCM) concert and screening of “Menudo” and “MaoTse Tung” (animation films) Special guest: Haco (musician) Outfits: Chika Sai (SQUNABICONA)More »
