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Encounter / Shift / Create-2025 International Exchange Program Dispatch Report Exhibition
Site-A gallery and shop
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Luna Shawa Ota, Shinobu Soejima, Ziu Suh, Shusuke Nishimatsu, Jun Honma, Shun Fujimaki, Yuri Miauchi, Mio Mino
As part of its international exchange programs, the Koganecho Area Management Center has sent artists each year to partner institutions across Asia. In recent years, the scope of this program has expanded beyond current residency participants to include both domestic and international artists who have previously been connected to Koganecho. In the current fiscal year, eight artists were dispatched through the Koganecho AIR program to Indonesia, China, South Korea, and Taiwan.
For artists, spending several months working in a new environment often changes the way they perceive the world, through the friction between what they have cultivated over time and unfamiliar surroundings. Anxiety and loneliness at the beginning of a stay, new encounters, and shifts in human relationships—amid these daily fluctuations, artists must continue creating.
Residency-based production is both an opportunity and a risk. Environments and relationships can strongly influence the direction of an artist’s work, sometimes requiring significant changes to initial plans. Moreover, such projects involve many invisible elements, including collaboration with local communities and institutions, and the building of trust.
This exhibition presents works created during these residencies, works-in-progress, pieces that developed further as part of the same series after the artists’ return, as well as documentation of their stays.
In addition, two talk events will be held during the exhibition period, offering deeper reflections on the experiences and challenges of producing work abroad. Through these events, we hope to share the complexity and richness of creating art overseas—elements that cannot be fully conveyed through artworks alone.
For artists, spending several months working in a new environment often changes the way they perceive the world, through the friction between what they have cultivated over time and unfamiliar surroundings. Anxiety and loneliness at the beginning of a stay, new encounters, and shifts in human relationships—amid these daily fluctuations, artists must continue creating.
Residency-based production is both an opportunity and a risk. Environments and relationships can strongly influence the direction of an artist’s work, sometimes requiring significant changes to initial plans. Moreover, such projects involve many invisible elements, including collaboration with local communities and institutions, and the building of trust.
This exhibition presents works created during these residencies, works-in-progress, pieces that developed further as part of the same series after the artists’ return, as well as documentation of their stays.
In addition, two talk events will be held during the exhibition period, offering deeper reflections on the experiences and challenges of producing work abroad. Through these events, we hope to share the complexity and richness of creating art overseas—elements that cannot be fully conveyed through artworks alone.
Schedule | Feb 20 (Fri) 2026-Mar 8 (Sun) 2026 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://koganecho.net/event/260220_exchange | ||||
| Venue | Site-A gallery and shop http://www.koganecho.net/ | ||||
| Location | 1-6 Kogane-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 231-0054 | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from Koganecho Station on the Keikyu line, 6 minute walk from exit 3A at Bando-bashi Station on the Blue line. | ||||
| Phone | 045-261-5467 | ||||
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