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padGALLERY was founded in 2014 and is located in the center area of Osaka, the second largest city in Japan. The gallery is organized by a certain members of the veteran and emerging artists, holding each one's solo exhibition and some special exhibitions every month.
padGALLERY's aim is to make enough opportunities that more people can enjoy art in their daily lives. In addition to the regular exhibitions, we organize art-related events weekly in the gallery, such as live painting shows with music lives, parties with decoration by artists, and artist talks.
At the same time, our mission is to promote the belonging-artists' works domestically and internationally. Not only participating in international exhibitions and art fairs, some artists often have their live painting tour outside Japan. One of the padGALLERY's characteristics is its wide-ranging fields of speciality. The belonging artists are all professional for each genre; some of them are contemporary artists, others are live painters, photographers, cartoonists, and so on. We believe that this extensive speciality makes the gallery more powerful and attractive as a place where people can enjoy various and highly qualified art.

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One of the most highly regarded art collectors in Japan during the post-World War II period was Takayuki Masaki (1895-1985). His collection, which he accumulated in just one generation, consists of approximately 1,300 objects, including three Japanese National Treasures, and thirteen Important Cultural Properties. In 1968, the Masaki Art Museum was established in Osaka in order to exhibit his collection and make it available for research.
Many of the highly regarded pieces of the Masaki Collection are ink paintings and calligraphy. And this collection also includes a very highly regarded collection of aesthetic objects related to tea ceremony, including the Imperial Cultural Property, “Portrait of Sen-no-Rikyu.”

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The institution, inaugurated in November 1987, accommodates and exhibits the initial director Teiichi Yuki's assortment of tea utensils. This collection encompasses 13 Important Cultural Properties and 3 Important Art Objects, predominantly spanning from the Nara to the Edo periods.

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The Yamanaka Suplex annex “MINE” is a project space that serves as a site for realizing individual ideas. Yamanaka Suplex will be running the space on a long-term basis, from the inaugural event in December until the end of the contract. Various creators from Japan and abroad—including Osaka—will be invited, creating works of art, gradually changing the state of the rooms while the works remain. By organizing various programs in each room, such as special exhibitions, theater performances, and food gathering events, a space without genres will be created where people can stay and make new connections. 
The annex building “MINE,” a vacant house that formerly lay dormant, is a space for practice; it is a new base for cultural transmission, functioning as a space for community interaction. Whether generating positive ideas or producing the next generation of creators, we will produce new energy in Osaka by expanding efforts to create culture from within the local community. 

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Offering fantastic views from the 27th floor of the Umeda Sky Building, the state-of-the-art Koji Kinutani Tenku Art Museum has been eagerly anticipated by art lovers everywhere. It incorporates the world's first attempt at allowing the viewer to delve into the artwork through the use of 3D visuals in addition to numerous fresco and mixed-media paintings and sculptures. The museum also boasts a playful workshop and atelier space, and also features a relaxing café. We welcome visitors from all around the world and invite them to experience the enchanting world of Kinutani’s art.
It incorporates the world's first attempt at allowing the viewer to delve into the artwork through the use of 3D visuals in addition to numerous fresco and mixed-media paintings and sculptures. The museum also boasts a playful workshop and atelier space, and also features a relaxing café. We welcome visitors from all around the world and invite them to experience the enchanting world of Kinutani’s art.

Our gallery was founded as a commercial gallery in 2020. We aim to find a sense of beauty that is hidden like a point among things that may seem unrelated at first glance in various fields, connect those points through exhibitions to create lines, and conduct experiments to make them three-dimensional, aiming to create a space that functions across time and space. We hope that what artists express in response to the living era and society resonates with someone somewhere, transcending culture, country, and time, and that the body of works created by the artist for that person will be a perceptual reference book for unraveling the era and society in which the artist lived. At times, we operate the gallery with the conviction that they become milestones, footsteps, and those that till the world. We believe that an environment is necessary for artists to continue their expression activities endlessly. We believe that this environment is created by various factors, including the chemical reactions of the people involved, such as gallery owners, curators, critics, collectors, and future individuals. Our gallery aims to function as an entity that promotes such fermentation based on these ideas.
Specifically, under the concept of cross-bordering fields that transcend culture, country, and time, our gallery participates in art fairs such as Art Taipei and Art Freeze with artists who are looking to the future, regardless of whether they are young or middle-aged, on the world stage. In Japan, we have a location in Shinsaibashi to cultivate a soil that is sensitive to art across generations and construct exhibitions. Through direct dialogue with viewers at the site, we convey the artist's ideas and their relationship with current society, and we also build relationships with residences and dispatch artists to expand the peripheral areas of art.

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