KAB Events - Foil Gallery

Foil Gallery - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for Foil Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

Koh Hasebe “Rock Stars will Always Love Japan”
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- Media: Photography
- 2016-01-15 - 2016-02-14
Following up from his show in January, Foil Gallery presents Part 2 of top rock photographer Koh Hasebe’s photography series, under the title “Rock Stars will Always Love Japan.” Over two hundred carefully...More »
Shunsuke Mizukami “Heroes”
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- Media: Photography
- 2015-12-19 - 2016-01-10
Presenting Shunsuke Mizukami’s photographs of Komazawa University’s track and field team on special match occasions as well as in their everyday lives. Through Muzukami’s photography, the pure charisma...More »
Cecilia Corzo + Nikka “Sweet Universe”
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- Media: Photography
- 2015-10-09 - 2015-10-31
Contemporary civilisation has stopped looking up at the messages from the universe. There are children from this era that have never seen a starry night sky. The earliest civilizations observed the heavens...More »
Robert Wallace “Under the Influence”
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- Media: Painting
- 2015-08-01 - 2015-08-16
The English fashion designer Paul Smith once said “you can find inspiration in everything.” Indeed the world around us not only inspires us, but shapes who we are as individuals. Our environment, from...More »
Elly Omiya “Emotional Journey”
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- Media: Video and Film - Media Arts
- 2015-06-16 - 2015-07-20
Working across a broad range of fields as a film director, moving image director, producer, script writer, copywriter, artist and radio personality, Elly Omiya presents her first solo show in Kansai.More »
Touch
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- Media: Photography - Video and Film
- 2015-05-15 - 2015-06-07
Yoshihiro Mitsumori, a hair stylist turned photographer who formed creative group “Otaku,” is presenting various projects such as photographs, film work and words by Otaku.More »
Nobuto Okasabe “Fireworks”
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- Media: Photography - Party
- 2015-04-11 - 2015-05-03
Each firework has its own unique expression. Some are like living things, some are like sleek designs. In these works, photographer Nobuto Okasabe associates them with outerspace, highlighting contrasts...More »
Kyoji Takahashi “Frozen Images”
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- Media: Photography - Party
- 2015-03-07 - 2015-03-29
Kyoji Takahashi has abstracted images from short movies, enlarging them to sizes of 1x1.5 meters. Urban times and spaces pervade these incidentally created new works, inviting the viewer into strange worlds...More »
Bread By My Pillow
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- Media: Illustration - Drawing
- 2015-02-07 - 2015-03-01
Illustrations by Akiko Ando and drawings by Yuki Otani inspired by a fictional diary written by Yumiko Kikuchi have been combined to create a new edition incorporating the works of all of the artists....More »
Yuko Kanatani “Yxicooo”
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- Media: Illustration - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2015-01-10 - 2015-02-01
An exhibition of sketches, illustrations, and 3D works by Yuko Kanatani.More »
Motosuke Kashiwabara + Yayoi Deki “Pandy & Miko”
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- Media: Photography - Illustration
- 2014-12-12 - 2014-12-26
A rerun of the popular photography exhibition to celebrate the Chihuahua couple “Pandy & Miko” in October. [Related Event] X’mas Live with Wano and Pika☆ Date: Dec.20 (Sat) From 19:00 Location:...More »
Kentaro Kobuke “Generation”
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- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2014-11-08 - 2014-11-30
A painting and installation exhibition from London based Japanese artist Kentaro Kobuke.More »
Motosuke Kashiwabara + Yayoi Deki “Pandy & Miko”
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- Media: Photography - Illustration
- 2014-10-10 - 2014-11-03
A photography exhibition to celebrate the Chihuahua couple “Pandy & Miko”.More »
Shoujou Ooido “Aru”
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- Media: Painting - Party
- 2014-09-19 - 2014-10-05
Shoujou Ooido started drawing seriously after seeing the ancient Japanese cedar trees that still grow on Yakushima Island. He has drawn fragments of nature such as trees, animals, and fungi ever since....More »
Ryoji Arai “That’s Life”
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- Media: Painting - Party - Performance Art
- 2014-07-12 - 2014-08-17
Ryoji Arai’s picture book “Inochi Damon” (That’s Life) takes readers on a journey noticing of the important things that can easily go overlooked in everyday life. This exhibition focuses on new works,...More »
Chie Gyouji “Clothes for the Home”
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- Media: Fashion
- 2014-06-26 - 2014-07-05
Chie Gyouji, who has loved sewing since she could remember, embraces a “do-it-yourself” attitude and spends her weekends with the sewing machine, dressmaking for friends and family. The exhibited casual...More »
Foil Award in Kyoto Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Illustration - Painting - Party
- 2014-05-17 - 2014-06-22
Foil Gallery launched the Foil Award in Kyoto in 2013 to give young artists a platform for their work. Judged by Yoshitomo Nara and Foil’s Masakasu Takei, the contest solicits portfolios of ten B4-size...More »
Masako Suzuki “Sunrise”
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- Media: Painting
- 2014-04-19 - 2014-05-11
Since giving birth to her child Suzuki’s life has been completely transformed and this transformation is apparent in her work. As if observing small cells through a microscope, Suzuki’s work is delicately...More »
Edward R. York “AmerWrecka”
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- Media: Photography - Party
- 2014-03-21 - 2014-04-13
With the likes of John Lee Hooker, Henry Rollins(Black Flag), Mike Ness(Social Distortion), Laurie Anderson, Smashing Pumpkins and Allen Ginsberg, Edward R. York has continued to document the underground...More »
Shoin Kajii “Nami”
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- Media: Photography - Talks
- 2014-02-21 - 2014-03-15
Commemorating 10 years since the release of his photography book “Nami”, winner of the 1st Foil Awards in 2004, and coinciding with the release of Toyoko Yamazaki’s “Yakusoku no Umi” with his work appearing...More »
Naze “Go Outside”
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- Media: Drawing - Installation - Party
- 2013-11-02 - 2013-12-01
Mostly new works, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, and installation art, asking “Why?”, the question we are always posing to ourselves and to the world. More »
Seiji Shibuya + Masafumi Sanai “Thee Michelle Gun Elephant: TMGE Kyoto Riot! 1996-2003”
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- 2013-09-20 - 2013-10-11
A collaboration show by photographers Seiji Shibuya and Masafumi Sanai, who followed the influential band, “Thee Michelle Gun Elephant,” on their final tour. The exhibition is to commemorate the release...More »
Mel Stringer + Yeung Hok Tak “Mel Tak”
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Party - Talks
- 2013-08-16 - 2013-09-08
Exhibition of two illustrators: Australian artist Mel Stringer, whose works center around cutesy depictions of young girls, and Hong Kong-born Yeung Hok Tak whose cartoonish drawings and paintings are...More »
Liu Xia “The Silent Strength of Liu Xia”
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- Media: Photography
- 2013-05-24 - 2013-06-23
An opportunity to see the works of prominent Chinese artist Liu Xia who has been under house arrest since her husband Liu Xiaobo was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Liu Xia’s monochrome photographs...More »