Kunst Arzt - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Kunst Arzt. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Haruka Niwa “Makes Me High”
Neither abstract nor figurative, Haruka Niwa’s paintings embody a strength and originality, expressing what lies in the innermost depths of the human heart.More »
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Megumi Kishida “Thinking Glasses”
Megumi Kishida embroiders glasses frames with colorful thread that incorporate sensitive impressions and emotions from her daily life. This exhibition shows new developments in her work.More »
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Mina Kinoshita “Yard Sale in the Pot”
Pop-inspired designs by Mina Kinoshita.More »
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Mone Tanifuji “Pieces”
Mone Tanifuji presents her original transparent fashion art pieces.More »
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Tomoko Arakawa “Blithe Spirit”
Presenting Tomoko Arakawa’s mysterious, somehow spiritual sculptures made with hair.More »
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VvK20 “Warhol Art”
A group exhibition of works inspired by Andy Warhol.More »
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Ayako Matsumura “Tweet”
Ayako Matsumura uses the tapestry weaving technique of “tsuzure-ori” to create “flesh / second skin”, the effect of which is similar to thickly applied oil paint on a canvas. She uses SNS sites such as...More »
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HakanaSHI “Mu Neutral”
These new works by the fabric sculpture artist HakanaSHI focus on sexual coding implicitly pushed by society. More »
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Hisayo Yamamoto “Dogu is Me”
This is the first solo exhibition for Hisayo Yamamoto in Kyoto. Self-portraits based on Jomon period dogu or earthen figure motifs are on display. The installation has been configured with performances,...More »
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Hyottoko Suzuki “My Arbitrary Festival Day”
A solo show by Hyottoko Suzuki, an artist based in Miyazaki researching ancient Shinto music and dancing. Under the theme of festivals, Hyottoko Suzuki playfully merges traditional and contemporary cultures....More »
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Kanae Shimura “Now You Can Be Happy”
Troubled by modern society, Kanae Shimura conveys our inner turmoils with her pop illustrations.More »
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Preposterous Creations Laboratory in Kyoto
An energetic, humorous Gendai Bijyutsu 2touhey curation consisting of works by Keiko Otsuhata, artist unit Gendaibijutsu2touhey, and ZariganiWorks.More »
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Aoi Hayashi ” Traces of Voice”
The voice evokes the past and traces the time. Aoi Hayashi worked on a stage production in June 2017 and met a text called “Dictee.” “Dictee” was written by an artist, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Born in South...More »
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Takayuki Kiyohuji “Small Bulge”
Presenting Nagoya based artist Takayuki Kiyohuji, with sculptures and installation work that contain a sense of energy and indication of birth, in response to the idea of growth.More »
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Marika Oishi “Suspended Animation”
Considering information data as “suspended animation,” Marika Oishi creates works based on the time that the exhibition duration allows.More »
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Yukari Nakahigashi “Light and Honey”
The oil paintings of Yukari Nakahigashi appeal to the raw senses, focusing on subjects such as the superfluous flesh around her abdomen, blooming flowers on the lakefront, or bottled honey - all of which...More »
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Hana Sawada “Gesture of Rally”
An exhibition by Hana Sawada, an artist who investigates the issues of copy (photographs and printed matter) and noise (unreliable information) through his works.More »
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Chisa Ueno “Sleep at the Same Time in Individual Rooms”
Exhibition of flower drawings by Chisa Ueno who employs subjects from everyday life to represent the physicality of humans and to confront the idea of life and death.More »
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Yukiko Awazu Exhibition
Yukiko Awazu’s hand modeled ceramic expressions are kneaded with a ‘spell’ inside their spiraling straw-rope patterned exteriors, giving life to these inanimate forms.More »
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Atsushi Okabe “Digitize”
A solo painting show by Atsushi Okabe.More »
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Jun Matsuyama Curation Exhibition
A group exhibition curated by Jun Matsuyama.More »
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Natsumi Takasuka “Toothbrush and Ivory, Light, Brown and Pen, Mute”
A solo exhibition by Natsumi Takasuka.More »
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Maho Tokuoka “The LOVE”
Fearing no taboos, Maho Okama works in bold expressions that smirk at the artificiality of society. These pieces on the theme of love pack an entertaining punch. More »
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Mitsuhiro Okamoto Curation “Fukushima Art”
The 17th artist curation exhibition at Kunst Arzt welcomes Mitsuhiro Okamoto’s “Fukushima Art,” with hopes that the idea of loss incurred from the disasters in Fukushima can be let go.More »
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Mitsuho Tsuri “Specimen of Utsuwa”
In her first ever solo exhibition, Mitsuho Tsuri presents original and humorous knitted ceramics that throw into confusion the idea of everyday usable ‘utsuwa’ or container. On show are her unique ‘observation...More »
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Yuna Ueda “Loof”
Yuna Ueda creates original silkscreen prints featuring motifs from everyday life, such as the vivid, minimalist ribbons shown in the works here. The artist will be at the gallery on November 8th and November...More »
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Saki Shimizu “I am. You are”
Saki Shimizu’s cityscape creations made with wire are on show.More »
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Michio Hayase Exhibition
Michio Hayase is a multi-media artist who brandishes a photographer’s perspective to seek out the possibilities and limits of creative representation. More »
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VvK Programm 16 “The Red Car Drive Through the Gallery” Kazuya Nakayama Curation
The 16th VvK is curated by Kazuya Nakayama, Unlike a conventional exhibition, the work on show is the view from the gallery window of Sanjo-Dori street.More »
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Yuriko Iyanaga “Entity - Painting”
Yuriko Iyanaga brings to light a new perspective on the relationship between painting and moving image through her paintings of digital drawings.More »
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Shinji Kanda “How Plastic!”
In his first ever exhibition at Kunst Arzt, Shinji Kanda presents a series of incredibly detailed pen drawings.More »
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Haruna Kamisonoda “The Beauty of the Movement”
Kunst Arzt introduces the work of Haruna Kamisonoda for the first time, with moving image works that document the movement of color through the use of spilled ink in transparent cups and water tanks filled...More »
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Aya Shimamoto “Lucky Charm”
Receiving training in the making of traditional wooden kokeshi dolls in Tohoku, Aya Shimamoto has continued to seek out the roles of these small objects. Shimamoto uses the copper sheets themselves, taking...More »
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Neko Neko Rieko
An exhibition curated by Tomohiro Takagi and Ryoko Kimura, to commemorate the life of painter Rieko Sakurai who passed away in July last year. This show assembles 22 artists who had encounters Reiko during...More »
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Akiko Yamahara “Multilayered”
Akiko Yamahara creates original landscape scenes with light colors and a unique eye for collaging. Her subjects include Demachiyanagi and Arashiyama in Kyoto, as well as places familiar to her. In addition...More »
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Takayuki Kiyofuji “Buds”
Nagoya-based artist Takayuki Kiyofuji presents an exhibition of “growth”, with large organic and seemingly alive pieces that are brought about by an automatic process of creation, without thought of final...More »
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Natsumi Takasuka “Butter, Bangs, Squat, Sleeping, Whiff, Cutting, River”
Natsumi Takasuka employs a technique much like tweeting, rapidly producing artworks based on a fleeting thought or feeling, with ready-made objects that reflect our present consumer society brimming with...More »
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Babarika “Anima”
Babarika uses easily obtainable materials such as plastic and yarn to create spiritual spaces in which “life forms” appear to float. The combination of man-made, transparent plastic and the manufactured...More »
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Ayako Fudamoto Exhibition
Ayako Fudamoto creates fascinating and provocative works that utilise fake food samples to confront social issues regarding food. In this exhibition, Fudamoto draws on her experience working at a Seven...More »
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Akane Saida “Around Me”
Akane Saida draws the everyday in wavy, graffiti-like lines on silkscreens. The rough, abstract forms of her 6.5-meter work “any” from 2014 appears absent-mindedly doodled while on the phone, while “Brutus”...More »
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Eri Kiyama “Khepri”
Artist Eri Kiyami expresses her internal world through photography. Previous series of works titled after Greek and Roman mythology featured the hair of women transformed into butterflies and insects,...More »
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Kanae Shimura Exhibition
Kanae Shimura produces seemingly pop paintings that reveal the complexities of the modern world, combining conflicting words and images in a provoking manner.More »
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Kengo Hayashi “Mindless Self Indulgence”
Artist and musician Kengo Hayashi works energetically with various media, from everyday materials, paintings and online data, creating original characters and manipulating images in an exciting show that...More »
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Miyako Tengyu + Yuki Hasegawa “Motel Vol. 3 Port Town”
“Motel” is an art book by Miyako Tengyu and Yuki Hasegawa, two artists with the power to draw viewers into their unusual worlds. Like a highway leading to various destinations, these works synchronize...More »
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Shouko Yagi Exhibition
Shouko Yagi utilises the unique image processing methods of abstraction and distortion. In her spiritually appealing works, different creatures manifest themselves through the light and color.More »
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Rinko Kishimoto Exhibition
A solo show by Rinko Kishimoto, an artist who extracts the essence of things through her incredible sense of minimalist design and superior ability to process information. This is an opportunity to see...More »
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Maho Tokuoka “KA・GI・NO・A・NA”
Maho Tokuoka is an artist who ridicules hypocritical society in works of bold expression that fear no taboos. Her satirical paintings are on display.More »
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Tomoko Arakawa “I Don’t Even Know”
Tomoko Arakawa creates unusually shaped works referencing the objects of worship in early religions. For the “Bakemono” exhibition at the Aomori Museum of Art in August, 2015, she presented simple, round...More »
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Maki Maeda “Clauset”
A heartwarming, witty exhibition delivered just in time for Christmas. Maki Maeda produces unique pop works which shape her thoughts.More »
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Hiroshi Nishiyama Exhibition
Focusing on “the instability of linked things,” Hiroshi Nishiyama’s sculptures express the uncertainty of social and human relationships. In “Untitled” (2014), a work of stage art for the classical music...More »
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Sachiko Ibaraki “Aquarium - Wide Window”
Simple and minimal oil paintings inspired by images from the aquarium form the bulk of Sachiko Ibaraki’s work so far, and though this aspect remains unchanged, the new works present a slight twist in the...More »
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Seiichi Okuda “Surface”
Sometimes boldly and sometimes as an observer, Seiichi Okuda draws out the powerful life forces of nature in his works exploring its relationship with human beings. Using the ground as a canvas, these...More »
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Konomi Mishiro “Impossible”
Konomi Mishiro’s daring works explore sexuality with humor. Her large-scale installations include a large uterus made from pink colored paraffin wax and a colorful penis modelled on an actual man. This...More »
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Sawako Tanizawa + Kaori Fujino “Untitled”
Curated by Sawako Tanizawa, this exhibition is a collaboration between Tanizawa and Kaori Fujino, winner of the 149th Akutagawa literary prize.More »
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Himiko “I am a Bear”
Colorful, pop works by Himiko that use large quantities of toys and other items to examine the notions of original and copy.More »
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Sumire Itii Exhibition
Sumire Itii paints the everyday deeds or actions of Japanese girls concealing their plump faces. The difficulty in recognizing their faces makes us feel that we cannot read their emotions, therefore making...More »
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Mitsuhiro Okamoto “LIFEjackets”
Presenting video installations on the theme of “life jackets” by Mitsuhiro Okamoto, an artist who began using “Life” in the title of his works after the Great East Japan Earthquake. (A Nuit Blanche Kyoto...More »
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Eri Aoyama “Ultra Violence”
Eri Aoyama is an artist who shows us other realities through aggressive “dialogues” with the objects and moments that make up our daily existences. From pentagram sculptures to Baumkuchen dissections,...More »
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Yui Mizuno “Somewhere”
At first glance Yui Mizuno’s works appear to be abstract minimalist Nihonga paintings, mosaics made of digital images. However, they do not exist as inorganic and strictly arranged grids, but vivid compilations...More »
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Kyoko Wakahara “Daily Life Whispers”
A collection of humorous teacups and teapots that have been reshaped and reworked to challenge the user with the question: “How can this physically be used?” More »
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Ken Ueda “Aim”
An artist using the motif of a gun, Ken Ueda produces “action paintings” which encompass concrete and abstract expressions layered with images and meanings.More »
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VvK Programm 13 Matsune Michikazu Curation “Face Forward”
Artists active in Japan and Australia present their “Performance / Self Portrait” art, using their own bodies as the material and subject. Various physical distinctions conceived by modern society, such...More »
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Saiko Hayashi Exhibition
An artist who transforms existing structures with minimum treatment, Saiko Hayashi allows contemplation of the meaning of architecture and the opinions of architects in an altered place.More »
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Hikari Okawara Exhibition
Artist Hikari Okawara continues to seek out the relationship between people and environments through photography. In her “Monuments” series on urban cemeteries, she captures skyscrapers and graves in single...More »
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Yuko Ishiba “Shikaku - Square/Sight/Blind Spot”
By attempting to convert the everyday unconscious into the conscious, Yuko Ishiba pursues the questions of vision and recognition. In this exhibition, she will present silkscreen works with colors and...More »
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Fukiko Yoshida “Meringue Room”
Fukiko Yoshida achieves powerful impact and originality with reliefs of handsome men and ornamental accessories.More »
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Marika Oishi “Q0Q0Q0Q0Q0Q0Q0Q0Q0…”
Marika Oishi adopts the theme of “Reality and Sense of Distance,” with a silver painting featured in the main room and the subroom consisting of a moving image installation.More »
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Mina Kinoshita Exhibition
Playful and humorous works that are full of charm by Mina Kinoshita are on display.More »
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Sayaka Matsumoto “Gunung”
“Gunung” means “mountain” in Indonesian. When Sayaka Matsumoto heard this word for the first time, she was reminded of “the sounds of living mountains”, their beating or their breathing. She expresses...More »
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Aya Iwata “I Think It Unnecessary But I Feel It Necessary”
Combining thoughts meant to understand herself with photography, Aya Iwata creates a fragile yet unique aesthetic. More »
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Ikuko Hatta “At the Usual Place”
Ikuko Hatta is an artist who focuses on the “the movement of the body” and “things” that are necessary to life, and turns normal life into works of art. Her series entitled “Wall”, that took ordinary cardboard...More »
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Ryo Miyazaki “Discreature”
Iron is a material that normally gives us the impression of being hard, cold and heavy. Ryo Miyazaki’s series of iron pieces, “Discreature” is an attempt to turn this impression into one of soft, warm...More »
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Disney Art Exhibition
A group exhibition with a “Disney” theme. [Related Event] Disny Art Talk Date: May.9 (Sat) 19:00-21:00 Location: Haps Admission: Free (Reservation More »
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Natsuko Mizuguchi ” Fun Mimeograph Machine”
Fascinating accounts of a mimeograph trip by Natsuko Mizuguchi, an artist practising relational art.More »
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Akiko Yamahara “Soko Koso Koko”
Akiko Yamahara creates paintings and hand-dyed fabrics with storybook-like color schemes, a pleasant sense of suspension, and solitary characters that form their own worlds. More »
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Chisa Ueno “Mirror”
A daring installation of flowers by Chisa Ueno, developing on the idea of existence and what it is to live.More »
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Natsumi Takasuka “Blankets and Grain and Hula-hoop, The Universe, Yawn, Emission Lightly”
Using ready-made objects, Natsumi Takasuka conveys small everyday perceptions.More »
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Yukari Inoue Exhibition
In her moving image work, Yukari Inoue confronts various issues by focusing her lens on real scenes from society. “The answer is right in front of your eyes. The question is that we are not able to see...More »
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Teppei Sako “Fantasy Black Channel”
Through photography, CG, silkscreen works, and moving image, Teppei Sako beautifully expresses the current connection between people’s desires and the impossible to control media.More »
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Timelake
If “Timeline” is like a river which flows in one direction, “Timelake” is not a one-way flow, but a collection of time like a lake. This reflects the way time drifts in every direction and merges while...More »
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Chikako Tanbo “Fairy”
Using glass and earth to produce colossal heads that resemble the Olmec ruins, Chikako Tanbo’s exhibition is an expression of the self from the interior and the exterior.More »
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Yuma Yamashiro “Lightness of Object”
An exhibition of minimalist sculptural works by Yuma Yamashiro.More »
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Aya Higa “Nail on Canvas”
As a young girl and as part of the Gyaru subculture, Aya Higa expands cosmetics and adornments into the domain of expression, presenting paintings and objects that have been “made up.” More »
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Nanako Enomoto “This Has Value”
A series of works by Nanako Enomoto under the title “This Has Value”, which challenge the idea of added value.More »
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Koi “Otome Policy”
An exhibition by Nozomi Kobayashi’s fashion brand “Koi.”More »
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Tomoko Arakawa “Feelings and Curses”
Arakawa makes simple carvings of round, misshapen creatures and gives them hair for a touch of humorous warmth. At the same time, her works resemble objects of worship found in animism and other primitive...More »
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Masahiro Fujita + Seo “Green Chan Project 2014— Search for Green”
Adding fictional tales to green-themed illustrations and images by Seo, Masahiro Fujita creates a world of sculptures and installations. [Related Event] Screening of documentary on the Seed-Planting...More »
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Animi Ogra “Scpaercciamsesn”
An exhibition by an artist who uses the carcasses of living creatures, Animi Ogra. [Related Event] Live Painting by Animi Ogra Date: Dec.13 (Sat) From 17:00 Location: Kunst Arzt Participants: 15 Admission:...More »
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Sachiko Ibaraki “Aquarium”
An exhibition by Sachiko Ibaraki of oil paintings inspired by the aquarium.More »
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Satomi Imaoka “Wayward”
An exhibition of paintings by Satomi Imaoka.More »
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Shino Otani “Presence”
An exhibition of photographs by Shino Otani.More »
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Yohei Kishimoto “After the Dance”
Artist Yohei Kishimoto searches for the meaning of living within society in his artwork. Materials and photographs from everyday life are used to convey his sensitive humor. Works using new techniques...More »
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Maki Maeda “Sample”
Artist Maki Maeda produces warm, pop works which shape her thoughts. She questions the idea of “completion” in her unique and humorous series such as “Blocks (2013)” which consist of stuffed animals that...More »
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Marie Sakikawa “Springs, Springs, Springs”
Drawn to humorous movements found in daily life, Marie Sakikawa creates objects with symbolic forms out of materials like sponges and wood. Given the functions of movement, Sakikawa’s pieces evoke her...More »
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Kiko Takahashi “The Children Kept There”
Children are an ever-present motif in Kiko Takahashi’s highly original dyed portrait sketches. More »
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Hana Sawada Exhibition
Questioning photography’s role of reproduction, Hana Sawada’s work expresses how the real world is easily recreated by the media.More »
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Tunnel Vision
This exhibition reexamines the artist’s favorite works from perspectives seen through narrow tunnels. More »
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Yui Mizuno “One Scene”
Yui Mizuno’s abstract minimal paintings are reminiscent of the mosaic patterns on a digital screen. However, within the beauty of the paints is not an inorganic sharp grid, but the lively presence of an...More »
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Takashi Fujimoto “Kiss”
Takashi Fujimoto’s artwork takes images caught on the camera (such as nature and people) one step further. This humorous and sexy “Kiss” collection produces a new dimension between the artist and the photographic...More »
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Seiichi Okuda “Fluctuation”
Seiichi Okuda’s bold, observational works on man and nature draw from the vitality of nature. Okuda recognizes the movements that exist within the hearts of people and in the things around us - in the...More »
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Saiko Hayashi “I On the Other Side”
Saiko Hayashi is an artist who transforms the essence of a place through the slightest addition to the spaces of existing architectures, with work such as “Kagonome”, a series of wooden appendages from...More »
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Anna Yamanishi “Transparent Color”
Through dialogues between exhibition spaces and materials, the works of Anna Yamanishi extract the properties that exist or lie dormant within both. Her “Untitled” series (2013) features intertwining grains...More »
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Yuta Tanaka “Tokusatsu Show”
Yuta Tanaka is an artist who employs his sculptural sense as a weapon against the Japanese trend of the “flat”, here shown in the 3D realization of TV anime and special effects characters, filled with...More »
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Ayano Mori “To Present for the Day of D”
Using the traditional Japanese method of dyeing materials with persimmon tannin, Ayano Morii’s works are spiritually sensitive and work with the surroundings to create a “dynamic atmosphere”. Though this...More »
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Marika Oishi “Q±0”
Marika Oishi’s powerful works are based on historical major events such as 3.11, and 9.11. Silver paint is used to completely cover the image, to question the relationship between the people and the media....More »
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Yui Sakamoto “Hide-and-Seek”
Yui Sakamoto is an artist who develops an array of images from a single story and fills them with a unique sense of color and touch within a pictorial space. [Image: Yui Sakamoto “Take me away” (2013),...More »
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Atsushi Okabe “Artificial View”
Through his beautiful yet minimal photographs Atsushi Okabe brings a disturbance to the viewer’s visual perception. In his series “Cube(2013)” for example he plays upon exposure and zoom to transform a...More »
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Taiga Hiramatsu “A Kind of Magic”
With works such as “Innocent Play (2013)”, which at first glance appear as colorful pop-like toys but on closer inspection reveal their content of gunpowder, and “Untitled(2012)”, not merely burnt toast...More »
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Coincidental Perception
What is the role of photography? How will present-day photographs be interpreted one hundred or one thousand years from now? One of the functions of the medium thus far has been a way of knowing the world,...More »
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Mami Yuchi “Memories—1990”
Taking “the fragments of memory” as their motif, Mami Yuchi’s works express the beauty and fragility contained within anxiety and hope. In “Silent Picture of Memories” (2013), puzzle pieces form images...More »
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Yuiko Miyake Exhibition
Yuiko Miyake’s works are investigations of her own existence, expressing life, death, the physical, and the spiritual from her own unique perspective. In “Death, Vestiges, Funeral (Bones)” (2012), she...More »
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Ayako Matsumura “Out of Sight”
Using a technique known as “tsuzure ori”, Ayako Matsumura creates richly colored weavings in the shape of women’s bodies that contain both pure and impure elements. At last year’s Ogaki Biennale, models...More »
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Natsuko Mizuguchi “Mimeograph Traveller”
Natsuko Mizuguchi carries on the traditions of mimeograph culture and practices relational art. Her experimental and humorous ceramics and tableaus are expressed here as mimeographs. Since 2005, she has...More »
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Kazayu Natsuike “The Individual Phantoms”
Through simple but often bold methods, Kazayu Natsuike’s art provides hints for opening the doors parallel worlds. These works are extractions of the world, exploring what he thought he had seen but does...More »
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Akiko Yamahara “Pairing Up”
Akiko Yamahara explores the meanings of sight and awareness in her art. Integrating 2D and 3D elements, her unique pictures combine painting with soft colors and dyeing, applying, and sewing thread and...More »
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Keita Tagawa “In the Room”
Keita Tagawa creates sculptures and performances which interpret the space of a shell as a room, drawing upon the image of the “hikikomori” in a comment upon the relations between the self, family and...More »
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Monogram Art
An exhibition of works bearing Japanese family crests designed to resemble the Louis Vuitton monogram. Unfortunately, none of these works has been officially recognized by Louis Vuitton. Presented with...More »
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Atsushi Miyazaki “Store Brothers”
The work of Atsushi Miyazaki is filled with strangely familiar characters who appear to crowd his paintings not merely with a sense of a bright pop style but in an approach which reflects the underside...More »
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Miyako Tengyu “Field Work / Yonder”
Miyako Tengyu creates work of intricate narrative which seem to seek out the depths of the mind and open up a door to a world which lies beyond our everyday reality.More »
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Ikuko Hatta “Between Art and Life”
Ikuko Hatta is an artist who examines her surroundings through ready-made goods and everyday items. Works such as a hiding place covered in textbooks (2012), a portable space containing items whose whereabouts...More »
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So Shimada “No Plan— Brain Rot”
So Shimada’s unique pictures overlay humorous pop art with a layer of nostalgia. Through a barrage of mixed images in works such as “The Meaning and Story of the Subject” and “Physical Properties of Paint,”...More »
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Miki Kasahara “My Garden”
Miki Kasahara is an artist with an uncanny ability to critically comment upon society by reassessing the ground beneath her feet. In works such as “Theme Park”(2011) she creates a powerful statement by...More »
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Mizuho Kuki “From Objects to Paintings”
In her first solo exhibition at Kunst Arzt, Mizuho Kuki examines, through the genre of the figurine, the relationship between people and objects, having come to investigate this question through work involving...More »
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Saki Onishi “What You See While You Blink”
Saki Onishi is an artist who plays upon the ambivalence of awareness, with all encompassing installations such as “5400m x 2 Seconds = You” (2013) surrounding the viewer in numerous pink threads blurring...More »
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Yuka Shigeta “Perforate”
With a focus upon the theme of “perforations” Yuka Shigeta continues to work across a wide range of media including painting, print making and sculpture sharing a sense of the part seen, part unseen, which...More »
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Natsumi Yakasuka “Tepid Pool and Radio Gymnastics, Honey, Lemon Squash Sometimes”
Taking her starting point from the subtleties of the everyday Natsumi Takasuka infuses popular images of toys, sweets and packaging with her own original style and humor, while in the sub-room a space...More »
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Tomoko Arakawa “Tomocolle”
Tomoko Arakawa returns to Kunst Artz following her solo show last year. Arakawa makes simple carvings of round, misshapen creatures and gives them hair for a touch of humorous warmth. At the same time,...More »
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Masahiro Fujita “The Hidden Figure— Thinking of ‘The Thinker’”
Kunst Arzt presents the second solo show for Masahiro Fujita in two years. Through works that strip away the surface layers of society and the human body, Fujita reveals what is latent on the inner and...More »
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Mina Kinoshita Exhibition
In her first solo exhibition Mina Kinoshita presents her unique talent to draw something of humor and appeal from motifs and materials of the everyday, encircling the viewer in a space of the peculiar....More »
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Sachiko Ibaraki Exhibition
In this solo exhibition Sachiko Ibaraki presents rather than her collection of water motifed figurative paintings, the reflection of color and light as held in her memory through her word and captured...More »
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Aimi Morikawa “Radio Exercises 1”
Boldly integrating the physical into spacial compositions, Aimi Morikawa’s paintings on curved surfaces express “lines of sight” more than “points of view.” A discus athlete in high school, Morikawa transformed...More »
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Shiho Nishizaki “Imagine the Inside of Your Body”
Exploring the physical impact of painting upon the viewer Shiho Nishizaki has developed a form of expression which seizes upon the spirit of color to be found in all living things, in what may be likened...More »
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Mami Yamada “By Night”
Kunst Arzt presents a solo exhibition for Mami Yamada, an artist who shakes viewer’s assumptions and perceptions with works of cool and polished visual expression. Her oeuvre includes “just a moment deg...More »
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Misuzu Hashiji “Over and Over Now”
Misuzu Hashiji creates evocative conceptual videos that draw parallels to the work of William Kentridge. Using the pieces of an eraser that come off as it is used, the artist plays with the idea of finding...More »
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Natsuki Maeda Exhibition
Exhibition of multi-genre works by Natsuki Maeda who draws on patterns and forms from the sights and sounds of everyday life — from the remaining morsels of food left in his bowl to the rumbling of motorcycles...More »
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Aayako Ishiba “House”
Exhibition of sculptural works by Aayako Ishiba.More »
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Haruna Inatomi “Traces of Existence”
Haruna Inatomi using transparent materials such as ice, resin and glass to create evocative sculptures that allude to snow and rain. This exhibition, an acrylic case is filled with an amount of set ice...More »
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Yukari Inoue “It’s a small world”
Yukari Inoue creates works that poke fun at social issues and “strike a balance” in the environment. For instance, her 2011 piece, “Rocking chair (2011)”, she converts a two-person bench plastered in Coca-cola...More »
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Yui Mizuno “Join In”
Yui Mizuno creates abstract minimalist paintings that, in their mosaic-like quality, would appear to be digital works. There nothing generated by machine here, however. In her works, Mizuno attempts to...More »
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Chisa Ueno “Frontier”
Exhibition of Chisa Ueno, who employs objects from everyday life to represent the physicality of humans and animals.More »
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How to Count Infinity
This 5-artist, multi-genre exhibition hopes to convey through each artist’s own relationships with the world the infinite possibilities we have ourselves.More »
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Seiichi Okuda “Constant Change”
Exhibition of photography by Seiichi Okuda that explore the relationship between human and nature, using the ground as a canvas upon which to create curious forms out of natural materials. [Image: Seiichi...More »
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Toshie Igawa “You aren’t enough!”
Artist Toshie Igawa’s installations directly question the reasons for the existence of humankind and its value by portraying individuals surrounded by garbage, or even wearing garbage bags. A video of...More »
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Madoka Mizuki “Nijimu”
In his op (optical) art works, Madoka Mizuki transforms spaces into spectacular spectrums of light. His latest work, Nijimu (lit. to bleed or spread), consisting of a multitude of rainbow colored lights,...More »
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Marie Sakikawa Exhibition
Marie Sakikawa creates curious installations that play with the shadows of simple wooden objects that are connected to springs, placed on tables and left to move around as though they have a life of their...More »
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Momoko Takahashi Exhibition
Momoko Takahashi takes everyday items purchased from 100-yen shops, such as disposable plasters, necklaces and sink drain strainers and turns them into beautiful works of art using traditional shibori...More »
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Phallus Art
This exhibition of representations of phalluses questions the increased restriction of sexual expression, that is so often dismissed as vulgar and obscene, in a country where fertility festivals and worship...More »