Yoshimi Arts - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Yoshimi Arts. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Drawing / Collage
Drawings and collages are a fundamental part of the process of creation, and allow the audience a glimpse into the overall thought process of the artist. This exhibition strives for a deeper understanding...More »
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Yugo Kohrogi “Under the Skin”
“Under the skin” alludes to how things really are - true feelings or reality, as opposed to how things might appear on the surface. An intricate assembly of photographs, prints, drawings and paintings...More »
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Insight 19
“Insight” is a regular exhibition featuring works by the artists of Yoshimi Arts that have been held since 2010. All works are categorized in accordance with the theme of each exhibition, attempting to...More »
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Minako Nishiyama “Wall Works”
For this exhibition, Minako Nishiyama recreates mural pieces made in various locations. Nishiyama began creating her sugar sculptures in the late 90’s, and around the time she completed Sugar Crown (1999),...More »
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Hana Inoue “Geometry x Prism”
Hana Inoue weaves and paints stories that are inspired by familiar objects. With an interest in geometric patterns, she works with shapes such as polygons and circles, with concepts based on the transformation...More »
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Haruko Sasakawa “Recollection: The Plywood Fish”
Haruko Sasakawa is interested in how people are influenced by the media. In her 2016 Ph.D. thesis “The War Inside the Media – From War Images to Games” and in the December 2016 group show “War Painting...More »
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Insight 18
“Insight” is a regular exhibition featuring works by the artists of Yoshimi Arts since 2010. All works are categorized in accordance with the theme of each exhibition, attempting to reveal “Insight”. In...More »
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Mizuki Kakinuma “Transchromatic”
Mizuki Kakinuma has exhibited in many group shows as well as four solo shows at Yoshimi Arts, beginning with a group show in 2011, followed by the first solo show in 2012. At first glance it appears to...More »
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Yugo Korogi 2012–2016
Yugo Korogi has worked in studios around the world, from Kumamoto to Tokyo, Osaka, London, and Berlin. His abstract paintings reflect the physical elements of each place, such as its light, sounds, landscapes,...More »
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Shigeru Izumi “Paintings 1971-93”
Held at both Yoshimi Arts and The Three Konohana, this exhibition introduces Shigeru Izumi, a leading figure of contemporary art in Kansai in the late 20th Century. Osaka-born Shigeru Izumi set up the...More »
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Minako Nishiyama “Drawings”
Minako Nishiyama is part of the first generation of artists to adopt Japan’s subcultures as a medium. Since the mid-1980s she has been noted for her paper pulp sculptures interfacing with feminine culture,...More »
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Takehiro Terabayashi “Life III”
In recent years while it has become a major trend for many artists to use various mediums such as photographs, Takehiro Terabayashi has been consistent in his style of drawing, spending most of his time...More »
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Rachel Adams + Mizuki Kakinuma + Haruko Sasakawa “”Material and Form” in a Digital Age II”
Since the Meiji period, Japanese artists have always tried to absorb western culture. It has been 60 years since the 1950s, when the Japanese art world first confronted this new concept of “contemporary...More »
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Miki Sato “Diver”
Miki Sato creates paintings by choosing images from movies or photos and layering drawings on top of the existing printed image. Sato adds stains, blurs, and distortions in this process of deconstruction...More »
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Keigo Kamide “Bears Live in the Hollow”
Ceramicist Keigo Kamide’s bear-themed works, presented at “Kutani Connexion” in Tokyo this March, come to Yoshimi Arts in Osaka. [Related Event] Keigo Kamide’s “Kamide Choemon Kiln Exhibition: Bears...More »
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Mizuki Kakinuma “Overflow”
A solo painting show by Mizuki Kakinuma.More »
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Yugo Kohrogi “Pond”
A solo exhibition by Yugo Kohrogi. Kohrogi creates images that contain human bodies and light reflecting from the surfaces of water, such as ponds. The people in his paintings are anonymous, lacking facial...More »
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Shiho Yamamoto “Heavy Growth”
Shiho Yamamoto pursues the connection between humans and plants and considers the similarities between the two from a biological point of view. Taking these plants and humans that readily adapt to their...More »
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Katsuo Tachi Exhibition
A solo exhibition by Katsuo Tachi.More »
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Rachel Adams “Open Studio”
“Open Studio” is Rachel Adams first solo exhibition in Japan. This exhibition considers what it means to work in the studio and how creativity rubs up against domestic life. Influenced by sculptural history...More »
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5th Anniversary Festival !!
This year Yoshimi Arts celebrates its 5th anniversary. To commemorate this special occasion, a “5th Anniversary Festival !!” exhibition has been organized by Miki Sato, the first artist to hold a solo...More »
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Insight 14
“Insight” is an exhibition with a theme by the gallery collection. The 14th “Insight” focuses on the works of 7 artists.More »
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Robots
The boundary between imagination and reality is a common theme for Haruko Sasakawa, ever since the early years of her career as an artist. “Hollow Fighter” is one such representative work, originally presented...More »
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Yugo Korogi “Drawings 2011-2015”
Yugo Korogi’s drawings have a sultry presence. Alluding to concrete motifs and images, their textures transcend their erotic and psychological elements, as if gazing at the foundations of existential theory....More »
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Miki Sato
Miki Sato creates paintings by choosing images from movies or photos and layering drawings on top of the existing printed image. Sato adds stains, blurs, and distortions in this process of deconstruction...More »
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Mizuki Kakinuma “Billows”
Humans have often expressed the fundamental feelings of sadness, happiness, and despair through the physical action of art making. In the 30,000 year history of the fine arts, human creativity has produced...More »
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Insight 12
This ongoing exhibition of works by artists represented by Yoshimi Arts invites visitors to categorize and discover new themes in the collection using their powers of insight. Secret works and “hidden...More »
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“Material and Form” In a Digital Age
This Material and Form exhibition will feature the works of Japanese artists Keigo Kamide and Haruko Sasakawa, and British artist Rachel Adams. The relationship between material and form is explored in...More »
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4th Anniversary
On August 27, Yoshimi Arts celebrates its 4th Anniversary. This group exhibition presents new work by artists: Hana Inoue, Shiho Oda, Keigo Kamide, Yugo Kohrogi, Haruko Sasakawa, Miki Sato, Takehiro Terabayashi...More »
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Yugo Kohrogi “/”
Yoshimi Arts is pleased to announce “/”, the solo exhibition by Yugo Kohrogi. There is a thing that is full of savagery and sophistication, and continuously changing. From the day of birth, human bodily...More »
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Insight 11
The eleventh “Insight” exhibition displays the works of Yugo Korogi, who will present tableaus and drawings at his first solo show at Yoshimi Arts this June, the video “Misleader” by Haruko Sasakawa, who...More »
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Shiho Yamamoto + Hana Inoue “Circulation and Glitter”
Shiho Yamamoto and Hana Inoue both studied Nihonga painting in university and graduate school at the same time, and continue to influence each other as artists. While their works from university shared...More »
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Takehiro Terabayashi “2008-2014”
The works of Takehiro Terabayashi are inspired by the early oil paintings of the 15th and the 17th century, while also taking on the legacy of modern Japanese painters such as Yuichi Takahashi and Ryusei...More »
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Keigo Kamiide “Ink Shell”
A 6th generation member of the Kutani pottery of “Kamidechoemon”, Keigo Kamiide has felt the heritage of ceramic making in his blood, drawing upon this in his solo exhibitions which awaken a sense of cultural...More »
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Insight Exhibition
A collection exhibition of Yoshimi Arts associated artists, whose work has been presented at this gallery with continued insight into their themes and narratives in a whole variety of forms. In the 10th...More »
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Haruko Sasakawa “Study Room no. 6221 - Documentation”
Haruko Sasakawa presents video documentation of the performance “Study Room no.6221”, along with notes and writings from the performers. [Image: Haruko Sasakawa “Study Room no.6221”]More »
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Figurative Abstraction
Multi-genre exhibition by four artists exploring the abstraction of myth and legend over time, particularly in regard to origin myths, and how recreating them in a figurative way in art may help one discover...More »
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3rd Anniversary Exhibition
Exhibition to celebrate 3 years since the opening of Yoshimi Arts, featuring works by all their artists.More »
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Takehiro Terabayashi “Life II”
Painter Takehiro Terabayashi makes us take a fresh look at our reality by taking the objects from our unremarkable everyday surroundings as a repetitive motif, depicting them with photographic precision...More »