Gallery Raku - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Gallery Raku. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Sachiko Kawakami "Continuity"
Gallery Talk: June 27th (Fri) 17:00-18:00
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"Xhibition♯5 Chasing Images, Getting Images" Exhibition
Opening Party: May 28th (Wed) 18:00- [Image: Takanobu Okada]
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"POP" Exhibition
The exhibition explores the theme of "pop" (alluding to popular culture as well as popular media), which appears in our daily lives in the form of insulation. Works by contemporary Japanese artists will (...)
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Nozomi Kawakatsu "Seeing by Counting"
Artist Talk: April 18th (Fri) 16:30-17:30
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Kyoto University of Art and Design Continuing Education Graduation Exhibition
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"30 Years After Tadaoto Kainosho's Death: Rough Sketches and Drafts, Continued" Exhibition
The exhibition features rough drafts and sketches by Japanese painter Tadaoto Kainosho (1894-1978). Kainosho studied art in Kyoto, and after becoming frustrated with the academia of art, he formed a group (...)
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"The Inside of an Inside, The Back of a Behind" Exhibition
- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Film - Art Party - Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2008-01-09 - 2008-01-20
The exhibition features works by the art and crafts department's fine arts concentration students. Expression is an action that releases one's inner feelings to the outer world. The theme for this exhibition (...)
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"Spun Eyes" Exhibition
When one looks at one item, it does not necessarily mean that the item is perceived the same in another person's eyes. Thus, what is absolute is what appears in front of our own eyes. The four artists, (...)
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Atsutaka Unno "A Picturesque Scenery"
Umino has produced paintings that explore the human body. As a student, Umino held strong interest towards mannequins that he used in a project. Through this discovery, he began exploring the use of the (...)
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Rui Okada "Mirrored Ritual: Where Are You?"
Art Talk: November 15th (Thu) 18:00-
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"Transit 2007-2008 Kyoto" Exhibition
The exhibition features about 25 contemporary art pieces by students.
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"Sketches and Drawings" Exhibition
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Junko Kido Exhibition
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"Sakyo-ku Children's Paintings" Exhibition
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Sakyo Children Free Drawing Exhibition
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Yasunori Kinukawa + Yoshikazu Yamaguchi "Touch/Feel"
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"A Movement of Dolls in Kyoto: Dolls and Places" Exhibition
"Dolls are not just miniatures of human beings but embodiments of wishes, love and pity," said Shoho Menya, the 14th generation artisan of dolls. Menya has produced dolls that differ from our regular conception; (...)
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Osamu Kojima "Nostalgia - In a Distance of Conflict"
Osamu Kojima's works are created through a complex process; first, he fires block shaped clay that has been dyed in black, fuses them together with a special adhesive, re-fires the clay, adds melted glass, (...)
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"Forces of Nature; Returning from America" Exhibition
The ten Japanese artists who stayed at universities and art centers in the US for six weeks, exhibited their works at their respective locations. In April 2007, their works were exhibited at Sumter Gallery (...)
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"Xhibition #04 Where My Work and I Were Born" Exhibition
Miho Kawano's work, inspired by William Morris' "Strawberry Thief," renders a dream-like world in three-dimensional form. On the other hand, Junko Taniguchi refuses to use brushes to paint-instead, she (...)
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Tokihiro Sato "Gleaning Light"
The exhibition celebrates the foundation of the Society of Pinhole Photography, and features works by Tokihiro Sato. Sato offers a distinguished array of work that focus on light in relationship to photography (...)
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Tadashi Ishimoto "Thinking of Time"
While most of the works displayed were produced in 2006 and 2007, one piece, the "Girl Lying Down," was created before 1960 during Ishimoto's youth. Hence, the works exhibited show the artist's recurring (...)
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"Chocolate Dreams" Exhibition
A world where everything is covered with chocolate. It is sweet and bitter, it melts, hardens, and frequently changes its consistency. A world covered in chocolate... it actually might be uncovering the (...)




