Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery @KCUA - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery @KCUA. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Transmit Program
The annual KCUA Transmit Program features emerging artists selected from recent BFA, MFA, and PhD graduates from KCUA. This year’s artists are Sae Fujita (2017 MFA in Printmaking), Sayoko Kobayashi (2017...More »
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Takao Fujiwara “Stargazers”
Exhibition commemorating the retirement of KCUA’s Astrophysics professor Takao Fujiwara.More »
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Kyoto City University of Arts “KCUA Alumni Association Exhibition: The Early Nineties”
Presenting the work of those who graduated Kyoto City University of Arts in the early nineties. Though The Lost Decade - the period following the collapse of the bubble in the early nineties - is usually...More »
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Artist Social Reproduction
The Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA presents “Artist Social Reproduction”, an exhibition organized based on the theme of production and artistic techniques, featuring seven artists who...More »
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Masato Nishida Exhibition
Exhibition commemorating the retirement of KCUA’s Nihonga (Japanese-style painting) professor Masato Nishida. [Related Event] Gallery Talk Vol.1 Date: Dec.16 (Sat) From 14:00 Gallery Talk Vol.2 Date:...More »
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28th International Student Exhibition
An annual exhibition of works by international exchange students studying at Kyoto City University of Arts.More »
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Arin Rungjang “Mongkut”
Thailand’s leading contemporary artist Arin Rungjang’s first solo exhibition in Japan. Arin Rungjang (born 1975, Bangkok; lives and works in Bangkok) is known for deftly revisiting historical material,...More »
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Shintai 0 Base Unyoho “0 Gym”
“Shintai 0 Base Unyōhō” is a textile artist and KCUA instructor Ryuichiro Ando’s unique methodology for bodily movement based on the perspective of creating artworks and other objects. During this period,...More »
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Nozomi Tojinbara + Fukiko Yoshida “Septile”
Exhibition by Nozomi Tojinbara and Fukiko Yoshida.More »
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Symphony LDK
Presenting a group of artists who work with sound, and their individual works that occupy the same space and time.More »
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Yuriko Sasaoka “Hello Holy!”
Doll animator Yuriko Sasaoka presents new video installations using animation, live action, and video collage techniques. In these culture and reference-blending works about the founding of nations, characters...More »
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Transferring Matter: Artifacts from New Guinea
Selections from the artifacts collected in New Guinea by KCUA’s research team in 1969. [Related Events] Gallery Talk (Japanese only) Date: Jun.10 (Sat) From 14:00-16:00 Admission: Free Lecture...More »
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KCUA Transmit Program 2017
Emerging artists selected from recent BFA, MFA, and PhD graduates from KCUA. This year’s artists are Masato Mizutani (2016 MFA in Oil Painting), Eriko Mukai (2015 MFA in Sculpture), Taishi Nishi (2015...More »
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“Tracing Life” Project Exhibition
Open Kitchen is an artwork exchange between the Nara-based social welfare NPO Tanpopo-no-ye and students at Kyoto City University of Arts students. Participants send their art to be altered and completed...More »
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Nobuko Hiroi “Traveling Textiles”
A retirement exhibition by Kyoto City University of Arts Dyeing and Weaving professor Nobuko Hiroi. Displayed are roughly a dozen of her works including 2D pieces, sculptures, and installations created...More »
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Archival Practice: The ’80s
An exhibition focusing on the Kansai New Wave movement from the 1980s in Japan, of which may of the key players were KCUA graduates.More »
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Akane Saijo + Haruka Shima “Rhizome”
An exhibition by ceramist Akane Saijo and painter Haruka Shima. Rhizomes are center-less intersecting lines extending and changing course in diverse directions. Saijo and Shima use different techniques...More »
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Kawai + Okamura “Mood Hall/Mood Hole”
The first solo exhibition in nine years for the Kyoto-based video artist duo Kawai + Okamura (Hiroki Okamura and Takumi Kawai). Having received global acclaim for their digital and stop-motion animations,...More »
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27th International Student Exhibition
An annual exhibition showcasing works by international students studying at Kyoto City University of Arts. [Related Events] Gallery Talk Date: Dec.1 (Thurs) From 17:00 Opening Reception Party Date:...More »
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Martin Creed Exhibition
Martin Creed’s artworks are always moving. He takes everyday items, stationery, and so on, and arranges them in rows or piles to create an accentuated sense of repetition and regulation, and beat out a...More »
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New Lifestyle
- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Crafts - Ceramics - Video and Film - Art Festival - Party
- 2016-09-10 - 2016-10-02
Exhibition in collaboration with Villa Kujoyama for Nuit Blanche Kyoto 2016. Video, photography, sculpture, etc. by French artists and other resident artists at Villa Kujoyama. Exhibition designed through...More »
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Silent @KCUA: Reconstruction Charity Auction
The charity auction Silent @KCUA is a ten-year project started in 2011 to give support to a broad range of groups involved in reconstruction efforts connected to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami....More »
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Colors of KCUA 2016: The New Balance Is Here
“Colors of KCUA” is a series of exhibitions that has been planned and curated by KCUA’s Science of Art students since 2011, featuring artists selected from KCUA students and graduates. The project is intended...More »
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Through the Hoop
This exhibition will present explorations of the idea of “passing through a hole” as a cross-genre examination of the essence of screen printing. [Related Event] Performances by Through the Hoop Artists Dates:...More »
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Nana Kuromiya “Night – Faint Outlines”
Night – Faint Outlines is a solo exhibition by Nana Kuromiya, who will be showing her recent oil paintings and paintings using pigment on Japanese paper.More »
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Emilie Pedron “Unfired”
Émilie Pedron is a French ceramist who is currently doing a half-year residency in Kyoto at Villa Kujoyama. The challenge of working in a foreign country with no workshop at her disposal has brought a...More »
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Eiji Uematsu “The Sky that the Rabbits Saw”
Based in Marubashira, Iga, Uematsu creates works made of earth, primarily ceramics. Until now, he has been constantly creating a wide variety of works including not only ceramic works that can actually...More »
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Still Moving - On the Terrace
Within the next 10 years, Kyoto City University of Arts is planning to move to the Suujin Area, mere minutes from Kyoto station. The area is blessed with the abundant natural scenery of Takasegawa and...More »
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Yuki Okumura “Na”
Born 1978 in Aomori, Japan, and currently living and working in Brussels and Maastricht, Yuki Okumura is an artist whose practice resembles that of a translator, ghostwriter or mediator, subjectively interpreting,...More »
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Guido Van der Werve “Killing Time”
“Killing Time” is the first large-scale exhibition in Japan to focus on Guido Van der Werve’s work over the past decade. Van der Werve began by making performance based video works in 2000. Having a background...More »
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Artist Workshop Exhibition: Nelly Saunier’s “Feather”
Presenting the final results of a workshop held by Kyoto City University of Arts as part an Agency for Cultural Affairs initiative. The works of invited French artist Nelly Saunier, plus the fresh creation...More »
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Paweł Althamer + Artur Żmijewski “House of Day, House of Night”
This exhibition presents works created by participants during 3 workshops led by Polish artists Paweł Althamer and Artur Żmijewski in 2015. The workshop was aimed at creating fresh approaches to art and...More »
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Sakiko Ito “Shijimi the Tortoise”
Presenting Sakiko Ito’s installation that was conceived from daily interactions with her pet tortoise, Shijimi.More »
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Kazuo Okazaki + Nobuaki Onishi “Born Twice”
Kazuo Okazaki carved out an important place in postwar Japanese art history with sculptures made using diverse methods and materials according to his “Gyobutsuhoi” (Object Supplement) theory of 1963, which...More »
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Homage to Kantor –Theater of Death
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Polish theater director, designer, and artist Taedusz Kantor, KCUA presents his photographs, drawings, screenings of his productions, and symposiums,...More »
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Nuit Blanche Kyoto 2015 @KCUA
Paris and Kyoto: both cities have long, rich traditions of art and crafts. Moreover, both have developed strong fashion cultures. Nuit Blanche considers the possibilities for cultural exchange through...More »
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Joining Threads, Spreading Cloths – Weaving and Dyeing Majors Exhibition
A selection of outstanding works by students specializing in dyeing and weaving at Kanazawa College of Art, Kyoto City University of Arts, and Tokyo University of the Arts. More »
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The Exhibition of Design Department Alumni of KCUA
This exhibition of graduation work shows designs that use the Yuzen dyeing method and Nishijin textiles: both aspects of the Kyoto textile industry. After the development of the Japanese light industry...More »
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Yama / Kanzenban
- Media: Installation - Video and Film - Media Arts - Talks - Performance Art
- 2015-08-08 - 2015-08-23
With performances and events that transform or expand on their concept as a band, Yama / Kanzenban pursue expressions that lie outside of the existing framework for musical expression. With their new challenge...More »
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Yumi Karasumaru “Facing Histories”
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings over Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of WWⅡ. Yumi faces the catastrophe of these bombings, looking back on Japanese history as well as family...More »
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Moonlight Reflected on the Water’s Surface
The number of female students enrolled at Kyoto City University of Arts has continued to increase and is now approaching 90 percent of all students. This trend can be seen, to varying degrees, in art schools...More »
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Materializing Exhibition III - Between Information and Materiality
The third of this series, “Materializing Exhibition III - Between Information and Materiality” seeks out the possibilities of art and design surrounding the recently mainstream digital fabrication. With...More »
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Akira Takehata “Poetry/Art”
A commemorative exhibition entitled “ Poetry / Art ” for the retirement of Kyoto City University of Arts president Akira Takehata. Born in Kyoto in 1947, Takehata has been president since 2011. Though...More »
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Kyoto City University of Arts Faculty Exhibition: The 1970’s
An exhibition of works by KCUA students and faculty from the past ten years, a period in which the university has experimented with educational reforms including a practical curriculum that became the...More »
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Yuriko Sasaoka + Akane Morishita “My Body, My Emo”
In these works, ephemeral physical perceptions and emotions are keys to the perspectives of the artists Yuriko Sasaoka and Akane Morishita. More »
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The Catalogue— Rinko Kawauchi Workshop Showcase
Presenting a photo collection created by five artists in a workshop led by photographer Rinko Kawauchi.More »
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Kaori Kurosaki + Hidekazu Tanaka “Painting Faithfully/Timepective”
Kaori Kurosaki and Hidekazu Tanaka both have strongly held ideas about the process and methodology of painting, yet produce works completely different in style. For this program they shared a studio and...More »
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Showcase
In 2013, the Kyoto City University of Arts implemented a project sponsored by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, “Diversified workshops by invites lecturers (artists) for the cultivation of up-and-coming...More »
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“On the Way to the Future, and Now”
These 12 young creators active in art, crafts, and design first came together through the “On the Way to the Future” project in the summer of 2013. Finding direction through discussions led by curators...More »
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KCUA Nihonga Nowadays
A group exhibition featuring today’s traditional Nihonga arts from students of masters courses, doctoral courses, and part-time lecturers of Kyoto City University of Arts.More »
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Teppei Kaneuji + Tom Woolner + Makiko Yamamoto “A Blurry Stage on the Horizon”
After a decade since their encounter, Kaneuji, Yamamoto and Wooler join again in Kyoto to create together a stage in the exhibition space on the theme “Value, common sense and perspective” as well as their...More »
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Flow - What is it Linked With, Where is it Going ?
In this exhibition, four artists explore the theme of water from different perspectives. Water is necessary for all living things, but simultaneously it is often necessary to pollute water to live, and...More »
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Nuit Blanche Kyoto 2014
[Oct. 4 (Sat) 18:00–25:00] Live performances, a night bazaar, and an international short film festival at Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery. [1F Gallery A] 18:00–24:00 Night Bazaar [1F Gallery...More »
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Silent @KCUA 2014
A charity auction held by students from the Kyoto City University of Arts, with the purpose of aiding recovery from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. “Silent @KCUA” aims to provide continual support...More »
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Asako Ohtsuka “Your Ghost is Fine”
An exhibition of Ohtsuka’s humorous and tactile sculptural works, including the palm-sized marble works “The taxonomy of similar clouds,” which has been coated in lacquer to alter the weightiness of its...More »
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Attractive Walls - Art’s Footsteps 5
Interior design works chosen from the collection of the former Kyoto City Arts Vocational College, predecessor of the Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery, made between the later Meiji period and the...More »
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Gourmandise
Since 2008, the Visual Design major at Kyoto City University of Arts have been collaborating with universities from Europe and the US. Art students from five countries will take part in this exhibition,...More »
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Invitation— Floating Consciousness
Planned and carried out mainly by students of the university’s Art Lab since 2011, this exhibition is the fourth in the “Colors of KCUA” series presenting the works of selected graduates and current students...More »
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul “PHOTOPHOBIA”
“Photophobia” is an exhibition of work by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a filmmaker and artist with great international recognition. Following his 2013 exhibition at Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway, there...More »
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Futoshi Miyagi “American Boyfriend: Bodies of Water”
Futoshi Miyagi’s “American Boyfriend: Bodies of Water” can be found in two locations at the Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA: Gallery A and the Horikawa Danchi. With “American Boyfriend,”...More »
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Shishi Yamazaki “Video Girl Yamazaki”
The “@KCUA Showcasing You!” project introduces up-and-coming young artists. Its third installment is “Video Girl Yamazaki”, a solo show for Shishi Yamazaki presenting the artist’s latest self-themed, hand-drawn...More »
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Transmit Program#5 “Play Hard!”
Placing a finger on the pulse of today’s cross over of multi-expressions and alternative practices through three groups of artists who simultaneously pursue individual and collaborative productions, each...More »
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Hideki Kimura “Charcoal”
To mark his retirement from the Kyoto City University of Arts Hideki Kimura presents an exhibition focusing upon his work of the 1970s, including the famed work of “The Pencil”. His work of noble forms...More »
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Kyoto City University of Arts 1960s Graduates’ Association Exhibition
This exhibition focuses on works by Kyoto City University of Arts’ Faculty of Fine Arts students who graduated in the 1960s, an era when Japan shined on the world stage as its economy took off. Meanwhile,...More »
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Yasuhiro Kiyota “RaiRaiHouRaiRai”
As if creating an iconography of words, the paintings of Yasuhiro Kiyota are born from a selection of text which become interpreted in the form and material of his work. Having a particular interest in...More »
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2013 Kyoto City University of Arts Doctorate Student Exhibition
Presenting the highest standard of work and research from current PhD students of Kyoto City University of Arts.More »
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Sensation of Depth
This exhibition presents the work of Kyoto City University of Arts students and instructors who participated in a 2012 research course exploring the topic “sensation of depth.” Represented disciplines...More »
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Kenji Tsuruta “Serendipity”
Kenji Tsuruta studied Western painting at Kyoto City University of Arts and has had a profound influence on the artists of subsequent generations during his 40 years of teaching at the university. The...More »
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Yusuke Taninaka “Galatea”
The young artist Yusuke Taninaka is working to revive contemporary sculpture with works that explore the relationship between materials and the body through form. His oeuvre includes pieces of rock and...More »
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Making Room— Mitsuyoshi Tamura and His Students
The final message of the late Kyoto City University of Arts Professor Mitsuyoshi Tamura to his students before his death in 2008 was, “Please create a space in which you can somehow make art.” This exhibition...More »
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Collection/Connection— The New Form Woven Through Mayan Textiles
Presenting some 80 pieces from a collection of Central and South American textiles, as well as 20 works by students researching the collection. The students were inspired by the folk clothing and everyday...More »
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“Awagami Print Expression 2013 – Washi and Technology”
The 8th Awagami Print Expression exhibition continues in its ongoing endeavor to promote the traditional medium of washi in contemporary society, including new combinations with digital technology printing...More »
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“An Approach to Being - Darkness, Infinity, Everyday Life An Exhibition of Polish Contemporary Art”
The exhibition encapsulates the essence of Polish art following the Second World War, and offers an insight into its unique contribution to the international art world. The trauma of the last war, succeeded...More »
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“The Nihonga of Kyoto City University of Arts”
The nihonga department of Kyoto City University of Arts was established in 1880 and has continued to educate in the traditions of Japanese painting, leading to many successful nihonga artists. This exhibition...More »
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Goh Hayashi + Hiroko Nakatsuka Exhibition “Experiment and Practice”
Exhibition of an installion project, “The Court of the Goddess/The Tennis Court” by Goh Hayashi, Hiroko Nakatsuka that was nine years in the making and is being recreated for the first time since 1983....More »
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”Gimlet Screening @KCUA”
A international video art event featuring works by three artists: “The Man Machine” by Vincent Fournier, “La grande décomposition” by Le Gentil Garçon, and “The Art of the Displacement” by Sylvie Rodriguez. A...More »
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Hiroshi Mizutani “Retropolis”
Hiroshi Mizuta creates his works through trial-and-error, drawing on materials he has collected, sketches, and his own personal experiences and memories. This exhibition showcases a series of works in...More »
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Dyeing and Weaving Leaving Students Exhibition “Beauty and Brains”
Exhibition of final works by students who studied dyeing and weaving at Kyoto City University of Arts from the 1980’s to present, demonstrating a wide variety of themes and techniques. By chance, all of...More »
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“Nonsense”: An Exhibition by Student Illustrators from Five Countries
This exhibition is the result of a long-running international art exchange project run by the Visual Design Institute at Kyoto City University of Arts. The works of student illustrators from France, Germany,...More »
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Tohoku Disaster Relief Charity Auction Silent Aqua 2013
The proceeds of the Silent Aqua 2013 silent auction will go towards reconstruction efforts in Tohoku. Bids by fax or e-mail are also accepted. *Please refer to the website for the full list of artists,...More »
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KCUA 2013 Arts Research Center Exhibition “Bridge: The Artist and His Materials”
The third instalment of the Colors of KCUA series of exhibitions by students enrolled in the Arts Research Center of Kyoto City University of Arts. This year the theme is “Bridge”, investigating the relationships...More »
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We are particles of water, separate but for the wave in which we are one
Group exhibition of multi-genre works of young, Kyoto-based artists. The exhibition focuses on the relationship between the artists themselves and their works, as both a community and individuals, and...More »
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Takayuki Okamoto Exhibition
Artist Takayuki Okamoto has created an installation comprising of 600 solar modules that are connected to a suit. The modules correspond to 91 different points of the body, and light up when that body...More »
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Sweet Revenge
A group exhibition of works of 5 students from Kyoto City University of Arts. The title of this exhibition, “Sweet Revenge,” refers to the artists’ belief that even in the modern age art has the power...More »
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Seinosuke Sekine “Days of Painting or Fighting 1929-2003”
Exhibition of the works of Seinosuke Sekine including experimental pieces that address the topical issue of nuclear power and his blind drawings, as well as his small-scale 3D works.More »