Maiko Kobayashi
Artist statement
Something that arises beyond the strong emotions that arise inside me and the thoughts that consist of countless words.
It is like someone to talk to, someone who is just there for me.
I live in this world, joyful, struggling, and sorrowful, among the changing times and people.
The more we learn about things, the more helpless we sometimes feel.
On the other hand, our hearts are heated by the strength of human life, which never ceases, no matter what the circumstances.
The energy generated from the friction of contradictory sensations is the source of my paintings.
Maiko Kobayashi
1977
Born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Lives and works in Tokyo
1998
graduated from Musashino Art University Junior College of Art and Design, Department of Spatial Design
2008
MA with Distinction, Northumbria University, UK
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Inside The Window” ARTDYNE, Tokyo
HOME” AISHONANZUKA, Central Circle, Hong Kong
2023
“Be Here, For Sure” GR gallery, New York, U.S.A.
A PLACE FOR WANDERING HEARTS” Gallery Ascend, Huangzhukeng, Hong Kong
2022
Portrait of My Thoughts,” Gallery Joeun, Seoul, Korea
Confession” ARTDYNE, Tokyo, Japan
Where It All Began” Omotesando Gallery, Tokyo
2021
Dear Nameless City and You,” Gallery Palio, Tokyo, Japan
2020
“POP UP” LIGHT HOUSE GALLERY, Tokyo
Come On” Shun Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
2018
Relative Kawaii-We are all Kawaii-” Space Zero, Beijing, China
Kawaii Philosophy -Kawaii Thinker-” Shun Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
2017
DEAR ART” Gallery Wada, Tokyo, Japan
2016
“Living in the city” Roppongi Hills A/D Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2015
“Drawing Now” MITSUME, Tokyo
2014
“The works so far…The past and the future” Machida City Hall Event Studio, Tokyo
2013
“Kokoro Light -mind/heart : right/light-” Gallery Wada, Tokyo
2012
“Drift into Time Tre Dunyon 21 Maiko Kobayashi Drawing and Print Exhibition” Omotesando Gallery, Tokyo
2011
“Kanashii Life” Roppongi Hills A/D Gallery, Tokyo
2010
“ID” L MD galerie, Paris, France
2009
“Vale of Tears” Otherwise Gallery, Tokyo
Main Group Exhibitions
2023
THE FORTIES; ALLURING MOMENTS 5th” Gallery Joeun, Seoul, Korea
Good Morning Japan” Nassima Landau Art Foundation, Tel Aviv, Israel
2022
Beginning,” AISHONANZUKA, Central Circle, Hong Kong
2021
THE FORTIES; ALLURING MOMENTS 4th” Gallery Joeun, Seoul, Korea
2019
‘Don’t look at me!’ Pierre-Yves Caër Gallery, Paris, France
2018
Wakaba Luster-Group Exhibition of Young Artists from Japan-” Chengdu Aiding Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2013
Artists Related to Machida [Born After 1970]” Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2012
“FIELD OF NOW 2012” Ginza Yokyo Hall, Tokyo
2011
“VOCA Exhibition 2011: New Artists of the Plane” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2010
“Salon du dessin contemporain 2010” Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Collection of works and drawings
2024
“FORMS OF BEING” ARTDYNE,
2019
Emo-jo, Collection aKa (drawing book series by contemporary artists)” published by iKi Editions, France
Collection
KANKURO UESHIMA COLLECTION, Tokyo, Japan
Nassima Landau Art Foundation, Tel Aviv, Israel
Maiko Kobayashi Website
Maiko Kobayashi’s First Book “FORMS OF BEING”
Available at the gallery and ARTDYNE online store. Click here to purchase.
Kumi Oguro
「Feathers」2018
「Trick」2009
「Feathers」2018
「Trick」2009
Lives and works in Antwerp since 1999
Educations
2006-07
Filmstudies en Beeldcultuur, University of Antwerp
Transmedia, Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel,
Postgraduate Program in Arts+Media+Design
Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (Photography)
1997-98
City of Westminster College, London
BTEC Higher National Certificate in Art and Design (Photography)
1996-97
Blake College, London, College Diploma in Photography
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2019
Kumi Oguro, Yuuki Takagi Duo Exhibition, ARTDYNE, Tokyo
2018
Violence Silencieuse, Pulchri Studio, Den Haag (Duo with Joris Link)
2017
Violence Silencieuse, NL=US Art, Rotterdam (Duo with Joris Link)
Several Shapes of Poison, AIP, Hoboken (Antwerp)
2016
THERE IS ONLY THE REAL, IBASHO, Antwerp (Duo with Sarah van Marcke)
2014
Galerie Albus Lux, Roosendaal
Double jeu, Gallery NavArt, Sint-Niklaas (Duo with Laure Forêt)
2012
Stieglitz19, Antwerp
Surface, Tokyo
Play, POETIC SCAPE, Tokyo
BAZART OFFICE, Liège
2011
Exchange Tokyo→Osaka, Kumi Oguro・Satoshi Nishizawa 2 person’s exhibition,
The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
2010
NOISE, SANAGI FINE ARTS, Tokyo
Cultuurcentrum Hasselt
2009
Galerie Albus Lux, Roosendaal (Duo with Danielle Lemaire)
NOISE, Espace photographique Contretype, Brussels
2008
FIRST-CLASS HYSTERIC, SOLEDAD SENLLE ART GALLERY, Amsterdam
Group exhibitions (selection)
2021
THE FEMALE SIDE OF THE MOON, Galerie-z22, Berlin
2020
EXI(S)T: Parcours photographique dans Bruxelles (dé)confinée / Fotografisch parcours door Brussel in anderhalvemetertijd
Neko. The Cat in Japanese Art, Japan Museum SieboldHuis, Leiden
2019
Neko Project, IBASHO, Antwerp
BREAK A LEG: Performance-based & Constructed Imagery, Arkansas
2018
Female Force from Japan, Lakenhal,Herantals
2017
SPACE, Littlefield, New York
FEMALE FORCE FROM JAPAN, IBASHO, Antwerp
EUtopia 28, Museumcultuur Strombeek/Gent
2016-17
FotoFilmic ’16 Los Angeles, Melbourne, Vancouver
2016
Traverse Vidéo : l’Atypique Trouble, Toulouse (with the support of Flanders)
IMPRESSIONS JAPONAISES, Contretype, Brussels
2015
IBASHO Pop-up, HAL, Borgerhout
2014
BRUGGE FOTO 14 / ASIA EXPRESS, Bruges
Pleisterplekken – Jeugdinstellingen tussen romantiek en trauma
Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent
BORG 2014 Biennial event for contemporary art, Antwerp
2012
OVERSEAS 2012 -Photographers choosing the world- RING CUBE, Tokyo
2011
NON, PAS CE SOIR, The Museum of Ixelles, Brussels
2010
Entre chien et loup, DE MARKTEN, Brussels
2009
Monique Jacot, Carla van de Puttelaar, Kumi Oguro,
Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris
Encontros da Imagem, Braga
2008
3 Frauen, Belgisch Huis, Cologne
A Private History, Victor Barsokevitsch Photographic Centre, Kuopio
Canvascollectie, (nomination Public prize),
Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels
2007-08
A Private History, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen
Collections
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Awards/prizes
2018
Longlist, The Aesthetica Art Prize 2018
2017
Finalist, The Royal Photographic Society’s International Photography Exhibition 160
2016
FotoFilmic’16 Awards, 4th Place
Shortlist, Sony World Photography Awards, Professional Competition, category “Staged”
Finalist, 2016 Photobook Melbourne Photo Award, #memory_archive
2014
Prix VIRGINIA, Sélection du jury
Art fairs
2021
Art The Hague (by NL=US Art)
2020
Fresh Eyes Photo Fair (by NL=US Art)
3331 ART FAIR 2020 (by ARTDYNE)
Haute Photographie Rotterdam (by IBASHO)
2018
photo basel (by IBASHO)
Haute Photographie Stockholm (by IBASHO)
2016
BAD – Belgium art and design (by Albus Lux Contemporary), Ghent
2013
Tokyo Photo (by Galerie Esther Woerdehoff)
2012
fotofever (by stieglitz 19)
2008
Paris Photo (by Galerie Esther Woerdehoff)
Publications
2008
NOISE kumi oguro, Brussels, le caillou bleu
Commissioned works
2005-06
De Vlaamse Opera (photographs for the posters/brochures of the productions, season 2005-2006)
Published images
2020
Pull (2015) Haru, Shinan, novel by Mana Sakura, Cover image
2019
Play (2008) in the program book of Cherkaoui/Goecke/Lidberg by Opéra national de Paris
2017
Sky (2007) in the program book Season 2017/2018 Opéra national de Paris for a piece La Fille Mal Gardée
Noise (2005), Cloud (2010), Flow (2006) in the program book of La Fille de Neige by Opéra national de Paris
2011
Flow (2006) in the program book of Festival D’Aix-en-Provence 2011
Kumi Oguro Website
Yuki Takagi
Artist statement
I follow a three-step process in creating my work.
First, I make models using styrene board and paper clay based on photographs of other people’s rooms.
This is to create a fictional world by eliminating as much as possible the sense of life and traces of human habitation that exist in real rooms.
Next, the model is photographed with various lights shining on it.
This was done in order to search for signs of people in the cheap model that no one could live in, and to visualize something that does not exist.
Finally, to convert the photograph into a painting.
Through these three processes, the axis of my work is to suggest a mysterious and uncomfortable “something” that exists in a space where nothing is supposed to exist.
For example, just as in a horror movie, you feel a strong sense of fear when a ghost is not present on the screen, or when you are alone in a room and there is nothing behind you.
Or when you are alone in a room and you feel a presence behind you and involuntarily turn around.
I hope you can sense the presence of something invisible in my works.
Yuki Takagi
1994
Born in Fukushima, Japan Currently enrolled in Tokyo University of the Arts, Painting Department, Oil Painting Course
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Everlasting Light” ARTDYNE, Tokyo, Japan
2023
“Akarui Heya” ARTDYNE/Tokyo
2021
“In the absence of Ghost” ARTDYNE/Tokyo
2020
“Anohi no Sumika” MEDEL GALLERY SHU/Tokyo
Group Exhibition
2022
Two Artists Exhibition “Where Do Birds Fly Now?
“Art Fair Asia Fukuoka 2022” Hotel Okura Fukuoka/Fukuoka
2021
“3331 ART FAIR 2021” ARTDYNE/Tokyo
2020
“Spring Show” ARTDYNE/Tokyo
2019
“Overwritten Landscape” MEDEL GALLERY SHU, Tokyo
Opening Exhibition “Kumi Oguro & Yuki Takagi”, ARTDYNE, Tokyo, Japan
2018
“Tokyo Independent” /Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
“Yugitakai ga Oishii? ”/gallery i/Tokyo, Japan
Other
2024
“Geidai Art Journey” Metro Ginza Gallery, Tokyo
Koshiro Kihara
Artist statement
I would like to explore the boundary between “abstraction” and “figuration” by coexisting these two opposing elements on a single canvas.
In my work, there are a number of “abstract” and “figurative” elements with different vectors in various senses, and their complex intertwining blurs the boundary between the two.
At the same time, they also contain such dichotomies as “fact” and “fiction,” “moment” and “eternity,” “two-dimensional” and “three-dimensional,” “original” and “copy,” “natural” and “artificial.
I move back and forth between “abstract” and “figurative” and various other dichotomies in my work.
What I want to express is both and neither. The dichotomy can be easily expressed in words, but it is the boundary between the two that is the fascination that cannot be expressed in words, and that is why there is a necessity for me to create paintings of it.
Koshiro Kihara
1997
Born in Hyogo
2022
MFA in Fine Arts, Onomichi City University
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Scene, ARTDYNE, Tokyo
2023
“Move and Hold” ARTDYNE, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 “Shape!
“Shape!” Bunkamura Gallery8, Tokyo
“Dimensional Fantasia” GR gallery, New York
Koshiro Kihara, Kenshiro Kihara two-person exhibition “PRE EXHIBITION” ARTDYNE, Tokyo
2022
“AaP2022”Lloyd Works Gallery, Tokyo
“The Night before the Break 2022” Artglorieux, Tokyo
“KUMA EXHIBITION2022”ANB Tokyo・Tokyo
“ART LIBERATION WARD” Fukushima Bldg./Tokyo
“One FACE 2022” LloydWorks Gallery, Tokyo
“Koshiro Kihara Small Works Exhibition” TOKYO-DO BOOKSTORE,Tokyo
Koshiro Kihara, Kenshiro Kihara two-person exhibition “Figure and Ground” at Artglorieux, Tokyo.
“2-Dimensional School Exhibition” Daikanyama Hillside Forum, N &A Art SITE, Tokyo
Koshiro Kihara/Kenshiro Kihara Two Men’s Exhibition “Stranger” LloydWorks Gallery, Tokyo
2021
“Young Artists’ Show 2021” Gallery A8T, Sendai
“TAGBOAT AWARD SERECTS” Hankyu Men’s Tokyo Tugboat Gallery, Tokyo
“CORE part1 Hankyu Men’s Tokyo” Tugboat Gallery New Space, Tokyo
Koshiro Kihara and Kenshiro Kihara two-person exhibition “Infinity Mirror” Gallery A8T, Sendai
Awards
2021
The 16th TAGBOAT AWARD Special Jury Prize (Kenji Tokumitsu Prize)
Finalist, Muni Art Award
Supported by
2021
The Kuma Foundation 5th Creator Scholarship
The Murashu Foundation for Contemporary Art and Culture, Grant for Young Artists
Media
2023
Nigh Magazine Issue 8
2022
Published in Monthly Open Call Guide “Blue and Hot” February issue
Published in Art Collectors Monthly “Sold Out Artists 2022” February Issue
2021
BS Fuji “The Night Before the Break – Artists of the Next Generation
Published in the December issue of Monthly Art Magazine “66 New Works by 40 Artists of Next Breakthrough”.
Koshiro Kihara Website
Kenshiro Kihara
Artist statement
My work begins with the creation of a diorama by combining toys such as tokusatsu heroes and monsters with photographs of landscapes that resemble a written layout.
My childhood memories of tokusatsu characters are etched in my mind, and the reason why I bring them into my paintings is to reflect my childhood memories and senses.
In addition, creating a diorama and placing toys in it is like a child’s “play-doh” in which the toys are given roles and made to act out a play. By incorporating this “playful” act into the production process, the artist can subconsciously express his or her latent childhood sensations and create a screen with a sense of reality.
Playing “pretend play” is a way of looking, which itself contains a fictional quality.
In my paintings, I use every possible method to destroy the pretense of “playful play” by emphasizing that toys are just toys, that dioramas are just dioramas, and that they are fictional. In other words, it is a denial of the motifs depicted and of the world, which is both an interrogation of the perception of falsity and reality and the creation of a new pictorial space.
And what is important in the production is to remove arbitrariness and bring universality to it by using a photorealistic technique with photographs.
Although my work is based on personal memories and sensations, the open medium of photography allows my production to connect with the outside world.
Koshiro Kihara
1997
Born in Hyogo
2022
MFA in Fine Arts, Onomichi City University
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
Hero, ARTDYNE, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
“face to face Vol.IV”Bunkamura Gallery8, Tokyo, Japan
“Dimensional Fantasia”GR gallery, New York
Koshiro Kihara, Kenshiro Kihara Two Artists Exhibition “PRE EXHIBITION” ARTDYNE, Tokyo
2022
“Hajimari” ARTDYNE, Tokyo, Japan
“3331 ART FAIR 2022”ARTDYNE, Tokyo
“AaP2022”Lloyd Works Gallery, Tokyo
“The Night Before the Break 2022”rtglorieux, Tokyo
“One FACE 2022” LloydWorks Gallery, Tokyo
Koshiro Kihara and Kenshiro Kihara two-person exhibition “Figure and Ground” Artglorieux, Tokyo
“2-Dimensional School Exhibition” Daikanyama Hillside Forum, N&A Art SITE, Tokyo
2021
“FACE2021”SOMPO Museum of Art, Tokyo
“Onomichi City University Graduate School of Art Exhibition”Onomichi City University Art Museum,
“muni Art Award 2021” Gyararii Shukado, Tokyo
“Young Artists’ Show 2021” Gallery A8T, Sendai
“CORE part1” Hankyu MEN’S TOKYO, Tugboat New Space, Tokyo
“FACE Exhibition Selected Artists’ Small Works 2021” REIJINSHA GALLERY, Tokyo
Koshiro Kihara and Kenshiro Kihara, Two Artists Exhibition “Infinity Mirror” Gallery A8T, Sendai
Award
2021
KASAKU KOBAYASHI Encouragement Prize
Selected, FACE2021
Selected, Showa-kai Exhibition
muni Art Award 2021, Tadao Takashima Prize
Subsidized by
2021
Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program Scholarship
The Murashu Foundation for Contemporary Art and Culture, Grant Program for Young Artists
Media
2021
BS Fuji “The Night Before the Break – Artists of the Next Generation
2022
Publication in the February issue of “Blue and Hot”, a monthly public call guide
Kenshiro Kihara Website
Yoshiyuki Umehara
Artist statement
When I feel restless, I go into the mountains, there are many signs there.
Birdsong, animal tracks, sounds and smells, plus stones, trees, river water, everything has it.
I find myself concentrating my scattered consciousness and imagining its unseen form.
The presence wraps around the many things I brought in, covering them like a band-aid and giving them shape.
I took it home and painted.
I went back and forth between the canvas and the image,
In this process, I would remember the scene of the mountain and at the same time, I would look at myself.
After repeated painting, the image appeared as an independent object.
The eyes, as simple as symbols, held a lot of information and looked at me again with averted eyes.
There is no escape from the many things I have seen.
And I go outside to look for that presence like a bandage again.
I think that the presence I felt then was inside me from the beginning.
Yoshiyuki Umehara
1997
Born in Gunma
2020
Graduated from Tama Art University, Major in Oil Painting
Currently lives and works in Tokyo
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Things and I” ARTDYNE, Tokyo, Japan
2023
“Transparent Mirror”, Night Out Gallery, Tokyo
“Mountain Day” ARTDYNE/Tokyo
2022
“FACE” GALLERY ROOM A/Tokyo
“Bring It Back,” ARTDYNE, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition
2024
“Yamabiko” Umin Ishii and Yoshiyuki Umehara, ARTDYNE/Tokyo
Bunkamura Gallery Selection 2024, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition “DRAW LINES & SHAPES IN MY MAPS” T&Y Gallery/LA
2023
“Asyl – Taciturn Multiple Tasks to Be Eloquent” Art or Rice Noodles or White Kitchen, Tokyo, Japan
“One face 2023” Art and Pulse, Tokyo, Japan
“ARTNAGOYA 2023” Nagoya Kanko Hotel, Nagoya, Japan
“Into the Unknown” YK Presents, Seoul, Korea
“Opening Group Exhibition 2023” Bluey Bluey/ Norwich,UK
2022
“Zombie ga iru e Exhibition” Space Kurage/Kanagawa, Japan
“The first picture I want to show you this year” gallery TOWED/Tokyo
“Touching Line Train ver HAND!” YAMANOTE LINE MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan
“Spring Group Show 2021” ARTDYNE, Tokyo
“SELECT PLAYERS” THE blank GALLERY/Tokyo
“One FACE 2022” roid works gallery /Tokyo
WHAT CAFE × WHYNOT.TOKYO EXHIBITION” WHAT CAFE / Tokyo, Japan
2021
Winter Group Show 2021 -Air-,” ARTDYNE / Tokyo
2020
Tokyo Five Art Universities Joint Graduation/Completion Works Exhibition, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Awards
2023
Selected, Idemitsu Art Award 2023
2020
“Tama Art University Graduation Works Exhibition 2020”, Excellent Prize
Yuta Niwa
「波濤鯢図」2021
untitled 2021
「波濤鯢図」2021
untitled 2021
1993
Born in Kanagawa, Japan
2013-
Based in Kyoto, Japan.
Education
2013
Entered Japanese Painting Course, Department of Arts and Crafts, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Japan
2015
Exchange student, Haute école d’art et de design (HEAD), Geneva, Switzerland
2017
BA in Japanese Painting, Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Japan
2019
MFA in Japanese Painting, Fine and Applied Arts Field, Graduate School, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Japan
Selected Exhibitions
2021
Solo Exhibition, Wisdom and Ingenuity of Catfish, Komyoin Temple, Kyoto, Japan
Yambaru Chishin, Yambaru Art Festival, Okinawa, Japan
2019
Spaceship Earth, KUAD ANNUAL 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
2019
KUMA EXHIBITION 2019, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Gashin Exhibition, Sato Art Museum, Tokyo Japan/Tokyo, ’16-’18) Awards
2019 Kyoto University of Art and Design Graduation Work Exhibition, Graduate School
Grants and Awards
2019
Asahi Shimbun Award, Kyoto Art for Tomorrow
Guest Jury Prize, Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi
3rd Generation, the Kuma Foundation Creators’ Scholarship
Graduate School Award, Kyoto University of Art and Design Degree Show
2018
2nd Generation, the Kuma Foundation Creators’ Scholarship
Scholarship, Japan Arts Foundation
Young Artist Scholarship, Sato International Cultural Scholarship Foundation
2017
Honorable Mention, Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi
Projects & Internships
2019
Pi Animation Studio, Beijing, China
2017
DEP/ART KYOTO, Kyoto, Japan
2013
ULTRA SANDWHICH PROJECT, Kyoto, Japan