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KOTARO NUKAGA is pleased to announce that Kizuka-song, a major work by Kazuhito Kawai will be collected by the National Crafts Museum.   After studying contemporary art in London, Kawai encountered his new medium which was ceramics and experienced the liberation of his creativity allowing him to find a breakthrough. His ceramic works, characterized by dynamic colors and shapes, show various expressions of ugliness and beauty, grotesqueness and pop appeal, and express his

N project is pleased to present ‘Being There‘, a solo exhibition by Rei Kizumoto, at KOTARO NUKAGA Three from December 6, 2025 – January 24, 2026. Born in Shiga Prefecture in 1998, Rei Kizumoto completed her MA in Oil Painting, Kyoto University of the Arts in 2023. She is currently based in the Kansai region. Her practice involves cutting felt—a material

KOTARO NUKAGA is pleased to announce our participation in ‘KOGEI Art Fair Kanazawa 2025’, Japan’s only art fair dedicated to crafts held in Hyatt Centric Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan from November 28 to 30.   KOTARO NUKAGA will present works by four artists: Mariko Kobayashi, Nanami Inoue, Yohei Chimura and Teppei Miyake.  Mariko Kobayashi employs textile-based methodologies,

Tomokazu Matsuyama will participate in ‘Artist Talk: Tomokazu Matsuyama with Sharon Matt Atkins’ at Liu Shiming Art Foundation（USA） on November 20, 2025. As Deputy Director for Art at the Brooklyn Museum, Sharon Matt Atkins is a distinguished curator who has organized major exhibitions including ‘JR: Chronicles’（2019）, ‘Swoon: Submerged Motherlands’（2015）, and ‘Ai Weiwei: According to What?’（2014）.

KOTARO NUKAGA is pleased to present ‘Annie Morris and Idris Khan A Petal Silently Falls,’ a two-person exhibition running from October 29 to December 26, 2025. Both born in the United Kingdom in 1978, Morris is known for her sculptural series Stack, which places vibrantly colored spheres atop one another, while Khan is renowned for his serene works in blues and grays. Each has established an

Tomokazu Matsuyama participates in ‘SIMOSE New Collection Exhibition PartⅠ– Sam Falls, Tomokazu Matsuyama’ at Shimose Art Museum from October 7 – December 14, 2025. Simose Art Museum has newly acquired works by Tomokazu Matsuyama this year. This exhibition introduces part of his global practice, highlighting two newly acquired paintings alongside Soul Miner, 2025, a large-scale

Rhizomatiks’ work Deleted Reality 2025 will be exhibited in ‘China Hangzhou Art and Technology Biennale 2025’ at Yuhang Art Museum from October 18 – December 18, 2025. （“Deleted Reality 2025”will be shown until November 28.）     To the naked eye, Deleted Reality 2025 appears simply as a glowing white panel. Yet when viewed through

Tomokazu Matsuyama’s @tomokazumatsuyama  solo exhibition ‘Liberation Back Home’ will be held at SCAD Museum of Art @scadmoa from August 1 – January 4, 2026. Displaying works both within and on the façade of the SCAD Museum of Art, Tomokazu Matsuyama presents large-scale paintings and sculpture that blur distinctions between interiority and exteriority, Eastern and Western,

Rhizomatiks participate NTT PAVILION at the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai as part of the Exhibition Experience Team from April 13 – October 13, 2025. The pavilion’s overarching theme is “PARALLEL TRAVEL”, composed of four areas: Zone 1, Zone 2, Zone 3, and the Intermediate Area. Rhizomatiks was responsible for the design and implementation of the

Mariko Kobayashi will participate in ‘Skin and Viscera: Self, World, and Time’ at Tainan Art Museum from October 3, 2025 to January 18, 2026.   Starting from sensations arising from the skin and internal organs, this exhibition intends to connect the self, world, and time. By embracing bodily contact and sensory experiences, it adopts the