EXHIBITIONS
Exhibition
Venue
Nihonbashi/Bakurocho Area
Back alley of Nihonbashi Muromachi and Nihonbashi Honcho
1 Nihonbashi Muromachi / 1 Nihonbashi Honcho, Chuo-ku
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Free
This project is an attempt to grasp the structure of the city from the perspective of its physical and conceptual “gaps,” and to utilize these small spaces between buildings as places for presenting artworks or as artworks themselves. This is a legendary project that Masato Nakamura, along with his artist initiative Command N, carried out in 1999. For the biennale, sculptures by nine artists and groups that mimic potted plants will seemingly thread these gaps of back alleys together to enrich the city’s marginal spaces.
Sponsor: Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
Milk Souko The Coconuts, Manyo Grass in Wild Ascent: Plantation series, 2025, conceptual image (CG)
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A collaborative project between Yoshiharu Tsukamoto; professor of architecture at Institute of Science Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology) and co-founder of Atelier Bow-Wow and 6lines studio; an architecture collective consisting of Ryo Oyama, Kaho Katayama, Sho Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Fuchino, Yukako Masui, and Riku Miyazaki, all from Tsukamoto Laboratory. The six joined the satoyama revitalization activities, which Tsukamoto has been working on since 2019 as one of the directors of the general incorporated association “Small Earth,” and they started working as 6lines studio with the construction of “Tiny House TEKITEKI-AN.”
Born in Chiba Prefecture. Completed MFA in Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2009. Creates collages and oil paintings that combine figures cut out from Western masterpieces with contemporary landscapes, such as in the Time Leap Series. Recent solo exhibitions include Walking through Nakanoshima (YOD Gallery, Osaka, 2022) and Landscape (Oakwood Apartments Roppongi Central, Tokyo, 2020). Selected for the WATOWA ART AWARD (2021), Shell Art Award (2020), and the 15th TAGBOAT AWARD (2020).
They create kinetic works that recreate small, everyday occurrences through simple phenomena, as well as works that gently resonate through a method of storytelling born from the encounters between materials and motifs.
Their major solo exhibitions include Iwatake Rie + Kataoka Junya, and the Museum Collection: An Illustrated Guide for Gravity and Materials (The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Kamakura Annex, 2025) and Big Two-Hearted River (3331 Arts Chiyoda, 2019). They have also participated in group exhibitions such as MOT Collection 30th Anniversary Exhibit: Nine Profiles: 1935→2025 (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2025), Setouchi Triennale 2022, and BankART Bank Under 35 (BankART Studio NYK, Kanagawa, 2017).
Born in 1980 in Gunma Prefecture, he believes that an artist should embody freedom and continues to create ambitiously across various media, including sculpture and painting, installation, video, performance, film, and workshops, without limiting himself to any specific style or mode of expression.
Photo by Azumi Kajiwara
Milk Souko The Coconuts is a collective of six artists: Naotaka Miyazaki, Naoki Matsumoto, Takuma Nishihama, Zenichi Tanakamaru, Ari Ookubo, and Hiroaki Takiguchi. Founded in 2009 as “Milk Warehouse,” the group evolved into “mirukusouko (Milk Warehouse) + The Coconuts,” and, with the addition of Ookubo in 2024, adopted its current name in 2025. Through bricolage-based modes of practice, the collective reconsiders the relationships between material and the body, as well as between consciousness and infrastructure. Major exhibitions include ‘Aichi Triennale 2022’ at Aichi Arts Center and ‘Plans for TOKYO 2019’ at gallery αM.
Photo by Keishin Nakaseko
In 2010, he held his first solo exhibition, Can’t Help Falling in Love, at the then Yamamoto Gendai. The following year, he participated in the Yokohama Triennale 2011: OUR MAGIC HOUR. In 2020, he presented a work featuring Elvis Presley reaching 4 meters tall at his first solo exhibition in ten years, Ba de ya (PARCEL, Tokyo). In 2022, he participated with a solo exhibition in the Asia Focus section of Frieze Seoul, hosted by PARCEL. In 2023, he took part in the NGV Triennale 2023 at the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia. In 2024, he will hold a solo exhibition at the Rokuzan Art Museum, located in the hometown of Rokuzan Ogiwara, a leading sculptor of the modern era. He is currently working on a piece exceeding 5 meters in height.
He creates works that explore the relationship between society and the individual from perspectives of the mass and the miniature. As an early member of commandN, which planned projects such as Akihabara TV, he was involved in planning, management, and design until 2008. At the Tokyo Biennale 2020/2021, in the SOCIAL DIVE project, his work Sweet Democracy featured a model of the National Diet Building made of sugar cubes, which was exhibited alongside a workshop titled “1/2 Right to Vote,” where ants were allowed to eat the structure. Notable group exhibitions include Early 90’s Tokyo Art Squad (3331 Arts Chiyoda, 2020) and Neo Tokyo (Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, 2001).
Using metal, Terauchi create works in which inner images and memories are deformed and intertwined with cities, natural objects, and personal belongings through the technique of metal casting. Major solo exhibitions include The Rendezvous with the Sensation (GINZA SIX, Ginza Tsutaya Books, Tokyo, 2024), Nendo no Heya (CREATIVE HUB UENO “es,” Tokyo, 2024), and JUMBLE DIVE (Bohemian’s Guild CAGE, Tokyo, 2023). Group exhibitions include the 71st Graduation Works Exhibition of Tokyo University of the Arts (The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, 2023; Purchase Selection).
Born 1981 in Tokyo, Japan, Shoko Toda completed her master’s degree at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 2006. She creates works based on the relationship between the body and landscape, using a method that combines video, sculpture, and drawing. Recently, she has been thinking about the flexible and interchangeable nature of existence that stretches and shrinks, appears and disappears. Solo exhibitions include Flowers, Horses, Conversation (Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, 2024); exhibitions include Setouchi International Art Festival (Awashima, Kagawa, 2013 and 2016).