KYOTOGRAPHIE is an international photography festival held every spring across the entire city of Kyoto. It includes artwork exhibited in gallery and non-gallery spaces, artists talks and workshops, tours, kids progra...

ASIA CORRIDOR CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION

2017.9.22　 Text: Amelia Ijiri

“Culture City of East Asia 2017 Kyoto” is a tri-national event that promotes cultural exchange between Japan, China and South Korea. Rich in cultural heritage, Kyoto was chosen as this year’s venue to house contempora...

KYOTOGRAPHIE 2017

2017.5.30　 Text: Alex Hiroki Coles

KYOTOGRAPHIE is an international photography festival held annually in Kyoto, giving artists an opportunity to showcase their work to a wider audience. This year KYOTOGRAPHIE had 16 exhibitions held around the city. T...

CAF AWARD SELECTED EXHIBITION

2017.2.8　 Text: Alex Hiroki Coles

The CAF Award is an annual award targeted for young artist who are into university and graduate school started in 2014 organized by the Contemporary Art Foundation. It aims to help young and emerging artists. The obje...

PAUL SMITH EXHIBITION “HELLO, MY NAME IS PAUL SMITH”

2016.10.12　 Text: Chiaki Ogura

Paul Smith Exhibition “HELLO, MY NAME IS PAUL SMITH” has been touring 3 cities: Kyoto, Tokyo and Nagoya. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto has the turn till July 18, 2016. This exhibition started from Design Museum...

THE LONG STORY OF THE CONTACTS OF “THE OTHER SIDE”

2016.2.26　 Text: Alex Hiroki Coles

"The Long Story of the Contacts of 'the Other Side'" by a Berlin-based photographer born in Israel Yishay Garbasz focuses on suffering and trauma in areas of conflict. These were of photographs taken from three separa...

CHO KYOTO 2013 CONTEMPORARY ART

2013.12.2　 Text: Chiaki Ogura

In the residence spaces as only can be found in Kyoto, you would rarely see world recognized crafts of modern art at such a close distance. This is the 3rd year for Cho Kyoto. Following the 1st “modern art @ the resid...

ART KYOTO 2012

2012.7.27　 Text: Satsuki Miyanishi

The moment Kyoto blooms as an International Art Market. Kyoto International Conference Center. Photo: Nobutada Omote. © ART KYOTO 2012 Executive Committee Cherry blossoms have withered, and it's almost summer ...

THE DESIGNERS ACCORD

2008.12.8　 Text: YOSH

Hello, everyone. This is YOSH from "greenz". The year 2008 should be the year of unprecedented change with the presidential election in the US and the global financial crisis. Even the G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit and...

SHOBOSHOBO ONSEN BUS TOUR

2008.5.31　 Text: Jo Phirip

I joined a special bus tour called "SHOBOSHOBO ONSEN BUS TOUR".　Here is what it was: various artists joining together on a tour of Japanese onsen (hot springs) by bus. And during the tour, we played music and drew pi...

BIWAKO BIENNALE 2007

2008.1.11　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

Transformation of the sight - it can be one of the possibilities of visual arts in the present age. Biwako Biennale 2007 taking place at Omi Hachiman, Shiga Prefecture Japan, was an interesting exhibition being...