Ongoing & Upcoming

SUPPOSE WE COUNTED EVERY EDGE OF THE GRID — Timotej Janko (2026)

Reception: Friday, August 21, 18:00–21:00
Exhibition: August 22–23, 12:00–20:00

Through analogue image-making and spoken word, Slovak artist Timotej Janko explores how perception becomes memory, and how memory continuously reshapes itself over time. The exhibition brings together silver gelatin prints and 8mm film shot in Tokyo, accompanied by a live soundtrack composed from intimate monologues recorded during the artist’s travels — transformed into a sound composition in collaboration with Bangkok-based artist Wasawat Somno, who performs the work live at the opening alongside Naoki Nomoto.

SOAP AND CANDY — Liz Saba (2026)

Reception: Friday, August 28, 18:00–21:00
Exhibition: August 29–30, 12:00–18:00

Paris-based artist Liz Saba presents soap and candy cast into the same forms. Visitors are invited to touch, smell, and play with the works, and to eat the candy, watching words written on the surfaces gradually disappear through use. By repeating one form in different materials, Saba explores casting as a language of duplication and change, blurring the boundaries between touching, tasting, using, and consuming as the works are shared, handled, and slowly disappear.

Past

Slim City — I, still flesh (2026)

Reception: Saturday, July 18, 18:00–21:00
Exhibition: July 18–26, 13:00–18:00 (Closed Mon–Wed)
Artist Talk: July 26, 15:00 (English)
Artists: Em Watarihiki, Pardis Ghasemi, Diao Chentong, Paul Ramsey

Four artists who each found their way to Tokyo curated a space to be vulnerable together. Reflecting on a city that slims itself down — where hyperoptimization slips from preference into morality and the unnecessary is trimmed away until parts of ourselves feel negotiable — the exhibition held onto the “I” not as identity but as memory, desire, exhaustion, and persistence. Flesh, never entirely self-contained, contaminates, touches, and holds one another.

THREE PIECES OF STEEL — Lina Teufel (2026)

Reception: Friday, July 10, 18:00–21:00
Exhibition: July 11–12, 12:00–18:00

Munich-based artist Lina Teufel (b. 1999, Germany), currently working in Tokyo, presented a sculptural installation exploring the perception of space and material through minimal intervention. Flat steel elements positioned in relation to wall, floor, and ceiling made the architecture an active part of the work, producing forms that appeared both stable and vulnerable. The work also reflected on industrial production and standardization, as the steel’s dimensions are determined by manufacturing norms that vary across national contexts.

FALSE POSITIVE — Aska Sumihara (2026)

Reception: Friday, June 26, 18:00–21:00
Exhibition: June 27–28, 13:00–18:00

Tokyo-based multidisciplinary artist and creative director Aska Sumihara examined the space between bodily reaction and emotional reality. Drawing from research into the biochemical processes associated with physical intimacy, the exhibition considered how attachment can form within the body before it is fully understood by the mind — approaching attachment as a private biological event at the intersection of chemistry, bodily memory, misrecognition, absence, and withdrawal.

MONSTER BARBIE: WHERE I BELONG — Juntong Xiao (2026)

Reception: Friday, June 12, 18:00–21:00
Exhibition: June 13–20, 12:00–18:00

Across painting, RISO printing, digital drawing, and mixed media, Juntong Xiao repeatedly returned to fragmented bodies, sharp color, and symbolic forms — from which MONSTER BARBIE emerged as the figure that most naturally carried her voice. Bodies split, repeat, merge, and distort as sharp RISO colors collide with painted surfaces. For Xiao, MONSTER BARBIE is not a fictional character but a way of expressing things that resist direct explanation, exploring identity as something unstable, multiplied, and continuously reconstructed.

Spirits in the Rice Field — Yuko Uchida (2026)

Reception: Friday, May 16, 18:00–21:00
Performance: Sunday, May 24, 15:00
Exhibition: May 17–31, 13:00–18:00 (Closed Mon–Wed)

Brooklyn-based Japanese multidisciplinary artist Yuko Uchida explores the connections between nature, labor, and cultural memory through an installation rooted in Japanese agricultural and spiritual traditions. Using rice and straw as physical and symbolic materials, the exhibition evokes unseen presences within nature, culminating in a live performance inspired by the belief that seven spirits reside within a single grain of rice.

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Lines of Reason — Lilith Greta Meyer (2026)

Reception: Friday, April 24, 18:00–21:00
Exhibition: April 25–26, 12:00–18:00

Through three interconnected installations, Lilith Greta Meyer examines how humans define and categorize the world around them. Using sight, touch, and weight as experiential tools, the exhibition reflects on perception, phenomenology, and the instability of systems of classification, revealing the ambiguities that exist between objects, bodies, and environments.

Born to Die, Live to Sin — Yasuaki Okamoto (2026)

Reception: Wednesday, March 18, 18:00–21:00
Exhibition & Live Work: March 18–29, Wed–Sat 12:00–18:00
Closing Day: Sunday, March 29, 12:00–17:00

Yasuaki Okamoto presented drawings and prints of animals, insects, and imagined species that explore the strange logic of life, death, and transformation. Blending close natural observation with surreal narrative, the exhibition reflected on time, fragility, and the fleeting existence of living beings, while the artist simultaneously created new works live within the gallery space.

TRACE / ECHO — Valeria Del Vacchio & Yile Kuma (2026)

Residency: February 2–26, 2026
Opening Night: Friday, February 27, 18:00
Exhibition: February 27 – March 3, 2026

TRACE / ECHO was a process-based science–art residency and exhibition exploring the relationship between artistic practice and scientific thinking. Developed through shared studio work, observation, and interdisciplinary exchange, the project culminated in a public exhibition reflecting the evolving dialogue between process, experimentation, and perception.

SEEN - Open Performance (2025)

Performance: Saturday, November 22, 14:00–18:00

SEEN was an open participatory performance inviting visitors to sit in silent eye contact with friends, partners, or strangers. Inspired by Marina Abramović’s The Artist Is Present (MoMA, 2010), the project explored presence, intimacy, vulnerability, and human connection in an age shaped by distraction and mediated realities.

Live for Drawing – Music Session with DFU (2025)

Event: Saturday, October 11, 15:00–17:00

A live improvisational music and drawing session led by turntablist and music curator DFU. Blending turntablism, live looping, ethnic percussion, and experimental sound, the event invited participants into a collaborative, creative environment centered on listening, movement, drawing, and spontaneous expression.

No. 223 & Ying Chang (2025)

Exhibition: August 31 - September 30, 2025
Open: Thursday & Friday, 14:00–19:00

A joint exhibition by photographer Lin Zhipeng (No.223) and artist/designer Ying Chang exploring identity, memory, materiality, and transformation. Bringing together photography, sculptural objects, and material experimentation, the exhibition reflected on the fluid relationship between contemporary life, craft, and personal observation.