Collection Exhibition "YUGEN Gallery Collections" [Fukuoka]

October 30th (Wednesday) – November 7th (Thursday), 2024

YUGEN Gallery FUKUOKA will be holding the YUGEN Gallery Collections from Wednesday, October 30th to Thursday, November 7th, 2024.

Exhibition Information

Venue

YUGEN Gallery
KD Minami Aoyama Building 4F, 3-1-31 Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Dates

October 30th (Wednesday) – November 7th (Thursday), 2024

Opening Hours

Weekdays: 13:00-19:00
Weekends and holidays: 13:00-20:00
*Ends at 17:00 on the final day only

Closed Days

None

Admission Fee

free

Notes

*Please note that the dates and opening hours may change without notice depending on the situation.

Statement

Founded in February 2022 in Tokyo, YUGEN Gallery has held 67 exhibitions to date, showcasing over 120 artists. It promotes new trends in contemporary art through works in a variety of genres, including painting, calligraphy, photography, and ceramics.

In September 2024, we will open "YUGEN Gallery FUKUOKA" in Tenjin, Fukuoka, as a place connecting Fukuoka and Tokyo, where we will hold exhibitions and events that promote artistic and cultural exchange.

To mark one month since the opening of "YUGEN Gallery FUKUOKA," the gallery will be holding a collection exhibition by some of its most notable artists.

This exhibition will feature six unique artists, EDO and YUMEKA, George Hayashi, Minami Keita, Kubomi, Ichibayashi Yasumichi, and WOK22, who will present a diverse range of works that embody the YUGEN Gallery's concept of "mysterious unconsciousness, universal aesthetic sense."

We look forward to seeing you all there.

About sales of artworks

You can view and purchase works at the YUGEN Gallery official online store.

EDO and YUMEKA
EDO and YUMEKA
Ed and Yumeka: An art unit consisting of EDO, who has been involved in live painting and jewelry design in the underground culture, and YUMEKA, a painter who creates various paintings such as oil paintings based on Japanese painting, which he learned on his own since his teens. In addition to painting, they are involved in a wide range of activities such as product production and spatial design for tea ceremony. Solo exhibitions include "SESSION" at ASPLUND/BAROOM/JMT CAFE in Tokyo, "BACKSTAGE" at Cafe CEREZA in Aichi (all in 2022), and "NUDAVERITAS" at YUGEN Gallery in Tokyo (2023).
To the artist page
George Hayashi
George Hayashi
George Hayashi
Born in Tokyo in 1978. He has been designing apparel brands since his teens, and has collaborated with many companies, including the drinking water brand Cheerio. Since 2010, he has based his base of operations in Shanghai, where he has held exhibitions at galleries and museums in China and abroad. He has also been involved in a wide range of activities, including painting New Year's greetings for the Chinese government at the Japanese Consulate General, and murals for stores in Japan such as SG CLUB and Esujiro (both in Tokyo) and El Lequio (Okinawa).
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Minami Keita
Minami Keita
Keita Minami
Born in Tokyo in 1981. After graduating from high school, he studied illustration at Setsu Mode Seminar and MJ Illustrations. He won the Grand Prize at the 15th Note Exhibition of Illustrated Note (2014), the Silver Prize at the 12th TIS Open Competition of the Tokyo Illustrators Society (2014), and the Jury Prize at the 13th TIS Open Competition (2015). He is a member of TIS. He works on illustrations for books and magazines, picture books, artwork for novelist Keiya Iwai and the band LUCKY TAPES, and murals for commercial facilities.
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kubomi
kubomi
She currently lives in Kanagawa Prefecture and graduated from Bunka Fashion College's Apparel Design Department. Since 2018, he has been actively working as an artist, working on store interiors, collaborating with apparel brands, and creating album jacket artwork.
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Ichibayashi Hokumichi
Ichibayashi Hokumichi
Hokuto Ichibayashi
Ichibayashi Hokuto / Born in Ishikawa, Japan in 1992. Graduated from Kyoto Seika University, Faculty of Art, Department of Art and Design, majoring in Japanese painting. Instead of using traditional Japanese painting paints that use minerals, animals, and plants found in nature as coloring materials, he chooses to use acrylic paints and other materials to express the realistic aesthetic sensibility of a generation born and raised in a society surrounded by manmade things. Making full use of traditional Japanese painting techniques, he creates works that incorporate the visual expressions of games and feature the customs of the 2000s and beyond as motifs.
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WOK22
WOK22
Wok22 / Born in Aichi, Japan. Currently based in Fukuoka. Graphic artist and painter. He began his career as an artist in 2008 and has collaborated with a wide range of brands, including STUSSY, Adidas, and Hakata dolls, and is also active in Asia, including Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, and the Philippines. His work is characterized by bright yet profound colors, and he excels at collage-like drawings that combine various elements rather than painting a single picture.
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