Nakahara Chihiro　Exhibition
"The Nights Prayer Circle"

The Nights Prayer Circle
mixed media 2025

13 Dec. Sat. 2025 - 31 Jan. Sat. 2026
*Closed on Sundays, Mondays, National Holidays
*Closed for winter；2025.12.28 - 2026.1.5

Reception Party: 12.13 (Sat.) 15:00 - 18:00

Yuta Otsuno　Exhibition

6 Jan. Tue.- 11 Jan. Sun.2026

amu design Exhibition

12 Jan. Mon.- 18 Jan. Sun.2026

“Ways of Remembering This World”
Ryosuke Imamura Solo Exhibition

©2025 Takayuki Mitsushima,
Ryosuke Imamura

1 Nov. Sat.– 30 Nov. Sun.2025
open on fri., sat., & sun. 12:00-18:00
appointments are available on weekdays
free admission

In the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, the siblings who are led deep into the forest leave behind breadcrumbs as markers to find their way back home. The term “breadcrumb trail” used on websites today to indicate one’s current location originates from this tale. Yet in the story, the crumbs are eaten by birds and vanish without a trace. I find myself drawn to this uncertain and fragile way of leaving behind a path. It is not only because of its ambiguity, but perhaps precisely because of that ambiguity, that it conveys a strong sense of urgency.
Although the kind of urgency I feel is quite different (it is not a matter of life and death), my expression also stems from a desire to remember the events of this world. In this exhibition, alongside works that continue my ongoing theme of attempting to preserve fleeting and uncertain sights, sounds, and tactile sensations, I will also present a video work that documents an experiment from a collaborative project with artist Takayuki Mitsushima, centered on the theme of “exchange of senses,” in which I asked him to drive my car.

Ryosuke Imamura

Imamura often takes small everyday events and memories as the themes of his works. Using familiar materials, such as daily objects, he expresses his ideas through many different media, including video, sculpture, painting, and installation. His works often include fragrant plants like gardenia, fragrant olive, and jasmine. These scents awaken the viewer’s sense of smell, sparking memories, which is one of the special features of his art.
In a past exhibition at eN arts (November 2018), a sweet smell spread throughout the gallery during the exhibition. Some visitors thought the scent was part of the artwork. In fact, it came from holly flowers blooming in a neighbor’s garden. In this way, Imamura’s works make the viewer’s everyday senses sharper, bringing unnoticed sights and smells into focus and giving them new meanings. Sometimes, people even mistook small things from daily life – like a piece of glass found in the garden – for part of the artwork. These kinds of experiences awaken sensory memories that are hard to record and give visitors a new way of perceiving the world.
This exhibition marks Imamura’s return to eN arts after seven years, following his 2018 solo exhibition “At the Place That Is Not There”. It will include a collaborative video project with artist Takayuki Mitsushima, as well as other works that can only be fully experienced in the exhibition space. Visitors will be able to relive sensory memories using all five senses that go beyond what can be captured in simple recollections.

Yoko Kuwahara | eN arts

KOSUGI＋ANDO Exhibition

16 Jan. Fri.– 31 Jan.Sat. 2026

GENDAI BIJYUTSU NITOHEY　Exhibition

12 Dec.Sat.– 27 Dec. Sat.2025
7.Jan.Wed. – 12.Jan. Mon.2026

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS
Teppei Kaneuji and the constructions:
tower (UNIVERSITY)

Photo:Kazuki Yoshimoto

13 Dec.Sat.2025 〜 15 Feb.Sun.2026
Closed on December 15, 22, 27–January 5, 13, 19, 23–26, February 2

Organized by
　Kyoto City University of Arts
With additional funding from
　Program for Cultural and Art Promotion Utilizing
UniversitiesWith the cooperation of
Participants of the project TOPOS:
　An Art School as a "Garden" for
　Mutual Learning
　dot architects
　Art Front Gallery
　Yumiko Chiba Associates
Coordinated by
　TOPOS: An Art School as a "Garden" for 　Mutual Learning
　Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery
Curated by
　Mizuho Fujita (Chief Curator/Program 　Director, KCUA Art Gallery)

Artist Profiles

Teppei Kaneuji
Born in 1978, Teppei Kaneuji is an artist and sculptor who lives and works in Kyoto. He earned a graduate degree in sculpture at Kyoto City University of Arts in 2003, where he now teaches as the Associate Professor. He uses things around him as materials for his works, altering their meaning via a collage method that involves cutting off parts and attaching them elsewhere. He has done solo exhibitions at the Yokohama Museum of Art (2009), the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2013), Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (2016), and at other venues inside and outside Japan. Since 2011, he has also worked on set design and produced theatrical works in 2012. He received Kyoto City’s Best Young Artist Award in 2012, and the Kyoto Prefecture Culture Prize Award in 2015, and The 29th Takashimaya Art Prize in 2018. https://teppeikaneuji.site/

the constructions

Cast:
Masamitsu Araki
Kazumichi Komatsu
contact Gonzo (Yuya Tsukahara, Ayaka Fujita, Keigo Mikajiri, Takuya Matsumi)
dot architects (Wataru Doi, Futo Kurahashi, Ryosuke Katsube, Eisuke Hirai)
Participants in Program C and staff members of TOPOS: The Art University as a Garden for Mutual Learning
(Mio Arai, Taisuke Asami, Mizuho Fujita, Aio Fukudome, Sawaka Furuno, Goku Hasama, Ryosuke Higo, Toshichika Kamon, Masahiro Katata, Rei Nakao, Natsuki Seta, Atsushi Tsukamoto, Sachiko Uchiyama, Natsuki Yamamoto)
Costumes: Kyoko Fujitani
Photography: Katayama Tatsuki and Kazuki Yoshimoto
Transportation: Kameoka Distribution Center Co., Ltd. (Takahisa Hitomi)

Venue setup and artworks packaging: Seido Ikeda, Atsushi Tsukamoto, Mitsuhiro Kishimoto, Chikara Masuyama, Yosuke Yano, and staff members of KCUA Art Gallery andTOPOS: The Art University as a Garden for Mutual Learning (Mizuho Fujita, Ryosuke Higo, Miharu Seta, Sachiko Uchiyama, Natsuki Yamamoto, Kazuki Yoshimoto)

...and more! (Updated December 8, 2025)

UNDULATIONISM Ⅻ
Aki KURODA　　Hitoshi KOYANAGI
Tsuyoshi SERA　　Ryota HAMASAKI

8 Nov. Sat- 30 Nov. Sun. 2025
OPEN 12:00 - 18:00
Closed on Mon, Tue, National holidays

〈1F+2F〉
Oriori no Sakkatachi Exhibition

12 Jan. Mon.- 25 Jan. Sun.2026

〈1F〉
KIMIETO Exhibition
The joint exhibition of traditional
Japanese-style painting

27 Jan. Tue.- 1 Feb. Sun.2026

〈2F〉
Megumi EGAWA Exhibition

27 Jan. Tue.- 1 Feb. Sun.2026

〈Back Yard〉
Saya KUSUI Solo Exhibition
The Leaning tree

12 Jan. Mon.- 14 Jun. Sun.2026

New Mutation #6
Yukari Inoue
Soh Souen
Mal Takada

Yukari Inoue

Soh Souen

Mal Takada

17 Jan.Fri. - 15 Mar.Sun.2026

Taizo Mori
（feat.MUGYUDA Hyogo）

photo:Hyogo Mugyuda

20 Nov.Thu.2025 - 27 Feb.Fri.2026

Permanent exhibition

We are now taking the style of apointment only,
Before when you visit for us, Please contact for following mail address.
GALLERY TOMO

Artists:
Taisuke Kondouh, Takeshi Shinohara, Koosuk,
Tsutomu Ishihara, Kazutaka Sugitani, Caori Fujita,
Moeko Machida, Shinya Yamamoto, Takami Miyaoka,
Nobuyasu Yoshida, Minori Ieyama

ARAKAWA Tomoko solo exhibition
Overgrown

6 Jan. Tue.– 18 Jan. Sun. 2026

ARAKAWA Tomoko is known for a hairy, god-like wooden sculptures.
She was born in Kyoto in 1988 and lives and works in Kyoto.
Her work has been included in multiple exhibitions, Bubblewrap (2018), Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Bakemono (2015), Aomori Museum of Art, among others.
Her work is included in the TAKASHI MURAKAMI collection.

ARITA Niki solo exhibition
Drifting raw fingertips

20 Jan. Tue.– 25 Jan. Sun. 2026

ARITA Niki (b.2002, Hiroshima pref, lives and works in Nagoya) is an artist who stir emotions and recognition through vision.
He is an active graduate student in a painting course at Aichi University of the Arts.

HASHIMOTO Rio solo exhibition
1/X

27 Jan. Tue.– 1 Feb. Sun. 2026

HASHIMOTO Rio (b.1998, Shiga pref, lives and works in Kansai) is an artist who explores the boundary between ugliness and beauty using lacquer.
She earned her master's degree in a URUSHI / lacquer course at Kyoto city University of the Arts.

〈1F〉
MIYATA Sayaka Exhibition
＋
〈2F〉
MIKI Yoko Exhibition

14 Jan. Wed.– 25 Jan. Sun. 2026

〈1F〉
ISHIKAWA Aiko Exhibition
FOREST WALK

27 Jan. Tue.– 1 Feb. Sun. 2026

〈2F〉
SAKAGUCHI Mahiro Exhibition

27 Jan. Tue.– 1 Feb. Sun. 2026

TANIUCHI Haruko /
TERASHIMA Midori Exhibition
circus

6 Dec. Sat.– 27 Dec. Sat.2025

Spiros Baras Solo Exhibition
“Longing For Summer”

Kamo River 2025

Rocks 2025

2 Dec.Tue. – 14 Dec. Sun. 2025
11:00 ～ 18:00 Monday closed

The exhibition will feature works by the Greek artist Spiros Baras, including pencil drawings and several watercolors. The drawings by Spiros Baras reveal a world of soft restraint and luminous stillness. Executed with colored pencils on textured paper, they share a distinctive delicacy, a refusal of heaviness, of shadow, of noise. The artist builds the image through countless fine layers, allowing color to breathe through paper rather than sit on top of it.

His subjects range from island landscapes and architectural views to intimate portraits and gentle scenes of daily life. Each appears distilled to its essential tone, sea, hill, skin, or air, suspended in a timeless calm. The light is diffuse, Mediterranean yet introspective, and the figures seem to inhabit a space between memory and dream.
Despite their simplicity, the drawings contain a precise emotional charge: a faint melancholy, a longing that resonates with the exhibition title “Longing for Summer.” They evoke moments when the world slows down, a cat sleeping, a woman lost in thought, a church glowing on a distant hill, and invite the viewer into that same hush.
Baras’s minimal palette and deliberate flatness echo early modernist sensibilities, yet his atmosphere is unmistakably personal, contemplative, humane, and deeply tender.
Baras’s watercolors could also be seen as a meditation on transience, on how light touches the world for an instant before disappearing.

Within the context of the contemporary art scene, Spiros Baras occupies a distinctive position, one that resists spectacle, digital excess, and conceptual overstatement. His work reclaims drawing as a meditative, sensorial act, standing in deliberate contrast to the acceleration and visual saturation of contemporary image culture.
At first glance, his compositions may appear aligned with minimal realism or post-minimal figuration, yet their ethos is more poetic than stylistic. The absence of shadow, the restraint of color, and the near monastic precision of mark-making recall certain tendencies in post-photographic painting and new sincerity movements, a return to intimacy, tactility, and the everyday.

Baras’s imagery, modest houses, still bodies, animals in relaxed poses, engages with the idea of stillness as resistance. In an art world dominated by irony, noise, and political spectacle, he cultivates a mode of attention that is profoundly humanistic. His light, almost evaporated surfaces create spaces of contemplation where memory and place coexist without hierarchy.

While many contemporary painters exploit materiality to the point of excess, Baras’s practice is defined by subtraction, the decision to let air, silence, and the paper’s own breath participate in the work. In this sense, he can be seen as part of a broader tendency among contemporary European artists to revisit the aesthetics of slowness, aligning his sensibility with figures such as Peter Doig, Giorgio Griffa, or even contemporary Japanese artists who privilege atmosphere and nuance over assertion.
Ultimately, Spiros Baras represents a countercurrent to contemporary visual culture. His drawings are not nostalgic retreats but subtle proposals for how to see again, slowly, softly, and with care.

Saki Chikaraishi Exhibition
AMORPHOUS

Photo by Yuji Imamura
Image provided　by Sokyo Gallery

23 Dec.Tue.2025 – 30 Jan.Feb.2026

Yuki Nishijima Exhibition

30 Dec.Tue. 2025 – 19 Jan. Mon. 2026

Yudai Kihara Exhibition

30 Dec.Tue. 2025 – 19 Jan. Mon. 2026

Arashi Tanaka Exhibition
「Mimesis」

10 Jan.Sat. – 3 Feb. Tue. 2026

Mitsuhiro Ikeda Exhibition
「afterimage / ghost」

16 Jan.Fri. – 17 Feb. Tue. 2026