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imura art gallery Kyoto

Kanna Takase
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21 Jun. Sat. - 12 Jul. Sat.2025 Imura Art Gallery is pleased to present Kanna Takase’ s solo exhibition “After the Same Moon.” Born in Osaka in 1994, Kanna Takase has based her artistic pursuits in Kyoto since earning an MFA in painting at the Graduate School of Arts at Kyoto City University of Arts in 2020. She was awarded the Selected Exhibition Grand Prize of the Kyoto Art for Tomorrow competition in 2024, and her works were subsequently shown at a major solo exhibition at the Museum of Kyoto’ s Annex Hall. Takase’ s paintings emerge from her interest in human communication, but frequently use animals as a motif to express feelings that cannot be conveyed in words. Claws and fangs represent how people hurt one another, while fur becomes a metaphor for protecting the self. The exhibition’ s title, After the Same Moon, reflects her desire to convey how people’ s memories of shared moments transform over time into differences in perception or subtle divergences in feeling̶for example, two people may gaze at the Moon together, but as time passes, their perceptions of this same shared experience grow apart. We cordially invite you to visit this solo exhibition of Takase’ s paintings, the gallery’ s first in two years, and enjoy its presentation of ten of her latest creations. <Artist Statement>
“After the Same Moon” This exhibition is my attempt to visually capture the experiences that people share and the differences in memory and subtle divergences in sentiment that emerge thereafter, in terms of the time gap between seeing the same Moon together and later recalling that moment. Those divergences are the thoughts that weren’ t adequately conveyed in casual interactions, feelings of anxiety that come out of nowhere, an indescribable sadness. I have taken those differences in emotion arising in interactions with others and placed them on canvas, using images of animals, plants, and objects to visually express what is hard to put into words. My paintings weave together the small fragments of a story with an approach that is humorous but also embodies a sense of disquiet and urgency. We share memories of the same moments, but we gradually drift away from that sameness. I hope that the sensation of what lies in between that gap will gently resonate with your own memory of “the same Moon.” |
31, Kawabata Higashi Marutamachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8395, Japan
Tel:+81-75-761-7372 Closed: Sunday, Monday, & National holidays
eN arts

showcase #13 “Human signs”
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11.Apr.Fri.– 11 May Sun.2025 eN arts is pleased to present a group exhibition dedicated to photography and videos – showcase #13- “Human signs” – curated by Minoru Shimizu. The Showcase exhibitions, which literally showcase young contemporary photographers and video artists, began in 2012, making this is the 13th show in this long running collaboration with Prof Shimizu. For “showcase #13 ‘Human signs’” Prof. Shimizu selected two artists: Yusaku Yamazaki, winner of the Excellence Award at the Canon New Cosmos of Photography in 2014, and Goro Miyashita, winner of the Honorable Mention Award at the Canon New Cosmos of Photography in 2017. “Human signs” are something that cannot be confirmed by sight, but can be felt through insignificant sounds, obstructions, and air movements. How will the invisible “human signs” be expressed in photographic works that must be seen through eyes? We hope you will enjoy “showcase #13 – ‘Human signs’” curated by Minoru Shimizu. eN arts showcase #13, 2025
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Maruyama Park, Gioncho Kitagawa,Higashiyama-ku Kyoto 605-0073 Japan
Tel:+81-75-525-2355 Open:Friday,Saturday,Sunday
galerie16

Akira Nihei Exhibition
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8 Jul. Tue.– 19 Jul. Sat.2025 |
Shuko Terada Exhibition |
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22 Jul. Tue.– 2 Aug. Sat.2025 <comment>Even the dust floating in the air sparkles when the light hits it, and I sometimes feel that it is beautiful. The stars shining in the sky that I vaguely look up at may be similar to that. -terada shuko- |
3F Togawa Bldg Sekisen-in-cho Sanjo Shirakawabashi-Agaru. Higashiyama-ku kyoto Japan
605-0021
Tel:+81-75-751-9288 Closed: Monday
MATSUO MEGUMI+VOICE GALLERY pfs/w

“39th.Greeting” |
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Open daily 10-13 Jul 2025 and Sat-Sun 19 Jul-10 Aug 2025 / 1-7pm each day artists; Artist information will be updated from time to time. |
147-1, Sujiya-cho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto, 600-8061, Japan
Tel:+81-75-341-0222 Open:11:00-19:00 Closed: Monday, Tuesday
Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery @KCUA

KCUA OPEN CALL EXHIBITION
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5 Jul. Sat.– 8 Aug. Sun. 2025 Organized by |
KCUA OPEN CALL EXHIBITIONS
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5 Jul. Sat.– 8 Aug. Sun. 2025 Organized by |
57-1 Shimono-cho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8601 JAPAN
Tel:+81-75-585-2010 Closed: Monday
MORI YU GALLERY KYOTO

Apparition from the Irreducible Distance
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28 Jun.Sat. – 20 Jul. Sun.2025 |
4-19,Shougoin-rengezou-cho,Sakyo-ku,Kyoto-shi,Kyoto,Japan,606-8357
Tel:+81-75-950-5230 Closed: Monday, Tuesday & National holidays
Gallery Hillgate

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15 Jul. Tue.- 20 Jul. Sun.2025 |
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15 Jul. Tue.- 20 Ju. Sun.2025 |
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22 Jul. Tue.- 27 Jul. Sun.2025 |
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22 Jul. Tue.- 27 Jul. Sun.2025 |
〈Back Yard〉
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24 Jun. Tue.- 21 Dec. Sun.2025 |
535 Sanjo Termachitori. Nakagyo-ku kyoto Japan 604-8081 Tel:+81-75-231-3702 Closed: Monday
Kyoto Art Center

<Gallery North・South>
Shadow of the Shadow |
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4 Jul.Fri. - 7 Sept.Sun.2025
curator:Jingwen Li(Seibun) |
Taizo Mori |
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4 Feb.Tue.2025 - 27 Feb.Fri.2026 |
Yamabushiyama-cho 546-2, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-8156 Japan
Tel:+81-75-213-1000
GALLERY TOMO

Permanent exhibition |
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We are now taking the style of appointment only,
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633 Shimogoryo-cho, Teramachi Tounan-kado,Marutamachi-dori Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto Japan
604-0995
Tel:+81-75-585-4160 Closed: Monday & Tuesday
KUNST ARZT

KUBO Naoko solo exhibition
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15 Jul. Tue.– 20 Jul. Sun. 2025 KUBO Naoko (b.2001, Kyoto pref, lives and works in Kansai) is an artist who uses the luster and texture of URUSHI to visualize the supple body movements of animals and the flow of air. She is an active graduate student in URUSHI course at Kyoto city University of the Arts. |
OISHI Marika Solo Exhibition
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26 Jul. Sat.– 3 Aug. Sun. 2025
OISHI Marika (b.1988,Osaka,lives and works in Nara) is an artist
who finds beauty in disappearing and collapsing. |
155-7 Ebisu-cho, HIgashiyama-ku Kyoto Japan 605-0033 Tel:090-9697-3786 Closed: Monday
Gallery Keifu

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15 Jul. Tue.– 20 Jul. Sun. 2025 |
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15 Jul. Tue.– 20 Jul. Sun. 2025 |
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22 Jul. Tue.– 27 Jul. Sun. 2025 |
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22 Jul. Tue.– 27 Jul. Sun. 2025 |
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29 Jul. Tue.– 3 Aug. Sun. 2025 |
21-3 Sanno-cho Shogoin Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8392 Japan
Tel: +81-75-771-1011 Closed: Monday
Gallery G-77

Keisuke Watanabe
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10 Jun. Tue. – 29 Jun. Sun. 2025
The exhibition presents Watanabe Keisuke’s latest works on paper, featuring nude sketches and
plein air studies drawn in and around Kyoto. Each piece reveals the expressive power of the line,
whether tracing the curve of a body or the shape of a distant hillside. We invite you to visit and experience these deeply felt works in person. In this exhibition, the line becomes a living entity: a breath, a whisper, a trace of presence. Watanabe Keisuke’s latest paper works, ranging from small intimate studies to expansive scrolls, draw from two seemingly distinct worlds, the human body in nude sketches and the natural rhythms of Kyoto’s landscape through plein air drawing. What unites them is not the subject but the gesture, a line that listens as much as it marks, that floats like wind across a surface. The exhibition gathers these drawings not as documents but as musical notations of seeing and feeling. Nude forms emerge with the same weightless attention as tree branches or rooftops. A shoulder blade and a hillside are rendered with equal tenderness, each pulsing with subtle energy. A new scroll will be presented for the first time, depicting a sequence of moving figures inspired by Franz Schubert's "Nacht und Träume." In this work, the line follows the tempo and stillness of the music, allowing the human form to appear, dissolve, and reappear across the surface like a drifting melody. The result is a visual meditation on presence, transition, and longing. Watanabe’s landscape paintings grow from the same practice of drawing directly from life. Rooted in observation and reimagined in the studio, they transform everyday scenes into layered, luminous compositions. His brushwork is fluid and expressive, guided by the tempo of place rather than its structure. Architectural outlines, plants, shadows, and fragments of city life coexist on the surface, suspended in a rhythm that feels both immediate and dreamlike. These compositions do not follow strict realism or perspective. Instead, elements are stacked, bent, or suspended, creating a sense of spatial compression that mirrors how memory gathers detail. Each work becomes a kind of visual diary, where personal and cultural landmarks blur together. In some pieces, the suggestion of a waterfront city emerges, where historical identity, fleeting pleasures, and spectacle intertwine. Bold gestures, transparent layers, and painterly disorder evoke a response to the density of contemporary life, a moment of celebration, or perhaps a soft undercurrent of longing. Through both landscape and figure, Watanabe’s line does not seek control. It seeks resonance. Each mark holds the immediacy of touch and the patience of time, inviting the viewer not just to look but to feel the intervals between seeing and remembering, moving and being still. These works ask us to slow down, to inhabit the space where perception becomes presence. |
73-3 Nakano-machi Nakagyo-ku Kyoto,Japan 604-0086 Tel:090-9419-2326
Closed: Monday & Tuesday
Sokyo Gallery

‘Blue’ |
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Dates :Thursday, June 19, 2025 - Thursday, July 31
Venue 1: Sokyo | 381-2 Motomachi, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto 605-0089 Japan
Venue 2: Sokyo Annex | 3F, SSS Building, 375 Ichinofunairi-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-0924
Japan Exhibiting Artists : Asakura Mitsuko, Bai Ming, John Mason, Junkichi Kumakura, Kanjiro Kawai, Keigo Kamide, Koji Kato, Mari Minato, Mika Horie, Shouji Hamada, Shin Fujihira, Sylvie Auvray, Tony Marsh, Tozan Miyanaga, Toru Ishii, Uchida Midori, Uichi Shimizu, Zengoro Eiraku. *Goryeo celadon and Early Joseon Buncheong stamped ceramics will also be on display. |
Sokyo:381-2 Motomachi, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Japan 605-0089
Tel:+81-75-746-4456 11:00am - 6:00pm Closed Sunday, Monday
Sokyo Annex:3F, SSS Building 375 Ichinofunairi-cho, Nakagyo-ku,kyoto
Tel:+81-80-747-4456 1:00pm - 6:30pm Closed Sunday, Monday
Kyoto TSUTAYA BOOKS

<5F Art Wall>
SHIMADA Rie Exhibition
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16 Jul. Wed. – 31 Aug. Sun. 2025 |
<6F Art Wall>
MIZUNO YOSUKE Exhibition
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15 Jul. Tue. – 4 Aug. Mon. 2025 |
<6F Gallery>
Masayoshi NOJO Exhibition |
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26 Jul. Sat – 19 Aug. Tue. 2025 |
Kyoto Takashimaya S.C.[T8]
2-35,Shijodoriteramacihigashiiruotabi-cho,Shimogyo-ku,Kyoto-shi
Tel:+81-75-606-4525 Open:10:00~20:00 Closed:irregularly