DELTA South

Artists
Mio Ito, Ryoko Furukawa, Yuiha Yamaguchi, Genki Yamashita

Dates
26 – 29 September 2025

Opening Hours
2:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Final Day: 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Venue
OVERGROUND (2F Kotobuki Building, 1-17-5 Minoshima, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka 812-0017, Japan)

Participating Galleries
CON_ (Tokyo) 、GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE (Tokyo） 、PARCEL (Tokyo) 、FINCH ARTS (Kyoto)、gallery Unfold (Kyoto) 、TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY (Osaka) 、GALLERY SOAP (Fukuoka) 、OVERGROUND (Fukuoka）

Opening Reception
September 25 (Thu), 2025, 17:00 – 21:00

Organiser
DELTA

In cooperation with
OVERGROUND

Design
Ryu Mieno

GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE is pleased to announce its participation in DELTA South, presenting works by Mio Ito, Ryoko Furukawa, Yuiha Yamaguchi and Genki Yamashita.

DELTA South will take place at OVERGROUND in Hakata, Fukuoka, from 26 to 29 September 2025. As a new development of DELTA—an art fair launched in Osaka in 2020 and led by emerging gallerists—this edition adopts an exhibition format with participating galleries from across Japan. In addition, the programme will feature projects by young Fukuoka-based artists, as well as a bar and café where visitors may engage directly with artists. DELTA South seeks to create a space where new forms of community and energy intersect, distinct from existing models of art fairs.

Artists Profile

Mio Ito, Soft Purple, 2025
Oil on canvas, H275 × W220 mm

Born in Tottori in 1995. Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Oil Painting, in 2017, and completed her MA in Oil Painting at Musashino University in 2019. Her practice is rooted in an affinity with the passage of natural time, linking the accidental beauty of natural scenes with the chance balance of painted strokes. She has exhibited at GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE, CLEAR GALLERY TOKYO, Kodama Gallery and BLANKgallery (Shanghai), amongst others.

Ryoko Furukawa, The Hotel Could Not See the Land, 2025
Acrylic on cotton, H410 × W318 mm

Born in Hyogo in 1994. Completed her MA at Hiroshima City University in 2022. Her work explores the relationship between words and images, and between text and painting, focusing on the structures of language such as names and word order. Using existing manuals and textbooks as source material, she extracts and reconstructs words as the starting point for paintings, installations, patchwork quilts, videos and publications. Influenced by Dada and experimental literature, she develops works that unsettle the relationship between vision and meaning.

Yuiha Yamaguchi, A Dog-shaped Cloud, 2025
Oil on canvas, H220 × W273 mm

Born in Aichi in 1992. Completed graduate studies at Nagoya University of the Arts and an MA at Tokyo University of the Arts. She recalls everyday scenes and landscapes glimpsed in transit, first rendering them as drawings. From these fragments of memory, she selects pigments and layers brushstrokes one by one, constructing pictorial spaces that are not reproductions but accumulations of thought and chance.

Genki Yamashita, for drawing and object, 2025
Oil and charcoal on linen, H590 × W465 mm

Born in Kanagawa in 1998. Graduated from Tama Art University, Department of Oil Painting, in 2022. Drawing upon motifs from everyday landscapes—such as chairs and umbrellas—he moves between painting and sculpture. Incorporating contact with materials and changes in environment, his works function as “vessels” that temporarily hold and observe accumulations of time and experience.