Emerging Directors & Curators U40

Artists
Kurumi Ono, Yuiha yamaguchi

Date
14 – 25 December 2024

Time
11 am – 18 pm

Venue
WHAT CAFE
2-1-11 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo

GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE is excited to announce our participation at Emerging Directors & Curators U40 at WHAT CAFE, Tokyo, Japan.

Emerging Directors & Curators U40 (EDC U40) is a group exhibition in which gallery directors and curators under 40 who are actively working in the art industry introduce artists and their works from unique perspectives. This platform is designed to elevate the contributions of these energetic individuals who are part of a generation driving change. In the EDC U40 exhibition, 15 Tokyo-based directors and curators will each select one artist and showcase their works under the theme “Our Generation.” Through this exhibition, we strive to foster connections between next-generation directors, curators, artists, and collectors, providing an opportunity to shape the future of Japan’s art industry.

– Artist x director or curator

Yuiha Yamaguchi x Kohsuke Hayashi (GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE)
Kurumi Ono x Atsushi Suzuki (GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE)
Sayaka Toda x Ayaka Koshiba (THE LOOP GALLERY)
Moe Nakase x Satoshi Murakami (SOM GALLERY)
ZhouRui Zhang x Milan Hou (3ducksDADA)
Koga Miura x Ryo Takahashi (Pause One)
Chen Li x Joiii XU (Galerie Supermarkt)
Akiko Ando x Saya Lee (LEESAYA)
Yutaka Komase x Ryo Suzuki (EUKARYOTE)
Sun Homma x Yoshiko Kojima (EUKARYOTE)
aonuma soco x Taito Katsumata (MARGIN)
ShiShi Yamazaki x Reiko Itabashi
JACKSON kaki x LI JINGWEN (Seibun)
Souya Handa x Souya Handa (Souya Handa Projects)
Shotaro Sanada x Yuko Ajiki (WHAT CAFE)

Works

Kurumi Ono

Born in Tochigi, Japan in 1995, graduated from BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London in 2019. Ono is interested in the visualisation of “flux,” which is the order of nature, and “preservation,” which is the human desire to keep things forever. Through the process of “Burying photographs in the soil,” photographs that are supposed to capture a scene of the changing are transformed by absorbing moisture and moving micro-organisms in the soil. The works that emerge from the soil all show different expressions.

Photography of soil, 2024, Inkjet print, W1030 × H1456mm

Birth (death), 2023, Ink, paper and soil, W297 × H210mm

Yuiha Yamaguchi

Born in Aichi, Japan in 1992, completed a master’s degree in oil painting at Tokyo University of Arts in 2020. Yuha Yamaguchi is an oil painter and paints Japanese landscapes. Based on drawings made while riding in buses and cars, she applies colours and layers to complete her paintings.

An antenna which I remember the shape, 2024,  Oil on canvas, W606 × 727mm

Cloud in the shape of a dog’s head, 2024, Oil on canvas, W273 × H220mm

Installation  View
Photo by Sora Okubo