Opening New Exhibition Space “G-265”
2026. 02. 12
GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE is pleased to announce the opening of G-265, a new temporary exhibition space located at 2-6-5 Ginza, Chuo City, Tokyo.
G-265 is an underground space defined by its raw, exposed concrete interior. Departing from the conventions of the white cube, the space offers a rough and flexible environment that encourages alternative approaches to exhibition-making.
The exhibition programme at G-265 focuses on installation, video, sound, and new media, highlighting practices that extend beyond traditional painting. Conceived as a site for emerging artists, the space supports experimental and spatial practices, providing room for artists to develop and present new bodies of work.
Building on this focus, G-265 will host collaborative projects with international galleries and curators. Through these exhibitions, the space aims to foster connections between artists, curators, museums, and collectors, and to function as a platform linking Tokyo with wider contemporary art networks.
By combining an experimental exhibition programme with a flexible use of space, G-265 seeks to introduce new cultural energy to Ginza and contribute to ongoing dialogue within contemporary art.
Name: G-265
Address: B1, 2-6-5 Ginza, Chuo City, Tokyo, Japan
Organised by: GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE
Cooperation: Hamada Kosan Co., Ltd.
The inaugural exhibition at G-265 will be a solo presentation by contemporary artist Shugo Kashiwagi, opening on 12 March 2026.
Kashiwagi’s practice explores relationships between nature and artificial structures through sculptural works made from natural clay excavated from the ground and combined with collected plants and seeds. Presented within the raw, underground environment of G-265, the exhibition examines how his works generate new dialogues with the space and foregrounds the material and conceptual tensions that emerge between body, environment, and time.
Shugo Kashiwagi
Born in 1996, Tokyo. Shugo Kashiwagi creates sculptural works using natural clay excavated from the ground, mixed with collected plants, grasses, and seeds. His practice engages with themes of life and death, the momentary and the eternal, the body and its environment, and the relationship between nature and artificial structures. By intersecting different temporalities and states of being, Kashiwagi seeks to reconfigure these elements into newly perceived landscapes.
Kashiwagi completed his MFA in Inter-Media Art at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2024. Recent exhibitions include Setouchi Triennale 2025, Awashima, Kagawa and Diffusion of Nature, GASBON METABOLISM, Hokuto, Yamanashi in 2025.
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