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28 April, 2026

Kenjiro Okazaki｜New works 54

At Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, the solo exhibition “New Works 54” will be held.
In addition to the two TSCA spaces, the exhibition can also be viewed on the 4th floor of the adjacent TERRADA ART COMPLEX II.

Kenjiro Okazaki｜New works 54

Exhibition Period: Saturday, April 25, 2026 – Saturday, June 6, 2026
Reception: April 25, 3:00 p.m. ‒ 6:00 p.m.
Open: Tue-Sat, 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Closed: Sun, Mon and National Holidays

Venue 1: Takuro Someya Contemporary Art
TSCA TERRADA ART COMPLEX I 3F 1-33-10 Higashi-Shinagawa Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 140-0002 Japan
tel 03-6712-9887 ｜fax 03-4578-0318 ｜e-mail gallery@tsca.jp

Venue 2: BONDED GALLERY
TERRADA ART COMPLEX Ⅱ 4F 1-32-8 Higashi-Shinagawa Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 140-0002 Japan
Cooperation: Warehouse TERRADA

https://tsca.jp/exhibition/kenjiro-okazaki%ef%bd%9cnew-works-54/#works

25 April, 2025

Discontinuous Lines: Julije Knifer and Kumi Sugai

The exhibition “Discontinuous Lines: Julije Knifer and Kumi Sugai” was conceived under the guidance of Kenjiro Okazaki.

Discontinuous Lines: Julije Knifer and Kumi Sugai
TERRADA ART COMPLEX l BONDED GALLERY 4F, Tokyo, Japan
10 - 29 April 2025
https://galeriefrankelbaz.com/exhibitions/50-discontinuous-lines-julije-knifer-and-kumi-sugai/

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Sugai and Knifer: Parallel Visions from the Periphery
Kenjiro Okazaki

Julije Knifer (1924-2004) from Croatia (former Yugoslavia) and Kumi Sugai (1919-1996) from Japan. The two likely never met in person. Yet one can discern profound commonalities in their works beyond surface resemblances―in methodology and artistic vision.

This commonality is undoubtedly connected to the time they both spent living and working in Paris, breathing the same air where politics and artistic culture intersected.

Landscapes emerging at the dead ends (cul-de-sacs) of systems, where urban planning under construction breaks off.
These momentary, seemingly accidental forms are what occupy our vision and persist in memory.

They present this as a force of resistance confronting established systems. An uninterrupted latent power―this was
manifested in Sugai's tubes and Knifer's meandering patterns (meanders).

If so, the forms appearing at these junctures emerge as barricades against the routinized scenery of urban life.

Anti-urban, anti-architectural―here "anti" refers to the political act itself.
Art thus manifests as this act, as political rupture.

Their work undoubtedly reflected post-structuralist thought with precision.

Through the work of Julije Knifer (1924-2004) and Kumi Sugai (1919-1996), we may also discover the true sources of what appeared on the surface on the American continent after the 1970s as post-Pop and post-abstract movements (sometimes called Simulationism). Their practices remind us that the avant-garde has always been generated at the geopolitical and visual peripheries.

1 April, 2025

Kenjiro Okazaki: 而今而後 Time Unfolding Here

A major solo exhibition, “Kenjiro Okazaki: 而今而後 Time Unfolding Here,” centered on works created since 2021, will be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.

Exhibition Period: Tuesday, 29 April – Monday, 21 July, 2025
Opening Hours: 10 AM – 6 PM (Tickets available until 30 minutes before closing.)
Closed: Mondays (except May 5 and Jul 21), May 7
Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Exhibition Gallery 1F/3F, foyer

::MORE INFO
https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/en/exhibitions/kenjiro/

18 October, 2024

Art Basel Paris 2024

Exhibit paintings at Art Basel Paris 2024.

Art Basel Paris 2024
Oct 18–20
VIP preview: Oct 16–17
Grand Palais, Paris, France

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