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🦇🌕🎲🏠 "PlanetesQue: The Case of B" solo exhibition by BIEN @bien_jap 2023. 07.22 Sat - 09.03. Sun Opening reception 07.21 Fri at PARCEL @parceltokyo PARCELでの2年ぶりの個展です 是非お越しください！ Design by @heijiroyagi —————————— !!Next exhibition starting on 22th Sat!! Upcoming solo exhibition by BIEN, "PlanetesQue: The Case of B" will start from Saturday July 22nd at PARCEL. Opening reception will be on Friday July 21st. This will be the artist's first solo exhibition at PARCEL in two years, since "DUSKDAWNDUST" in 2021. PARCELでは、7月22日(土)より、BIEN個展「PlanetesQue : The Case of B」を開催いたします。2021年に開催された『DUSKDAWNDUST』から、PARCELでは2年ぶりの個展となります。詳細は近日公開いたします。 More info soon!

💀🌳 Tomorrow, May 15, is the last day to see the exhibition. Open from 12pm to 6pm @season4_episode6 Don’t miss it🙏 ---------- Untitled (A Portrait of Someone Like You #2) 2026 185.2 × 121.7 × 36 cm Acrylic on Linen, Wood Frame 📸: @damian_griffiths_

This week, 15 Questions with… by arts & culture writer Gary Grimes @gary_is_hip turns to London/Tokyo-based artist BIEN @bien_jp BIEN’s practice centres on a distinctive drawing language influenced by animation. Working across video, sculpture, instruction, and installation, he examines the mechanisms by which the world is perceived and collectively constructed through images.  🚨Don’t miss BIEN’s show, In a Grove of Lights, at @season4_episode6 , London. The show is on view until 16 May! Click the link in bio to read the full article!

📽️🕯️⚖️ Until Friday, May 15th! @season4_episode6 will be opening to the public from 12-6 on May 12-15th. -——— A Portrait of Someone Like You 2026 Dimensions variable Projector, Single Channel Video, Stainless Plate 📸: @damian_griffiths_

🚨 Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, the exhibition will now end on Friday, May 15th next week. I sincerely apologize to anyone who was planning to visit on the original closing day, the 16th. Instead, the gallery will be open from the 12th to the 15th, from 12pm to 6pm. This will be the final week to see the exhibition, so I hope you can come by!!!!🔥🙏 @season4_episode6 ————— In a grove of lights 2026 w700×h480×d32mm three post cards, framed 🫶Big thanks to @amandamostrom_ @wearefacility 📸1,2: @damian_griffiths_

BIEN at Season 4 Episode 6, London “In a Grove of Lights” March 21 – May 16, 2026 Photos: ©Damian Griffiths, courtesy of the artist and Season 4 Episode 6, London @season4_episode6 @bien_jp

👤 Three flames 2026 dimensions varieble three matches, window ----- Thank you so much to everyone who came to the opening last week!!
It was truly a wonderful opening, and I’m very grateful for your support. I’d also like to give a big thank you to all the friends who helped me in creating these works. The exhibition runs until May 16, so there’s still time- I’d love for more people to come and experience it in person. For this show, I’ve incorporated Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s In a Grove into the overall installation- something I’ve probably done for the first time in my work. The exhibition as a whole also feels more like a single installation than ever before. The text is an important part of the work, so I hope you’ll take your time and experience the pieces together with it. ----- “In a Grove of Lights” solo presentation by BIEN 21.03.26 - 16.05.26 🕓: 12-6 Fri and Sat or by appt. @season4_episode6

‘Skipping Stones,’ a group show organised in collaboration with Saki Kanaya, is open until 18 April at 17 Goulston Street. Featuring work by: BIEN, Yuri Ando, Kanji Hasegawa, Aya Higuchi, Miho Ichise, Ryu Takeda, Chen Tianyi, Koji Yamaguchi @ayayaya03133 @saru_owo_ @mihoichise @bien_jp @kojiyamaguchi_orista @wuduadyr @takedaron @kanji_hasegawa @audreyandsaki Pictured : ‘Skipping Stones,’ 2026, installation views

In a Grove of Lights, a solo presentation by BIEN, runs until 16.05.26. @bien_jp 📸: @damian_griffiths_

🌿🌿🌿 Excited to announce my first solo exhibition in London, opening next Saturday at @season4_episode6 Everyone, please come by on Saturday the 21st. Hope to see you there!!!!! “In a Grove of Lights” solo presentation by BIEN 21.03.26 - 16.05.26 🕓: 12-6 Fri+Sat or by appt. VIP PREVIEW: 21.03.26 6-9PM SEASON 4 EPISODE 6 96 ROBERT ST, NW1 3QP LONDON, UK ----- This exhibition is inspired by In a Grove, a short story written by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and published in Japan in 1922. The story revolves around three main characters: a government samurai, his wife, and a notorious bandit. They encounter one another in a forest along the road. Something happens there, and the samurai is later found dead. What follows is a series of testimonies about the incident. The three people involved—including the dead samurai speaking through a medium—along with several witnesses and related figures each recount what happened. Yet their accounts differ completely. None of the stories align, and in the end, no one can know what truly took place. What matters in this story is not the factual truth of the event, but the different realities that emerge from it. Even if someone lies, the desire for things to have happened in a certain way can become a reality for that person. Akutagawa’s story itself was influenced by a tale recorded around the year 1120 in the Konjaku Monogatari (Tales of Times Now Past), a collection of Asian legends, myths, and Buddhist narratives. The structure of In a Grove continues to resonate today. In the contemporary world, where the internet spans the globe and social media and AI increasingly shape the circulation of information, similar misalignments quietly occur every day. They appear across distances large and small, between public events and private moments, and within both large groups and small circles. We live not only under sunlight but also under the glow of palm-sized screens. Through the images produced by these lights, we experience and understand the world. You standing there now, and I standing here, may meet, part, and pass by one another as we move through a grove formed by countless lights—some natural, some artificial. Text by BIEN

🪩 Group show open until 14/02/26! This Friday and Saturday are the final days to see the show. Huge thanks to @season4_episode6 and @santi_gallery for the invite 🤝🔥 I’m really happy to be exhibiting alongside so many great artists. Please come by! 📍 E1 0LT 🗓 Fri & Sat 🕛 12–6 PM Photos 1–5: @damian_griffiths_ ---------- untitled (Do Like The Monkeys Do #1–4) 2025 W662 × H301 × D36 mm Acrylic on linen, wood frame

🍊 今年もよろしくお願い致します Last year was the first time in my life that I spent a long period living outside the country where I was born and raised. I was glad to slowly experience for myself just how vast the world is, and how little I actually know. For me, there are many things you can’t understand simply by reading books — and some things you can never know at all. I want to keep experiencing things this way, in my own way...🚶🏻‍♂️‍➡️