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The first day of the two-day opening preview of “Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected” has successfully concluded, and we are truly grateful for the warm and enthusiastic response from all who visited. Today marks the second day of the preview, before the exhibition officially opens to the public on May 9, 2026. B-OWND is pleased to present this exhibition as part of Personal Structures 2026 “Confluences”, organized by @ecc_italy . We are pleased to share a video glimpse of the exhibition, captured across seven rooms at the historic Palazzo Bembo in Venice. Here, contemporary art rooted in Japanese craft enters into dialogue with the architecture, light, and memory of the city. Through the Eastern concepts of en — interconnectedness — and ku — emptiness — the exhibition challenges dualistic ways of thinking and explores how seemingly opposing values can coexist, resonate, and generate new meanings. The exhibition also features a special collaboration with Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage × Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, opening another pathway into the depth and diversity of contemporary Japanese expression. We extend our sincere thanks to all artists, partners, collaborators, and guests who joined us for the first day of the preview and made it such a meaningful beginning. For more details, please visit the special website via the link in @bowndjp profile. 【Exhibition Overview】 Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected at Personal Structures 2026 “Confluences” organized by ECC Dates: May 9 – November 22, 2026 Venue: Palazzo Bembo, Venice Produced and Curated by B-OWND Participating Artists: Art Collective TeaRoom @tearoom_japan Hiromine Nakamura @hirominator2.0 Kengo Takahashi @kengo_takahashi_ Takahiro Koga @takahiro00koga Tomoya Sakai @s_tomoya1212 Tanabe Chikuunsai IV @chikuunsai4 Yoshiaki Imamura @yoshiaki_imamura Special Collaboration: Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage × Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure @mangaart.jp #BOWND #RelationalLogic #PersonalStructures2026 #Venice #venicebiennale

Opening on May 9, 2026 in Venice. B-OWND is pleased to present “Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected” as part of Personal Structures 2026 “Confluences”, organized by @ecc_italy The exhibition will take place across 7 rooms at the historic Palazzo Bembo, where contemporary art rooted in Japanese craft enters into dialogue with the architecture, light, and memory of Venice. Through the Eastern concepts of en — interconnectedness — and ku — emptiness — the exhibition challenges dualistic ways of thinking and explores how seemingly opposing values can coexist, resonate, and generate new meanings. Alongside the exhibition, visitors will also be invited to experience Chanoyu, the Japanese tea ceremony, and Zazen, Zen meditation — offering a moment to engage with Japanese aesthetics not only through observation, but through presence and participation. The exhibition also features a special collaboration with Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage × Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, opening another pathway into the depth and diversity of contemporary Japanese expression. Here is the first look at the venue, captured just before the opening. We are deeply honored to share this new horizon of Japanese aesthetics with the world, and we sincerely thank all participating artists, partners, and collaborators who have made this project possible. For more details, please visit the special website via the link in our profile. 【Exhibition Overview】 Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected at Personal Structures 2026 “Confluences” organized by ECC Dates: May 9 – November 22, 2026 Venue: Palazzo Bembo, Venice Produced and Curated by B-OWND Participating Artists: Art Collective TeaRoom @tearoom_japan Hiromine Nakamura @hirominator2.0 Kengo Takahashi @kengo_takahashi_ Takahiro Koga @takahiro00koga Tomoya Sakai @s_tomoya1212 Tanabe Chikuunsai IV @chikuunsai4 Yoshiaki Imamura @yoshiaki_imamura Special Collaboration: Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage × Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure @mangaart.jp #BOWND #RelationalLogic #PersonalStructures2026 #venicebiennale #art

Hikoju Makie exhibits tea utensils for the tea room. Collaboration Artist: Room 1 Hikoju Makie (Lacquer Art) @hikoju_makie In the tea room of Room 1, the lacquerware created by the artisan collective Hikoju Makie serves as a vital medium—one that dissolves the binary boundary between "appreciation" and "use," guiding participants into a deeper spiritual experience. Based in Wajima, Hikoju Makie has remained fiercely dedicated to natural wood and urushi (lacquer) under the aesthetic vision of their late master, Takashi Wakamiya. Their approach to generating beauty relies on "relationships with others": a complete division of labor shared among some twenty specialized artisans. This collective methodology is the very embodiment of the exhibition’s theme, Relational Logic. In February 2025, the group faced a profound turning point with the passing of Wakamiya, their spiritual pillar. However, the lineage of his spirit and technique was never severed. Backed by the Yamauchi family—the founding family of Nintendo—a new structure was formed, marking the beginning of a new chapter for Hikoju Makie. Presenting the spirituality inherent in Japanese craft to the world as contemporary expression, their ongoing challenge to cross the borders between craft and art continues. Art work info/作品情報 Title：Hanazukushi (Myriad Flowers) Maki-e Tea Caddy Materials：Wood (Kiso cypress), natural urushi (lacquer) ,Wajima jinoko (diatomaceous earth), charcoal powder, mineral pigments 協業アーティスト：Room 1 彦十蒔絵｜Hikoju Makie（漆芸） Room 1の茶室において、「鑑賞と使用」という二項対立の境界を溶かし、参加者を精神的体験へと導く媒体となるのが、漆芸職人集団「彦十蒔絵」によって制作された漆芸作品です。 輪島を拠点とする彦十蒔絵は、かつての棟梁・若宮隆志の美学のもと、天然木と天然漆という素材にこだわり抜いてきました。約20名の専門職人による完全分業制という「他者との関係性」の中で美を立ち上げる集合的な手法は、本展のテーマ『関係の論理』を体現するものです。 2025年2月、精神的支柱であった若宮隆志の逝去という転換期を迎えましたが、その魂と技術の連鎖が途絶えることはありませんでした。任天堂創業家・山内家の支援のもと新体制を構築し、彦十蒔絵は新たな一歩を踏み出しました。日本の工芸が持つ精神性を現代の表現として世界に問い、工芸とアートの境界線を越えゆく彦十蒔絵の挑戦はこれからも続きます。 作品名：花尽くし蒔絵–棗- 素材：木曽天然ヒノキ、天然漆、輪島地の粉、金粉、銀粉 【Exhibition Overview】 "Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected" at Personal Structures 2026 ”Confluences” organized by ECC Dates： May 9 – November 22, 2026 Venue：Palazzo Bembo, Venice Curated and produced by B-OWND @ecc_italy

【Floor map】"Relational Logic” at Personal Structures 2026 ”Confluences” In an era defined by global transformation, the overarching theme of Personal Structures 2026 is "Confluences"—exploring how personal narratives build ties with collective ones. In response, B-OWND presents "Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected". Our exhibition seeks to reconnect these fractured values through the Eastern philosophy of En (relationships/connection) and Ku (emptiness). Rather than a simple display of objects, we have designed 7 distinct rooms as immersive environments. As visitors move through these spaces, they are invited to shift their perspective from "understanding through division" to "re-perceiving through relationships". Room 1：The Generation of Relationships — From Observation to Participation by Art Collective TeaRoom, Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage × Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Room 2：Ritual to the Universal — The Intersection of Alchemy and Animism by Yoshiaki Imamura Room 3：NEO WABI-SABI — A Portrait of Stillness and Excess by Takahiro Koga Room 4：Stratification and Liberation of Memory — Toward a FLAT Horizon by Tomoya Sakai Room 5：Flower Funeral — Life and Death, Held Together by Kengo Takahashi Room 6 Your Ark — Celebration and Emergency by Hiromine Nakamura Room 7：The Way of Interbeing — The Path of Ku (Emptiness) by Tanabe Chikuunsai Ⅳ Room 8&9：Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage × Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure 【Exhibition Overview】 "Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected" at Personal Structures 2026 ”Confluences” organized by ECC Dates： May 9 – November 22, 2026 Venue：Palazzo Bembo, Venice Produced and Curated by B-OWND Personal Structures展の全体テーマは「Confluences（合流）」。 個人の物語が集合的な物語と結びつき、文化の潮流を形作るというこの問いに呼応して、B-OWNDは『関係の論理 — 二元論を超え、結び直される世界』という空間を提示します 。 私たちが暮らす現代社会は、善悪、自然と人工といった「二元論」で物事を切り分けることで発展してきました 。本展では、東洋古来の「縁（関係）」や「空」の思想に基づき、分断された価値をふたたび接続することを目指しています 。 全7室の展示空間は、単なる作品の陳列ではありません 。一つひとつの部屋が、鑑賞者の視点を「分けて理解する」ことから「関係を捉え直す」ことへと移行させるための、没入的な体験空間として設計されています 。 @ecc_italy

【Image persp of Room1】 Room 1のイメージパースを公開 Craft(Kogei) × Manga (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) × Tea ceremony (Chanoyu) Though seemingly distinct in nature, these elements are intrinsically united by a profound Japanese aesthetic at their core. We cordially invite you to partake in our Chanoyu (tea ceremony) and Zazen (Zen meditation) sessions. Rather than merely observing, we encourage you to immerse yourself and experience the elegant convergence of these diverse values. 【Exhibition Overview】 "Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected" at Personal Structures 2026 ”Confluences” organized by ECC Dates： May 9 – November 22, 2026 Venue：Palazzo Bembo, Venice Produced and Curated by B-OWND Participating artists：Art Collective TeaRoom, Yoshiaki Imamura, Takahiro Koga, Tomoya Sakai, Kengo Takahashi, Hiromine Nakamura, Tanabe Chikuunsai IV Special Collaboration：Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage × Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure This exhibition challenges dualistic frameworks by reconnecting fragmented values through the Eastern concepts of en (interconnectedness) and ku (emptiness). Across seven rooms at the historic Palazzo Bembo in Venice, visitors will experience a shift from a mindset of division to one embracing ambiguity and relation. Through contemporary art rooted in Japanese craft, the exhibition explores how seemingly opposing elements can coexist and generate new meanings. Room 1のイメージパースを公開 工芸 × マンガ(ジョジョの奇妙な冒険) × 茶の湯 ヴェネチアの歴史的建築の中に特別な「茶室」が出現します。一見まったく異なるカテゴリーに見える3つの要素ですが、視点を変えれば、その根底には同じ日本文化の深い精神性と美意識が流れています。会期中はこの茶室を舞台に、茶会や座禅などの特別プログラムを開催。「鑑賞する」だけでなく、自ら「参加する」ことで、多様な価値観が美しく溶け合う瞬間をご体感ください。 ＜ヴェネチア・ビエンナーレ 公式サテライトイベント＞ Personal Structures 2026 ”Confluences”（主催：European Cultural Centre） ＜展示タイトル＞ Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected（関係の論理 — 二元論を超え、結び直される世界） 会期: 2026年5月9日（土）～11月22日（日） 会場: Palazzo Bembo（イタリア・ヴェネチア） プロデュース/キュレーション：B-OWND 参加作家：Art Collective TeaRoom、今村能章、古賀崇洋、酒井智也、髙橋賢悟、中村弘峰、四代田辺竹雲斎 特別協業：集英社マンガアートヘリテージ × 荒木飛呂彦『ジョジョの奇妙な冒険』 @ecc_italy

【ヴェネチア展示に向けた特設サイトがオープンしました】 2026年5月より開催されるヴェネチア・ビエンナーレ公式サテライトイベント 「Personal Structures 2026」企画展「Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected」に向けた特設サイトを公開いたしました。 The official landing page for the exhibition “Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected,” presented at Personal Structures 2026 “Confluences” organized by ECC, is now live. イベントの概要や、展示構成と参加アーティストのほか、本展に寄せた寄稿文もご覧いただけます。ぜひご覧ください。 【特設サイト】 〈日本語〉 /venice2026/ 〈English〉 /en/venice2026/ @bowndjp プロフィールのリンクからご覧いただけます。 Please check the link in our bio. また、4月9日にはメディア発表会が開催され、参加アーティストから古賀崇洋、酒井智也、髙橋賢悟、四代 田辺竹雲斎、Art Collective TeaRoomの岩本 涼、プロデューサー/キュレーター 石上賢らが登壇しました。 各登壇者がそれぞれの視点から、本展に向けた想いやコンセプトの背景を語り、開幕への期待を感じさせる場となりました。 ============================== 【Exhibition Overview】 "Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected" at Personal Structures 2026 ”Confluences” organized by ECC Dates： May 9 – November 22, 2026 Venue：Palazzo Bembo, Venice Curated by B-OWND Participating artists：Art Collective TeaRoom, Yoshiaki Imamura, Takahiro Koga, Tomoya Sakai, Kengo Takahashi, Hiromine Nakamura, Tanabe Chikuunsai IV Special Collaboration：Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage × Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure ==============================

【成田国際空港 第1ターミナルにB-OWNDアーティストの作品が登場！】 Art installations from B-OWND at Narita Airport T1 成田国際空港 第1ターミナルビルのリニューアルに伴い、本日より5FエリアにB-OWND参加アーティスト、陶芸家・古賀崇洋と漆芸家・谷川美音の作品が展示されています。 本エリアのテーマは「日本の文化と精神性を育む豊かな水と四季の移ろい」。 広大なエリアで水の流れや四季の移ろいを感じさせるデザインとともに、アーティストの作品をゆったりと堪能いただける空間となっています。 古賀崇洋の展示では、代表作「頬鎧盃」を6点ご覧いただけます。エッジの効いた独自の造形が、空港の新エリアに力強い存在感を放ちます。 谷川美音は、本プロジェクトのためにオリジナル作品を制作。伝統的な漆の赤から現代的なマゼン夕へ繋がる色彩は過去から現在、未来への繋がりを表します。跳ねるようなラインや青は飛び立ちの高揚感や飛行機雲を連想させ、空旅の出発を彩ります。 さらにエントランスでは、B-OWND参加アーティスト四代田辺竹雲斎による大型インスタレーション《空の環（リング）》をご覧いただけます。 また、4月9日(木)に行われたリニューアル記念セレモニーにはアーティストがテープカットに参加し、新たな門出を華やかに彩りました。 成田国際空港をご利用の際は、旅の始まりにぜひお立ち寄りください。 【アーティスト】 古賀崇洋 @takahiro00koga 谷川美音 @mine_tanigawa 四代田辺竹雲斎 @chikuunsai4 【展示場所】 成田国際空港 第1ターミナル5F #古賀崇洋 #谷川美音 #四代田辺竹雲斎 #成田国際空港

Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected 【Artist】 Art Collective TeaRoom @tearoom_japan TeaRoom explores beauty and connection without starting from separation. They treat chanoyu as a comprehensive art form where objects, space, gesture, people, and time arise together—and where relationship is felt through the five senses. Working from a tradition that has continually shaped ways of “being together” for centuries, TeaRoom unsettles the binary habits that define modern life. Their practice begins before definition: roles like “artwork” and “viewer” loosen, and everyone present becomes part of the environment. Their work extends beyond exhibitions and performances into tea cultivation, distribution, education, and international cultural projects. They build an ecosystem where art, industry, and culture move together. In this exhibition, by shifting appreciation into participation, TeaRoom poses a quiet question: what returns to us when we experience the world before it gets divided? 【Exhibition Overview】 "Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected" at Personal Structures 2026 ”Confluences” organized by ECC Dates： May 9 – November 22, 2026 Venue：Palazzo Bembo, Venice

Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected 【Special Collaboration】 Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage) @mangaart.jp Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage—an initiative that inherits Japan’s rich manga culture and elevates it into fine art. What unfolds here is the world of Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. It is an attempt to expand manga from a medium of everyday "reading" into an object of "contemplation" imbued with advanced technology and striking materiality. Here, manga effortlessly crosses the boundaries between "something to read" and "something to view," between "everyday entertainment" and "extraordinary art," presenting a new ontology where it can continually be both. The venue, Palazzo Bembo, is a historic structure built in the 1300s, its windows opening out to the canal overlooking the Rialto Bridge. Italy, and Venice in particular, serves as a crucial stage within the narrative of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. The "real Venice" framed by the windows and the "fictional Venice" depicted in the artwork overlap. In this intersection, the breathing of the characters transcends the confines of fiction, connecting directly to the physical senses of the spectator. The intervention of contemporary pop culture within this historic space does more than simply occupy a room. It dissolves the binary boundaries we unconsciously draw—high and low, reading and seeing, the everyday and the extraordinary, fiction and reality—and reweaves a new "relationship" across time and space. At this confluence where manga and craft, narrative and landscape intersect, visitors are invited to step beyond the two-dimensional frame into a multi-layered world where all values move and resonate equally. 【Exhibition Overview】 "Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected" at Personal Structures 2026 ”Confluences” organized by ECC Dates： May 9 – November 22, 2026 Venue：Palazzo Bembo, Venice

Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected 【 Artist 】 Tanabe Chikuunsai IV @chikuunsai4 Born in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture in 1973, Chikuunsai IV grew up within a distinguished lineage of bamboo craftsmen, surrounded by the material from childhood. He studied sculpture at Tokyo University of the Arts before apprenticing under his father, Chikuunsai III, and taking the name Tanabe Chikuunsai IV in 2017. His work builds on traditional weaving techniques while expanding them into the scale and language of contemporary art. He is known in particular for large installations that draw on bamboo’s inherent vitality. After each exhibition, the works are dismantled and the bamboo carried forward into new projects—a practice that enacts, materially, the circulation and continuity his work is about. Here, Chikuunsai gives form to ku: the understanding that all existence arises within relationships. Venice’s light and wind, the weight of the architecture, and the presence of viewers are woven into a single structure. The result is a space that holds tradition and innovation, craft and art, nature and humanity, not as opposites to be resolved, but as forces that, brought together, become something new. 【Exhibition Overview】 "Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected" at Personal Structures 2026 ”Confluences” organized by ECC Dates： May 9 – November 22, 2026 Venue：Palazzo Bembo, Venice Curated by B-OWND Participating artists：Art Collective TeaRoom, Yoshiaki Imamura, Takahiro Koga, Tomoya Sakai, Kengo Takahashi, Hiromine Nakamura, Tanabe Chikuunsai IV Special Collaboration：Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage × Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected 【 Artist 】 Hiromine Nakamura @hirominator2.0 Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1986, Nakamura studied sculpture at Tokyo University of the Arts, completing his undergraduate degree in 2009 and his Master’s in 2011, before apprenticing under his father, doll master Shinkyo Nakamura. He works within the tradition of Hakata dolls, while consistently pulling contemporary life into that classical frame. A question drives his practice: if a doll maker from the Edo period could observe the present, what would they make? He approaches modern athletes as warlords, luxury brand logos as family crests—lightly crossing eras and cultures to find the prayers and aspirations people carry without quite naming them. Here, the Hinadan becomes a stage where festivity and emergency share the same space. Human and animal, past and future, sacred and everyday—arranged on the same level, without resolution. Nakamura’s technical command is precise and deep, but the work it produces reaches past craft into something more exposed: a mirror for the choices, the hopes, and the blind spots that define how we live now. 【Exhibition Overview】 "Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected" at Personal Structures 2026 ”Confluences” organized by ECC Dates： May 9 – November 22, 2026 Venue：Palazzo Bembo, Venice Curated by B-OWND Participating artists：Art Collective TeaRoom, Yoshiaki Imamura, Takahiro Koga, Tomoya Sakai, Kengo Takahashi, Hiromine Nakamura, Tanabe Chikuunsai IV Special Collaboration：Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage × Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected 【 Artist 】 Kengo Takahashi @kengo_takahashi_ Born in Kagoshima Prefecture in 1982, Takahashi studied at Tokyo University of the Arts, completing his undergraduate and master’s degrees in the Casting Lab of the Crafts Department, before earning his Ph.D. in Fine Arts (Crafts/Casting) there in 2022. He has also served as a research assistant and part-time lecturer at the university. Takahashi’s practice centers on his original ‘flower casting’ (hana-ikomi) technique, a development of vacuum pressure casting that replaces fresh flowers with aluminum at a thickness of just 0.1 millimeters. The work began in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake—an experience that pushed him toward a sustained engagement with death, and with the idea of a requiem for what was lost. His objects sit at the boundary of the organic and inorganic, life and death. Running through them is a continuity of mourning and gratitude that stretches from early human burial rites to the present—a quiet insistence that death is not absence, but part of something larger. 【Exhibition Overview】 "Relational Logic — Beyond Dualism, a World Reconnected" at Personal Structures 2026 ”Confluences” organized by ECC Dates： May 9 – November 22, 2026 Venue：Palazzo Bembo, Venice Curated by B-OWND Participating artists：Art Collective TeaRoom, Yoshiaki Imamura, Takahiro Koga, Tomoya Sakai, Kengo Takahashi, Hiromine Nakamura, Tanabe Chikuunsai IV Special Collaboration：Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage × Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure