Yutaka Enchan

Exhibition bit by bit | HARUKA MISAWA @misawadesigninstitute venue: ADI Design Museum (Milan, ITALY) @adidesignmuseum MON 20 Apr. 2026 – SUN 7 Jun. 2026 Opening Hours: 10:30 – 20:00 (during Design Week: until 21:00) Opening: MON 20 Apr. 2026 12:00 Admission: Free Exhibition by: ADI Design Museum Curated by: Nippon Design Center, Misawa Design Institute Art Direction: Haruka Misawa Design: Haruka Misawa, Masaki Suzuki, Tomoaki Yanagisawa, Mayu Mizuno, Mai Hosokai Partner: Paper and People The first solo exhibition in Italy dedicated to Haruka Misawa, one of the leading figures in contemporary Japanese design. The title bit by bit refers to a methodology based on minimal variations, careful observation, and almost imperceptible gestures. In contrast to today’s visual saturation, Misawa’s practice invites us to pause and reconsider the ordinary, revealing unexpected possibilities embedded within everyday materials and phenomena. Through a process of accumulation and subtle transformation, the work uncovers hidden structures and expands perception. #HarukaMisawa #BitByBit #ADIDesignMuseum #MilanDesignWeek #JapaneseDesign

Exhibition Suzuko Yamada Exhibition: parallel tunes venue: TOTO GALLERY・MA (Tokyo, JAPAN) @yamadasuzuko THU 16 Apr. 2026 – SUN 12 Jul. 2026 Opening Hours: 11:00 – 18:00 Closed: Mondays and national holidays, MON 4 May. 2026 – WED 6 May. 2026 (open on SUN 3 May. 2026) Admission: Free Organised by: TOTO GALLERY・MA Planned by: TOTO GALLERY・MA Steering Committee Special Advisor: Tadao Ando Committee Members: Momoyo Kaijima, Akihisa Hirata, Sen Kuan, Tsuyoshi Tane Supported by: Tokyo Society of Architects & Building Engineers, Tokyo Association of Architectural Firms, The Japan Institute of Architects Kanto-Koshinetsu Chapter, Architectural Institute of Japan Kanto Chapter, Japan Federation of Architects & Building Engineers Associations Cooperation: Nippon Filing Co., Ltd., Tanaka Hitoshi Foundation, OKAMURA CORPORATION, Souzou-kei Real Estate Co., Ltd., TAIYO KOGYO CORPORATION, SHIMA Co., Ltd., Hokusei Kogyo Co., Ltd., Arakawa & Co., Ltd., LUFTZUG CO., LTD., Artifact Inc. TOTO GALLERY・MA presents the first solo exhibition by architect Suzuko Yamada, whose work explores a new architecture in which nature, people, and objects resonate together. Through free-form design, bold composition, striking color, and installations full of vitality, the exhibition introduces Yamada’s distinctive spatial imagination and the fresh energy it brings to architecture. Raised by a mother who worked as a wildlife documentary director, Yamada grew up observing living creatures in the wild. The exhibition draws on that sensibility and presents her world as a rich polyphony, where nature, organisms, and landscape resonate through complex melodies rather than a single controlled harmony. Video installation by LUFTZUG Directed and installed by Yutaka Endo Technique by Tomoya Kishimoto Edited by Shimpei Mitani #SuzukoYamada #ParallelTunes #TOTOGalleryMA #ArchitectureExhibition #TokyoExhibition

Exhibition awai no ki – KAGE venue: Nadoya Shimazuyama (Tokyo, JAPAN) FRI 6 Mar. 2026 – SUN 8 Mar. 2026 Opening Hours: 12:00 – 18:00 Performance Installation SAT 7 Mar. 2026 14:00–14:30 / 15:00–15:30 / 16:00–16:30 SUN 8 Mar. 2026 14:00–14:30 / 15:00–15:30 / 16:00–16:30 From season to season, from haiku to manga. The book awai no ki is a collaborative work between manga artist Hitomi Takenouchi and twenty-four haiku poets, who composed and illustrated the cycle of a year through haiku and manga. To celebrate the publication of this book, the installation exhibition awai no ki – KAGE will be presented for three days. Visitors are invited to step into the garden where plum blossoms bloom and into the house where shadows gather, experiencing the poetic dialogue between seasons, images, and words. Performance Direction / Choreography: Nagisa Sugao Video Direction / Editing: Kota Ishii Video Cinematography: Koichi Takagi Video Assistant: Ayumi Ono Performance: Saki Ueda, Fumika Kuwabara, Akari Konno Video Appearance: Kei Iwata, Kumi Kureshiro, Fumika Kuwabara, Akari Konno Installation / Technical Direction: Yutaka Endo (LUFTZUG) Design: Takuma Hayashi, Ryosuke Harashima PR: Masumi Yamamoto Photography: Fatima Yu #AwaiNoKi #InstallationArt #TokyoExhibition #HaikuArt #MangaArt @hitomitakenouchi @toutousha_book @nadoya.jp @nyagigi @11111ece @fumika_kuwabara @konnoakari @kureshiro_kumi @enchn @hayashi__takuma asia2016ss @msm__y @ryosuke_harashima @awai_no_ki

PERFORMANCE “WE ARE THE HOUSE” venue: Kyoto Art Center Auditorium (Kyoto, JAPAN)  @kyotoartcenter SAT 21 Mar. 2026 18:00 SUN 22 Mar. 2026 14:00 Tickets: https://teket.jp/15894/61890 Concept, Direction, Piano, Performance, Video: Tomoko Mukaiyama @tomokoamsterdam Performance, Text: Just Van Bommel Composition: Yannis Kyriakides Lecture Performance Script: Yuri Yamada Technical Director: Yutaka Endo / LUFTZUG Lighting Design: Amber Vandenhoeck Lighting Installation: RYU Co., Ltd. Video Supervision: Reinier van Brummelen Video Design: Shinpei Mitani Video Technician: Tomoya Kishimoto Sound Technician: Takeshi Azuma Production: Mayumi Yamamoto, Yuxi Huang, June Teraoka (Kyoto Art Center)  Graphic Design: Takuma Hayashi Logo Design: Simpson Tse Produced by: Tomoko Mukaiyama Foundation Co-produced by: Kyoto Art Center, Holland Festival  Supported by: Embassy of the Netherlands in Japan, DutchCulture, CAN (Culture All Nippon), General Incorporated Association MULTUS  Grant Funding: Embassy of the Netherlands in Japan, DutchCulture, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Japan Arts Council, The Japan World Exposition 1970 Commemorative Fund (JEC Fund)  The performance was developed through an encounter and collaboration with abortion-rights activist Rebecca Gomperts, whose dialogue and practice became a central inspiration. Combining piano, live electronics, organ, and voice with video, installation, spoken text, and physical performance, the work forms a hybrid stage piece. In a time of increasing social conservatism, the project asks what art and performing arts can articulate and what kinds of disturbance or reflection they can create, exploring the potential of performance as a space of critical engagement. #WeAreTheHouse #TomokoMukaiyama #KyotoArtCenter #PerformanceArt #ContemporaryPerformance

Exhibition Tomoko Mukaiyama “Act of Fire” venue: Arts Maebashi (Maebashi, Gunma, JAPAN) SAT 24 Jan. 2026 – SUN 22 Mar. 2026 Opening Hours: 10:00 – 18:00 (Admission until 17:30) Closed: Wednesdays (open on FEB 11 [Wed, holiday] and closed on FEB 12 [Thu]) This large-scale solo exhibition marks Tomoko Mukaiyama’s first full museum presentation, transforming all six underground galleries of Arts Maebashi into a theatrical corridor. The exhibition reconfigures key works such as wasted (2009), the tsunami-stricken grand pianos of nocturne (2011), and the new video poem KOKOKARA (2025), weaving them into an immersive journey through memory, loss, resistance, anger, and rebirth. The title “Act of Fire” signals both an intimate ritual rooted in Mukaiyama’s own body and history, and a gesture of confronting contemporary realities — gender inequality, intensifying natural disasters, and ongoing global conflicts — by using fire as a primal medium of reflection and illumination. @tomokoamsterdam Organizer：Arts Maebashi Special Cooperation：Tomoko Mukaiyama Foundation, Multus Production Support：LUFTZUG/Yutaka Endo, Reinier van Brummelen Curators：Takenori Miyamoto, Misaki Azuma Promotional Design：Yuri Suyama, Minami Ogahara Grant：Japan Arts Council Fonds Podiumkunsten, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst Support：Jomo Shimbun, Gunma TV, FM GUNMA, Maebashi CITY FM, Maebashi Chamber of Commerce and Industry Special Thanks：PIANO PLAZA GUNMA, Maebashi Galleria, Yurinkan, Kiryu City #TomokoMukaiyama #ActOfFire #ArtsMaebashi #ContemporaryArt #InstallationArt

Exhibition 100 FLŌRA by Kenta Umemoto venue: ISSEY MIYAKE KYOTO | KURA (Kyoto, JAPAN) MON 5 Jan. 2026 – WED 25 Feb. 2026 Opening Hours: 11:00 – 20:00 (Hours based on gallery schedule)  Presented by: ISSEY MIYAKE KYOTO | KURA Paris-based photographer Kenta Umemoto has expanded his long-term project with A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE titled “TYPE-VIII Kenta Umemoto project,” which features his FLŌRA flower series on garments and textiles.  100 FLŌRA is a new photographic print series that deepens this exploration, giving floral imagery fresh expression and depth through advanced print techniques.  The exhibition presents 100 works printed with inkjet technology, where ultra-fine ink particles sprayed on paper fuse conventional color expression with mirror-like reflection. Umemoto treats the inkjet device not as a “reproduction machine” but as a drawing tool, creating images that reveal subtle shifts in light, metallic sheen, and the unique granularity of silver pigment.  The silver pigment reacts with oxygen and humidity in the air, causing slight color changes and density variations. Umemoto describes this phenomenon as “argentation,” allowing each work’s surface to evolve over time and to present different expressions depending on the moment of viewing.  #100FLORA #KentaUmemoto #ISSEYMIYAKEYKYOTO #KURA #PhotographyArt

Exhibition Tokyo Contemporary Art Award 2024–2026 湿地 “Wetland” venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Exhibition Gallery 3F (Tokyo, JAPAN) @mot_museum_art_tokyo THU 25 Dec. 2025 – SUN 29 Mar. 2026 Opening Hours: 10:00 – 18:00 (last entry 17:30) Closed: Mondays (open on JAN 12 & FEB 23); DEC 28 – JAN 1; JAN 13; FEB 24 Organised by Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Tokyo Arts and Space / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture) Artists: Umeda Tetsuya and Oh Haji “Tokyo Contemporary Art Award” (TCAA) is a contemporary art prize established by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Tokyo Arts and Space to support mid-career artists. In its fifth edition, artists Umeda Tetsuya and Oh Haji were selected as recipients, and this exhibition presents works reflecting their individual practices and cross-dialogue under the title “Wetland.” Umeda’s work often visualizes structure and relationship through performance and spatial interventions, while Oh’s projects explore memory, human narratives, and imagined geographies, creating immersive experiences for the viewer. In this exhibition, their artistic expressions are interwoven in the gallery space, evoking the fluidity and complexity of wetland landscapes where sea and land meet. #TCAA #MuseumOfContemporaryArtTokyo #UmedaTetsuya #OhHaji #Wetland

Exhibition Traces of Life — Shapes in Wood Formed by Living Creatures ー 生きものが残した木のかたち ー venue: Karimoku Commons Tokyo (Tokyo, JAPAN) THU 11 Dec. 2025 – TUE 27 Jan. 2026 Opening Hours: 12:00 – 18:00 Closed: Sundays (except SUN 25 Jan. 2026) Winter Holiday: 26 Dec. 2025 – 4 Jan. 2026 Organised by: Karimoku Furniture Planning / Exhibition Direction / Design: Shizuka Tatsuno (Shizuka Tatsuno Studio) Art Direction: desegno ltd. Editing / Writing: Mana Soda Technical Direction / Construction: LUFTZUG Support: Washin Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., DESIGNTIDE TOKYO 2025 Executive Committee “Traces of Life” is a collaborative project born from designer Shizuka Tatsuno’s first encounter with the forests where wood grows. The exhibition reframes natural markings—such as insect traces, knots, bends, and discoloration—not as flaws but as memories shaped by life and time. By revealing these characteristics rather than concealing them, the exhibition offers a renewed perspective on the individuality, depth, and quiet beauty inherent in wood. It invites viewers to reflect on the relationship between humans and trees and the layers of time embedded in this living material. #TracesOfLife #Karimoku #KarimokuCommons #WoodDesign #ShizukaTatsuno

Exhibition “Hans J. Wegner: Works from the Oda Collection” venue: Hikarie Hall (Shibuya Hikarie 9F, Tokyo, JAPAN) TUE 2 Dec. 2025 – SUN 18 Jan. 2026 Opening Hours: 10:00 – 19:00 (Last Admission 18:30) 31 Dec: 10:00 – 18:00 (Last Admission 17:30) Closed: 9 Dec., 1 Jan. Organised by: Bunkamura Museum of Art Special Cooperation: Town of Higashikawa (Hokkaido) / Oda Collection Organisation Exhibition Design: Tsuyoshi Tane (ATTA) @tsuyoshi_tane Hans J. Wegner (1914–2007) stands as one of the most influential furniture designers of the 20th century. Known for masterpieces such as The Chair (1949) and the Y-Chair (1950), Wegner created more than 500 chair designs through a deep understanding of materials and a belief in “beauty through function.” This large-scale retrospective, featuring approximately 160 works from the Oda Collection, traces his career through early prototypes, iconic pieces, working models, drawings, and archival documents. From the rare “First Chair” (1931) and “Second Chair” (1938) to experiential sit-in zones, the exhibition presents an unparalleled opportunity to engage directly with Wegner’s craftsmanship and philosophy. #HansJWegner #OdaCollection #HikarieHall #ScandinavianDesign #Bunkamura

Exhibition “Learning from Design Maestros” venue: 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT (Tokyo, Japan) @2121designsight FRI 21 Nov. 2025 – SUN 8 Mar. 2026 Opening Hours: 10:00 – 19:00 (Entrance until 18:30) Closed: Tuesdays, December 27 – January 3 Organised by: 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT / THE MIYAKE ISSEY FOUNDATION Exhibition Directors: Noriko Kawakami, Kaoru Tashiro Human encounter provides avenues to think about the future of life and society. In this age of dramatically changing values, with its fast flows of mass information, we might wish to look back and consider masters who used design to articulate diverse viewpoints. The exhibition introduces six towering figures under the label of Design Maestros — Bruno Munari (Italy), Max Bill (Switzerland), Achille Castiglioni (Italy), Otl Aicher (Germany), Enzo Mari (Italy) and Dieter Rams (Germany) — and includes the perspective of Shutaro Mukai whose friendship with Max Bill and Otl Aicher laid the foundation for the Science of Design in Japan. The exhibition uses documentary film to show the human dimensions of the six designers’ endeavours, in their own words, and puts this alongside their representative masterworks. It invites visitors to reflect on what these designers expected from their followers, and how we too should be independent and proactive. #learningfromdesignmaestros #212121designsight #designmaestros

. Takakurakazuki Exhibition “Character is Kotoba” SUN 16 Nov. 2025 - SUN 1 Mar. 2026 Venue: “Hyper Museum Hannō” inside Metsä Village @takakurakazuki @hypermuseumhanno Digital × Real Fusion! Game & Matsuri Sanctuary! Hyper Museum Hannō – Exhibition Vol.3 The third installment of Hyper Museum Hannō features the highly acclaimed artist Kazuki Takakura, known for blending the digital and the real in groundbreaking ways! Inside and outside the exhibition space, Takakura’s world comes alive: oni, kappa, the twelve zodiac animals, Buddhist–Shinto beings, yokai, and countless other characters gather all at once. More than ten of Takakura’s original game works will rotate throughout the exhibition period — and you can actually play them. A massive installation space will also appear, centered around the 4-meter-tall giant HYPER-MAN, previously showcased at GINZA SIX. The Hyper-Ondo and AR characters will pop up in various spots across the venue. During the exhibition, we’re also planning a series of festive events such as kagura, hatsumode, and mikoshi gatherings. Don’t miss it — come and play! #kazukitakakura

Yuji Mizuta Solo Exhibition ［Simulacrum /シミュラークル］ THU 13 Nov. - SAT 6 Dec. 2025 venue : Amy-d Arte Spazio Via Lovanio, 6, Milano Invitation Art direction: @hayashi__takuma Photography: @satomi_yamauchi [Exhibition] Curator : Anna d’Ambrosio @sonodambrosioanna @amy.d_gallery Raffaella Nobili @raffynob @paraventigiapponesi Exhibition Technical Support : @enchn Exhibition Furniture Production : @nitiyouhin IIII ArtWork support Performance : @emayuasa (Post14,15,17) @_mao.nakagawa__ (Post17) Cinematography & post-production: @kei.sukeabe (P3,14,15), @satomi_yamauchi (P17) Construction Support : @ritenutobytac , @kumikotakeda_works (P14,15,17) Embroidery Support : @koroni_embroidery (P14,15,17) Management: @kayotokunagacarta And for help and support, @noriokidera (photo:p4,6,11), @kawara_printmaking_laboratory , @koshinplanning , @cleargallerytokyo , @nadoya.jp , @daily_press_tokyo and my husband and both of my families. #Simulacrum #art #artgallery #milan #blairdistrict #italy