Tokyo Gendai × Gallery & Bakery Tokyo 8min 2025 Special Exhibition " Tokyo Gendai 58 min "

The Chain Museum, which operates ArtSticker, and FONZ, which operates THE CITY BAKERY, have opened Gallery & Bakery Tokyo 8 min on the 1st floor of TODA BUILDING in Kyobashi, Tokyo, which opened in November 2024. 

We will now hold a special exhibition “ Tokyo Gendai 58 min ” to coincide with the international contemporary art fair Tokyo Gendai 2025.

Tokyo Gendai , which was first held in July 2023 and is now attracting attention as one of Asia's leading art fairs, is a platform where major domestic and international galleries meet in one place and serve as a bridge for cultural dialogue with the global art market.

In addition to participating in Tokyo Gendai 2025, this exhibition will be the first joint group exhibition by the three galleries based in the same building: Tomio Koyama Gallery, Taka Ishii Gallery, and KOSAKU KANECHIKA.

The works exhibited will be selected by each gallery that belongs to it.

It is 58 min from Pacifico Yokohama,  the venue for Tokyo Gendai 2025, to Gallery & Bakery Tokyo in Kyobashi, Tokyo. We are waiting for you to take this opportunity for the international art community to gather and visit our gallery to see another Tokyo Gendai .

More information at official website:

https://artsticker.app/events/81974

About galleries

Tomio Koyama Gallery

Tomio Koyama Gallery opened in 1996 in Saga-cho, Koto-ku, Tokyo. Currently based in Roppongi, Kyobashi, Tennoz, Maebashi.

Since its opening the gallery has been participating in international art fairs, being the first point of introduction for young Japanese artists, and has generated a current that became a foundation of Japanese contemporary art.

The gallery currently represents Kishio Suga, Mika Ninagawa, Hiroshi Sugito, Richard Tuttle as well as holding exhibitions of ceramic artists. Introducing diverse artists from established figures to young talents, beyond distinctions of nationality or genre, Tomio Koyama Gallery aims at developing the contemporary art market with original perspectives.

Exhibiting artist: WADA Sakura
Sakura Wada was born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1999, and graduated from Tokyo Zokei University in 2024 majoring in painting. That same year, she won both the Tomoko Yabumae Prize and Tomio Koyama Prize at Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2024. She has held four solo exhibitions to date.
While Wada’s practice is rooted in painting, she has developed various modes of artistic expression that are not bound by genres such as installation, video, and performance, while making use of fabrics and embroidery that are a familiar presence in everyday life.

Wada’s deep interest in the sense of equilibrium to be found in our relationships with others and the power balance within them has led her to “avoid the one-sided viewing of paintings by hanging them on the wall.”

Instead, she has made her paintings freestanding, with their own feet, that are as large as an entire wall, or painted on both the front and back.

The works themselves represent hints at something to be noticed, encouraging the viewer to engage in a process of active and multifaceted appreciation of art.

Taka Ishii Gallery

Since its opening in 1994, the gallery aesthetic has been rooted in the photographic. It has developed exhibitions and publication of catalogs and books by artists both in Japan and abroad. In addition to the primary exhibition space in Roppongi, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film focuses on historical shows of pre and postwar Japanese photography and film.

In 2023 the gallery opened branches in Kyoto and Maebashi. In 2024 the gallery opened a new exhibition space in Kyobashi, Tokyo.

Exhibiting artist: Takuma Oue
Takuma Oue was born in 2000 in Osaka Prefecture and currently lives and works in Ibaraki Prefecture. He graduated in 2023 with a BA (major in oil painting) and completed in 2025 a master’s degree (MFA) in the same field at Kyoto University of the Arts. He has participated in group exhibitions including “Mark Making”, Taka Ishii Gallery Maebashi, Gunma (2025); “Jogyo Zammai”, A-LAB, Hyogo (2024); and “Rabbit, Hummingbird, and Homunculus: How to Make a New Horizon”, MEDIA SHOP, Kyoto (2023).

Oue’s recent work explores the possibilities of both abstract painting that incorporates collage and sculptural production that includes performative elements. These efforts build on Oue’s previous oil paintings made without brushes and using his bare hands, and which emerged from his sense of the boundary between his own body and the outside world. Oue uses the word “menace” to describe his own abstract paintings. Vivid reds and yellows coexist on the canvas, colliding and intermixing, as lines brimming with energy cut across each frame. Circular cut-out photographs of stones are pasted on the canvas as a distinct presence scattered within the paintings. Reminiscent of the warning colors that creatures produce to protect themselves from predators, the paintings’ various elements make a strong impression on the viewer and draw our attention back to the mental effects of visual expression and our visceral responses to it. Presented as a series of paintings in different colors, the power of these works grows more pronounced as their effects expand into an experience in three dimensions.

KOSAKU KANECHIKA

Founded in March 2017 by director, Kosaku Kanechika, KOSAKU KANECHIKA is a contemporary art gallery in Tokyo, Japan, that belongs to a new generation of venues re-defining the local contemporary art landscape. The gallery showcases Japanese artists who are renowned domestically and on an international scale, representing Yutaka Aoki, Junko Oki, Takuro Kuwata, Ataru Sato, Chikashi Suzuki, Noritaka Tatehana, Hiroto Tomonaga and Miwa Kyusetsu XIII. The gallery also hosts exhibitions featuring overseas artists such as Dan McCarthy and Ruby Neri, introducing artists that engage in novel expressions transcending both medium and genre.

Exhibiting artist: Hiroto Tomonaga
Hiroto Tomonaga was born in Saga Prefecture, Japan, in 1997 and is currently based in Tokyo. In 2020, he graduated from the Department of Painting at Musashino Art University, and received a Master of Fine Arts from the same institution in 2022. He has presented in solo exhibitions including “Diffuse Reflection” (Musashino Art University, 2023), “Balance” (gallery Binosha, 2022), “Flashing Point” (GALLERY WATER, 2021), and notable group exhibitions include “FACE2022” (SOMPO Museum, 2022), and “CHANGTING GALLERY PRIZE” (Changting Gallery, 2022). In 2022 he was a finalist for FACE2022, and received a judgeʼs prize at Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi.

Hiroto Tomonaga captures transitory moments in which things he is looking at ever so briefly appear to him as something else, and strives to render this in painting. He plays with shifts in perception, the way vision alternates between foreground and background, or interprets one thing as another, all of which is similarly echoed in the repetitive back and forth in his layering, removing, and mark making with paint. In this way, the changes that occur before his eyes gradually translate into paint on the canvas, becoming fixed on the surface. Working with subject matter close to himself, this process is a means for Tomonaga to ruminate on distance and depth, both physical and emotional. While the resulting paintings are fixed, they feel as if they might resume moving once again, and express the sense of helplessness the artist himself feels regarding the world he sees before him.