Galleries

Our first step here in Tokyo has been to get some idea of what the art map looks like and what kind of exhibitions that are shown at the moment. The contemporary art scene does not have an obvious centre and the galleries and museums for contemporary art are scattered around the enormous city. 

The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo in Shinjuku-ku. The complex was divided in several small rooms on the second floor where each artist had his/her own space. Our impression was that the Artcomplex works like a space for relatively unestablished artists.

http://www.gallerycomplex.com/

NADiff, a building in Ebisu Shibuya-ku, that contains several galleries. 

http://www.nadiff.com/

At the time of our visit, Japanese artist Ken Kitano's photographs from the series “our face project: Asia” was shown at Gallery MEM. With globalization and identity as subjects, Kitano has travelled the world and made an interesting kind of layered group portraits from each location.

More information about the project can be found on the artist's website: http://www.ourface.com/english/works/ourface.html

Industrial building in Kiyosumi that incorporates TomioKoyama Gallery, Taka Ishii Gallery, Hiromi Yoshii, and Shugoarts.

The same building, on our way to the galleries.