[Event] START Box EXHIBITION vol.5

"START Box" rents out studios at affordable rates to young artists using vacant stores in Tokyo public housing and public housing.
With the cooperation of Yurakucho Art Urbanism YAU, "START Box EXHIBITION vol.5" will be held to introduce the works of 11 artists working at START Box.
In addition to the exhibition of works, there will be interactive viewing and artist talks by the exhibitors with the moderator.
The venue will be YAU CENTER ZENIGAME, a new YAU base opened in October 2025. Please come and see us.

Content Details

Date

Session I Wednesday, February 25, 2026 to Monday, March 2 12:00~19:00
Session II Wednesday, March 4, 2026 to 9th (Mon) 12:00~19:00
* Until 20:00 on February 25 and March 4 due to events

Venue

YAU CENTER ZENIGAME (2 -6-3 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku)

Contents

Works created by artists working at START Box will be exhibited. There will be interactive viewing and artist talks with the moderator.

special event

admission fee

Free

Participating Artists

Artists participating in Session I

Lim Jae-young

Originally from Seoul, she is currently based in Tokyo. She majored in Western painting at Ewha Womans University and completed her bachelor's and master's degree. With the theme of mythological images, desires hidden in the unconscious, and ambivalence of emotions, he continues to explore the inner life of human beings. On the screen, abstract and concrete intersect, using layers, veils, hidden images, and other elements to explore the boundaries between seen and unseen. In recent years, through the START Box program, he has been trying new pictorial experiments in the diverse creative environment of Tokyo, while working on the expansion of the production process and visual language.

unu

Born in January 1997. He continued to feel uncomfortable living in human society, and at some point he began to feel as if he had come from outer space and was studying on Earth. Through the world of psychology, oriental thought, physiology, etc., which I have been strongly attracted to, I have created a device = recaller to awaken the "inner nature" of myself and others by converting the thought which I deepened about living with this mind and body in this ambiguous world into songs, pictures, three-dimensional forms, words, events, etc. In October 2025, he held his first solo exhibition "dissolvingy →→recalling | I keep forgetting →→ I keep remembering" at Sun Gallery and Space.

Rikako Otani (Otani Rikako)

Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1998. In 2024, he completed a master's degree at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Based on the sense of strangeness and strangeness that she feels in her daily life, she creates installation works using familiar objects as materials, using three-dimensional images, songs, and videos. His major exhibitions include (Yokosuka Art Center, Kanagawa, 2025) (Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, 2024), 'Daifuku' (Sabineko Gallery, Tokyo, 2021) and so on 2023. His major awards include the Yokosuka Art Award 2024 Free Expression Plan Grand Prix (2024) and the Audience Award at the 7th New Generation Award (2023).

Fumi KATO

Born in Tokyo in 1985. Graduated from the Meisterschuler program of the Leipzig University of Fine Arts. Inspired by spaces and stories shared by multiple people without realizing it, he produces and presents works, mainly video works. In 2024, he moved his base from Germany to Japan. His major exhibitions include "STATES OF UNCERTAIN DOMESTICITIES" (HAUS KUNST MITTE Berlin) in 2025 and "Lumbung" in 2022.
Loung(Stellwerk Gallery, Kassel), 2020 "SEILAKT III–VI. On a Razor's Edge"(Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Leipzig).

Kana SHINOHARA

Born in Tokyo in 1997. Graphic designer and artist. Graduated from Akita Public University of Liberal Arts and Sciences before graduating from Tokyo Zokei University. Through design surveys and research, we collect things from places, things, and people (history), and express them in various ways, both flat and three-dimensional, through our bodily senses. In recent years, he has been bartering his works. Main participation, exhibitions, and event plans include Fukushi Design Seminar Exhibition (AKITEN HACHIOJI, 2023), PUSH FOR CREATION (Between Tennocho Station and Hoshikawa Station on the Sotetsu Line, under the elevated tracks and on the walls of buildings, 2024), Shop Shop Goko (Gotoku-ji Namisen, 2025), and One Room Memory (euso gallery, 2025).

Artists participating in Session II

Ayumi Suzuki

He was born in Shizuoka Prefecture. After graduating from high school, he lived in Akita Prefecture before moving to Tokyo in 2011. Based on his experience in oil painting and ceramic art, he is currently exploring mixed-media expression. Recent works include murals at the Tsurumi Public Art Project and a large billboard display at CLUB CITTA’. At an artist-in-residence in Hyogo Prefecture, he worked on the fusion of leather materials and paintings, and developed his work focusing on the relationship between materials and bodily sensations. Consistently, he focuses on questions such as "What is the nature of attachment?" and "Where is the boundary between self and others?."

Noriyasu SODA (Noriyasu SODA)

Born in Nagasaki Prefecture in 1984. His major works include "Au 79 – Scheiße & Gold" (BOA-basedonart Düsseldorf Germany, 2023), "OUT OF SILENCE" (CONCEPT SPACE, Gunma, 2021), "BILD für BILD" (ANMO ART, Düsseldorf Germany, 2018), "Vuoto occidentale/orientale" (galleria gentili, Firenze Italy, 2017), and "Reflecting Noise" (ANMO ART, Düsseldorf Germany, 2017).

Takayuki NAKAMURA (Takaki NAKAMURA)

Born in Tokyo in 1986. While working as a system engineer and programmer based in Tokyo, he creates media art and audiovisual works and posts his works mainly on Instagram. Among his major awards are Kinomural 2025 finalist, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC, 2012), and Contemporary Computer Music Concert (CCMC, 2009).

Misato NONAKA (Misato NONAKA)

Graduated from Musashino Art University Graduate School of Art and Design, Department of Oil Painting in 2020. She has participated in the two-person exhibition "Suematsu Yukari & Nonaka Misato Exhibition over&lap" (Nihonbashi Takashimaya SC Main Building 6th Floor Art Gallery X, 2023), the two-person exhibition "Ono Yumiko & Nonaka Misato Exhibition" (Murakoshi Gallery, 2023), the solo exhibition "Tying Nerine Together" (Shinjuku Takashimaya 10th Floor Art Gallery, 2023), the group exhibition "One and Only ONE ART Taipei" (Taipei/JR East Hotel, 2024), the solo exhibition "Colors of Life, Connected Landscapes" (ART FACTORY Jonan Island, 2025), and the solo exhibition "Together" (Gallery 1045 Toyama, 2025).

Mioka MATSUURA (Matsura)

Born in Tokyo in 2001. Graduated from Tama Art University. Creates three-dimensional works using fabric and paintings using these motifs. Her expression focuses on the process in which her works become independent and take on life. Selected awards include the Shell Art Award 2021 Yuasaeboshi Jury Award, Idemitsu Art Award 2022 Student Special Award, Changting Gallery Exhibition 2022 Grand Prix, GEISAI #22 & Classic Takano Aya Award (2023), AATM 2025 Guest Jury Usukubo Kaoru Award (2025), and CAF Award 2025 Grand Prix (2025). Selected solo exhibitions include "Une Myo" (Changting gallery, 2023) and "The scene of beautiful blossoms" (hidarijinngaro, 2023).

Morikawa ・ Saku

Born in Tokyo in 2001. Graduated from the Department of Graphic Design, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tama Art University in 2025. His work centers around painting and ceramics, and is based on the concept of "room." Major exhibitions include "Room I" (Shimokitazawa Arts, Tokyo, 2024), "Blue Period x ArtSticker Vol. 1" (Art or Rice Vermicelli or Self-Cooking, Tokyo, 2024), "grid3" (biscuit gallery, Tokyo, 2024), and "MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2023" (B&CHALL, Tokyo, 2023). Awards include being selected for the 41st Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition (2023), the Excellence Award at the ACT Art Prize Exhibition 2023 (2023), and being selected for FACE2023 (2023).

Credit

Sponsor

Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Arts Council Tokyo

cooperation

Yurakucho Art Urbanism YAU

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