[Event] START Box Shirahige | Open Atelier

Start Box We will open the studio of a young artist working in Shirahige.
This is a rare opportunity to interact with artists who create paintings and installation works.
Admission is free, and advance reservations are not required, so please feel free to drop by.

* The event may be postponed due to bad weather. Please check the official X for the latest information.

admission fee

Free
* No reservation required

Participating Artists

RISA TOKUZAKI

We are engaged in cross-disciplinary production and research on the theme of changes in perception and the generation of meaning as people interact with things and spaces. We aim to create opportunities for people to discover new values and perspectives in their daily lives and open up their own creativity through experiences created through interactions with materials, bodies and the environment. Currently, as one of his practices, he reconsiders calligraphy as an expression with physicality and space, and creates a series of works called "SHO" using ink and Japanese paper.

Momoko Sato

Born in Yamagata Prefecture in 1992. After graduating from Tsuru University, he studied drawing after working experience. In 2023, he graduated from Musashino Art University, correspondence course, oil painting department. At present, he uses colored pencils to reconstruct his works on the screen while observing the colors, lights, and shapes of everyday scenes. He has received awards for the "World Art Grand Prize Exhibition" (2023 and 2025), being selected for the "Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition" (2024), the "New Artist Award Debut" Encouragement Prize (2026), and being selected for the "Showa Kai Exhibition" (2026).

Sanae Yamada

An artist based in Tokyo. Through video production based on fieldwork, he unravels the relationship between humans and the natural environment and explores how the body and mind are positioned in the environment. Recent exhibitions include “Yamada Sanae: Topophilia ” (Tomioka City Museum of Fine Arts, Ichiro Fukuzawa Memorial Museum of Art, 2023),“ VOCA 2026: Perspectives on Contemporary Art – Artists on a New Plane ” (Ueno Royal Museum, 2026), "ACT Vol.8 "About the Earth"" and (Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, 2026).

Taka Kono

Born in 1994. Based in Tokyo, he creates installations and three-dimensional works. It explores how intimacy and distance emerge in space and change over time, creating a room that is at once homely and quiet. The theme is the anonymity of standardized rooms and the distance that remains between people even in the immediate vicinity. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Parsons School of Design. His solo exhibitions include "HOME" (Hunsand Space, Beijing, 2025) and "specter" (Hunsand Space, Hangzhou, 2023).

Credit

management

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

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