EXHIBITIONS

Sylvie Auvray + Yoichi Umetsu: 'Sylvie & Umetsu. La maison hantée ?'

19 Sep - 13 Nov 2024 SOKYO, SOKYO ANNEX Press Preview: Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 11AM - 2PM Dates: Thursday, September 19 - Wednesday, November 13, 2024 Venue: Sokyo, Sokyo Annex Kyoto, September 18, 2024 - Sokyo (Gion main gallery) and Sokyo Annex (Kawaramachi-Nijo) are delighted to present the two-person exhibition Sylvie & Umetsu. La maison hantée?... Read more

Special Exhibition Moriyasu Kimura: The Spirit of Tenmoku - Radiance till the end of Time

13 Jul - 8 Aug 2024 SOKYO ANNEX Press Preview: Friday, July 12, 2024, 3 - 5PM Dates: Saturday, July 13, 2024 - Wednesday, August 7 Venue: Sokyo Annex 3F, SSS Building 375 Ichinofunairi-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-0924 Japan Kyoto, July 12, 2024 ー Sokyo Annex is pleased to present the Special Exhibition 'Moriyasu Kimura: The Spirit of Tenmoku... Read more

Kazuma Koike : Paintings and Sculptures

16 May - 27 Jun 2024 SOKYO ANNEX VIP Preview: Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 11AM - 2PM Dates: Thursday, May 16 - Thursday, June 27 Venue: Sokyo Annex We are pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Kazuma Koike at Sokyo Annex. Read more

Mishima Kimiyo: Solo Exhibition

15 Feb - 7 May 2024 SOKYO, SOKYO ANNEX VIP Preview: Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 11AM - 15PM Dates: Thursday, February 15, 2024 - Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Venue: Sokyo, Sokyo Annex ＊ Sokyo Gallery has extended the exhibition period until Tuesday, May 7. Sokyo Annex will end the exhibition on Wednesday, April 17 as planned initially. Kyoto... Read more

Hige- san

Yoichi Umetsu, Masumitsu Kanzaki Two Person Exhibition 13 Dec 2023 - 31 Jan 2024 SOKYO, SOKYO ANNEX Dates: Thursday, December 14, 2023 〜 Wednesday, January 31, 2024 Venue: Sokyo Gallery and Sokyo Annex At Sokyo Gallery, we will present a two-person exhibition “Hige-san,” featuring the artist Yoichi Umetsu and the traditional craftsman Masumitsu Kanzaki, who heads the Marumasu Seito kiln in Shigaraki. This show presents the work... Read more

CAT (Collaborative Art Team) | Yoichi Umetsu

Fantastic Art by Kids 15 Jan - 23 Feb 2023 SOKYO ANNEX Dates: Sunday, January 15, 2023 - Thursday, February 23. Venue: Sokyo Annex CAT (Collaborative Art Team) is a children's leadership and teamwork group that engages with the arts. Through discovery, collaboration, research, curation, writing and exhibition, children take the lead in exploring 'what is art' and 'what is collaboration.' Through... Read more

Yuichiro Kikuma: Traces of Summer

"Traces of the Summer" 6 Oct - 5 Nov 2022 SOKYO ANNEX Dates: Thursday, October 6, 2022 - Wednesday, November 2 Venue: Sokyo Annex Sokyo Annex (Kyoto) is pleased present Yuichiro Kikuma’s solo exhibition, “Traces of the Summer,” which is his first solo exhibition at Sokyo. Kikuma is a London-based artist who has been expressing incidental events that happen in daily life... Read more

Kristen Morgin: 21st Century Works 2001-2019

13 Apr - 4 Jul 2022 SOKYO, SOKYO ANNEX VIP Preview: Wednesday, June 22, 2022 Dates: Thursday, June 23, 2022 - Wednesday, July 27 Venue: Sokyo, Sokyo Annex Sokyo Gallery, and Sokyo Annex (Kyoto) are pleased to present “Kristen Morgin: 21st Century Works 2001- 2019.” Following her successful solo exhibition at SOKYO ATSUMI in Tokyo in this spring, Kristen... Read more

Mayu Kunihisa: BUTTERFLY EFFECT

19 Mar - 22 Apr 2022 SOKYO ANNEX VIP Preview: Friday, March 18, 2022 Dates: Saturday, March 19, 2022 - Saturday, April 23 Venue: Sokyo Annex Sokyo Annex (Kyoto) is pleased to present 'BUTTERFLY EFFECT' by Mayu Kunihisa. In the group exhibition 'Woman and Lines' held at the same venue in December 2020, she showed... Read more

Kazunori Hamana and Yoichi Umetsu: A Room with Six Floating Pots and Message Bottles

4 Dec 2021 - 19 Feb 2022 SOKYO ANNEX Dates: Saturday, December 4, 2021 - Saturday, February 19, 2022 Venue: Sokyo Annex Sokyo Gallery is proud to present A Room with Six Floating Pots and Message Bottles, a collaborative exhibition by Kazunori Hamana and Yoichi Umetsu. There is little evident overlap in the works of Hamana and Umetsu. Rather,... Read more

Marukawa Collection | Jonathan Hammer: SCROLL AND TENTACLE

30 Jul - 11 Sep 2021 SOKYO ANNEX Dates: Friday, July 30 - Saturday, September 11, 2021 Venue: Sokyo Annex Supported by Marukawa Cooperation From July 30 to September 11, 2021, Sokyo Gallery and Sokyo Annex are pleased to present Jonathan Hammer’s solo exhibition: OPERATION OCTOPUS and Marukawa Collection: SCROLL AND TENTACLE at the same time. Read more

Kentaro Kawabata: Knee Bridge

8 - 29 May 2021 SOKYO, SOKYO ANNEX Press Preview: Friday, May 7, 2021 Dates: Saturday, May 8, 2021 - Saturday, May 29. Venue: Sokyo, Sokyo Annex (Dates: Friday, April 16, 2021 - Saturday, May 1) Sokyo Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Kentaro Kawabata, “Knee Bridge”, which runs from Saturday, May... Read more

Group Exhibition 'White'

8 Mar - 10 Jul 2021 SOKYO ANNEX Press Preview: Friday, May 7, 2021 Dates: Saturday, May 8, 2022 – Saturday, July 10 Venue: Sokyo Annex Since ancient times, the color white has held special meaning to the Japanese: a sacred color for confronting the gods, openly, without falsity. The origins of this belief harken to the ancient... Read more

Miki Komatsu: The Coloring Outlines

5 - 27 Mar 2021 SOKYO ANNEX Dates: Friday, March 5, 2021 - Saturday, March 27 Venue: Sokyo Annex Sokyo Annex is pleased to present ‘Miki Komatsu: The Coloring Outlines’. This is Komatsu's first solo exhibition and will include 17 new works. Currently enrolled in a master's course at Tokyo University of the Arts, Komatsu has... Read more

Kimiyo Mishima

7 Jan - 27 Feb 2021 SOKYO ANNEX Dates: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - Saturday, February 27. Venue: Sokyo Annex To mark her special inclusion in the 4th Collection Gallery Exhibition 2020 at The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Sokyo Annex is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Mishima Kimiyo, spanning her two-dimensional pieces of the... Read more

Women and Lines

3 Dec 2020 - 13 Jan 2021 SOKYO ANNEX Dates: Thursday, 3 December, 2020 ‒ Wednesday, 13 January, 2021 Venue: Sokyo Annex Participating Artists: Gaku Azuma, Toru Ishii, Mayu Kunihisa Sokyo Gallery is very glad to present a group exhibition, Women and Lines at Sokyo Annex. This exhibition will focus on 'women' and 'lines', and two-dimensional works by Gaku... Read more

Harumi Nakashima: A survey of the last 50 years

2 Oct - 21 Nov 2020 SOKYO, SOKYO ANNEX Dates: Friday, 2 October - Saturday, 21 November, 2020 Venue: Sokyo, Sokyo Annex Online Conference: Thursday, 12 November, 2020 7:00PM JST via Zoom Lecturers: Nakashima Harumi, Artist, Gifu, Japan. Bai Ming, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor and Head of Ceramic Art Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University; Director of... Read more

Female Artist 4 Person Show

28 Aug - 16 Sep 2020 SOKYO ANNEX Dates: Friday, 28 August - Wednesday, 16 September, 2020 Venue: Sokyo Annex Participating Artists: Yukiko Sugano, Yoko Tanaka, Tomomi Hoonoki, Marina Yonetsu Read more

Temperature of Color

6 - 27 Jun 2020 SOKYO ANNEX Dates: Saturday, June 6 - Saturday, June 27, 2020 Venue: Sokyo Annex Participating artists: Jun Kaneko, Tetsuo Kusama, Toru Kurokawa, Mio Kosaka, John Mason, Fausto Salvi, Anna Sew Hoy, Yuri Takemura, Matt Wedel, Sokyo is pleased to present a group exhibition, 'Temperature of Color'. Following to the Breeze -Art Journey,... Read more

Toru Kurokawa: String Theory

2 - 27 Feb 2019 SOKYO, SOKYO ANNEX Dates: Saturday, February 2 – Wednesday, February 27, 2019 Venue: Sokyo Gallery (Ceramic Works), Sokyo Annex (Metal Works) Sokyo Gallery is pleased to present Toru Kurokawa’s solo show, String Theory . This is our third solo show for Kurokawa, following his 2015 solo show, Kawarake and his 2017 show, The... Read more

Collection Gallery – French Contemporary Arts and Crafts Exhibition –

2 - 27 Oct 2018 SOKYO ANNEX Tuesday- Saturday, 2- 27 October, 2018, NUIT BLANCHE 2018: Friday, October 5, 11:00 - 22:00 Venue: Sokyo Annex Exhibiting Artists: Elsa Alayse, Jean François Fouilhoux, Cécile Geiger, Martine Hardy, Jérôme Hirson, Coralie Laverdet, Sophie Lavaux, Frédéric Mulatier, Desislava Stoilova In Collaboration with Collection Gallery (Ateliers d'Art de France) Sponsored by... Read more