Exhibitions

In a Landscape

• Dates: April 10 (Fri) – June 27 (Sat), 2026
• Artists: Ryosuke Imamura, Erik Swars, Sawako Nasu, Yuki Harada, Eiki Mori
• Opening hours: Tue–Sat, 11:00–18:00
• Closed: Sun, Mon, and Public Holidays
• Opening reception: April 10 (Fri), 17:00–19:00

KEN NAKAHASHI is pleased to present In a Landscape, a group exhibition by Ryosuke Imamura, Erik Swars, Sawako Nasu, Yuki Harada, and Eiki Mori, on view from April 10 to June 27, 2026.

What we call "landscape" is not something completed solely by what appears before our eyes. It is something repeatedly reshaped within memory and our sense of time. Various sensations received from the external world are slowly reconnected within us, eventually emerging as the sense of a landscape taking shape. This exhibition takes such a condition as its starting point.

The landscapes addressed in this exhibition are not contained within a single, unified image, but arise through the overlapping of multiple senses and layers of time. Traversing diverse perceptual domains—vision, sound, time and memory—five artists each engage with the concept of landscape in their own way.

The exhibition title is derived from In a Landscape (1948) by John Cage. The quietly sustained undulations of sound undo the weave of time, guiding the listener toward an inner landscape. This work serves as a kind of basso continuo running beneath the exhibition.

Landscape, then, may not be an image that simply lies before us, but something closer to an event—continually reconstructed through our sensations and memories. A sound, a light, the minute fragments of memory, and the slight displacements that occur between them together call forth a landscape.

Over the course of this approximately three-month exhibition, the works on view will be changed partway through the run, and the exhibition itself will be experienced as a landscape that transforms over time. 

Ryosuke Imamura

Born in Kyoto in 1982. Completed a Master's degree in Sculpture at the Kyoto City University of Arts. Drawing on memories and quiet observations from everyday life, Imamura creates works that probe the certainty and uncertainty of things. His practice spans installation, sculpture, video, and painting, with the medium chosen in response to each subject. Recent exhibitions include Imamura Ryosuke: In Reverberation and White Space (Gifu Collection of Modern Art, 2026), IMAMURA Ryosuke × MITSUSHIMA Takayuki—Research Project on the Senses Any Point “P” in the Domain of Sensations (Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery, 2025), AJI / DOKORO (Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery, Kanagawa, 2023), and Ways of Remembering This World (eN arts, Kyoto, 2025).

Erik Swars

Born in Zwenkau, Germany, in 1988. Studied painting at Tokyo University of the Arts under O JUN from 2013 to 2014, then studied at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle under Jochen Plogsties. In 2018, he presented his first installation combining painting, video, sculpture, and photography. His interest lies in the dialogue and contrast that emerge from the proximity of individual works, and in the room itself as a generator of those relationships. Working with materials such as aluminum, steel, wood, pigment, photography, and video, he explores the interrelationships among time, space, materiality, color, and surface in his surroundings. Selected exhibitions include LETS SEE WHATS GONNA HAPPEN (Galerie Jochen Hempel, Leipzig, 2024), DOING (KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo, 2023), Imi Knoebel, Erik Swars (KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo, 2022) and CONNECT Leipzig (Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Leipzig, 2020).

Sawako Nasu 

Born in Tokyo in 1996. Completed a graduate course in painting at Tokyo University of the Arts, where she studied with Masato Kobayashi. Growing up in a theater family, Nasu developed unique spatial expressions during her involvement with stage art and direction. Focusing primarily on landscapes and portraits made by applying thin layers of oil paint, Nasu explores the potential of current painting expressions based on the theme of the difficulty of bridging contemporary life and art of the past. Selected solo exhibitions include Vestige (NISO, London, 2024) and Linus’ Blanket (KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo, 2025). A solo exhibition at KEN NAKAHASHI is scheduled to be held from November 4, 2026.

Yuki Harada

Born in 1989. Artist. Harada produces works inspired by seemingly insignificant visual culture. They are known for video works with a strong performative dimension, such as One Million Seeings, in which the artist looks at photographs continuously for 24 hours; Waiting for, a 33-hour performance of reading aloud the names of living things; and Shadowing, which reenacts the process through which pidgin English was formed. Major solo exhibitions include Dreams and Shadows (ANOMALY, 2025), Yuki Harada: Home Port (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2024), Go stay go pakiki all da time! Eh... no give up 'til you pau! (Museum of Japanese Emigration to Hawaii, 2023), KAAT Atrium Video Project vol.23 Yuki Harada (KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, 2023), Unreal Ecology (Kyoto Art Center, 2022), Aperto 14. HARADA Yuki: Waiting for (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2021) and One Million Seeings (KEN NAKAHASHI, 2019). In March 2026, Harada presented his first stage work, Sleep, at Theatre Commons '26. In autumn 2026, he is scheduled to undertake a residency at the Experimental Art Foundation in Brooklyn, New York.

Eiki Mori

Born in 1976, Kanazawa, Japan. Graduated from The Photography Department, Parsons School of Design | The New School, NYC. He won the 39th Kimura Ihei Award in 2014, for intimacy. Mori has an expanded and varied practice that includes photography, performance as well as sound installation, videos, drawings, poems and short stories, traversing across different forms of expression. He continues his endeavor towards creating a big wave by reverberating and amassing “small waves” - marginalized small voices and existence that can rattle stereotypes and norms. Major exhibitions include: Moonbow Flags (KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo, 2026), Takamatsu Contemporary Art Annual vol.10 There Is No Boundaries Here./? (Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, 2022); FEMINISMS (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 2021); Shibboleth ― I peep the ocean through a hole of the torn cardigan (KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo, 2020); Things So Faint But Real -Contemporary Japanese Photography vol.15- (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, 2018).