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Talk Event

• Date & Time: Sunday, June 8, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
• Venue: Studio C, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM)
• Admission: Free
• Capacity: 100 people (No registration required)

Related Exhibition: Shadowing

• Exhibition Period: Saturday, June 7 – Friday, June 13, 2025
• Venue: Foyer, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM)
• Admission: Free

Between 1885 and 1894, the early years of government-contracted emigration from Japan, approximately 10,000 people from Yamaguchi Prefecture emigrated to Hawaii.

Artist Yuki Harada, who has been researching the history of people who migrated from Yamaguchi and Hiroshima to Hawaii and creating video works based on the hybrid culture of Japanese Americans, will host a talk event and present a related exhibition.

In the talk, Harada will speak about the historical connections between Yamaguchi and Hawaii, including Honolulu. The exhibition will feature Shadowing (Tomigoro), a work in which a man named Tomigoro, who crossed the ocean from Yamaguchi, recounts his life story.

• Organized by: Yamaguchi City
• Contact: International Affairs Division, Department of Cultural Exchange, Yamaguchi City (2-1 Kameyama-cho, Yamaguchi City 753-8650)
• Tel: +81-83-934-2725
• Yamaguchi City Website

Photo: Katsura Muramatsu

The exhibition archive, Go stay go pakiki all da time! Eh... no give up 'til you pau!, held in 2023 at the Museum of Japanese Emigration to Hawaii, Yamaguchi, is now published by "this and that".

In addition to a comprehensive record of the exhibition, the publication includes the Japanese-English bilingual script (including Pidgin English) and images from the video work Shadowing, as well as a travelogue, critical texts, essays, and interviews.

Shadowing: A Journey of Chasing Shadows

• Author: Yuki Harada
• Contributors: Mari Tsukamoto, Makoto Kimoto, Megumu Takashima, Hikari Sumiki
• Reprint: Tsuneichi Miyamoto
• Photography: Takuya Matsumi, Yuki Harada, Chie Masuda
• Design: Ikuya Shigezane
• Editing: Chie Masuda (this and that)
• Printing: U-media Co.,Ltd.
• Binding: shinnihonshiko Co., Ltd.
• Publisher: this and that
• First edition: May 12, 2025
• Format: B5 variant (257mm x 178mm x 10mm), 128 pages
• Retail Price: ¥3,200 + tax
• ISBN: 978-4-9910062-6-5
• Publisher's website

Yuki Harada will participate in A Story of Speed, an exhibition held at Zuiunan, Kyoto from April 18.

A Story of Speed

• Participating Artists: Yu Araki, Cinema 58, Yuki Harada, Kikuji Kawada, Yuki Kawanishi, Yasujiro Ozu, Yu Sora, Akira Takayama, Kentaro Taki, Tomotosi, Michiko Tsuda, Ryoko Yashima
• Exhibition Period: April 18 (Fri) – May 18 (Sun), 2025
• Venue: Zuiunan (61-1 Kamigamo, Minamioji-cho, Kita-ku, Kyoto)
• Opening Hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, 12:00–18:00
• Closed: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
• Admission: Free
• Curated by Cayetano LIMORTE

Yuki Harada will participate in the exhibition LOVE Fashion: In Search of Myself, opening at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery on April 16.

Harada will present a new installation consisting of four works from his Shadowing series, which was also exhibited at the TERRADA ART AWARD 2023. This installation combines two newly created pieces for this exhibition with two previous works.

This exhibition, which has previously toured the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and the Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, will feature a unique installation in Tokyo with a different number of works and composition from its previous iterations.

LOVE Fashion: In Search of Myself

• Exhibition period: April 16 (Wed) – June 22 (Sun), 2025
• Venue: Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
• Official Website

The solo exhibition Dreams and Shadows by Yuki Harada will be held at ANOMALY from Saturday, February 1, to Saturday, March 1.

This will be Harada's first exhibition at ANOMALY.

Yuki Harada Dreams and Shadows

ANOMALY

• 2025.2.1 (Sat.) - 3.1 (Sat.)
• Gallery hours: 12:00 – 18:00
• closed on Sundays, Mondays, and holidays
• Opening reception: February 1 (Sat.), 17:00 – 19:00 *The artist will be present at the reception.

Talk event：

1. February 15 (Sat.), 18:00 – 19:30　Participants: Yuki Harada, Ryuta Ushiro (Chim↑Pom from Smappa!Group)
2. March 1 (Sat.), 18:00 – 19:30　Participants: Yuki Harada, Mihoko Nishikawa (Curator)

Official Website

KEN NAKAHASHI is pleased to present Sawako Nasu's solo exhibition Linus' Blanket, from Fri., Jan. 10 to March 29, 2025.

• January 10 (Fri)–March 29 (Sat)
• Hours: Tue–Sat, 13:00-20:00
• Closed: Sundays & Mondays
• Reception in presence of artist: January 10 (Fri) 18:00-20:00
• Exhibition Details

The touring exhibition LOVE Fashion: In Search of Myself, featuring Yuki Harada as a participating artist, will open at the Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto on December 21.

As part of the opening events, a talk by Yuki Harada will be held.

LOVE Fashion: In Search of Myself

• Exhibition Period: December 21, 2024 (Sat) – March 2, 2025 (Sun)
• Venue: Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto
• Tour Schedule:
• The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto: September 13 (Fri) – November 24, 2024 [Exhibition Closed]
• Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery: April 16 (Wed) – June 22, 2025
• Official Website

Related Event

• Talk by Yuki Harada
• Speaker: Yuki Harada
• Date and Time: December 21, 2024 (Sat) 14:00 – 15:30
• Location: Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Home Gallery
• Limited to the first 80 participants (no pre-registration required)
• Details

A special exhibition Yuki Harada: Home Port will be held at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. This marks museum's first large-scale solo presentation for the artist.

• November 30 (Sat), 2024–February 9 (Sun), 2025
• Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
• Hours: 10:00-17:00
• Closed: Mondays (except January 13), December 27–January 1 and January 14
• Admission: Adults 1,100 (850) yen, University students 800 (600) yen, High school students and seniors (65 and over) 550 (400) yen *Price in parentheses is that of advance ticket and a group of 30 or more
• Details: https://www.hiroshima-moca.jp/exhibition/harada_yuki?moca-lang=en

"LETS SEE WHATS GONNA HAPPEN", a solo presentation by Erik Swars in on view at Galerie Jochen Hempel, Leipzig, Germany.

• November 1 (Fri)–December 14 (Sat), 2024
• Galerie Jochen Hempel (Leipzig)
• Details: https://jochenhempel.com/erik-swars-gjh-2024/

"Most likely, the flames will destroy themselves", a solo presentation by Jörgen Axelvall is on view at LOWW.

• November 8 (Fri)–30 (Sat), 2024
• LOWW (1-6-6 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo)
• Closed on Wednesdays
• Details: https://www.loww.co.jp/jrgen-axelvall

KEN NAKAHASHI will participate in ART WEEK TOKYO, from November 7-10.

【Gallery Program】

Yuki Harada Afterglow

Yuki Harada employs technology and performance in his works to explore the overlooked elements of visual culture. In this exhibition, Harada will debut his first-ever series of two-dimensional works, Dreamscape (2024). The series draws inspiration from the genre of digital landscape art known as “dreamscape,” which emerged around the year 2020. Harada interprets these dreamscapes, which are characterized by a surreal sense of stillness, security, and sterility, as “landscapes that reflect contemporary global circumstances and the state of the planet.” Among the works in the Dreamscape series are Home Port (2024), inspired by the history of the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, and Afterglow (2024), which depicts the mountains of Iwakuni, Harada’s hometown in western Japan.

• Venue: KEN NAKAHASHI (Rout: D4)
• Opening Dates and Times during ART WEEK TOKYO: November 5 (Tue)–10 (Sun) 10:00-20:00
• October 26 (Sat)–November 21 (Thu), 2024
• Hours: Tue–Sat, 13:00-20:00
• Closed: Sun, Mon
• Reception: October 26 (Sat), 18:00-20:00, Artist will be present
• https://kennakahashi.net/en/exhibitions/afterglow

【AWT FOCUS】

Earth, Wind, and Fire: Visions of the Future from Asia

Curated by Mami Kataoka

AWT Focus is a curated sales platform with a historical scope.Curated by Mami Kataoka, director of the Mori Art Museum and the National Center for Art Research, Japan, this year’s exhibition examines contemporary representations of the universe in Asia and beyond through the work of 57 Japanese and international artists.

Yuki Harada’s video Waiting for (2021) will be presented from KEN NAKAHASHI.

• Okura Museum of Art
• 2-10-3 Toranomon, Minato-ku
• November 7–10, 10:00–18:00 (last entry 17:30)
• Details: https://www.artweektokyo.com/en/focus-en/
• Ticketed admission: https://awtfocus2024.peatix.com/

KEN NAKAHASHI is pleased to present Yuki Harada's solo exhibition Afterglow, from October 26th, Saturday to November 21st, Thursday, 2024.

• October 26 (Sat)–November 21 (Thu), 2024
• Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 13:00-20:00
• Closed: Sundays & Mondays
• Reception in presence of artist: October 26 (Sat) 18:00-20:00
• Opening Dates and Times during "Art Week Tokyo": November 5 (Tuesday)–10 (Sunday) 10:00-20:00
• Details