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Eiki Mori and Kazuki Fujita, a dancer and choreographer, will present an intimate performance. We warmly invite you to join us at KEN NAKAHASHI.

• Date & Time: Saturday, November 15, 17:00 (No reservation required / Free admission)
• Venue: KEN NAKAHASHI (5F, Shinjuku Bldg. No.2, 3-1-32 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)

Kazuki Fujita

Dancer and choreographer based in Paris and Kanagawa. His work explores the process of translating words into gestures and vice versa through experimental performances that take inconsistencies, misalignments, and misunderstandings as points of departure. Recent activities: “Zanteiteki ni Bunshin,” TOKAS Hongo, Tokyo, 2025, “Contes de la déviation,” Residence, Ménagerie de Verre, Paris, 2025, performed in River Lin “My body is a public collection,” MuCEM, Marseille, France, 2024.

https://kazukifujita.com/

KEN NAKAHASHI is delighted to participate in Art Week Tokyo 2025

• Dates: November 5–9, 2025
• Official Website: https://www.artweektokyo.com/

At our gallery we will present Eiki Mori’s solo exhibition Moonbow Flags.

In addition, Sawako Nasu’s work will be featured in AWT FOCUS at Okura Museum of Art.

We look forward to welcoming you to both venues!

Art Week Tokyo is an annual showcase of the creativity and diversity of contemporary art in Tokyo. The citywide initiative activates more than 50 of the Japanese capital’s leading art institutions and galleries through five days of coordinated programming and special platforms. The free AWT Bus service links all venues, making one of the world’s most dynamic art scenes more accessible than ever before.

KEN NAKAHASHI is pleased to present Eiki Mori’s solo exhibition Moonbow Flags, from October 10 to December 20, 2025.

• Period: October 10 (Fri)–December 20 (Sat), 2025
• Hours: Tue–Sat, 13:00-20:00
• Closed: Sun, Mon
• During Art Week Tokyo, November 5 (Wed)–9 (Sun): 10:00-20:00
• Reception: October 10 (Fri), 18:00-20:00
• Exhibition Details 

Image: Eiki Mori Untitled from Moonbow Flags series, C Print, 2025, 21 x 32 cm

Yuki Harada will be speaking at the symposium Revisiting Mokuma Kikuhata Today.

Mokuma Kikuhata is one of the artists Harada respects the most. In particular, his book “Fujita-yo, Nemure”—and especially his reflections on “war paintings”—has had a profound influence on Harada, even as he himself has been writing a series of books on Christian Riese Lassen.

It has already been five years since Mokuma Kikuhata’s passing in 2020. At the time, we were in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, but now, with those days behind us, a memorial gathering will finally be held this year at the Fukuoka Art Museum in his hometown.

Harada will take part in the symposium, which constitutes the first part of this gathering, alongside cultural researcher Hiroki Yamamoto and curator Yozo Yamaguchi, who organized Mokuma Kikuhata’s final retrospective during his lifetime.

“LINKS – Kikuhata Mokuma” Related Program: Symposium

“Revisiting Mokuma Kikuhata Today”

• Date & Time: Sunday, October 5, 2025, 14:00–16:00 (doors open at 13:30)
• Venue: Fukuoka Art Museum, 1st Floor Lecture Room
• Admission: Free (advance registration required, capacity 54)
• Details & registration: https://www.fukuoka-art-museum.jp/event/187259/
• Speakers: Hiroki Yamamoto(Cultural Studies Scholar and Associate Professor at Jissen Women's University), Yuki Harada (Artist), Yozo Yamaguchi(Independent Curator, Moderator)

Image: Cover of “Insignificant Arts,” (Kenele Books) written under the influence of Mokuma Kikuhata

Photo: Katsura Muramatsu

Yuki Harada will participate in the exhibition #WhereDoWeStand?―Art in Our Time, which will be held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, starting December 20, 2025.

This exhibition presents works by 20 artists, reflecting on artistic expressions from the 1990s to the present.

The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto #WhereDoWeStand?―Art in Our Time

• Period: December 20, 2025–March 8, 2026.
• Participating Artists: Satoru Aoyama, Yukio Fujimoto, Teiji Furuhashi, Yuki Harada, AKI INOMATA, Tomoaki Ishihara, Emiko Kasahara, Sachiko Kazama, Chie Matsui, Tatsuo Miyajima, Yuko Mohri, Yasumasa Morimura, Motohiko Odani, Akane Saijo, Nobuhiro Shimura, Tadasu Takamine, Kei Takemura, Koki Tanaka, Aiko Tezuka, Miwa Yanagi
• Official Website

Sawako Nasu has been selected for this year’s Forbes JAPAN “30 UNDER 30”, which honors 30 individuals under the age of 30 who are changing the world.

• Forbes JAPAN Official Website

Image: Installation View, Sawako Nasu Linus' Blanket, KEN NAKAHASHI, 2025.01.10-03.29

Photo by Yuya Saito

Yuki Harada featured on the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa’s podcast/label 21Hz. He talks about various topics with the museum’s curator, Ayumi Ikeda.

Info:

• 21Hz ep110 “Talking with Yuki Harada”
• Release date: Thursday, August 7, 2025
• Guests: Yuki Harada (Artist) × Ayumi Ikeda (Curator, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa)
• 21Hz https://open.spotify.com/show/4J6Vgsq034UET3rSTkId0L?si=0cf2f930886f4dc1

Yuki Harada is participating in a talk event on August 30 at the Museum of Japanese Emigration to Hawaii, together with Mari Tsukamoto (Curator, The Museum of Art, Kochi) and Makoto Kimoto (Director, Museum of Japanese Emigration to Hawaii). This will be my first public event since my solo exhibition in 2023, and surprisingly, it will also be the first time I speak publicly with Tsukamoto, who curated the exhibition.

• Date and Time: Saturday, August 30, 2025, 15:00–16:30
• Speakers: Yuki Harada (Artist), Mari Tsukamoto (Chief Curator, The Museum of Art, Kochi), Makoto Kimoto (Director, Museum of Japanese Emigration to Hawaii)
• Venue: Museum of Japanese Emigration to Hawaii (2144 Kamikatayama, Nishiyashiro, Suo-Oshima Town, Oshima District, Yamaguchi Prefecture)
• Admission: ¥1,000 (includes museum entrance fee)
• Reservation: Not required
• Contact: 0820-74-4082
• Organizer: Oshima International Exchange Association
• Support: Suo-Oshima Chijin Association

Yuki Harada × Hikari Sumiki: "Stories Connecting Yamaguchi, Taiwan, and Hawaii"

• Date｜Thursday, August 28, 2025, 19:00–20:30 (Doors open 18:30)
• Venue｜Hon-no Arutokoro ajiro (3-6-8-1B Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City)
• Speakers｜Yuki Harada (Artist) × Hikari Sumiki (Writer / Remote participation)
• Admission｜¥1,650 (Student discount ¥1,100)
• Inquiries｜ajirobooks@gmail.com (Attn: Tsuruta)
• Overview｜A talk event featuring Taiwan-based writer Hikari Sumiki and artist Yuki Harada. Both originally from Yamaguchi, they share experiences of rediscovering “Yamaguchi” while living and working in Taiwan and Hawaii. Yamaguchi, Taiwan, and Hawaii—three places that seem unrelated at first glance—are connected through unexpected histories and cultures. This event will explore those stories, while also delving into the depth and appeal of Yuki Harada’s work.
• Event Details

Related Exhibition: Yuki Harada Home Port Special Exhibition

• Dates｜Monday, August 18 – Monday, September 1, 2025
• Venue｜Hon-no Arutokoro ajiro (3-6-8-1B Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City)
• Admission｜Free
• Organizer｜Hon-no Arutokoro ajiro
• Inquiries｜ajirobooks@gmail.com (Attn: Tsuruta)
• Overview｜A special presentation of Yuki Harada’s video work Home Port, marking its first showing in Fukuoka.

Moonlight Viewing

• Saturday, August 9
• 17:00-21:00

info:

Selection

• Period: Until Saturday, August 9
• Mihoko Ogaki, Nanae Mitobe, Jörgen Axelvall
• Tue–Sat, 15:00-21:00
• Closed: Sun, Mon
• Exhibition Details

Image: Nanae Mitobe Nocturne, Oil wax pigment on canvas, 2025, W17 x H26 x D9 cm

We are pleased to announce that Yuki Harada has been selected as one of the grantees of the "CAF Residency Program 2025," organized by the Contemporary Art Foundation.

This newly established program aims to support contemporary artists, and after a highly competitive selection process—including document screening and in-person interviews—two artists, Yuki Harada and Ms. Kayoko Nakashima, were chosen.

Harada will spend approximately three months in 2025 at the Brooklyn Experimental Art Foundation (BEAF) in New York, engaging in research and fostering exchanges with local artists and communities.

For the jury's comments and more details, please visit the official website of the Contemporary Art Foundation:

https://gendai-art.org/cafrp2025/

Ongoing exhibition Selection has been extended by one week due to popular demand. The final day will now be Saturday, August 9.

Selection

• Exhibition period: Saturday, July 5 – Saturday, August 9, 2025
• Artists: Mihoko Ogaki, Nanae Mitobe, Jörgen Axelvall
• Opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday / 15:00–21:00 *Open only in the evening and at night
• Closed: Sunday & Monday

Image: Nanae Mitobe Sunrise Landscape, 2025 Oil wax pigment on canvas 32 x 33 x 9 cm

Photo by Yuya Saito