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Following on from Kinan Art Residence Vol.1 in 2023, Kinan Art Residence Vol.2 in 2024 and Kinan Art Residence Vol.3 in 2025, Kinan Art Week held Kinan Art Residence Vol.4 in 2025.This programme invites artists from Japan and abroad to stay

Following on from Kinan Art Residence Vol.1 in 2023, Kinan Art Residence Vol.2 in 2024 and Kinan Art Residence Vol.3 in 2025, Kinan Art Week held Kinan Art Residence Vol.4 in 2025.This programme invites artists from Japan and abroad to stay

The "Commons Farm" project kicked off in 2022, and we're thrilled to announce we've finally secured a plot for it!The location is within Tanabe City. Thanks to 93-year-old Yasuko Nakata, who graciously offered us the use of her land saying,

Introduction:Kumagusu Minakata (1867–1941) was a groundbreaking Japanese naturalist, ethnologist, and polymath whose studies of nature spanned Western, Chinese, and Japanese science, folklore, and spirituality. His largely autodidactic, cre

Kinan Art Week will hold an exhibition from the "Igoku Tamaru: lives without boundaries" exhibition and related events at several locations in Tanabe City and Shirahama Town, Wakayama Prefecture, for 10 days from 20 September (Fri) to 29 Se

The“Igoku Tamaru: lives without boundaries” exhibition will be held for 10 days from September 20 (Fri.) through September 29 (Sun.), 2024, at several locations in Tanabe City and Shirahama Town, Wakayama Prefecture.For more details, please

This year's Kinan Art Week extends into the city. Mobility is a continual crossing of territory. It is a series of entering and leaving someone else's land, and most of the places you can walk through belong to an individual, a country, etc

Minakata Kumagusu is one of Japan's leading intellectual giants born in Wakayama.Minakata Kumagsu Archive, which permanently preserves Kumagusu's collection of books and documents and conducts research on Kumagusu, will exhibit works that r

SOUZOU / Former Iwabashi house will present works by artists from the Mekong area, which is currently undergoing rapid development. Taiki Sakpisit expresses the tensions of contemporary Thailand in his fantastical yet disturbing video works

By drawing away from the human time frame and conception of most events that we assume to be unchanging, we are reminded that they are also in a state of change.The organic forms that appear in Kong Dara's work evoke images of change and gr

From 20 September to 20 October, nongkrong on the first floor of the Shinju Building in front of JR Shirahama Station, Wakayama, will hold the exhibition Sowing Seeds, which will be mediated through art and nurtured to completion together w

From 6 (Fri) September to 14 (mon) October 2024, Kawakyu Museum will hold the exhibition ‘Zomi: Trans-Migrant on the Water’, which tells the story of the exchange over ‘water’ between Asia and the Japanese archipelago through the Kuroshio C