# aaploit > Contemporary art gallery in Tokyo presenting emerging Japanese artists and critical writing rooted in practice. aaploit is located in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. The site is bilingual: every page under /en/ has a Japanese counterpart under /ja/ (Journal is English-only; Texts is Japanese-only). Attribution for artworks: Artist Name, Artwork Title, Year, aaploit Gallery. Images are copyrighted by the individual artists — reference only, no derivative generation. Contact: info@aaploit.com ## Artists - [HANZAWA Tomomi](https://aaploit.com/en/artists/hanzawa-tomomi): Hanzawa Tomomi approaches papermaking as a negotiation between human action and material behavior—remaining within the process rather than directing … - [ISHIGURO Hikaru](https://aaploit.com/en/artists/ishiguro-hikaru): Ishiguro Hikaru’s work traces the space between presence and absence, beginning from an experience of loss. Butterflies, moths, and seashells appear … - [KANO Maashu](https://aaploit.com/en/artists/kano-maashu) - [KIKUCHI Torasuke](https://aaploit.com/en/artists/kikuchi-torasuke): Since childhood, Kikuchi Torasuke has watched the same footage on videotape. He plays it back, again and again. With each playback the magnetic coati… - [MICHIMATA Aoi](https://aaploit.com/en/artists/michimata-aoi): Michimata Aoi continues to work in woodblock printing, addressing the positions and choices individuals face within social structures. Referencing "K… - [OKOSHI Madoka](https://aaploit.com/en/artists/okoshi-madoka): LiDAR was engineered to measure structures. Okoshi Madoka turns it toward people and cityscapes. The resulting point-cloud data is reconstructed in A… - [SATO Raimu](https://aaploit.com/en/artists/sato-raimu): Sato Raimu - [TAKAHASHI Misaki](https://aaploit.com/en/artists/takahashi-misaki): To paint is not to transcribe what is visible. It is to construct, from the ground up, the conditions under which a subject can exist within the pict… - [TANABE Motoha](https://aaploit.com/en/artists/tanabe-motoha): Tanabe Motoha's portraits do not reproduce a single appearance. Research extends to the subject's family, friends, and strangers who carry something … ## Exhibitions - [ITERATION](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/group-iteration): HAGINAKA Mayu, Inui Kotaro, ITO Rino, NANYA Yuuki, KANO Maashu, NANBU Yumeto, TOMOZAWA Haruka — August 28 – September 13, 2026 — aaploit, Tokyo - [In progress - Unfolded](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/tsutsumi-asano-in-progress-unfolded): TSUTSUMI Asano — July 4 – July 26, 2026 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Aletheia](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/group-aletheia): TANABE Motoha, ISHIMATSU Yufu, YASUMURA Hinako, ISHIGURO Hikaru, TAKAHASHI Misaki, MATSUDA Nayuko, SHIRAI Sakurako, ASANO Miyabi — June 5 – June 28, … - [Miyaru ; 3rd Person ](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/group-miyaru-semicoron-3rd-person): UEMATSU Mizuki, OKOSHI Madoka — May 8 – May 24, 2026 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Tidal - Logos on the Flat](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/kumagai-ayano-tidal-logos-on-the-flat): KUMAGAI Ayano — April 10 – April 26, 2026 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Coexisting Images](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/group-coexisting-images): March 20 – April 5, 2026 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Still / Yet](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/group-still-yet): ITO Nanami, KIKUCHI Torasuke — February 15 – March 8, 2026 — aaploit, Tokyo - [225,000 Carat Diamond](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/kumagae-yuna-225000-carat-diamond): KUMAGAE Yuna — January 16 – February 1, 2026 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Listening to the Garden](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/hanzawa-tomomi-listening-to-the-garden): HANZAWA Tomomi — December 5 – December 21, 2025 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Asymmetrical Gazes](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/group-asymmetrical-gazes): ASANO Miyabi, OKOSHI Madoka, KANO Maashu — October 31 – November 16, 2025 — aaploit, Tokyo - [I am probably not the right voice for these paintings](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/ishiguro-hikaru-i-am-probably-not-the-right-voice-for-these-paintings): ISHIGURO Hikaru — October 3 – October 19, 2025 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Es weilt im Inneren](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/hagino-masaki-es-weilt-im-inneren-01): HAGINO Masaki — September 12 – September 28, 2025 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Rings of Mars](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/group-ring-of-mars): AKIBA Kohei, Osa Seiichiro — August 15 – August 31, 2025 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Chiasme](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/group-chiasme): ISHIGURO Hikaru, ISHIMATSU Yufu, Tazaki Ari, MATSUDA Nayuko — July 4 – July 27, 2025 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Sayuragi](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/uematsu-mizuki-sayuragi): UEMATSU Mizuki — June 6 – June 22, 2025 — aaploit, Tokyo - [hyperLOG](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/group-hyperlog): May 9 – May 25, 2025 — aaploit, Tokyo - [still life with innocence](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/sato-raimu-still-life-with-innocence): SATO Raimu — April 11 – April 27, 2025 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Dust in the Teeth of the Comb](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/group-dust-in-the-teeth-of-the-comb): Ishiodori Michi, ISHIGURO Hikaru, Shikura Toka — March 14 – March 30, 2025 — aaploit, Tokyo - [community of ](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/michimata-aoi-community-of-): MICHIMATA Aoi — February 7 – February 24, 2025 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Imprint – Texture of Logos](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/kumagai-ayano-imprint-texture-of-logos): KUMAGAI Ayano — January 17 – February 2, 2025 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Boundaries of Gaze](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/akiba-kohei-boundaries-of-gaze): AKIBA Kohei — November 29 – December 15, 2024 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Reality](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/haruna-maho-reality): HARUNA Maho — October 18 – November 3, 2024 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Binocular Data Visualization](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/okoshi-madoka-binocular-data-visualization): OKOSHI Madoka — September 27 – October 13, 2024 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Interwoven](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/group-interwoven): Tatsumi Nene, Dayama Hakusai, Nagahara Naoki — August 23 – September 8, 2024 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Resonance from Fragments](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/group-resonance-from-fragments): Inui Kotaro, YASUMURA Hinako — July 5 – July 21, 2024 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Squares](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/kamui-koreaki-squares): KAMUI Koreaki — June 7 – June 23, 2024 — aaploit, Tokyo - [traces](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/yamada-sanami-traces): YAMADA Sanami — May 17 – June 2, 2024 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Nurturing Paintings](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/inoue-yukari-nurturing-paintings): INOUE Yukari — April 26 – May 12, 2024 — aaploit, Tokyo - [SPRING](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/michimata-aoi-spring): MICHIMATA Aoi — April 5 – April 21, 2024 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Floats on the moon ](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/uematsu-mizuki-floats-on-the-moon_): UEMATSU Mizuki — March 1 – March 31, 2024 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Travelogue](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/lee-yerim-travelogue): Lee YeRim — February 1 – February 25, 2024 — aaploit, Tokyo - [The Distance Between Earth's Sound and Color](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/okada-keisuke-the-distance-between-earths-sound-and-color): OKADA Keisuke — January 13 – January 28, 2024 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Hishikatano](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/matsushita-midori-hishikatano): MATSUSHITA Midori — December 1 – December 17, 2023 — aaploit, Tokyo - [tOken](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/itokawa-en-token): ITOKAWA En — November 3 – November 19, 2023 — aaploit, Tokyo - [attachment](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/akino-intro-attachment): AKINO Intro — October 6 – October 29, 2023 — aaploit, Tokyo - [own pace](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/michimata-aoi-own-pace): MICHIMATA Aoi — September 1 – September 24, 2023 — aaploit, Tokyo - [step](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/haruna-maho-step): HARUNA Maho — August 4 – August 27, 2023 — aaploit, Tokyo - [tide land](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/maeda-rina-tide-land): MAEDA Rina — July 7 – July 30, 2023 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Nomura Art Award Winners Special Exhibition](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/uematsu-mizuki-nomura-art-award-special-exhibition): UEMATSU Mizuki — July 1 – July 2, 2023 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Sediment of Flux](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/nanya-yuki-sediment-of-flux): NANYA Yuuki — June 9 – June 25, 2023 — aaploit, Tokyo - [emergence](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/oishi-izumi-emergence): OISHI Izumi — April 14 – May 14, 2023 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Simply Gathering, Waiting for Spring](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/nishimoto-haruka-tadaatsumatte_haruwomatsu): NISHIMOTO Haruka — February 17 – March 5, 2023 — aaploit, Tokyo - [free hand](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/ishimaru-keita-free-hand): ISHIMARU Keita — January 20 – February 5, 2023 — aaploit, Tokyo - [seeing the invisible](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/kuwasako-kana-seeing-the-invisible): KUWASAKO Kana — December 3 – December 18, 2022 — aaploit, Tokyo - [altitude](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/kumagai-ayano-altitude): KUMAGAI Ayano — November 3 – November 27, 2022 — aaploit, Tokyo - [Absolute Photographs](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/ito-masahiro-absolute-photographs): ITO Masahiro — September 23 – October 23, 2022 — aaploit, Tokyo - [The Sound of Words](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/ishimoto-minami-the-sound-of-words): ISHIMOTO Minami — August 19 – September 4, 2022 — aaploit, Tokyo - [aaploit WIP](https://aaploit.com/en/exhibitions/aaploit-wip): June 25 – June 25, 2022 — aaploit, Tokyo ## Journal (English) - [What Is Picked Up, What Is Left](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/tsutsumi-asano-what-is-picked-up-what-is-left): One sheet was chosen, another was not. Set them side by side, and you still cannot say why. What happens here is not selection but extraction. On Tsu… - [Haginaka Mayu's Mezzotint](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/haginaka-mayus-mezzotint): Haginaka Mayu works in mezzotint, the old intaglio technique in which black and white are raised from a copper plate worked over with countless burrs… - [The Invisible Made Visible: Pierre Huyghe, AnnLee, and What the AI Age Inherits](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/the-invisible-made-visible-pierre-huyghe-annlee): In 1999, Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno purchased AnnLee—a discarded manga supporting character from an Akihabara animation company—for 46,000 ye… - [Fictive Botany: Kumagai Ayano's Practices](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/kumagai-ayano-review-01): The plants Kumagai Ayano depicts do not exist. What spreads across signs that have lost their readers is a vegetation that does not yet have a name. - [Irreversible Impressions: Michimata Aoi and the Staircase You Cannot Climb Back](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/irreversible-impressions): In Michimata's woodblock prints, a reproductive medium that cannot reproduce meets a staircase you cannot climb back. Each carved layer is permanent.… - [What Still Transmits: Camille Henrot's Ikebana and the Problem of Translation](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/what-still-transmits): Camille Henrot's work stages a paradox of translation: cultures may remain fundamentally untranslatable, yet something continues to circulate between… - [The Distance of Seeing: Takahashi Misaki](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/takahashi-misaki-review-01): Takahashi Misaki’s paintings are less about objects than about the distance from which we see them. Working with skeleton models, skulls, and preserv… - [The Ethics of Small Oscillations: On the Exhibition of KUMAGAE Yuna](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/kumagae-yuna-review-01): Facing KUMAGAE Yuna's work, one finds, almost imperceptibly, that one's own position has shifted slightly. The shift is not dramatic. It arrives rath… - [Voice of Void: Ho Tzu Nyen and the Structure of Not Knowing](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/voice-of-void): In Voice of Void, Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen revisits the wartime philosophy of the Kyoto School not to judge its thinkers, but to examine the st… - [Critical Pastiche: On the Paintings of Asano Miyabi](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/critical-pastiche): In paintings by Asano Miyabi, Renaissance compositions are reproduced with striking fidelity while their symbolic structures are quietly inverted. Cu… - [Asymmetrical Gazes: On the Power of Looking](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/asymmetrical-gazes-on-the-power-of-looking): Asymmetrical Gazes brings together three artists whose works examine how visual power operates. Drawing on art history, social media imagery, and the… - ["I Am Probably Not the Right Voice for These Paintings" by Ishiguro Hikaru](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/ishiguro-hikaru-review-02): In I Am Probably Not the Right Voice for These Paintings, Ishiguro Hikaru’s works are positioned at a distance from language. Made with cotton cloth,… - [Foreigners Everywhere: Experiencing the 60th Venice Biennale](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/the-60th-venice-biennale): At the 60th Venice Biennale, titled Stranieri Ovunque / Foreigners Everywhere, curator Adriano Pedrosa proposed a world seen through the condition of… - ["Ken" (圏): Osa Seiichiro's Painting Practice](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/Ken-Osa-Seiichiros-Painting-Practice): Osa Seiichiro builds the picture plane through successive layers of paint — not as depiction of depth but as sedimented time. The concept he calls ke… - [Paradoxical Dépaysement in Gregor Schneider's Spatial Practice](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/paradoxical-depaysement): In his spatial installations, Gregor Schneider places viewers inside sequences of nearly identical rooms where perception gradually loses its frame o… - [Light Dwelling in Shadows: Tazaki Ari's "reunion"](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/tazaki-ari-review-02): In reunion, Tazaki Ari constructs a scene structured by absence. Empty baby strollers appear throughout the composition, standing in for unseen figur… - [Chiasme: On Seeing and Being Seen](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/chiasme-on-seeing-and-being-seen): Drawing on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s notion of chiasme—the intertwining of seeing and being seen—this exhibition brings together four painters whose wo… - [Pierre Huyghe: Liminal – A Japanese Perspective](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/pierre-huyghe-liminal): In Liminal, Pierre Huyghe constructs exhibitions not as finished works but as living systems that evolve through time, viewers, and circumstance. See… - ["Yuri-shiro-iro no" by Matsuda Nayuko](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/matsuda-nayuko-review-01): In Yuri-shiro-iro no, Matsuda Nayuko constructs a landscape that unfolds gradually to the viewer’s eye. Susuki-like plants appear in the foreground, … - ["Thank You, December 31st" by Asano Miyabi](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/asano-miyabi-review-01): In Thank You, December 31st, Asano Miyabi presents fragments of an intimate exchange between sex workers and their clients. Camisoles hang from the c… - ["A Vessel Filling a Cup, Breathing Within" by Ishimatsu Yufu](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/ishimatsu-yufu-review-01): Installed on a staircase landing, Ishimatsu Yufu’s A Vessel Filling a Cup, Breathing Within unfolds gradually as viewers move through the space. Pain… - ["Endless Circle" by Tazaki Ari](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/tazaki-ari-review-01): In Endless Circle, Tazaki Ari constructs a scene that gradually resolves from darkness: divers forming a ring around a fish, their shadows multiplyin… - [“Moonwhite Castle” by SATO Raimu](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/sato-raimu-review-01): Moonwhite Castle (2023) by SATO Raimu is a ball-jointed sculpture with two heads on a single nude body, installed directly on the floor to disrupt co… - [“Utsuse no Himitsu ha Watashi nomi zo Shiru” by Ishiguro Hikaru](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/ishiguro-hikaru-review-01): Ishiguro Hikaru’s large-scale painting unfolds less as an image than as a surface of layered perception. A lattice structure recalling the framework … - ["Girl Worship" KANO Maashu](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/kano-maashu-review-01): Girl Worship brings the structure of belief into the present. Drawing on religious iconography, social media imagery, and silkscreen reproduction, KA… - [The Art History of Beautiful Girls: From Traditional Bijin-ga to Digital Culture](https://aaploit.com/en/journal/feature-bisyoujo): The Art History of Beautiful Girls begins by rejecting the traditional category of bijin-ga in favor of bishōjo, reframing the figure of the beautifu… ## Texts (日本語) - [堤麻乃の拾い上げ](https://aaploit.com/ja/texts/tsutsumi-asano-text-01): 選ばれた一枚と、選ばれなかった一枚。並べても、なぜそれが選ばれたのかは分からない。ここで起きているのは選択ではなく、抽出である。堤麻乃『In progress - Unfolded』評。 - [萩中茉優のメゾチント](https://aaploit.com/ja/texts/haginaka-mayu-text-01): メゾチントは銅板に無数の傷を打ち込み、削り、磨くことで黒と白を立ち上げる古い版画技法である。本稿は、その深い黒の物質性、光を内包しながら沈み込む黒、地の白よりも輝く白を起点に、萩中の制作を辿る。学部から大学院へと、萩中はモチーフの表現者から黒そのものの探求者へと深化し、ベルソーの番手や目立ての回数… - [カフカの階段](https://aaploit.com/ja/texts/michimata-aoi-text-01): 道又蒼彩の作品には、階段に居る人々が描かれる。登る者、降りる者、立ち止まる者、振り返る者。生田武志の提唱する「カフカの階段」を参照している。同じ段に立っているはずなのに、その高さの感じ方が違うこと、そして一度降りた段を登り直すことの困難さを主題とする。道又が用いる油性木版画のリダクション・プリント… - [田崎蟻、不在を据える](https://aaploit.com/ja/texts/tazaki-ari-text-01): 再会を主題としながら、その相手は描かれていない。代わりに据えられた、無人のベビーカー。影に紛れた一つの形を人と見誤り、それが空の容れ物だと気づくとき、見るという行為そのものが立ち上がる。 - [佐藤来夢、揺らぎを顕す](https://aaploit.com/ja/texts/sato-raimu-text-01): 佐藤来夢の作品は、球体関節人形と彫刻という二つの系譜が交差する地点に立っている。解剖学研究室での学習を経た身体表象と、関節部に露出した球体による身体の分節——この二つが造形のレベルで練り込まれる。卒業制作《月白の城》は床に直接置かれた一体二頭の座像で、二つの頭部のうち一つは目を開いて床を見つめる。… - [大越円香が探求するiPhoneが示す世界](https://aaploit.com/ja/texts/okoshi-madoka-text-01): トニー・ゴドフリーの「アーティストは時代の媒体を探求し解明する」という命題を出発点に、20世紀のテレビに代わって21世紀の媒体となったiPhoneを対象に据える大越円香の実践を読む。指紋を題材とした《Invisible view》では、写真の受容の作法がスマートフォンを基軸とする構造へ転倒している… - [植松美月が紙に重ねる呼吸](https://aaploit.com/ja/texts/uematsu-mizuki-text-01): モリス・バーマンが中世の工芸的労働に見出した「世界の再魔術化」——反復と没我によって作業者を意識の変容状態へ運ぶプロセスを、植松美月は流通する紙という現代的な素材において引き受ける。市販の紙を切り、染め、束ねる。既製品を反復によって我が物としていく作業は、彫刻という時間ベースの芸術が省力化のための… ## News - [Okoshi Madoka to exhibit artworks at Matsuzakaya](https://aaploit.com/en/news/news-okoshi-madoka-20260705): Okoshi Madoka's works will be exhibited at "WALL MUSEUM" in Matsuzakaya Nagoya. The series Surface drawing and Reconstruct Reality are scheduled to b… - [Okoshi Madoka's Surface Drawing Selected as Cover Art for Aoki Jungo's Collected Works](https://aaploit.com/en/news/news-okoshi-madoka-20260617): Okoshi Madoka's work Surface Drawing has been selected as the cover art for Aoki Jungo Shoki Sakuhin Collection (Collected Early Works of Aoki Jungo)… - [Works now available on OIL](https://aaploit.com/en/news/news-oil) - [Participating in Art Fair Tokyo](https://aaploit.com/en/news/art-fair-tokyo-20) - [Michimata Aoi Solo Exhibition "relief" | Sapporo Art Park Museum](https://aaploit.com/en/news/michimata-aoi-relief): A solo exhibition by aaploit-represented artist Michimata Aoi, titled "relief," was held at the Sapporo Art Park Museum (November 15 – December 21, 2… - [Participating in INCHEON ART SHOW 2025](https://aaploit.com/en/news/inas2025): aaploit will participate in the INCHEON ART SHOW 2025 (INAS 2025) held in Incheon, South Korea. Now in its fifth year, INAS will begin accepting inte… - [New Acquisitions Exhibition / Collection + The Worlds of Female Artists](https://aaploit.com/en/news/michimata-aoi-collection-2507) - [Participating in Art Fair Tokyo](https://aaploit.com/en/news/art-fair-tokyo-19) - [Participating in Art Fair Asia Fukuoka 2024](https://aaploit.com/en/news/art-fair-asia-fukuoka-2024) - [Announcement of the Group Exhibition “Emerging Echoes: Presenting Realism” in Seoul, South Korea](https://aaploit.com/en/news/announcement-emerging-echoes) ## Site - [About](https://aaploit.com/en/about): Gallery statement, director, visiting information - [Contact](https://aaploit.com/en/contact) - [Journal RSS feed](https://aaploit.com/journal/feed.xml)