Frieze Seoul 2026
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art is excited to announce its participation in Frieze Seoul 2026.
Dates : Thursday, September 3 Friday, September 4 Saturday, September 5
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Kenjiro Okazaki Wins “67th Mainichi Art Award” and “6th Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize”
We are delighted to share that Kenjiro Okazaki has been awarded the “67th Mainichi Art Award” and “6th Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize”.
The awards recognize his solo exhibition “Jikonjigo – Time Unfolding Here” held last year at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, which brought together recent and earlier works centered on painting and sculpture, reflecting his wide-ranging practice and engagement with form, thought, and regeneration.
Regarding the Art Encouragement Prize, Okazaki previously received the 69th Prize in the Criticism Division in 2018 for his book The Power of Abstraction: An Analysis of Modern Art. This time, he has been honored in the Fine Arts Division, recognizing his recent activities as both a visual artist and a critic.
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Ryoichi Kurokawa Wins Louvre Abu Dhabi “Art Here 2025” Award
We are pleased to announce that Ryoichi Kurokawa has been selected as the winner of the 5th edition of the Richard Mille Art Prize, organized by Louvre Abu Dhabi and Richard Mille. His awarded work, “skadw-”, is currently on view at Art Here 2025, an exhibition at Louvre Abu Dhabi responding to the theme “Shadow”, as part of the prize’s official program.
Website： https://www.louvreabudhabi.ae/en/exhibitions/art-here-2025 About “skadw-”： https://www.louvreabudhabi.ae/en/exhibitions/art-here-2025-ryoichi-kurokawa
Cited from Louvre Abu Dhabi’s press release on Ryoichi’s work “skadw-”: Ryoichi’s winning work skadw- transforms shadows into an immersive form. The atmospheric installation uses light, sound, and drifting fog to shape a shifting landscape of shadow. A narrow beam moves through layers of mist, generating patterns that appear and dissolve, giving shadow a physical presence. This year’s theme of Shadows inspired Ryoichi to approach shadow not as a by-product of light, but as a substance that shapes how we sense space. Ryoichi drew from the Japanese notion of Ma, the appreciation of intervals, emptiness, and the spaces between things. Through this concept, Ryoichi created a contemplative environment where viewers are encouraged to experience absence as something vivid and almost tangible. _____________ Images: image 1: ©︎ Richard Mille 2025
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Tokyo Gendai 2025
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art is excited to announce its participation in Tokyo Gendai 2025.
Tokyo Gendai 2025
Artists: Kenjiro Okazaki, Rafaël Rozendaal, Goro Murayama, Harm van den Dorpel
Dates ： Thursday, September 11
Friday, September, 12
Saturday, September 13
Sunday, September 14
※Last admission is 30 minutes before closing. |
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Frieze Seoul 2025
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art is excited to announce its participation in Frieze Seoul 2025. |
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Kenjiro Okazaki Viewing program "Block House Sunagawa"
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Frieze Seoul 2026
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art is excited to announce its participation in Frieze Seoul 2026.
Frieze Seoul 2026
Booth：C15（Galleries)
Artists: Mayumi Hosokura, Yuumi Domoto, Nobuo Yamanaka, Kenjiro Okazaki, Goro Murayama, Rafaël Rozendaal, Austin Lee
Dates :
Wednesday, September 2
11:00 – 19:00 (Invitation only)
Thursday, September 3
11:00 – 19:00 (Invitation and preview ticket holders only 11:00 – 15:00, open to the public from 15:00)
Friday, September 4
11:00 – 19:00
Saturday, September 5
11:00– 19:00
※Last admission is 30 minutes before closing.
Venue：COEX
513 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06164, Republic of Korea
https://www.frieze.com/fairs/frieze-seoul/visitor-information
Kenjiro Okazaki Wins “67th Mainichi Art Award” and “6th Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize”
We are delighted to share that Kenjiro Okazaki has been awarded the “67th Mainichi Art Award” and “6th Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize”.
The awards recognize his solo exhibition “Jikonjigo – Time Unfolding Here” held last year at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, which brought together recent and earlier works centered on painting and sculpture, reflecting his wide-ranging practice and engagement with form, thought, and regeneration.
Regarding the Art Encouragement Prize, Okazaki previously received the 69th Prize in the Criticism Division in 2018 for his book The Power of Abstraction: An Analysis of Modern Art. This time, he has been honored in the Fine Arts Division, recognizing his recent activities as both a visual artist and a critic.
Artist
Ryoichi Kurokawa Wins Louvre Abu Dhabi “Art Here 2025” Award
We are pleased to announce that Ryoichi Kurokawa has been selected as the winner of the 5th edition of the Richard Mille Art Prize, organized by Louvre Abu Dhabi and Richard Mille.
His awarded work, “skadw-”, is currently on view at Art Here 2025, an exhibition at Louvre Abu Dhabi responding to the theme “Shadow”, as part of the prize’s official program.
Website：
https://www.louvreabudhabi.ae/en/exhibitions/art-here-2025
About “skadw-”：
https://www.louvreabudhabi.ae/en/exhibitions/art-here-2025-ryoichi-kurokawa
Cited from Louvre Abu Dhabi’s press release on Ryoichi’s work “skadw-”:
Ryoichi’s winning work skadw- transforms shadows into an immersive form. The atmospheric installation uses light, sound, and drifting fog to shape a shifting landscape of shadow. A narrow beam moves through layers of mist, generating patterns that appear and dissolve, giving shadow a physical presence.
This year’s theme of Shadows inspired Ryoichi to approach shadow not as a by-product of light, but as a substance that shapes how we sense space. Ryoichi drew from the Japanese notion of Ma, the appreciation of intervals, emptiness, and the spaces between things. Through this concept, Ryoichi created a contemplative environment where viewers are encouraged to experience absence as something vivid and almost tangible.
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Images:
image 1: ©︎ Richard Mille 2025
image 2, 3: Installation view of “Art Here 2025”, Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2025
Artwork: Ryoichi Kurokawa, “skadw-”
©︎ Richard Mille 2025
Art Fair
Tokyo Gendai 2025
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art is excited to announce its participation in Tokyo Gendai 2025.
Tokyo Gendai 2025
Galleries: B12
Artists: Kenjiro Okazaki, Rafaël Rozendaal, Goro Murayama, Harm van den Dorpel
Dates ：
Thursday, September 11
2:00 PM ー 5:00PM (VIP preview)
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Vernissage)
Friday, September, 12
11:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Public Access)
Saturday, September 13
11:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Public Access)
Sunday, September 14
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Public Access)
※Last admission is 30 minutes before closing.
Venue：
Pacifico Yokohama Exhibition Hall C/D
1-1-1 Minatomirai, Nishi Ward,
Yokohama, Kanagawa
220-0012
Art Fair
Frieze Seoul 2025
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art is excited to announce its participation in Frieze Seoul 2025.
Frieze Seoul 2025
Booth：C20（Galleries)
Artists: Kenjiro Okazaki, Yuumi Domoto, Mayumi Hosokura, Chinoko Sakamoto, Rafaël Rozendaal
Dates :
Wednesday, September 3
11:00 AM – 7:00PM (Invitation only)
Thursday, September 4
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM (Invitation and preview ticket holders only)
3:00 PM – 7:00PM (General Admission)
Friday, September 5
11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Saturday, September 6
11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
※Last admission is 30 minutes before closing.
Venue：COEX
513 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06164, Republic of Korea
https://www.frieze.com/fairs/frieze-seoul/visitor-information