Future Exhibitions

Ishizaki Laboratory “Katachi Exhibition 2025”

  July 24 (Thu.) to July 30 (Wed.), 2025  [Free admission]

This is an exhibition showcasing graphic design works created by students from the Ishizaki Laboratory at the Junior College of Art and Design, Kyushu Sangyo University. We warmly invite you to come and see the diverse and creative expressions of our students.

Exhibitors:
Kyushu Sangyo University, Zokei Junior College of Art and Design
Hina Iwamura / Hinata Oki / Shoko Oho / Nanami Kaneko / Miyu Kanno / Momoka Kuhara / Suzuka Sano / Raiki Shimohara / Yuko Shiraishi / Ayato Shibita / Mirei Tojima / Risa Tomita / Shion Noguchi / Sari Murakami / Tomoyo Hagita / Mitsuka Mouri

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Painting / Weaving / Leather Exhibition “Tryangle 2025”

  June 6 (Fri.) to June 18 (Wed.), 2025  [Free admission]

This exhibition features paintings, artworks combining painting and weaving, and leather bags — all created under the theme of Try + Angle: a concept that blends the spirit of challenge (“Try”) with different directions and perspectives (“Angle”), reflecting the group’s aim to connect through art.

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KURA. Illustration Exhibition

  March 29 (Sat.) to April 24 (Thu.), 2025  [Free admission]

From Thursday, April 3rd, the Sakura Tango Festival will take place over four days at Nishitetsu Hall and Tiempo Hall. To commemorate its 10th edition, we are delighted to welcome Fukuoka-based illustrator KURA (Ritsuko Kuramae) as the main artist and present an exhibition of her tango-themed works at the venue.
In addition, before and after the festival, KURA's artwork will also be displayed at Galería Taller. Enjoy her remarkable pieces, created with her unique perspective and distinctive use of color.

KURA – Illustrator :
Born in Tokyo and raised in Fukuoka.
After working at a design agency, she worked as a freelance illustrator in Tokyo for eight years starting in 1990.
In 1998, after meeting Mario, an Argentine, they opened the Argentine restaurant "Porteño" together in Fukuoka.
It remains in operation today, preserving the flavors of her late husband.

■ Porteño
4-2-13 Yakuin, Chūō-ku, Fukuoka

■ Instagram @picantekuramae

■ LINE Stamps
- New release! "Viva Mario 2"
- "Viva Mario"
- "GO GO Zunba"
- "LOVE! Silvia"
- "Gaikotsu Furako"
- "LATIN SABO"
- "Kanji Ichimonji – Kanji-san"

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Zhao Chenglong - "Theatrical Paper Cutting"

  February 27 (Thu.) to March 5 (Wed.), 2025  [Free admission]

Zhao Chenglong was born in 1988 in Xingtang, Hebei Province, China.
Xingtang paper cutting, a traditional craft with a long history, flourished during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The paper cutting techniques are classified into three types: yang carving (positive cutting), yin carving (negative cutting), and yin-yang carving (a combination of both).
At the age of six, he developed an interest in the art of paper cutting and learned the traditional techniques passed down in his family.
At eight, he was introduced to peasant painting, and at twenty-one, he became a disciple of Li Xiufang, a master of Chinese paper cutting, systematically studying agricultural-themed paper cutting and traditional peasant painting.
Today, Zhao Chenglong is recognized as one of China's top ten paper-cutting masters.
• Member of the Chinese Folk Artists Association
• Member of the Youth Committee of the Chinese Folk Artists Association
• Member of the Hebei Folk Artists Association
• Recognized as the representative inheritor of "Xingtang Paper Cutting," an intangible cultural heritage project in Shijiazhuang.

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Group Photo Exhibition
SAKURAZAKA Photo Session – 1st Anniversary –

  March 14 (Fri.) to 19 (Wed.), 2025  [Free admission]

At SAKURAZAKA, we aim to create enjoyable photo sessions together with models and photographers. To celebrate our first anniversary, we are pleased to hold a photo exhibition in collaboration with the photographers who have participated in our sessions.

[ Photographers ]
• Isamutchi
• Atsushi Inoue
• sakamasa_photo
• sao
• Taka
• Taka
• Toku
• Hayatoshi
• Kunihiko Mizuma

[ Instagram ]
https://www.instagram.com/model.sakurazaka/
https://www.instagram.com/tokusan.sakurazaka/

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Kimiko Nakagawa Art Exhibition "Cats, Filling the World"

  October 4 (Fri.) to 8 (Tue.), 2024  [Free admission]

 

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Kimiko Nakagawa Art Exhibition "Cats, Filling the World"

  October 4 (Fri.) to 8 (Tue.), 2024  [Free admission]

 

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Xu Ji "The Beautiful Legend of Western China"

  May 23 (Thu.) to 29 (Wed.), 2024  [Free admission]

 

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Yuki Higuchi Calligraphy exhibition: 35,874

  May 16 (Thu.) to 22 (Wed.), 2024  [Free admission]

 

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Group exhibition: Our youth

  April 23 (Tue.) to April 30 (Tue.), 2024  [Free admission]

 

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Beautiful handicrafts from Paraguay

  April 13 (Sat.) to April 20 (Sat.), 2024  [Free admission]

 

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Exhibition "Oneness"

  January 26 (Fri.) to 29 (Mon.), 2024  [Free admission]

 

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Collective photo exhibition "But everyone is different"

  December 21 (Thu.) to 26 (Tue.), 2023  [Free admission]

The students and teacher of the photography course currently taking place at "Gaku IWATAYA" will present their work as the culmination of the course.

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Exhibition: Pyrography “Art of Fire”

  November 30 (Thu.) to December 6 (Wed.), 2023  [Free admission]

 

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Ryoko Ohashi painting exhibition “Transition of Time”

  November 14 (Tue.) to 20 (Mon.), 2023  [Free admission]

 

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Calligraphy exhibition by Asuka “Move your heart”

  October 25 (Fri.) to 30 (Wed.), 2023  [Free admission]

 

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“Exhibition of works by three generations – What is life? ~”

  October 6 (Fri.) to 10 (Tue.), 2023  [Free admission]

 

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"Mi arte en Fukuoka Ai Orui 2023"

  September 23 (Sat.) to 30 (Sat.), 2023  [Free admission]

 

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"Mi arte en Fukuoka Ai Orui 2023"

  September 23 (Sat.) to 30 (Sat.), 2023  [Free admission]

 

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Reiko Hara Painting Exhibition

  September 8 (Fri.) to 13 (Wed.), 2023  [Free admission]

 

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"Current location of emotion"

  July 15 (Sat.) to 17 (Mon.), 2023  [Free admission]

 

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"Yoshifumi Higasa's World of Paintings"

  June 22 (Thu.) to 27 (Tue.), 2023  [Free admission]

 

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Romina Pernigotte Exhibition "Nuevas Narrativas Tangueras (The New Tango Narratives)"

  Mar 20 (Mon.) to Apr. 20 (Thu.), 2023  [Free admission]

The series "New Tango Narratives" intertwines tango dance and visual arts.
The visual and the corporal, the individual and the collective, combine to give rise to the theme addressed in this graphic series. Movement, line and color are the inquiry tools in this search.

The images are permeated by the art of luthiery as a symbol of deconstruction of this historical moment. The luthier disassembles the bandoneon with love, to restore what is valuable and discard the obsolete parts that no longer work in the gear. Today, in the same way, a large part of the tango community activates and transits that sieve that motorizes the validity of the tango genre.
The drawings embrace primary communication through physical contact and the body dialogue of tango dance. Scenes emerge about the poetic modes of interaction and play between tango dancers and musicians in the heart of the tango machine, the milonga.

Through the images a tango worldview is built in which the musical instruments do not resist, they are willing to disarm, they surrender to listening, to fusion with other bodies. They open up to otherness and the possibility, necessary and urgent, of resilience, empathy and transformation.

Collective work from dance, pedagogical practices with a gender perspective together with colleagues and graphic production are, in my daily life, the great transformation device. Through affectionate and free tango embraces, where the traditional roles are blurred, to give way to a dialogued dance.

In recent times, urban landscapes discovered from the isolation and rescue of relegated iconic forces have appeared.

The New Tango Narratives invite you to feel and think about tango from other logics. To rewrite history, giving new meaning to legacies, making healthy ruptures and deepening a genuine, empowered lineage of tango that is in the making.

■ This exhibition is considered of interest for the promotion of Argentine culture abroad by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship - Directorate of Cultural Affairs.

 

Romina Pernigotte - Visual artist / Tango dancer -

She began to paint and dance tango in the 90s. She trained in both areas since she was a teenager. She works with the interaction of the artistic languages that inhabit her, drawing and tango. She is dedicated to teaching tango dance and illustration.

She has a degree in Visual Arts with a Drawing Orientation from the UNA National University of the Arts, visual artist, tango dancer, Illustrator, researcher and teacher. She is co-founder of the Aires del Sur Tango collective dedicated to research on pedagogy with a gender perspective in tango dance and co-founder of Autoras Tangueras, a collective that brings together women from different disciplines who have shaped their studies on the tango genre through the publication of books.

She published the books “Tango en devenir. A dance, pedagogical, aesthetic and political project from a gender perspective" together with Aires del Sur Tango in 2021 and "Tango. Equilibrios y desequilibres" in 2018 independently, from which they created the interdisciplinary project "Dancing a book " workshop that combines the languages of dance and drawing.

She was curator of the virtual exhibition "Tango and visual arts" projected at the CCK Kichner Cultural Center within the framework of MICA Mercado de Industrias Culturales Argentinas and at the CCC Cultural Center for Cooperation. She exhibited her plastic work in art spaces in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Germany. She illustrated books for publishers in Argentina, Spain and Guatemala. She received the “Silver Dog” distinction at the VI Imagenpalabra Illustration Salon in Bogotá. Her thesis “Urban Tours. Narrating with images” was recommended by the jury to be disseminated in the chairs of the UNA National University of the Arts.

She was a finalist in the 1st Tango Dance World Championship, Salon Tango category in 2003. Since then she has been performing dance exhibitions and giving tango classes uninterruptedly at Aires del Sur Tango, at festivals, universities, milongas and cultural venues in Argentina, Italy, Mexico and Chile.

Fue finalista del 1er Campeonato Mundial de Baile de Tango, categoría Tango Salón en el 2003. Desde entonces realiza exhibiciones de danza y da clases de tango de manera ininterrumpida en Aires del Sur Tango, en festivales, universidades, milongas y espacios culturales de Argentina, Italia, México y Chile.

She works on all of her projects with the crossing of the languages of tango and visual arts.

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Character Illustration Exhibition "Picture Book Author Hagasei and Fun Friends"

  Feb. 23 (Thu.) to Mar. 1 (Wed.), 2023  [Free admission]

Picture book author and illustrator Sei Haga's character illustration exhibition. The original picture of the picture book "Kuchu the mouse" will also be exhibited.

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Yukihito Onishi "Appearance of the Sun"

  Dec. 22 (Thu.) to Dec. 28 (Wed.), 2022  [Free admission]

 

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Yukihito Onishi "Appearance of the Sun"

  Dec. 22 (Thu.) to Dec. 28 (Wed.), 2022  [Free admission]

 

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Ryoko Ohashi Exhibition "Prayer"

  Oct. 22 (Sat.) to Oct. 28 (Fri.), 2022  [Free admission]

 

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Yusuke Toki Exhibition: "Fluctuating light and swaying of the Wind"

  Oct. 10 (Fri.) to Oct. 20 (Thu.), 2022  [Free admission]

 

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Photo exhibition: "Mist, lightning, water moon"

  August 12 (Fri.) to August 17 (Wed.), 2022  [Free admission]

Message from the artists:
"It is a photographic exhibition of two graduates of the Faculty of Arts of Kyushu Sangyo University.
It is a work in which you can feel the flicker that is near and far, and that you can touch but you cannot touch.
We look forward to your visit."

Akane Toyonaga

Erina Wada

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Landscape of "tranquility" and "Freshness"

  April 29 (Fri.) to May 4 (Wed.), 2022  [Free admission]

Message from the artist:
"I like to see and draw landscapes, and I have used it as the theme of my works. While drawing different landscapes, you can feel its beauty, mystery of nature in a big way that spreads out in front of us.
I always try to express the "universe" that I feel from the landscape with my paintings.
I feel that seeing and drawing natural landscapes has the power to relieve the tiredness and suffering of the heart.
We hope that this exhibition will be a space where viewers can feel peace and tranquility."

Ryosuke Ozono

Born in 1986, from Aichi Prefecture.
2010 Graduated from Tohoku University of Art and Design.

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Exhibition: "Art as co-nnector"

  February 20 (Sun.) to March 3 (Thr.), 2022  [Free admission]

Message from the artists:
"The spread of the coronavirus has weakened our connections with people, but this event has made us more aware of the impact and importance of our connections with someone.
While the importance of connecting with people is reaffirmed, we hope to be able to interact with multiple people using our own technology and knowledge, and the power of works that connect people. This exhibition "Art as a connector" reminded me of myself.
We hope this exhibition is an opportunity for our work to create new connections. "

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Exhibition: "Amigo de Macchiato"

  December 9 (Thr.) to 15 (Wed.), 2021  [Free admission]

A collaboration of paintings by QULOKAN company president Tsutomu Kuroo and fabric by Miwa Co., Ltd. director Takako Hatashima.

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Exhibition: "Nightfall"

  September 25 (Sat.) to October 16 (Sat.), 2021  [Free admission]

Artists:
Naomi Uto
Born in Miyazaki Prefecture in 1994
2019 Graduated from Aichi University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Oil Painting

Sawako Miura
Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1996
2019 Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Master's Program in Oil Painting and Prints

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Kyushu Sangyo University "Summer"

  August 20 (Fri.) to 27 (Fri.), 2021.  [Free admission]

Under the theme of "summer", the members of the photography club created their works based on photography with their own ideas.
The photography club holds exhibitions four times a year on campus and is visited by many people.

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Abe Natsumi "Kobo no saki"

  August 6 (Fri.) to 18 (Wed.), 2021.  [Free admission]

At the age of 19 Abe Natsumi fulfilled her dream of holding a solo exhibition in Tokyo. Then when she thought about perfecting his work further, she met Natsunagi. She was moved by the photos of Natsunagi, so she has invited her to hold this exhibition together in Fukuoka.

Artist: Abe Natsumi
Born on July 17, 2000 in Miyama City, Fukuoka Prefecture.
She belongs at Kurume Institute of Technology.

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Nanako Nishiyama "Nana"

  July 8 (Thu.) to 15 (Thu.), 2021.  [Free admission]

It's an exhibition of digital paintings drawn using smartphones and tablets and acrylic paintings drawn using acrylic paint on canvas.
Please come and experience the world of art of Yasuko Nishiyama.

Artist: Nanako Nishiyama
Born on July 17, 2000 in Miyama City, Fukuoka Prefecture.
She belongs at Kurume Institute of Technology.

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FUMITAKE NIIBO "Live"

  May 13 (Sat.) to 20 (Thr.), 2021.  [Free admission]

Artist: FUMITAKE NIIBO
Born on May 22, 2001 in Kagoshima and currently resides in Fukuoka.
He belongs at Nippon Designers school.

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Ugou no shu

  April 1 (Thr.) to 8 (Thr.), 2021.  [Free admission]

Artists:
   - Ryo Saito
   - Kota Abe
   - Miku Tagawa
   - Shunsuke Tagawa
   - Touko Nakamura
   - Mio Matsue
   - Hanamoto
   - Shiryu Kiyosuke
   - Chisaki Yamaguchi
   - No.
   - Yuki Fujimoto

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Nature & Artifact/Portrait

  March 20 (Sat.) to 27 (Sat.), 2021.  [Free admission]

Artists:

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Kosaidatsumoku

  November 6 (Fri.) to 12 (Thu.), 2020.  [Free admission]

Artists:
   - Ahito Narishima
   - Yuuna Masuda
   - Meme Kinoshita
   - Kotobuki
   - Fuyuka Shirozumi
   - Tsubasa
   - shiNo
   - Suzu Saitou

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Calligraphy Exhibition: Yuki Higuchi

  September 25 (Fri.) to October. 1 (Thu.), 2020.  [Free admission]

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Photos: doors and windows

  June 11 (Thu.) to July 31 (Fri.), 2020.  [Free admission]