Discover contemporary art, architecture and design in Japan: places, artists and events.
28/02/2026
Ja-bruary and a broken phone in Tokyo
Currently on view
Obol by Andrius Arutiunian at in Ginza
Not pictured beautiful Abstract Beauty and Soetsu Yanagi @ Japan Folk Crafts museum
Memories from shows finished
Anti-Action: Artist-Women’s Challenges and Responses in Postwar Japan at
Shiraga Fujiko here 🧡
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Got to be a podcast guest, episode coming soon, great conversation on writing, Japan, art, and more.
Slowly getting out of my hibernation
01/10/2025
September you were no joke!
1. Walking all over the city between meetings and touring.
2. Beautiful walls of new store in Ginza 💎
3. Heartwarming friends time so much love ❤️ & everyone who joined!
4. Inspiring lunch for
5. 48h in Ito 🌊 the 5 min I used my phone
6. Always happy to tour in Yanaka
7. Inspiring event about entrepreneurship with Ramona founder of Thank you Aiko Katoh for organizing 🙏
8. Art fair hopping 3rd edition of wrote a report for ✍️
9. beautiful on booth
10. 11. Press trip to poetically transcendental
12.
13. delicate installlation in a former sento
14. New book alert! Photographer .s.greco presentation at
15. Always touring in Ginza 🌠
16. 17. Had to include just opened the beautiful show of ✨
05/09/2025
The Naoshima New Museum of Art is a must-see for several reasons :
🖼 An incredible collection of works, some of which will change occasionally in the future...
🌊 The view.
👁 The educational content onsite
✏️ The architecture, designed by Tadao Ando... I'll let you discover more...
If you go make sure to take this opportunity to visit one of the smaller island, enjoy a slower pace, talk with the locals and explore the lovely Setouchi region.
Pretty proud to had the opportunity to write this piece for (last slide, available online)
Would have been hard to imagine when I first got to Japan 🇯🇵 still excited to keep learning and understanding the landscape of Japanese museums, institutions and art market here so I can report back to you! ✨️
1. Do Ho Suh
7. Pannaphan Yodmanee
8.9. Cai Guo-Qiang
10.11. Takashi Murakami
12. Chim↑Pom from Smappa!Group
02/09/2025
postcard 💌
1. Takamatsu port Shinji Ohmaki "Liminal Air"
2. SANAA Kagawa Prefectural Area
3. Feels like 46° hiding in cafe
4. ⛴️
5. Mom, Dad, I'm going there
6.7 Ryo Toyofuku "Ship Vanishing into a Garden Sea"
8.Nice wednesday
9/10. Wang Wen-Chih "Embrace"
11.
12. I did not miss the boat
13. Jacob Dahlgren "Colour Reading and Contexture"
14. 15. Happy place Megijima
15. Yasuyoshi Sugiura "Terrace Winds"
17.18.💙
19. Takamatsu cafe
20. Naoshima
Not pictured Agathe getting scared in the caves in Megijima 🤦♀️🫠
Note for self it’s very very very low…
Anyways 10/10 recommend ✨
Get ready for the Autumn session starting October 3rd.
28/08/2025
Fighting the urge to paint every wall around me. ⚜️✨️🖌
Church in the South West of France
25/08/2025
Short parisian summer window 🌧☀️🫐
Machiko Ogawa,
Raphaelle Peria
Pièces à vivre
Wolfgang Tillmans
21/08/2025
🇲🇫 Last month in Arles for
Todd Hido
Agnès Geoffray
Batia Suter
MYOP
Café Vague
Construction, Déconstruction, Reconstruction
Yves Saint Laurent
Café Japonais
Kyotographie
Louise Mutrel
hôtel Le Cloître India Mahdavi
Galerie Anne-Laure Buffard
Nhu Xuan Hua
06/12/2024
Kyoto again for a short trip 🍂 Learning about kan'ei culture and its beautiful art and crafts filling this city.
Even though my main interest is always contemporary creation I’m eager to learn more about the art history of Japan.
Having graduated in art history in France before focusing on contemporary helped me so much understand the importance and depts of works and their artists. This education being primarily European-centered I’m so happy and lucky to be able to fill the gaps I have and get more knowledge about the art history here.
First stop:
📍Nijo castle
⏳completion 1603; 400 years ago
25/11/2024
As always running everywhere and stopping a short second to capture beauty on the way.
1. Omotesando, by Norihiko Dan
2. Wall in Sumida
3. Sky tree on blue sky
4. Metro stations above ground on a sunny day 🧡
5. Events in emptied sento
6. Keita Miyazaki for Hermès .miyazaki.722
7. Jens Fänge
8. comfortable whisky/cocktail bar in Tokyo with amazing music
9. 💛
11/11/2024
KYOTO DIARIES 🍂 漆 (うるし/ Urushi)
🌳The smell of wood, tiny cracks under our feet, eyes wondering everywhere, the feeling of curiosity takes over when entering Ryuji's studio.
Trained as a urushi artisan, Ryuji is also a visual artist.
🚪He kindly opened the door to his world, explaining his tools, often surprising and unexpected!
He uses his training to produce artworks deeply inspired by this craft.
Japanese lacquer has a deep connection with nature.
The mixture in the first picture is gathered from trees.
A slow and meticulous process which lasts until the tree goes back to the earth ending the loop.
These trees could not survive in the wild without the trained artisan to care for them.
Continusouly caring for the area and providing the tree what it needs.
Ryuji coproduced a mesmerizing video piece, between art and documentary peeking at the relationship between the trees and the craftsmen.
Will soon be on view in Tokyo!
Thank you for this moment (In French!!👏)
08/11/2024
KYOTO DIARIES 🍂📷
In a magical location The Terminal in Kyoto I saw beautiful and inspiring creations, when contemporary art and craft collide:
« 10 ans de résidences métiers d’art à la Villa Kujoyama »
The Villa Kujoyama hosts artists, dreamers, creators, designers coming to Japan to discover the culture, the country and its crafts, during a research residency.
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My name is Agathe 🙋♀️, I am French and live in Paris, there I work in the contemporary art world as a freelance. Every time I get the chance I travel, I go to museums, art centers, galleries, and all the cool places I can find. When researching travel guides I realised I could not find information on these specific places, so I decided to do my own research and publish what I found online, so it can help others as well.
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