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InSitu2 – Ibasho
Japanese original:
InSitu2 – Ibasho（居場所）
InSitu2 is a joint programme of the Espace Louis Vuitton spaces in Tokyo, Munich and Beijing; the Tokyo edition is called Ibasho, a place where you feel you can stay. The young architects' collective GROUP has laid tatami, set tables and hung curtains, so visitors can sit, lie down or read. Over the run there are rakugo, Noh, DJ sets, an open haiku gathering and children's workshops, and what each event leaves behind, an ikebana arrangement, a haiku or an instrument, stays and builds up in the room. Some events need booking.
Venue taking part: Art Week Tokyo 2026 · Roppongi–Aoyama–Shinjuku (Route F)
1 / 5 Image: Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo
- Dates
- Oct 24 – Nov 27, 2026
- Venue
- Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo (エスパス ルイ・ヴィトン東京) · Harajuku & Aoyama
- Address
- 東京都渋谷区神宮前5-7-5 ルイ・ヴィトン表参道ビル7階About 3 min walk from Exit A1, Omotesando Station (Tokyo Metro); 5 min from Exit 4, Meiji-jingumae Station; 10 min from the Omotesando exit, JR Harajuku StationOpen in Google Maps
- Hours
- 12:00–20:00
- Admission
- Free admissionOriginal: 入場無料
Visit planning
The calendar entry covers the whole run of the exhibition. Please check opening hours and closing days before your visit.
Entry notes
Open 12:00–20:00 every day of the run, free admission; closes at 17:00 on November 3 and 27. Some activities need advance booking through the Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo mini-app in the official Louis Vuitton LINE. Activities marked 'booking advised' can be joined without a booking if places remain; those marked 'booking required' cannot. The page notes that many activities are fully booked, and places may open up after cancellations.
- Open 12:00–20:00 every day of the run, free admission; closes at 17:00 on November 3 and 27. Some activities need advance booking through the Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo mini-app in the official Louis Vuitton LINE. Activities marked 'booking advised' can be joined without a booking if places remain; those marked 'booking required' cannot. The page notes that many activities are fully booked, and places may open up after cancellations. (Source: Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo：InSitu2, 2026)
From the organizer's announcements and press reports. Arrangements can change; please check the official site before your visit.
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Credits
- Exhibition design
- GROUP
- Performance
- 平田春果, Sapphire Slows, 滝口悠生, 富永京子, 成田達哉, 小林聡美, 児玉雨子, 千野帽子, 堀本裕樹, 長嶋有, Login.jp, 茶酔（ochayoi）, 小林エリカ, キノ・イグルー, 磯野真穂, 飯田竜太, 桂枝之進, 朝吹真理子, 遠山秀子, 磯谷博史, 蓮沼執太, 田中堅大, ブライアン・ワシントン, 安堂ホセ, 穂村弘, 山階彌右衛門
Knowledge cards
Participatory art参加型アートArt that brings the audience directly into the making of the work, so that visitors become part of what happens.Read moreClose
01About
Participatory art directly engages the audience in the creative process, so that they become participants in the event. The artist is seen as a collaborator and co-producer of the situation with the audience, and such situations can often have an unclear beginning or end. Its origins lie in the Futurist and Dada performances of the early twentieth century, which were designed to provoke, scandalise and agitate the public. In the late 1950s Allan Kaprow devised performances called happenings. The name first appeared in the title of his 1959 work 18 Happenings in 6 Parts, staged at the Reuben Gallery in New York; happenings typically took place in an environment or installation made inside the gallery and included an element of spectator participation. Among contemporary artists, Monster Chetwynd relies entirely on willing participants to create her performances.
02In the gallery
Look near the work for a sign or instruction showing how to take part, whether by touching, entering, or joining, and watch how other visitors' movements become part of it.
Wall label terms in Japanese
- 参加型アート
- Participatory art
- ハプニング
- Happening
- 未来派
- Futurism
- ダダ
- Dada
03Notes
In participatory art, the artist and the audience make a situation together.
This time, at InSitu2 – Ibasho —
Where in the space are you invited to touch, step in, or join?
04Related
Installation ArtインスタレーションThree-dimensional work that does not sit on a wall or a pedestal but changes how a whole space feels, and that visitors walk into.Read moreClose
01About
Installations are often made for one particular site, and visitors move through them, so where you stand is part of the looking. Materials range from everyday objects and natural materials to video and sound, and a work may be permanent or taken down when the exhibition closes. As the name of an art form, “installation” is first recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary in 1969; in 1958 Allan Kaprow called the indoor spaces he transformed “Environments.” The events the Gutai Art Association staged in Japan from 1954 are counted among early installation art, and they influenced Kaprow. Some artists step inside their own installations: Aki Sasamoto builds spaces from string, tubes, household things and sound, then talks and moves within them, so that the work becomes an event that changes over time.
02In the gallery
Look from the entrance, from the middle and from a corner. Notice how the light, the sound, and the path you take change the work.
Wall label terms in Japanese
- インスタレーション
- Installation
- サイトスペシフィック
- Site-specific
- エンヴァイラメント（環境）
- Environment
- 具体美術協会
- Gutai Art Association
- パフォーマンス
- Performance
03Notes
Installations are mostly made for a particular place, and where you stand is part of the looking.
This time, at InSitu2 – Ibasho —
After moving to a few spots, where do you think the work begins, and where does it end?