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Asami Kiyokawa | Kohei Nawa: Invisible Garden
Japanese original:
清川あさみ｜名和晃平「Invisible Garden」
The first two-person show of the artist Asami Kiyokawa and the sculptor Kohei Nawa, starting from Kiyokawa's new book Invisible Garden and treating drops, spores and microbes, along with memories and dreams, as things in one garden. At its centre is a new joint work about 9 metres wide, PixCell-Our New World: Kiyokawa built the picture from fragments of landscape photographs and AI-generated images, and Nawa covered it with transparent beads. There is also an installation in the POLA GINZA shop on the ground floor.
Venue taking part: Art Week Tokyo 2026 · Ginza (Route C)
1 / 3 Image: POLA MUSEUM ANNEX
- Dates
- Sep 16 – Dec 27, 2026
- Venue
- POLA MUSEUM ANNEX (ポーラ ミュージアム アネックス) · Marunouchi & Kyobashi (Tokyo Station)
- Address
- 東京都中央区銀座1-7-7 ポーラ銀座ビル3階Right by Exit 7, Ginza-itchome Station (Yurakucho Line); 6 min walk from Exit A9, Ginza Station; 5 min from the Kyobashi exit, JR Yurakucho StationOpen in Google Maps
- Hours
- 11:00–19:00
- 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.
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Credits
Knowledge cards
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 Asami Kiyokawa | Kohei Nawa: Invisible Garden —
After moving to a few spots, where do you think the work begins, and where does it end?