Over the next 20 years, new art and architecture lodgings designed by select pairs of internationally acclaimed contemporary artists and Japanese architects will be created in and around the historical/cultural zones of Okayama City. Encouraging visitors to experience art through staying in these extraordinary new houses, the project seeks to promote the city as an attractive place to stay and enjoy engaging with various forms of art.
Producer:Yasuharu Ishikawa (President of Ishikawa Foundation)
Director:Taro Nasu (TARO NASU, Owner)
Advisor:Jun Aoki (President of Jun Aoki & Associates)
Cooperation:Art & Public Co.,Ltd.
Jonathan Hasegawa
Address:1-6-7-1 Izushicho Kitaku Okayama-city, Okayama 700-0812
Artist:Jonathan Monk
Architect:Go Hasegawa
Liam Fuji
Address:9-2-1 Tenjincho Kitaku Okayama-city, Okayama 700-0814
Artist:Liam Gillick
Architect:MOUNT FUJI ARCHITECTS STUDIO
Date:16th March – -29th July, 2020
Venue : JR Kansai International Airport Station
Artist:Ryan Gander
Creative Director:Taro Nasu
Supporters:Setouchi DMO, Ishikawa Foundation, West Japan Railway Company, Kansai Airports
Organizer:Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
“Japanese cultural media arts dissemination initiative in airports and other institutions in the first year of Reiwa”
Cooperation:Art & Public Co.,Ltd.
Japan Media Arts Distributed Museum HP
Date:29th June – 29th September, 2019
Venue:MO.CO.HOTEL DES COLLECTIONS (13 rue de la république, Montpellier)
Curator:Yuko Hasegawa (Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT), and professor at the Tokyo University of Arts)
Artists:Marcel Broodthaers, Peter Fischli, Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Felix Gonzalez-Torres , Pierre Huyghe, On Kawara, Mike Kelley, Steve Mc Queen, Haroon Mirza, Gerhard Richter, Rachel Rose, Anri Sala, Shimabuku, Motoyuki Shitamichi, Danh Vo, Lawrence Weiner, David Weiss.
Cooperation:Art & Public Co.,Ltd.