MAKI Gallery was originally established in 2003 as SAKURADO FINE ARTS, later changing its name to the present one to reflect its focus on emerging artists, while continuing to specialize in post-war and contemporary Japanese art. In recent years, we have held exhibitions by artists of a high calibre, such as Mungo Thomson, Miya Ando and exonemo, who are based in the United States. We are also keen to support and nurture promising emerging artists, both Japanese and international.
Read MoreIn addition to the gallery space in Omotesando (Tokyo) which opened in 2014, we opened a new space on the first floor of the Terrada Art Complex in Tennoz (Tokyo) in 2020. The new space consists mainly of MAKI Collection, where works of the highest quality collected by gallery owner, Masahiro Maki, are exhibited, as well as a gallery space. Temporary and permanent exhibitions are held in these spaces throughout the year.
The postwar avant-garde artists, whose art we have continued to present since the gallery’s founding, played an important role in the art scene of the times. Contemporary art and expression have inherited their legacy of innovation and endless human creativity. Seeing those artists as our predecessors, we will continue to present art through exhibitions and art fairs as a platform for considering how we might leave this legacy to the next generation.
Ocula Report At Art Taipei, Galleries Adapt to Regional Politics By Sam Gaskin, Tapiei In Taipei, the artwork that said most about the contemporary art market's fraught situation in East Asia was not at the 26th Art Taipei (18–21 October 2019), but across town at the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, a publicly funded art park established in Taiwan's former Air Force Command Headquarters in 2018. Chin Cheng-Te's Tender Soul –...
Ocula Report Daido Moriyama: The Erotics of Photography By Tianyuan Deng, Tokyo In a documentary video published by Tate Modern to accompany its exhibition William Klein + Daido Moriyama in 2013, Moriyama, one of the most influential avantgarde photographers to emerge out of postwar Japan, roams the urban streets of Shinjuku equipped with a compact digital camera. Dressed in a low-key black jacket, his gait is relaxed but...
Ocula Report Art Basel in Hong Kong 2019: A Post-mortem By Diana d’Arenberg, Hong Kong Ocula contributor Diana d'Arenberg gives her annual post-mortem of Hong Kong's Art Basel week, running through some of the highs and lows of the fair's seventh edition, which opened to the public from 29 to 31 March 2019.
Ocula Report In Memory of a Free Public: Harbour Arts Sculpture Park By Hera Chan, Hong Kong It was at Tamar Park that the initial sit-ins took place around the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, sparking the Umbrella Movement in 2014. Thousands of students advocated for universal suffrage in the response to electoral reforms enacted on Hong Kong by China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. It was here, on 26 September...
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Related Press 1,500 Yayoi Kusama Mirror Balls Beckon Beachgoers to the Rockaways 22 June 2018, Hyperallergic First presented by the artist as an unofficial project outside the Italian pavilion at the 1966 Venice Biennale, Narcissus Garden (1966) consists of 1,500 reflective orbs spread throughout a space. In the work's first iteration, Kusama wore a golden kimono or red onesie and stood amid the plastic orbs alongside signs that read 'Narcissus...
Related Press Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Narcissus Garden’ Is Coming to the Rockaways 18 June 2018, The New York Times Art lovers and Instagram fanatics will both have a good reason to head to the Rockaways this summer: Yayoi Kusama's shimmering Narcissus Garden will be installed there starting July 1. The work is made up of 1,500 mirrored stainless steel spheres placed in the imposing confines of Fort Tilden, a former Army base on the beach in Queens. The...
Related Press Japanese Gutai in the 1950s: Fast and Fearless 14 June 2018, The New York Times In the 1950s, the artists of the newly formed Gutai group of Japan worked fast and fearlessly, changing styles and mediums at will, staying abreast of the latest postwar developments abroad. The mood of this band of innovators was eclectic — and electric — as demonstrated by "Gutai: 1953-1959," an ambitious show at Fergus...
