The art fair ARTISTSʼ FAIR KYOTO 2024 will be held from March 1 (Fri.) to 3 (Sun.), 2024, at the Kyoto National Museum Meiji Ancient Capital in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, and the basement floor of the Kyoto Newspaper Building in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto.
ARTISTSʼ FAIR KYOTO, which has been held since 2018, is an art fair planned, managed, and exhibited by artists. Under the theme of “Art Singularity,” Noboru Tsubaki serves as the director and 16 artists participate in the “Advisory Board,” which recommends young artists.
At the venue, 45 young artists selected from the Advisory Board and the public will exhibit and sell their works, allowing direct communication between visitors and artists. In addition, satellite venues will be developed throughout the city of Kyoto, and the project to nurture young critics, which began in 2022, will continue.
The main venue for 2024 will be the Meiji Ancient Capital Museum, a brick Western-style building that opened in 1897 as the Imperial Kyoto Museum, designed by Katayama Toguma, an engineer at the Imperial Household Ministry’s Shokuryo (Interior Ministry). It is designated as a National Important Cultural Property. The basement floor of the Kyoto Newspaper Building is an industrial space that was once used as a printing factory and has been used for various events in recent years.
ARTISTS’ FAIR KYOTO 2024
Main Venue
Venue: Meiji Ancient Capital Building, Kyoto National Museum (527 Chayamachi, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto) Kyoto Newspaper Building, B1F (239 Shosoi-cho, Isikawa-agaru, Karasuma-dori, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto)
Date: Friday, March 1, 2024 – Sunday, March 3, 2024
Time: 9:30-17:00, Meiji Ancient Capital Gallery, Kyoto National Museum (last admission 16:30) Kyoto Newspaper B1F 10:00-17:00 (last admission 16:30)
Admission: [Single Ticket] Kyoto National Museum, Meiji Ancient Capital: Adults 2,000 yen/University students 1,000 yen (student ID required)
Kyoto Shimbun Building, B1F: Free
【Set Ticket】
Adult 2,500 yen / University student 1,500 yen
Free for preschool children (must be accompanied by a parent or guardian)
Free for high school students and younger (student ID required)
Free admission for those with a disability certificate and up to one accompanying adult.
URL: https://artists-fair.kyoto/
＜For inquiries, please contact＞
ARTISTS’ FAIR KYOTO Executive Committee
TEL : 075-414-4219 (10:00-17:00 / closed Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays)
Organizers: Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto Shimbun, ARTISTS’ FAIR KYOTO Executive Committee
Supported by: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Kyoto Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Kyoto Association of Corporate Executives
Message from the Director
Farewell, Goku!
Now that the lost 30 years seem to be extending longer and longer, it is important to ask what exactly has been lost. To put it simply, I believe that various factors are involved, such as the lack of salary increases amidst the long-lasting deflation and the worsening birthrate and aging population. However, at the root of all this is the invisible fog of “a feeling of resignation that is becoming even worse than the reality. The information that the media broadcasts through LCD TVs, whether old or new, is as homogeneous as Kintaro candy. So, it is not that I am bemoaning Japan. In fact, the whole world is covered in a monoculture of similarities and differences, and social networking sites have only created unlimited personal information and peer pressure on AIs in exchange for convenience. A charming American collector I met the other day winked and said, “Rich people want the pieces that rich people have! The fair is a “personal preference.
This fair will continue to be a small way of helping to confirm the vague notion that one’s tastes may be different from those of others. Tastes change over time as one collects more and more works. I want to assure you that your own self will emerge at the end of that change. Let’s leave the Monkey King in the palm of Buddha’s hand in the past.
Noboru Tsubaki, Director, ARTISTS’ FAIR KYOTO
Director’s Advisory Board 16 groups (artists who recommend young artists)
Mitsuhiro Ikeda / Yasuko Iba / Kaoru Usukubo / Daisuke Oba / Motohiko Kotani / Izumi Kato / Kengo Kito / Bosco Sodi / Yuichiro Tamura / Kenji Tsuruta / Kohei Nawa / Mai Miyake / Miwa Yanagi / Kenji Yanobe / Yantu / Yotta
Creative Members
Producer: Shun Takaiwa
Graphic design: UMA / design farm
Venue design: dot architects
Exhibiting Artists
Young Artists: 45 groups] (Artists in parentheses are recommended artists or selected from the public)
As of October 26, 2023
Koichiro Azuma (public call) / Shigehiro Ishida (Mitsuhiro Ikeda) / Mirai Ishiyama (Kaoru Usukubo) / Miyu Ito (Kengo Kito) / Saeko Utsumi (public call) / Fumika Endo (Mai Miyake) / Takuma Ohgami (Daisuke Ohba) / Bishowa Okamoto (Mitsuhiro Ikeda) / Officell (public call) / Catharsis no Kishibe (Motohiko Kotani) / Kiyokata (Kenji Tsuruta) Tomonosuke Kurachi (Yotta) / Christopher Loden (Yantu) / Rie Konishi (Daisuke Ohba) / Souma Sato (public call) / Yui Samejima (public call) / Kota Shiga (Yuichiro Tamura) / Mika Shinagawa (public call) / Aoi Tokunaga (Kenji Tsuruta) / Airou Torigoe (Kengo Kito) / Hajiyaki Nishigaki (public call) / Hiroki Nishimura (public call) / Ryo Nish Taira (Tsubakisho) / Maki Hanagata (Yantu) / Taku Kumura (Miyake Mai) / Fang Yuan (public call) / Bruno Botella (Kohei Nawa) / Yuki Matsuoka (Miwa Yanagi) / Yu Matsumoto (Yasuko Iba) / Hanaho Marui (Tsubakisho) / Yuki Miyake (Yasuko Iba) / Nonomi Miyahara (public call) / Saki Moriyama (public call) / Yuka Mori (public call) / Yu Yasura (Izumi Kato) / Ai Yamada (Motohiko Kotani) / Haruki Yamaha (open call) / Kazuma Yamamoto (Kaoru Usukubo) / Shogo Yamamoto (Yuichiro Tamura) / Makoto Yoshiura (Miwa Yanagi) / Yotta Yonemura / Mai Yoneyama (Kenji Yanobe) / Liao Yuan Yi (Kengo Kito) / Jieyun Lyu (open call) / Liu Lijie (Open call for proposals)
