It is a joint program with Tokyo Wonder Wall (TWW), a public annual exhibition sponsored by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. TWS reviews the works of successful TWW candidates who are interested in participating in the TWS-Emerging program, allowing them the opportunity to display their works at TWS Hongo.
As the beginning of this program in 2009,  TWS presents you three young artists who work with their drawing mainly.

116 Sayumi Fukushima / The unreal image is replaced with the collection real image.

117 Norie Sakamoto / a flicking city and a big catfish

118 Natsumi Suwa / anima

It is a joint program with Tokyo Wonder Wall (TWW), a public annual exhibition sponsored by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. TWS reviews the works of successful TWW candidates who are interested in participating in the TWS-Emerging program, allowing them the opportunity to display their works at TWS Hongo.
TWS presents you three young artists who work with their drawing and installatin.

119 Jiro Murakami : Camping at the Kotatsu Tower

120 Nana Matsumoto : roots of one

121 Tatsuya Kobayashi : Freewalk

Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo is to host an exciting new exhibition in the IMAGINARY MUSEUM OF THE O-COLLECTION　magical museum tour. This latest installment in the series is Room 7 "Enokura & Matsubara - Alterna (Post) Modern 1".

■Concurrent Exhibition:
TEAM 15 MIHOKANNO 「Hello! MIHOKANNO」
(Saeka Enokura / Soshiro Matsubara)
Venue: Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya
Date: 5/30(Sat.) - 7/20(Mon.)

■Related Event:

<SHASHINONGAKU>　*Finished.

Date: May 23 (Sat.), 2009  15:00 - 18:00 

Performer: 1080° / Sibitt (Origami) / CARRE / itoken (d.v.d)

*The event is held in the gallery. We would like to notify in advance that it may be difficult to see exhibited works when it is crowded.

■Related events:　
3/21 (Sat.) 16:00- Opening Reception      Finished.
4/ 4 (Sat.)  15:00- [Symposium] No.2 "Painting"     Finished.
4/11 (Sat.) 15:00- [Performance Talk] "Bunk Bed Vol.01"   Finished.
4/12 (Sun.) 15:00- [Performance Talk] "Bunk Bed Vol.02"   Finished.

4/19 (Sun.) 15:00- [Performance Talk] "Bunk Bed Vol.03"

Performer: Crack Iron Albatorosskett (Performance Group) x onnacodomo (Visual Artist)
Navigator: Misao Ushijima (Photographer)

Each event is held in the gallery. We would like to notify in advance that it may be difficult to see exhibited works when it is crowded or video is being shown.

Emerging Artist Support Program 2008
  

Emerging Artists Support Program 2008：Right after its opening in 2001, Tokyo Wonder Site launched the "TWS-Emerging" series with the aim to foster young creators. In addition to this program for artists, a support program for aspiring planners (curators) was implemented in 2006, inviting young exhibition organizers to apply with concrete plans for art shows.

■Related events:   Finished.
3/21 (Sat.)  16:00- Opening Reception
                 17:00- Gallery Talk
3/22 (Sun.) 15:30-17:00 Georges Rey Symposium

Emerging Artist Support Program 2008
 

Emerging Artists Support Program 2008：Right after its opening in 2001, Tokyo Wonder Site launched the "TWS-Emerging" series with the aim to foster young creators. In addition to this program for artists, a support program for aspiring planners (curators) was implemented in 2006, inviting young exhibition organizers to apply with concrete plans for art shows.

■Related events:   Finished.
3/21 (Sat.) 16:00-  Opening Reception
3/22 (Sun.) 13:30-15:00  Artist's Talk

Emerging Artist Support Program 2008
 

Emerging Artists Support Program 2008：Right after its opening in 2001, Tokyo Wonder Site launched the "TWS-Emerging" series with the aim to foster young creators. In addition to this program for artists, a support program for aspiring planners (curators) was implemented in 2006, inviting young exhibition organizers to apply with concrete plans for art shows.

■Related event: ＊Finished

Date:           February 14 (Sat.)  
Schedule:  16:00－17:00  Artist Talk
                    17:00－19:00  Opening reception

 
■Related presentation in TWS-Emerging @ TWS Art Cafe kurage:

*Finished 

Date: January 15 (Thu.) - January 28 (Wed.)

　*For more infomation, please visit TWS Art Cafe kurage page.

Tokyo Wonder Site (TWS) has been organizing concerts and contemporary music workshops by young musicians as Emerging Artist Support Program since 2004. Public subscription of this program, as it has been new attempt since 2006, will be continued in 2008. 11 Selected programs will be performed in January 2009 at TWS Hongo, and the making process will be supported by Tokyo Wonder Site.

■Click the play button to watch the video of the performance/exhibition.

TWS Aoyama hosts annual debriefing session by the three artists, Ai Sasaki, Soya Arakawa and Masayuki Kawai who stayed as dispatched artists in Seoul, Taipei and Paris by the bilateral exchange program taken place in 2008.
The session consists of the two parts, the first part will be Artists Talk about the residence and tendency of the art scene in the city, and the second part will be installations produced by the three artists.
It will be the good opportunity for those who are planning to stay in foreign residence or interested in the working process or art scene abroad.

 ■October 25 (Sat.)  *Finished

    17:00  Artist Talk

 ■Related events：　　※Finished
　September 27 (Sat.)　16:00-17:00 Artist Talk
                                  17:00-19:00 Opening reception

This latest show, the continuation of a series launched last year, is like the others composed of works from the collection of Mr. Satoshi Okada. Our aim is to provide a permanent venue for works by emerging Japanese contemporary artists similar to the permanent exhibitions in an art museum. In conjunction with the series, programs such as TWS-Emerging and INDEX#4 involving students and young artists in their 20s and 30s are being run to help forge ties among artists, and artists and art lovers. Two shows were exhibited last year to considerable acclaim: Room 1: Kuwahara & Kato - According to the "basso ostinato" of Japanese traditional mentality and Room 2: Yuichi Higashionna, Daisuke Ohba & Akiyoshi Mishima - Design and Soul.

The Okada collection includes numerous leading works by emerging Japanese artists, but selected from unconventional perspectives while the artists in question were still unknown. The collection could also be described as an attempt to explore the depths of what it means to be human, including the irrationality of human nature. In that the works here reflect and convey the diverse sensibilities emanating from the megalopolis of Tokyo, they go beyond the confines of a personal collection to present a universal challenge.
Room 5 showcases the work of Chiezo Taro. This show in a series of rooms at an imaginary art museum will run for approximately five months. Watch out after that for the next installment Room 6, featuring work by Toshiyuki Konishi and Fumiaki Akahane.

Taro, and old friend of mine, is in my view some kind of mad scientist rather than an artist. He got aware of the limitations of anthropocentric thinking quite early, and the works he comes up with are all grotesque pieces of art that seem to be ridiculing the value concepts of inwardness. That grotesqueness tells us through suddenly appearing notions of violence about the presence of something huge and horrendous beyond human scale, and it is the existence of that menace that serves as the best proof of the invalidity of anthropocentric thinking. What better description than "posthuman artist" for him then?

(Satoshi Okada Representative, Art Acephale)

Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo is to host an exciting new exhibition in the IMAGINARY MUSEUM of the O-collection - magical museum tour. This latest installment in the series is Room 4 "Julian Schnabel - Poem of a clumsy diver".

This latest show, the continuation of a series launched last year, is like the others composed of works from the collection of Mr. Satoshi Okada. Our aim is to provide a permanent venue for works by emerging Japanese contemporary artists similar to the permanent exhibitions in an art museum. In conjunction with the series, programs such as TWS-Emerging and INDEX#4 involving students and young artists in their 20s and 30s are being run to help forge ties among artists, and artists and art lovers. Two shows were exhibited last year to considerable acclaim: Room 1: Kuwahara & Kato - According to the "basso ostinato" of Japanese traditional mentality and Room 2: Yuichi Higashionna, Daisuke Ohba & Akiyoshi Mishima - Design and Soul.

The Okada collection includes numerous leading works by emerging Japanese artists, but selected from unconventional perspectives while the artists in question were still unknown. The collection could also be described as an attempt to explore the depths of what it means to be human, including the irrationality of human nature. In that the works here reflect and convey the diverse sensibilities emanating from the megalopolis of Tokyo, they go beyond the confines of a personal collection to present a universal challenge.
Room 4 showcases the work of Julian Schnabel. This show in a series of rooms at an imaginary art museum will run for approximately five months. Watch out after that for the next installment Room 5, and more, featuring work by Chiezo Taro, Toshiyuki Konishi and Fumiaki Akahane.

Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo is to host an exciting new exhibition in the IMAGINARY MUSEUM of the O-collection - magical museum tour. This latest installment in the series is Room 3 "Kozo Uchida, Hitoshi Kuriyama and COBRA - the imaginary HOTEL magical".

This latest show, the continuation of a series launched last year, is like the others composed of works from the collection of Mr. Satoshi Okada. Our aim is to provide a permanent venue for works by emerging Japanese contemporary artists similar to the permanent exhibitions in an art museum. In conjunction with the series, programs such as TWS-Emerging and INDEX#4 involving students and young artists in their 20s and 30s are being run to help forge ties among artists, and artists and art lovers. Two shows were exhibited last year to considerable acclaim: Room 1: Kuwahara & Kato - According to the "basso ostinato" of Japanese traditional mentality and Room 2: Yuichi Higashionna, Daisuke Ohba & Akiyoshi Mishima - Design and Soul.

Tokyo Wonder Site is pleased to announce its next exhibition, " IMAGINARY MUSEUM of the O-collection - magical museum tour ".
Present day Tokyo is in need of more occasions to see Japanese young contemporary artists' works on a regular basis. This is why we decided to present young Japanese artists' works from the Satoshi Okada Collection in a permanent exhibition at Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo for about half a year. The Okada Collection encompasses a huge number of works representing a young generation of Japanese artists, each selected from an individual perspective at a time when the respective artist was still unknown. The collection can be considered as an attempt to explore the depth of the human mind with all its irrationalities. Also in terms of reflecting and communicating the wealth of different sensibilities that emerged out of the environment of metropolitan Tokyo, these works appeal to the viewer as parts of an exhibition that exceeds the framework of a private collection.

This exhibition is a series of permanent exhibitions focusing on aspects of young Japanese contemporary art.
Next to " Room 1: Kuwahara & Kato - according to the " basso ostinato " of Japanese traditional mentality"," Room 2: Yuichi Higashionna & Daisuke Oba & Akiyoshi Mishima - Design and Soul" is dedicated to Yuichi Higashionna, Daisuke Oba and Akiyoshi Mishima, three artists who have been presenting their works in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Japan and abroad.

At the same period, programs involving students and young artists in their 20s and 30s will be held, including the "Emerging Artist Support Program 2007" and "INDEX #3 - The Effect of Experience"( May 5, 2007 (Sat.) ~Jun 3, 2007 (Sun.)), organized and realized by students of Kyoto University of Art and Design's ASP course. We hope that " IMAGINARY MUSEUM of the O-collection - magical museum tour " will provide various occasions for encounter and exchange, and are planning to let more events follow.

"IMAGINARY MUSEUM of the O-collection - magical museum tour" Present day Tokyo is in need of more occasions to see Japanese young contemporary artists' works on a regular basis. This is why we decided to present young Japanese artists' works from the Satoshi Okada Collection in a permanent exhibition at Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo for about half a year.

The Okada Collection encompasses a huge number of works representing a young generation of Japanese artists, each selected from an individual perspective at a time when the respective artist was still unknown. The collection can be considered as an attempt to explore the depth of the human mind with all its irrationalities. Also in terms of reflecting and communicating the wealth of different sensibilities that emerged out of the environment of metropolitan Tokyo, these works appeal to the viewer as parts of an exhibition that exceeds the framework of a private collection. The first in a series of permanent exhibitions focusing on aspects of young Japanese contemporary art, "Room 1: Kuwahara & Kato - According to the "basso ostinato" of Japanese traditional mentality" is dedicated to Masahiko Kuwahara and Izumi Kato, two artists who have been presenting their works in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Japan and abroad.

This event is part of a program involving students and young artists in their 20s and 30s, which includes also the "Emerging Artist Support Program 2007" and the concurrently held "INDEX #3 - The Utility of Experience", organized and realized by students of Kyoto University of Art and Design's ASP course. We hope that "IMAGINARY MUSEUM of the O-collection - magical museum tour" will provide various occasions for encounter and exchange, and are planning to let more events follow.