11 June 2020 - 30 August 2020

IBASHO is delighted to announce the Summer exhibition for 2020 which will be a group exhibition on the concept of ‘wabi sabi’.

Wabi sabi as an aesthetic concept is generally described as a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. A beauty of things modest and humble. A beauty of things unconventional.

When one asks Japanese people what wabi sabi is, it is hard for them to explain this concept. Most Japanese ...

8/24 - 9/22, 2018

A group exhibition of five photographers focusing on the primal human form.

Tomohide Ikeya, Naoyuki Ogino, Yuji Susaki, Yoko Mazuki, Hiroyuki Yamada

Exhibited works.

"Skin I n/S/G/-" from Skin series

"Full-Term" from Photo Montage series

4, 5 & 6 July, 2018

At COSMOS ARLES BOOKS

4/7 - 5/26 2018 Kyoto, Japan

Exhibition in-between Sky and River

空川境界展

“Exhibition in-between Sky and River” prays for the restoration of the Kamo River, where “ayu” fish swim upstream. It is developed under the cooperation of the Kamogawa Fisheries Association, to save these fish from cormorants. The exhibition is a photo montage of a large dragon displayed on the river, recalling “Yuzen Nagashi,” the process of removing dyes from cloth in a clean river.

「空川境界展：鮎の川鵜被害対策」では、天然鮎が上流まで遡上する鴨川の復活を祈り、賀茂川漁業協同組合の協力のもと川鵜対策の一環として展開。友禅流しを想起させる巨大な短冊状の龍のモンタージュ写真が鴨川水面上に展示され、生態系の保全と鴨川への関心を喚起する。

4/21, 4/28, 5/5 Kyoto, Japan

Photo-Talk-Exhibition "Ω"

写真座談展『Ω』

“Photo-Talk exhibition,” uses the mountains in Kyoto as a backdrop, creating new encounters between scenery and photography, and new places for people to interact.

「写真座談展[Ω]」では、京都の山々を借景に、山紫水明と写真芸術との新たな出会いと人々の新たな交流の場を創出する。

4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6 2017 Kyoto, Japan

Photo-Talk-Exhibition "Λ"

写真座談展『Λ』

This Photo-Talk-Exhibition is a new attempt to create a space to feel the photograph “Λ”, borrowing Kyoto’s mountain and river as backgrounds. Discussion will take place sitting in a circle. Several special guests will be invited, including a sencha master who will serve tea for the audience.

Part 1: at historical site “Sanshisuimeisho” house

Part 2: at Kamo river-side

Part 3: announced at Part 1 & Part 2

In Cooperation with the Raisanyo-Kyuseki-hozonkai Foundation, the Sanshisuimeisho Study of Sanyo Rai

本座談展は、京都の山川を借景に、山紫水明と写真芸術との新たな出会いと、人々の新たな交流の場創りを3部構成で試みる。写真『Λ』を掲げ、友人達と開催する座談会的な場。形式にとらわれる事なく煎茶を飲みつつ清談した江戸時代のサロン文化を想い、造語「山紫水明」を生み出した賴山陽ゆかりの地で、煎茶と共に写真芸術や表現一般について来場者と語る場。

第1部・・・国の史跡「賴山陽書斎山紫水明處」内

第2部・・・賴山陽書斎山紫水明處前の鴨川べり

第3部・・・開催場所は第１部と第２部来場者のみに公開

協力：一般財団法人賴山陽旧跡保存会、賴山陽書斎山紫水明處

March 29 - April 2, 2017 New York, U.S.A.

Exhibition at Ibasho Gallery booth

artists

• MIKI NITADORI

• EIKOH HOSOE

• MIYAKO ISHIUCHI

• KEIZO KITAJIMA

• YOSHINORI MIZUTANI

• IKKO NARAHARA

• NAOYUKI OGINO

• TOSHIKO OKANOUE

• AKIKO TAKIZAWA

• AKIRA TANNO

• SHOMEI TOMATSU

• MOTOHIRO TAKEDA

12 January 2017 — 12 February 2017 Antwerp, Belgium

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With pleasure IBASHO presents a solo exhibition of the Japanese photographer Naoyuki Ogino. 

IBASHO will show works from Ogino’s black-and-white series 'Womb of the Myth' from 2010/2011. This series was photographed on the site of the movie studio at Uzumasa Kyoto, Japan, which is one of the last places where the practice of traditional Japanese movie craftsmen remains. The recurrent construction and destruction - birth and delivery - of movie sets in the womb of the studio over a period of 60 years, has become a kind of simulacrum; the atmosphere of the place is filled with the ancient Japanese past, gods and future.

Ogino’s most recent works created with photography’s oldest printing technique, the salt print, on thin Japanese washi paper, can be admired as well. The salt prints on show derive from different series, among others from Ogino’s series ‘Skin’ from 2015. With this series he has tried to visualise not only a feeling of presence of a female body, like a breath felt on their skin, but also a materiality through a rich texture in the print that touches the viewer directly and deeply. His other salt prints reveal the deep relationship Ogino has with the Japanese mystical traditions and religions, his images often airing an evanescent world.

November 20-27, 2016 Amsterdam, Nederland

IBASHO Gallery

artists

MIHO KAJIOKA
TAICHI GONDAIRA
EIKOH HOSOE
HIDEYUKI ISHIBASHI
YOSHINORI MIZUTANI
TOMOHIRO MUDA
IKKO NARAHARA
MIKA NINAGAWA
NAOYUKI OGINO
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO

September 16-22, 2016 Tbilisi, Georgia

Exhibition "Fount of Geiko" at Tbilisi photo festival at Georgia.

Contemporary Japanese Photography

by Koji Onaka, Aya Fujioka, Yu Yamauchi, Eriko Koga, Chieko Shiraishi, Hajime Kimura, Kazuma Obara, Arata Dodo, Motohiro Takeda, Miho Kajioka, Naoyuoki Ogino

The works of more the ten contemporary japanese photographers will be shown in the exhibition that will inaugurate the 7th edition of Tbilisi Photo Festival. This will be the very first time the japanese photography will be shown in Georgia and the whole region of South Caucasus.

21st April - 22nd May 2016 Kyoto, Japan

7 years have passed since I first came to Kyoto, during which I have encountered many scenes of the “in-between,” both usual and unusual.  These moments of “makai” (“encountering the in-between”) are gathered in this exhibition.
This exhibition is an attempt to consider the “Circle of Life” from the standpoint of makai.

28 May 2016 - 29 May 2016 Amsterdam, Nederland

On Saturday May 28 and Sunday May 29 2016 The Gallery Club and IBASHO present Japanese Photography @ The Studio of Karen Knispel & Henk Drosterij, Binnen Dommersstraat 7, Amsterdam

Saturday May 28

19.00 – 23.00 hrsThe Gallery Club dinner @ The Studio of Karen Knispel & Henk Drosterij  

Sunday May 29

14.00 – 19.00 hrs Exhibition open to the public (free entrance

artists

NOBUYOSHI ARAKI, TAICHI GONDAIRA, EIKOH HOSOE, HIDEYUKI ISHIBASHI, YASUHIRO ISHIMOTO, KEIZO, KITAJIMA, NAOYUKI OGINO, KUMI OGURO, TOSHIO SHIBATA, HIROSHI SUGIMOTO, AKIKO TAKIZAWA, AKIRA TANNO

18-20 sept 2015 Amsterdam, Nederland

IBASHO Gallery

Established in 2015, IBASHO is a photography gallery in Antwerp focused on exhibiting the work of both well-known and emerging Japanese talents, as well as the work of Japanese-inspired western photographers.

IBASHO intends to show the versatility of Japanese photography in its many guises, from the raw and unpolished to the minimalistic. As photo books are an important medium for presenting photography in Japan, IBASHO also deals in new and antiquarian Japanese photo books. 

23rd May 2015 London, U.K.

Naoyuki will talk about his Womb of the Myth series, of which there are a number of photographs on display in the IBASHO booth. The series is about an old traditional Kyoto movie studio in decay. He will also show and discuss his salt prints, an old printing technique he has mastered and perfected over the last one and a half years.

IBASHO are in booth D6 in the Discovery section, Mezzanine level.

21st - 24th May 2015 at Somerset House London, U.K.

IBASHO - ‘a place where one feels comfortable and at ease’

IBASHO is a new gallery in Antwerp, Belgium, offering vintage and contemporary Japanese and International Fine Art Photography. IBASHO hopes to show the versatility and beauty of Japanese photography in its many guises, from the raw and unpolished to the minimalist and still. The international photography compliments and deepens the Japanese collection and focuses on the beautiful that can be called ‘Japanese aesthetics’.

30th April - 6th May 2015 Kyoto, Japan

This series was made in Kyoto, Japan at a local Bon Festival (Spirit’s festival). During one particular day in summer, people gather around a drum tower to be with the souls of their ancestors. Children run around playing and unexpectedly join the elderly in a circle of talk and dance. Parents are talking, drinking, eating and dancing, or playing a drum on the tower for the dancers. Older people, seated in chairs surround the drum tower.

The event is a kind of haunting and on these occasions generations gather together and carry their many different worlds into the same place. Here I have found it possible to reopen long abandoned windows, which were closed during the years of my growth and education. I placed myself there to loosen up or free myself from expectations, to reunite divided things and to recover the important spirits. I throw out all of the complex lenses in order to reveal my deserted windows. The world's manufactured lenses are optically very well designed, but perhaps they are too faithful. I needed to give freedom to aberrations, as well as boundaries. I needed to create freedom for both the optical and the imagined axises so that they and I might swing freely.

I let myself feel the relief, hold the handmade simple lens and stepped into this haunt. I felt myself become part of a view through a reopening window, which leads back to the Offspring Spirits.

07th May - 21st June 2015 Antwerp, Belgium

#03 — PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE FLOATING WORLD

'Photographs from the Floating World' refers to the famous woodblock prints made by masters such as Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi under the name 'Ukiyo-e', pictures of the floating world. In this centuries-long tradition, artists and artisans made beautiful, stylised artworks with themes such as beautiful women, actors, historic events and folk tales, travel scenes, landscapes and erotica. The development of photography is one of the causes of the demise of this art form, as the labour-intensive cutting and printing could be replaced by the quicker and simpler processes of photography making realistic pictures reachable for the masses. In recent years, more and more photographers are showing a longing for the traditional themes of Ukiyo-e and are also focusing on long-forgotten printing techniques.

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26th March- 30th April 2015 Antwerp, Belgium

#01 — SHASHIN YO KONNICHIWA (HELLO TO PHOTOGRAPHY)

artists

EIKOH HOSOE

ISSEI SUDA

DAIDO MORIYAMA

ASAKO NARAHASHI

NAOYA HATAKEYAMA

JAMES OSAMU NAKAGAWA

NAOYUKI OGINO

YOSUKE TAKEDA

WILLIAM KLEIN

AARON SISKIND

HARRY CALLAHAN

JEANLOUP SIEFF

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