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[Ota Fine Arts Shanghai] En route: Southeast Asia

Artists: Atreyu Moniaga, Guo-Liang Tan, Santi Wangchuan, Sawangwongse Yawnghwe, Soe Yu Nwe, Zai Kuning 27 Jul - 31 Aug 2024 Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is pleased to present En route: Southeast Asia, an exhibition featuring artists from Indonesia, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand. The exhibition hopes to provide a window into contemporary art from Southeast Asia, where ideas of mythology, cultural traditions, heritage, identity, and history are actively interrogated.
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[Ota Fine Arts Singapore] Nobuaki Takekawa: Flush with Water

16.03.2024 - 11.05.2024 Read more

Tomoko Kashiki

Whether it is a woman September 03, 2023 - October 21, 2023 | Ota Fine Arts 7CHOME I am drawing a woman. There was always a bit of hesitation to affirm this, but viewers often perceive it as a woman, so I did not deny it particularly. Although I have never drawn their faces and bodies thinking “this is a woman” or “let’s draw it like a woman”, almost all of their clothes were skirts. This is because I did not feel like drawing trousers. It is not that I want to specifically draw a skirt, but I also do not want to draw them nude. In other words, the skirts (clothes) were positioned as ‘a cloth to wrap up the breasts and crotch’... Read more

For Tetsuya Umeda「　 　」

Attractors and the spirits of place October 29, 2022 - December 17, 2022 | Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Read more

[Ota Fine Arts Tokyo] Tsuyoshi Hisakado: River

20 Aug - 8 Oct 2022 Ota Fine Arts is delighted to announce Tsuyoshi Hisakado’s first exhibition in four years in Tokyo. Having experienced the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and the Great East Japan Earthquake, Hisakado’s artistic practice draws from a consideration of the laws of nature and the universe, which are far beyond human wisdom. Hisakado, who has a studio in the rural landscape of Kameoka, Kyoto, is at the mercy of heavy rainfall and severe weather, as well as wildlife. While he experiences day-to-day how these things function organically in accordance with the order of the Earth’s larger systems, at the same time, he had a doubt that the rules set by humans are deviating from this natural order. The new works in the exhibition reflect Hisakado’s consistent pursuit of eternity and uniqueness, and also possess ‘aesthetics’ that resonate with the human senses. This idea originates from his interest in nature, the earth and the universe and little events that occur in our daily lives. Read more

[Ota Fine Arts] ¥ouada: Artificial Nature

19 Jul - 30 Aug 2022 Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present “Artificial Nature”, a selection of latest paintings by ¥ouada. We hope this online viewing room will continue to bring new artistic perspectives to everyone, and present the dynamic and unique expressions of young Chinese artists and subculture. Read more

Interview: Tsuyoshi Hisakado

On Hawai‘i Triennial 2022 Tsuyoshi Hisakado and Masanori Handa are participating in Hawai‘i Triennial 2022 “Pacific Century - E Ho'ommau no Moananuiākea” started on 18 February 2022. The exhibition is composed of works focusing on the history, place, and identity within the context of Hawai’i. We have interviewed both artists who visited Hawai’i for the Triennial during the current global healthy pandemic. Read more

for Maria Farrar "Overseas"

A journey of femininity December 4, 2021 - February 12, 2022 | Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo "What is femininity? For whom and for what purpose is it a concept? Femininity is the result of a local history, and at the same time, the beginning of it. History is created by the accumulation of choices women have made, or not made, or not been able to make."

A newly written text by an artist, BuBu de la Madeleine. Read more

Rina Banerjee and Zai Kuning: Dialogue

2 Oct - 20 Nov 2021 Ota Fine Arts Singapore is delighted to present “Dialogue”, a duo exhibition by Rina Banerjee and Zai Kuning. This exhibition features recent works on paper by the two artists, which are characterized by their usage of bold colors and multi-layered compositions. While Banerjee‘s works depict mythical-looking figures painted in acrylic and incorporating collage elements, the new series of works on paper by Zai present abstract forms drawn in ink, watercolour and organic pigments. Through this exhibition, we hope to create a lively dialogue between the works of these two artists, which resonate strongly in the time that we live in. Read more

Interview: Nobuaki Takekawa

　 Ota Fine Arts Shanghai presents Japanese artist Nobuaki Takekawa (b.1977)'s second solo exhibition in China "idling garden". Takekawa’s cat Olympics themed solo exhibition at Ota Fine Arts Shanghai in 2017 remains fresh and memorable in audiences’ minds. This new exhibition aims to demonstrate the depth and breadth of Takekawa’s artistic language. By showcasing his creative practice over the past few years, we are privy to his versatility and broad approach in communicating social issues and phenomenon.

With the ongoing global health pandemic, individuals, collectives and society at large are in an "idling state": the accelerator is not stepped on, yet engines are continually running at low speeds. On this occasion, we had a conversation with Nobuaki Takekawa about what he has been up to recently and his personal experience amidst Covid19 in Japan. Read more

In The Studio: Guo-Liang Tan

　 Lightness and suspension feature strongly in Guo-Liang Tan’s ongoing body of work encompassing paintings and installations (or, paintings as objects). Compositing traces and creating imprints on a translucent aeronautical fabric, Tan explores how these works could frame and orientate our sense of time, body and memory. We popped by Tan's studio to find out more about his processes and thoughts behind his work. Read more

In The Studio: Hilmi Johandi

Employing motifs from found, archival images, Hilmi Johandi composites his paintings like he would a stage set, drawing from the process of collage. Playing with differing scales and segregations in space, the various planes in his works suggest a distortion in space and time, bringing about fresh perspectives of familiar symbols. We visited the artist in his studio and had a chat about his recent and ongoing bodies of work. Read more

[Ota Fine Arts Tokyo] I Want Your Tears to Flow with the Words I Wrote

Yayoi Kusama 22 JUNE - 31 JULY 2021 Ota Fine Arts Tokyo is pleased to present the solo exhibition of Yayoi Kusama, "I Want Your Tears to Flow with the Words I Wrote". This exhibition features 33 paintings, which are the latest works from her My Eternal Soul series, as well as the installation piece CLOUDS. Exhibitions of the same title will be held simultaneously at Victoria Miro (London) and David Zwirner (New York). These three exhibitions in the respective locations will present to the world a total of 101 paintings from the My Eternal Soul series, made by the artist who has continued to work tirelessly during the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more

[Ota Fine Arts Tokyo] /home

Hiraki Sawa SAT. 20 FEBRUARY - SAT. 3 APRIL 2021 Read more

[Ota Fine Arts Singapore] YAYOI KUSAMA: RECENT PAINTINGS

SAT. 16 JANUARY - SAT. 6 MARCH 2021 Read more

[Ota Fine Arts Singapore] Float

Cheng Ran, Masanori Handa, Jason Lim, Nobuaki Takekawa, Tang Dixin 28 Nov - 30 Dec 2020 Read more

[OTA Fine Arts Singapore] Time:

Chen Wei, Chillchill, Masanori Handa, Tsuyoshi Hisakado, Hilmi Johandi, Yayoi Kusama, Guo-Liang Tan 13 Oct - 22 Nov 2020 Read more

[OTA Fine Arts Tokyo] Singapura:

Zai Kuning, Hilmi Johandi, Guo-Liang Tan, Liao Jiekai, Jason Lim 10 Oct - 21 Nov 2020 Read more

Nobuaki Takekawa

AMIGOS 15 Aug -26 Sep 2020 | Tokyo Read more

[Ota Fine Arts Shanghai] Yayoi Kusama: Recent Paintings

6 Sep - 24 Oct 2020 Read more

Maria Farrar: Works on Paper

22 OCT - 11 NOV 2020 Read more

Tang Dixin: Performance

30 SEP - 21 OCT 2020 Read more

[Ota Fine Arts Singapore] Some of the Many Things That I Want to Remember

Tomoko Kashiki 2 Jul - 15 Aug 2020 Read more

[Ota Fine Arts Shanghai] When many pass one way…

Akira the Hustler, Chen Wei, Jong YuGyong, ¥ouada 20 Jun - 22 Aug 2020 Read more

Interview: Jong Yugyong

19 Jun - 9 Sep 2020 Read more

Guo-Liang Tan

17 Jun - 8 Jul 2020 Read more

[Ota Fine Arts Tokyo] Pet Shop Guys: Lost in Tokyo

Martin Goya Business 16 Jun - 1 Aug 2020 Read more

Interview: ¥ouada

16 Jun - 31 Jul 2020 Read more

Jong YuGyong

29 JUL - 19 AUG 2020 Read more

Akira & Takekawa

8 JUL - 29 JUL 2020 Read more