Blog | Art Room BIOME

These notes touch on everyday realizations, events, and artists.

Jan 29
1 min

TAKARA ２ KIM Young-gon（Korea）

You may be familiar with KIM's fantastic works. Although you can't see his face hidden behind his glasses, his works are rich in emotion,...

Jan 21
1 min

TAKARA 19 　Katsuya Horikoshi (Okayama pref.)

Horikoshi stopped by BIOME when he came to the Kansai region. (To top it off, he also took the opportunity to do some sketching in the...

Jan 20
1 min

TAKARA 20　Mihoko Morimoto (Kanagawa pref.)

KAMAKURA-BORI(carvings). Morimoto told me that Kamakura City in Kanagawa Prefecture, where the samurai government was born, actively...

Jan 18
1 min

TAKARA 21　Naoko Wada（Hyogo pref.）

It is often said that the world is a small place, and when it became clear that Naoko Wada was a friend of a friend, I realized that she...

Jan 17
1 min

TAKARA ９ Shima Koike（Chiba pref.）

Koike says that glass is ambivalent. While it is beautiful and delicate, it is also violent and insane and can cause injury if...

Jan 17
1 min

TAKARA ６　Yuuki Kashiwagi（Gunma pref.）

Yuuki Kashiwagi is an artist who works with woodblock prints. Not many people may be able to get the idea of "pixel woodblock prints."...

Jan 16
1 min

TAKARA　17　Natsumi Noda（Tokyo pref.）

As you can see, Noda's works are more like "paintings" than "tableware" that grabs the viewer's heart. The bright, relaxed, and...

Jan 16
1 min

TAKARA 18　Syunsai Hata（Toyama pref.）

I started the tea ceremony because, as a child, I was interested in putting away the utensils in their original state. It was not a joke,...

Jan 14
1 min

TAKARA 13　Yoko Tanaka（Ibaraki pref.）

Yoko Tanaka works under the theme of "making a moment eternal. Ceramics have a long history and are now world-class pottery and vessels,...

Jan 14
1 min

TAKARA 12　Yuji Takahashi

Takahashi held an exhibition of heavy machinery at BIOME in October 2023. It was made possible by a strong request from a guest who...

Jan 14
1 min

TAKARA 15 Rei Toyoda（Kanagawa pref.）

As a child, she loved to play in the mud. In univiesty, she majored in Spanish. I found this information about Toyoda on the Internet. In...

Jan 12
1 min

TAKARA 16 Katsumi Nishikawa（Kanagawa Pfef）

Many works of art depict buildings and houses, and BIOME has featured them several times. They are attractive as structures, reflecting...

Jan 11
1 min

TAKARA 11 Takeshi Sumi

Sumi is an artist who cannot be categorized. His principal works include photography and painting. In the former, he adds analog touches...

Jan 11
1 min

TAKARA 8 Tomoko Kyuki（Hyogo pref.）

Soon after I started BIOME, I learned she was based in Sanda City, Hyogo Prefecture. Although we started saying we should see each other...

Jan 10
1 min

TAKARA 14　Ibuki Chiba（Hyogo Pref.）

Chiba is a Kobe-based artist who also does illustrations, workshops, and other artwork at facilities in Kobe. He has also visited BIOME...

Jan 9
1 min

TAKARA 10 SHIROKURO Eeyonn（Saitama pref.）

The artist's name is "SHIROKURO Eeyon. To translate into English, I looked up the meaning of the artist's name in Japanese and found the...

Jan 9
1 min

TAKARA 5 Takefumi Aoki（Gifu pref.）

Aoki's works are composed of a mysterious shape and process of cutting cast-molded vessels into pieces and joining them back together...

Jan 8
1 min

TAKARA １ Cathy Franzi（Australia）

I feel that Cathy's ceramic works have many elements that Japanese people easily recognise. However, I am fascinated by the form and the...

Jan 7
1 min

TAKARA 3 Marion Elliot（UK）

Marion's vibrant cutout collage was chosen as the key visual for the TAKARAMONO for OKURIMONO 2024 exhibition. I have been following...

Jan 7
1 min

TAKARA ７　Hiroko Kaneko（Kanagawa Pref.）

I am looking for glass artwork that BIOME could handle two years ago. I want to take this opportunity to say that I do not select artists...

Jan 6
1 min

TAKARA 4 Tsuin （Tokyo pref.）

Read "twin." I first saw her work at a solo exhibition at Gallery House MAYA in Tokyo. Since then, I have been following Tsuin's painting...