White Rainbow is pleased to announce Minimalist Anyway, a dialogue exhibition of two female artists of Japanese origin – Kazuko Miyamoto (b.1942, Tokyo) and Lydia Okumura (b. 1948, Brazil). Minimalist Anyway brings together historical work from each artist’s time in New York in the 1970s, through to the mid 1980s. This exhibition takes as its point […]
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White Rainbow is delighted to launch the first Yuko Mohri catalogue with a drinks reception and talk between Yuko Mohri and Richard Wentworth. Mohri’s catalogue features Moré Moré [Leaky] – her recent exhibition at White Rainbow, as well as related texts and previous works. 4th April 2017, 6pm – 7.30pm White Rainbow, 47 Mortimer Street, London W1W […]
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White Rainbow is pleased to announce Lightness, a group show that explores the notion of weightlessness, or how artists reconfigure material to distort physical properties. This might play out through juxtapositions of material which somehow alter the density of an object’s final form; a sense of gravity may become disrupted through camera work or installation. Many of […]
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White Rainbow is pleased to announce the first UK solo show by Yuko Mohri (b.1980, Tokyo). The focus of Mohri’s debut UK solo will be an installation of her project Moré Moré [Leaky], a long-term research project into the Tokyo metro. Mohri exhibited her first iteration of the project at the prestigious Nissan Art Award 2015, […]
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Join us for the closing of ‘Overlay’, an exhibition of new works by four young artists — and a historic work by a celebrated older artist — gathered in response to the 10th Tokyo Biennale, 1970. Artists: Cathy Haynes, Nancy Holt, Hannah Lees, Zoë Paul, Claire Potter White Rainbow is delighted to announce the launch […]
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White Rainbow is delighted to invite you to the private view of ‘Imperfect Geometry’, a solo exhibition by Japanese-Brazilian painter and sculptor Tomie Ohtake (1913-2015); her first solo exhibition in the UK in over 20 years. Ohtake moved from her native Kyoto to São Paulo in 1936, where she lived and worked until the end of […]
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White Rainbow is delighted to announce its participation in Artissima 2016, in the Main section of the fair. White Rainbow will present the work of Chim Pom, Chu Enoki and Shigeo Anzaï.
More detailsWhite Rainbow is pleased to announce the opening of Overlay, an all female, group exhibition, curated by Jeremy Millar Cathy Haynes, Nancy Holt, Hannah Lees, Zoë Paul, Claire Potter Curated by Jeremy Millar 28 June – 17 September 2016 Private View: Monday 27 June 2016, 6 – 8pm White Rainbow, 47 Mortimer Street, London, W1W 8HJ This is a free event […]
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Assemblage White Rainbow is pleased to announce the second instalment of Juri Nishi’s contemporary dance composition in response to the work of Shigeo Anzaï. Assemblage is a dance performance which incorporates sculptural elements. Developing on from her previous performance, Being and Matter, the dancers’ movements will activate the gallery space, inviting the audience’s participation. The piece responds to the motif of the […]
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To coincide with the next Fitzrovia Lates, White Rainbow is pleased to announce a collaborative performance between Patrick Coyle and Jenny Moore, in response to White Rainbow’s current exhibition, Index II, by Shigeo Anzaï. Coyle and Moore will stage an improvised performance in response to a 1984 performance in Tokyo by Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik, as documented by Anzaï. The original performance, Coyote III […]
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Building up layer upon layer of intricate coloured thread, Japanese contemporary artist Satoru Aoyama creates photo-realistic interpretations of his subject matter entirely constructed through the art of embroidery. Like pixels on a monitor, Aoyama reproduces modern media images through an assemblage of fine stitches to disguise his craft and any evidence that his efforts are […]
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30 minutes performance in collaboration with the Japanese musician Ken Ikeda, starting from 7pm. White Rainbow is pleased to announce a music performance by Ken Ikeda for the next ‘Fitzrovia Lates’. Ken Ikeda is a composer born in Tokyo (1964) – currently living in New York. He has exhibited sound art and visual installations around the world. […]
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White Rainbow is pleased to announce the opening of Division of Labour, a solo exhibition by Satoru Aoyama (b. 1973). A short performance in collaboration with the Japanese musician Ken Ikeda will accompany the event, starting from 7pm. The focus of the exhibition is a new series of work: Map of the World (Dedicated to unknown […]
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White Rainbow is pleased to announce the first solo presentation of two works by renowned Japanese artist Kumi Machida at Asia House, London. Kumi Machida has become internationally recognised for her depictions of haunting biomorphic humans awakening from surreal dream-like states. Having its roots in the Japanese tradition of Nihonga painting in sumi ink on kumohada linen paper with limited colouring from mineral pigments, […]
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Being and Matter Japanese choreographer, Juri Nishi, will present contemporary dance composition Being and Matter in response to the work of Shigeo Anzaï. It draws inspiration from the Mono-ha artists and Between Man and Matter, Yusuke Nakahara’s concept for the 10th Tokyo Biennale, 1970. It is an enquiry into the relationship between matter, body and space. The act of documentation […]
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Artissima Back to the Future | Grey 12 6 to 8 November 2015 Oval Lingotto, Turin, Italy White Rainbow is pleased to take part in Artissima, 6 to 8 November 2015, with a solo presentation of Chu Enoki. Chu Enoki (b. 1964) is one of the seminal figures in postwar Japanese art and is recognised […]
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Surface Tension is inspired by the idea of chouzetsu-gikou (superlative skill) – a phrase coined by Professor Yuji Yamashita – and brings together exquisitely skilful art works which draw on traditional techniques yet offer perspectives on life in Japan today. For October’s Fitzrovia Lates event, White Rainbow is pleased to present a flower installation by London based florist Sawa Kindo […]
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Surface Tension is inspired by the idea of chouzetsu-gikou (superlative skill) – a phrase coined by Professor Yuji Yamashita – and draws together exquisitely accomplished art works which spring from traditional techniques, yet offer perspectives on the contemporary.
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Kouichi Tabata’s first UK solo show explores drawing beyond line- and mark-making, tending towards the painterly. His paintings of still-life subjects are sequenced into animations as a kind of ‘still footage’, leading to an exploration of the dimensions between different layers of meaning, in which these opposing forces operate. Looped paintings relinquish tranquil scenery, instead […]
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Berlin based artist Youki Hirakawa will talk about his oeuvre to date in relation to the main themes that inspire his works. Time and place are two notions of special interest for Hirakawa. Reflecting on the expanded sense of these principal vectors of orientation, he creates poetic works of art that often move us in […]
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White Rainbow is pleased to be present at the ART15 London First section with works by Youki Hirakawa and Takahiro Ueda. Next to the main stand, LF14, we will also show a work by Hidemi Nishida in the Project Space. Youki Hirakawa, In the Mist of Time, 2012, video still. Courtesy the artist and White Rainbow, London. […]
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Chim↑Pom, the six-strong artist collective known as the enfant terrible of Japan’s art scene, create distinctive works that challenge contemporary social problems, and the realities that we choose not to see. Formed in Tokyo in 2005, the group’s approach is underscored by the use of found objects, mass media, and chance. Chim↑Pom work mainly in […]
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On the special occasion of Chu Enoki’s solo show in Europe, Chu Enoki: Enoki Chu held at the White Rainbow Gallery, London, Enoki was invited to explain his artistic career and expression identified in his work often described as iconic and employing dark motifs. Drawing on his experience as an artist coming out of post-war Japan and living through […]
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Takahiro Ueda, one of the participating artist of the forthcoming exhibition, Temporal Measures, gave a talk at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. In this talk, Ueda introduced his works in which interdisciplinary, recalling a scientific researcher observing natural phenomena: atoms, chemical elements, sound vibrations, weather and environmental changes. His work is realised in collaboration with teams of experts including […]
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White Rainbow is pleased to present, Temporal Measures, the gallery’s first group show, with Futo Akiyoshi, Kouichi Tabata and Takahiro Ueda. This exhibition drew together three artists, who are engaging with the physicality of their medium to articulate dimensions of time, layers of space, and realms of the mind.
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Aiko Miyanaga current exhibiting artist will give a talk at The Japan Foundation. In this special artist talk, Miyanaga will discuss her object-oriented work and the concept behind her attempts and the medium she chooses to express her ethos as an artist. In discussion with Mark Rappolt, editor of Art Review, she will also reflect […]
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Visit the magnificent Picton Reading Room at the Liverpool Central Library, where you can engage Aiko Miyanaga’s special installation in the dark.
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Nuit Blanche Video focuses on video art over the course of one night. The second edition will take place on Saturday 20 September. Selected shops and galleries of London’s West End will screen the work of video artists in their windows. White Rainbow is pleased to present Youki Hirakawa’s Fallen Candles (2014) for the event.
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