Street Museum 2023

"Midtown × Street × Art."

Enjoying art is not limited to inside the museums. The "Street Museum" has taken art on the street of Tokyo Midtown.
The TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD is a design and art competition that Tokyo Midtown holds every year with the aim of discovering and supporting upcoming talented artists and designers and sowing the seeds for future collaborations.
This exhibition brings back the six group of winners of the TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD 2022 art competition together at Tokyo Midtown.
Please take this opportunity to expand your imagination and senses through works
created by respective artists thoroughly exploring themselves and their interests.

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Street Museum
TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD 2023

Information

Exhibitors Winners of the 2022 TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD art competition
Emiri Nakada, Hazuki Katagai, studio SHOKO NARITA, Renna Umageri, Kazuto Imura, Toshiki Hirano
Period March 15 Wed. – May 28 Sun, 2023
Time 6:30 to 24:30（Plaza B1's opening hours）
Fee Free
Venue: Metro Avenue, Plaza B1, Tokyo Midtown
Organizer: Tokyo Midtown

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01

The Star

Hazuki Katagai

The Star

It is a work to share Polaris with people on the same latitude as Tokyo Midtown. If you look up at the northern sky at the same angle as the latitude of your current location, you will always find Polaris. It does not change in the glittering city, in the midst of a silent desert, in the salt lake of the plateau, or even in the war zone. What if there were people looking up at the sky and imagining the stars in their hearts in such a variety of places, just like you are doing the same here at Tokyo Midtown? Through the existence of Polaris, we may be able to share our loneliness and this moment. I believe in that possibility.

[Materials] Mixed media

Highlights

The theme of this work is connecting with people through looking up at Polaris. Please stand in front of the work, contemplate the world beyond the skylight, and feel the connections.

Hazuki Katagai

Hazuki Katagai

From Kanagawa Prefecture.

2008
Graduated from the Department of Scenography, Display and Fashion Design, College of Art and Design, Musashino Art University.
2010
Completed a Design Course at the Graduate School of Art and Design, Musashino Art University.
2016
"19th Japan Media Arts Festival Exhibition of Award-winning Works" (Japan Media Arts Festival Executive Committee/Tokyo)
2017-2018
"Railway Arts Festival vol.7 STATION TO STATION" (Art Area B1/Osaka)
2018
"ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE" (The Cultural Association MoCA/Venice, Italy)
2022
Runner-up Prize in the TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD 2022 art competition
WEB
http://hazukikatagai.com/
02

loose reflection

Kazuto Imura

loose reflection

An obsidian mirror was unearthed from the ruins of Çatalhöyük, Turkey.
It is said to have been polished around 6200 BC and is the oldest man-made mirror.
In this work, obsidian from various lands is crushed, melted, and mixed to produce an artificial lump. The transparent lump, which has lost its original black color, becomes a mirror by the same polishing method used about 8,000 years ago.
This new mirror, like a half-mirror that combines transmission and reflection, reflects the memory of the land in the body.

[Materials] Obsidian

[Cooperation]Iwajuku Museum, KAIBA Geological Glass Institute, nico design, UNOU JUKU by AGC Inc.

Highlights

This work uses obsidian, which was also used in mirrors. Please pay attention to the color and depth of artificial obsidian that changes its expression depending on the viewing angle and light.

Kazuto Imura

Kazuto Imura

Born in 1990. From Kyoto Prefecture. Lives in Tokyo.

2015
Graduated from the Department of General Science of Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts
2017
Completed an Intermedia Art Major, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
2021
"Kazuto Imura 'mirrorrim'" (Contemporary Gallery, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store/Tokyo)
2022
"Sense Island Sarushima Dark Museum 2021" (Sarushima, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture)
2022
"MATSUMOTO Architecture+Art Festival" (Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture)
2022
Excellence Prize in the TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD 2022 art competition
WEB
Instagram：https://www.instagram.com/011_arumi/
03

Sky Seeing Apparatus -temporary-

studio SHOKO NARITA

Sky Seeing Apparatus -temporary-

The work "Sky forming Apparatus" presented at the TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD 2022 uses dynamic light and innovative glass that possesses the same principles as the sky to explore the dramatically changing expression of the sky, creating a sense of discomfort and openness in the existence of the sky in the underground space. This work "Sky Seeing Apparatus-temporary-" uses static light and innovative glass that possesses the same principles as the sky to express the sky in memory. Combining multiple continuous lights in a multi-faceted manner enables recalling the height of the sky in a vague memory of a certain day and the scenery of the endless horizon.

[Materials] Innovative glass (AGC), LED lights, stainless steel, and steel

[Cooperation] UNOU JUKU by AGC Inc.
Collaborative Projects: Above
Above Project：above-project.com

Highlights

It is the work that reflects the change of color produced by innovative glass that possesses the same principles as the sky with a parabolic antenna. Please try to feel the different colors of the sky.

studio SHOKO NARITA

Yuki Narita

Born in 1994. From Tokyo. Lives in Tokyo.

2017
Completed an Interior Design Major in the Department of Industrial, Interior, and Craft Design, Musashino Art University

Shoko Hirasawa

Born in 1993. From Chiba Prefecture. Lives in Tokyo.

2017
Completed an Interior Design Major in the Department of Industrial, Interior, and Craft Design, Musashino Art University

studio SHOKO NARITA

2020
Solo exhibition "The Lightness of being" (studio SHOKO NARITA/Tokyo)
2021
Special International Year of Glass 2022 Exhibition "The Identity of the Glass" (AGC Inc./Yokohama)
2022
Runner-up Prize in the TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD 2022 art competition
WEB
studioshokonarita.com
04

A rotten fruit, futon, mother, doll, coffee stain, etc.

Renna Umageri

A rotten fruit, futon, mother, doll, coffee stain, etc.

When I think about what I was doing yesterday, a vague image of myself comes to my mind. Even now, in the constant flow in the city, I feel like my own existence might be washed away. I desperately try not to lose myself, but words don't come out well like a drunkard who cannot articulate properly. But, if the self is viewed as a fluid concept that cannot be preserved, it may be natural. The self does not exist inside the body, but rather appears and disappears in response to external substances and other people. Emotions move through the things around me, and a faint reflection of myself emerges, but I may have been worried about my whereabouts without noticing it.

[Materials] A futon, wood panel, styrofoam, wood, artista formo, thread, cotton, and acrylic paint

Highlights

A faceless person holding a fruit with a face represents the existence of myself who is tossed about by the outside world and other people. It is the work that expresses the existence of the self living in a world that changes every day.

Renna Umageri

Renna Umageri

Born in 2006. From Kyoto Prefecture. Lives in Kyoto Prefecture.

2022
Excellent Prize, Judges’ Special Prize in the TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD 2022 art competition
WEB
Twitter：https://twitter.com/ponnyoni
05

(Un)specific Rock - Ontology of Holes -

Toshiki Hirano

(Un)specific Rock - Ontology of Holes -

I made a structure after 3D scanning and digitally processing an ordinary stone which I found somewhere in Tokyo. The structure changes depending on perspective, from a solid mass to a paper structure, where the internal structure is exposed.
3D scanning enables digitalizing the surface shape of an object in detail, but the inside of the object is an empty hole. While various fictions—meaning—are substituted into it, fictions are suddenly cut off by the surface shape of the stone, which is non-specific and non-semantic.

[Materials] Paper

Highlights

It is the paper structure of the stone 3D scanned and enlarged. The inside of the work, which is shaped only by the information on the surface, is hollow. Please take a look at the differences between the naturally occurring object and the reproduced object.

Toshiki Hirano

Toshiki Hirano

Born in 1985. From Hyogo Prefecture. Lives in Tokyo.

2009
Completed a Bachelor of Engineering at the School of Architecture, Kyoto University
2012
Completed a Master in Architecture at the School of Architecture, Princeton University
2016
Completed a Ph.D. at the Department of Architecture, University of Tokyo
2017
"Malformed Objects" (YAMAMOTO GENDAI/Tokyo)
2021
"London Design Biennale 2021" (Somerset House/London, United Kingdom)
2022
Excellence Prize in the TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD 2022 art competition
WEB
thd.design
06

Poltergeist

Emiri Nakada

Poltergeist

Like playing a role in ballet or theater, people are forced to play their roles in large theaters to which they belong. If we think that our bodies are nothing more than a container that wraps the hollow, can we ourselves be more free to find inspiration within? The story is told focusing on the ghosts in Shakespeare's Hamlet and those with the role of the tree in the theatrical scene. I think that even if I lose my body, the hollow will remain. I am a little excited about where I would drift after I die.

[Materials] Ceramics and single-channel video

Highlights

Ceramic dolls, which are in reality still in the shape of ghosts playing the role of tree, start to move in the animation. Please enjoy the story that lies between fiction and reality.

Emiri Nakada

Emiri Nakada

Born in 1997. From Tokyo. Lives in Tokyo.

2023
Completed in the Department of Sculpture, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts.
2021
Solo exhibition "lullaby" (Tokyo)
2022
Grand Prize in the TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD 2022 art competition
2022
Selected for 2022 CAF Awards (Daikanyama Hillside Forum/Tokyo)
WEB
Instagram：https://www.instagram.com/__emilcake__

Call for entries for the TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD 2023

  • TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD 2023

  • Tokyo Midtown is now calling for entries for the 16th TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD, a design and art competition to discover and support the next generation of creators.
    In addition to the prizes, winners are given long-term supports and collaborative opportunities with Tokyo Midtown including participation in the Street Museum exibition.

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