Art Collaboration Kyoto 2024

VIP Preview: 31 October 2024
Public Days: 1 – 3 November 2024

Venue: Kyoto International Conference Centre, Booth GC26

STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery is pleased to be participating in Art Collaboration Kyoto together with Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo, in its Gallery Collaborations section, where a Japanese and overseas gallery work together to present a co-curated presentation.  

Art Collaboration Kyoto’s unique art fair model speaks to STPI’s own spirit of collaboration, whose Creative Workshop has worked with over a hundred international and regional artists to co-create cutting-edge works in print and paper, as well as our recent collaborations with Urs Meile and 47 Canal for ART SG and Art Basel Hong Kong respectively.  

STPI will present the works of three celebrated Asian contemporary artists: Genevieve Chua (Singapore), Do Ho Suh (b. South Korea, based in London) and Rirkrit Tiravanija (b. Buenos Aires, based in Chiang Mai and New York), each of whom have engaged in multiple artist residencies and enjoyed long-standing collaborations with our Creative Workshop. 

Genevieve Chua’s Breeze Blocks series explores the visual language of architecture, emulating the breeze blocks used in construction. Using subtly toned linen canvases, at scale to actual breeze blocks, Chua investigates juxtaposing concepts such as light and shadow, and permeability and permanence. A selection of Chua’s STPI works were recently on show at The M, Manila. The artist also participated in the inaugural Singapore edition of Lady Dior As Seen By, a travelling exhibition by the fashion house. 

Following an exciting period for Do Ho Suh, with major institutional shows at National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh (2024), Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2024) and Tate Modern, London (2025), STPI is pleased to present another facet of the artist’s practice: his works on paper. Debuting a new suite of etchings, derived from different places the artist has lived in, these works reflect Suh’s long-standing concern with the transnational dilemma of home and belonging. 

Concurrent with Rirkrit Tiravanija’s major retrospective at LUMA Arles, France, and solo exhibition at Gropius Bau, Berlin, STPI will present his untitled 2020 (embossed nature morte) series. Part of a larger Extinction series produced with STPI, these works serve as monuments to creatures that once existed, but are now gone. This series also exists as engravings on aluminium plates, which is in the collection of Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul. 

Alongside STPI’s presentation, Maho Kubota will be presenting two significant Japanese artists: Kentaro Kuboke (b. Japan, based in the UK) and Atsushi Kaga (b. Japan, based in Ireland and Japan).  

 

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