ART FAIR TOKYO 20

ART FAIR TOKYO Galleries

VIP (First Choice) Preview: Thu 12th 11:00–19:00
VIP Preview: Thu 12th 13:00–19:00
Open to Public: Fri 13th – Sun 15th 11:00–19:00
Final Day: 11:00–17:00

Tokyo International Forum Hall E and Lobby Gallery
3 Chome-5-1 Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo-to 100-0005 Japan Google Map
GALLERY SEKIRYU, Booth：No.49

On this occasion, Gallery Sekiryu will participate in Art Fair Tokyo 20 under the theme Women and Abstraction. This presentation brings together works spanning postwar and contemporary art, including Outsider Art, and highlights organic abstract expressions imbued with a sense of life by ten women artists.

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Beyond the “Outside”: Anna Zemánková
In Cold War–era Prague, Anna Zemánková began creating fantastical botanical drawings after the age of fifty. She has long been introduced as a major figure in Art Brut and Outsider Art.

Marking the 40th anniversary of her death in 2026, her work has in recent years moved “beyond the outside,” as it were, amid growing international reassessment as part of twentieth-century art. This renewed attention has been supported by dedicated presentations at the Venice Biennale (2013, 2024) and a succession of successful solo exhibitions in Europe and the United States.

Summoned from Oblivion: Postwar “Newcomers”
Inspired by Izumi Nakajima’s book Anti-Action, the exhibition of the same title, currently touring three museums in Japan, casts light on both the remarkable emergence of women artists who debuted in the 1950s as “newcomers” and their subsequent marginalization within art history. In dialogue with that perspective, this presentation features works by artists of the same generation who began their careers in postwar Japan: Nobuko Kamiya, Kinuko Emi, Hideko Fukushima, Yayoi Kusama, and Kazuko Enomoto.

Painting Moving Beyond: Toeko Tatsuno
Born in 1950, Toeko Tatsuno forged a singular mode of expression, shaped in dialogue with modern and contemporary Western art yet irreducible to any of its movements, through richly layered paintings that cannot be defined as either purely abstract or representational. Now, eleven years after her passing, a full-scale reassessment of her pioneering work is finally gaining momentum, with a major retrospective scheduled for 2027 at the Nagano Prefectural Art Museum.

Drawing Forth Forms of Life: Contemporary Artists
Ayumi Taniguchi creates organic forms reminiscent of animal and plant organs through the use of wire, while Saya Yamagishi produces small-scale objects distinguished by both refinement and sophistication, supported by her advanced lacquer techniques. Based in Berlin and Kuala Lumpur, Astrid Köppe gives visual form to endearing imaginary lifeforms that arise in her mind through meticulously detailed drawings.

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The elements that constitute the art world, “evaluation of works,” “art history,” and “the market,” are never fixed. We are constantly situated within their shifting currents.

Even amid such fluctuations, the expressions of the women artists presented here resist being subsumed within the framework of “women.” Instead, as practices that probe the fundamental nature of life, their works emerge powerfully across boundaries of era, geography, and institutional structures, resonating deeply with the viewer. We are pleased to present at this booth the richness of their diversity and the resonances that arise among their works. We warmly invite you to take this opportunity to view the exhibition.

In cooperation with Yukiko Koide Presents

[Imagined Flora and Fauna]

Anna Zemánková (Czech, 1908–1986)　|　Works　　Bio
Nobuko Kamiya (Japanese, 1914–1986)　|　Bio
Yayoi Kusama (Japanese, born 1929)　|　Works　　

All Works by Yayoi Kusama
All Works by Anna Zemankova

[The Sublation of the Abstract and the Figurative]

Hideko Fukushima (Japanese, 1927-1997)　|　Bio
Toeko Tatsuno (Japanese, 1950-2014)　|　Works　　Bio
Astrid Köppe (German, born 1974)　|　Works　　Bio

All Works by Toeko Tatsuno
All Works by Astrid Köppe

[Capturing the Unseen]

Kinuko Emi (Japanese, 1923-2015)　|　Bio
Kazuko Enomoto (Japanese, 1930-2019)　|　Bio

[Dialogue with Materials, Strange Fruits]

Saya Yamagishi (Japanese, born 1981)　|　Works　　Bio
Ayumu Taniguchi (Japanese)　|　Works　　Bio

All Works by Saya Yamagishi
All Works by Ayumu Taniguchi