Curator

JUN AOKI

Born in 1956. Graduated with a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Tokyo in 1982. Founded Jun Aoki & Associates (now AS) in 1991. Director of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art / Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum and professor emeritus at Tokyo University of the Arts. Projects include the Mamihara Bridge, the Fukushima Lagoon Museum, Aomori Museum of Art (1999 Architectural Institute of Japan Award), Louis Vuitton Nagoya Sakae, Omiyamae Gymnasium, Miyoshi Civic Hall Kiriri, and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art / Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum (co-designed with Tezzo Nishizawa, 2021 AIJ Award). Received commendation from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology in 2005 and the Mainichi Art Award in 2021. 

Curatorial Advisor

TAMAYO IEMURA
Born in 1960. Graduated from the doctoral program in Art Studies at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Independent curator and professor in the Department of Art Studies at Tama Art University. Former curator at the Meguro Museum of Art (1991–2006). Organized exhibitions such as Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years (1995), Shedding Light on Art in Japan 1953 (1996), and Takanobu Kobayashi—Endless Summer (2004). Since 2016, Iemura has conducted an annual experimental art exhibition through her seminar at Tama Art University, treating the university setting as an opportunity to depart from traditional exhibition formats and making the exhibition itself an art project.


Participating Artists

ASAKO FUJIKURA
Born in 1992. Graduated with a bachelor's degree in Persian Studies from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and earned a master’s degree from the Department of New Media, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. Fujikura’s work focuses on infrastructures that span urban and suburban landscapes and their associated spatial depth, employing 3DCG animation techniques. Her recent work explores the dynamics of logistics on reclaimed land and the emergence of gardens within urban contexts. Exhibitions include Energy in Rural (Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, 2023), Mindscapes (Gana Art Center, Seoul, 2024), How Did You Come into The World? (Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, 2024), A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2024) and Machine Love: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art (Mori Art Museum, 2025).


TAKAHIRO OHMURA
Born in 1991. Holds a doctorate in engineering. Assistant professor in the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Department of Urban and Civil Engineering, Ibaraki University since 2023. Ohmura engages in architectural design, research, criticism, writing, and art production, exploring the sustainability of post-urban life in suburban and hinterland contexts. Projects include Garden beside WHITEHOUSE (renovation, 2021), Vanpool Over the Cliff in the Foreground (exhibition design / fine art, 2022), and Screens in Kamiooka (renovation, 2022). Received an SD Review merit prize in 2019 for the Detached Building at Kuragano Station (collaboration with Naoki Saito).


TOSHIKATSU KIUCHI

Born in 1978. Graduated with a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Tokyo in 2004. Co-representative of SUNAKI Inc. Project associate professor at the Center for the Possible Futures at the Kyoto Institute of Technology from 2022. Kiuchi specializes in architectural design and digital fabrication, with a focus on informatics within architecture and urban studies. Projects include the Japan Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia Co-ownership of Action: Trajectories of Elements (contributing architect, 2021), and Shodoshima House (as SUNAKI, 2022). Co-guest editor and contributor for a+u 2024:07–Feature: Post-Digitality in Architecture (with Toshiki Hirano, 2024). Co-developed Adaptive Design and Assembly System Utilizing Reclaimed Timbers (with Barna et al., 2024), which was selected for the SD Review 2024. 


TAICHI SUNAYAMA

Born in 1980. Holds a doctorate in fine arts. Co-representative of SUNAKI Inc. Associate professor in the Department of General Art Studies at Kyoto City University of Arts. Sunayama’s work explores the interplay of materiality and information in architecture and art through design, production, curation, and critique. Projects include Materializing: Between Information and Matter (organizing, 2013–2015), Paper Stone (with Hideyuki Nakayama, 2017–), Shinkenchiku Data (web direction, 2019–), the Japan Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia Co-ownership of Action: Trajectories of Elements (contributing architect, 2021), and Shodoshima House (as SUNAKI, 2022).