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Gero Art Discovery 2026  New
 

Gero Art Discovery 2026, an international art festival in Japan.
Engaging with the land of Gero,
I will be working on new pieces
 
Gero Art Discovery 2026 – Event Overview Dates:
September 11 (Fri) – November 8 (Sun),
2026 Closed on Tuesdays
 
Venues: Various locations throughout Gero City, Gifu Prefecture Organizer: Gero Art Discovery Executive Committee Chair of the Executive Committee: Noboru Yamauchi (Mayor of Gero City) General Director: Fram Kitagawa (Art Director) Participating
 
Artists (as of January 19, 2026 / listed in alphabetical order) EAT & ART TARO ｜ Japan Stasys Eidrigevičius ｜ Lithuania / Poland Endo Toshikatsu ｜ Japan Ondekoza ｜ Japan Sakata Momoka ｜ Japan Suzuki Hatsune ｜ Japan Takekoshi Kohei ｜ Japan Takenaka Miyuki ｜ Japan Tu Wei-Cheng ｜ Taiwan Barthélémy Toguo ｜ Cameroon / France Tozaki Keiko ｜ Japan Nishizawa Toshitaka ｜ Japan Hashimoto Masaya ｜ Japan Hara Rintaro + Hara Yu ｜ Japan Massimo Bartolini ｜ Italy Pangrok Sulap ｜ Malaysia Mounir Fatmi ｜ Morocco / France, Spain Madeleine Flynn & Tim Humphrey ｜ Australia Murakami Tsutomu ｜ Japan Yumisashi Kanji ｜ Japan
 
Gero Art Discovery 2026

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Takenaka Miyuki solo exhibition at　The Ueno Royal Museum  
 

Takenaka Miyuki
Solo Exhibition
Watashi to Kanata — on the flip side
From the artist’s production notes
 
This exhibition explores the theme of drawing out aspects of things and phenomena that are not their essence—their reverse sides or overlooked surfaces—and generating new narratives from them.
For example, while creating a video work that extracts the shapes of dust and debris from old short films, I imagined the traces of time embedded within each fragment. Are these specks remnants that adhered to the cel during filming? Dust that entered during the transfer from negative to positive? Or stains and peeling that emerged after long years had passed following the completion of the positive film? Tracing such marks became a way of following layered histories. What is usually dismissed as “noise” or “interference” can, in fact, hold multiple strata of time. I also attempted to incorporate fragments of background imagery—details so minor that they would remain in no one’s memory.
In my earlier works using acrylic panels layered with poured resin, the flowing resin itself recorded the passage of time, and through these layers, shadows of the present emerged. Although the methods differ, the desire to incorporate “the passage of time” and “traces” into the work may be a thread common to my practice.
In the exhibition title Watashi to Kanata (Me and Beyond), I consider “watashi” (me) to represent the core or主体 of things, while “kanata” signifies what lies outside—margins, shadows, or elements that are not the main subject. Similarly, the English title on the flip side suggests another face of things. Here, “kanata” does not simply indicate a distant place, but rather points to “another self on the reverse side” or “the beginning of a new narrative.”
In Sound of Memory, shadows are projected onto a wall conceived as a screen, allowing both the materiality of film and its shadows to take center stage.
In Layers of Time / Whispers of Dust, the focus is placed on things that have long been considered unnecessary.
In Traces Under the Cherry Blossoms, attention shifts away from the fully bloomed cherry blossoms people gaze up at, toward what has fallen to the ground.
In Titles, I created printing plates from title stamps once used in film developing machines. Film was developed during the final month before those machines ceased operation. This year, I scanned the film frame by frame and reconstructed it digitally as moving images.
Additionally, I brought objects once used in a now-closed film laboratory—items no longer in use—into the space, attempting to extract the memories embedded within them. Through this process, I aim to shed light on the reverse side of the glamorous world of cinema. As an attempt to set stopped time in motion once more, I continue this process of making.
From production notes, 2025
 
2025.Mar.15 Sat.-Mar.30 Sun
The Ueno Royal Museum

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Kobe Rokko Meets Art  
 

2024.9.21 Sat.-11.24 Sun
Lighting Forest - Night Art Stroll

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Suzu Theater Museum schedule -It is currently closed-
 

Oku-Noto Triennale 2023 is over.
But the museum in which Iam partivipating with my artwaork is opening again.　
Open days:Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon
Suzu Theater Museum
 

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Oku-Noto Triennale 2023

 
Sep 23-Nov 12 ,2023
 

Oku-Noto Triennale 2023
 

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Prospect　
Group exhibition
(Yoshitaka Nanjo, Miyuki Takenaka, and Ayako Kuno)

August 27 (Sun) - October 1 (Sun）
Wed. - Fri. 12:00 - 19:00 / Sat. and Sun. 11:00 - 17:00
Closed onMonday and Tuesday
https://artfrontgallery.com/en/exhibition/archive/2023_07/4862.html
Art Front Gallery will present a group exhibition featuring three artists (Yoshitaka Nanjo, Miyuki Takenaka, and Ayako Kuno) selected from the Suzu Theatre Museum, the main facility of the festival curated and directed by Yoshitaka Nanjo, prior to the Oku-Noto Triennale 2023 to be held this year.
This exhibition will offer a new look at how the artists who gathered at Triennale came to perceive the area and discover its possibilities, and how this has influenced their respective subsequent productions.
 
Miyuki Takenaka is an artist whose main material for expression is light through transparent materials such as resin and film. At the now popular Kabukicho Tower, she was in charge of the main work that decorated the space of the cinema theater. In Suzu, based on the diaries and letters that came out of a house on the occasion of director Fram Kitagawa's "Okurazarae," he created a work of memory of a house while viewing Suzu today through the filter of the viewpoint of an individual who once lived in Suzu. This time, by burning the shadows of the photographs and folk tools he encountered at that time onto 35mm film, he will create a work that records on film the invisible little stories behind each object. I will do so.
 
 

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 Takenaka Miyuki solo exhibition at Suitopia Center  Art Gallery 【-Never Ending Journey-】(Ogaki,Gifu Japan)

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Miyuki Takenaka Solo Exhibition
Feb.2022
 
Miyuki Takenaka Solo exhibition : Light, Darkness and...
2022, Feb. 4 (Fri.) -27 (Sun.) [scheduled]
Art Front Gallery is pleased to announce solo exhibition of Miyuki Takenaka.Date2022, Feb. 4 (Fri.) -27 (Sun.) [scheduled]HoursWed. - Fri. 12:00 - 19:00 / Sat. Sun. and national holiday 11:00 - 17:00ClosedMondays and TuesdaysEventThe Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2022 / 2022, Feb. 4 (Fri.) -20 (Sun.)
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions
 
Emitting Glows
Kazuo Amano, Art Critic

Film has a mysterious presence. Our generation is used to loading it into cameras or projectors. Film is a material that you can take in your hands, but at the times time, it has voice and sound recorded on it. As an object, film is just base material coated with emulsion. Transparent and smooth, its physical presence is thin. This differentiates film, plastic and ready for analogue process from other media, such as magnetic tapes, which are effectively black-boxes revealing nothing, or digital media, which are non-concrete and insubstantial. I have encountered Takenaka’s work at various exhibitions, and seen how she deals with the physical presence of film. She used to create lustrous paintings like watercolours, but has now turned to installations made with the material of film.

I’ve always wanted to ask Takenaka what she thought film really meant to contemporary artists. I heard she once worked part-time in a film processing studio. (Apparently, she still places orders with one of the few that continues to operate.) I have not been able to ask about her experience with the images. But interestingly, I do not sense a film maniac in what she makes, nor is there the aura of the cinema buff. Perhaps she has some fondness for film’s physical presence, but her reinterpretations of its materiality seem performed with a sense of distance. She has totally no nostalgia, nor a retrospective view of film as a media representing the past. There is no sign of people residing within the silver screen.

Takenaka’s present installation surrounds the visitor with unrolled film carrying images of shop furniture and tableware. They are not shops she is personally attached to, but ones that have gone out of business because of Covid. Beyond, we see the city streets outside. The work is quite literally reality composed of film, with glass surfaces and moving objects. The experience of viewing is not restricted to this, I feel, for the images assume precision only when brought into focus. Film itself is merely endless, ever-changing prism of colour, casting forms back to us as shadows, drawing us into invisible realms. In fact, her work contrasts with the composite imagery of processed film, which is not really film at all, but light and shadow. With Takenaka’s work, viewers feel suspended between presence and absence, as lights penetrate the spaces of her installation. In this process, how exactly does the installation generate scenes right before our gaze?

Takenaka extracts the essence of film, based on her experiences as former film developer. Some processed images are the result of mistakes, referred to as ‘fog’, while film exposed to direct light can result in transient shadow images. What we see in films is an intricate performance generated from flow and floating by various intensities of light. This intrinsic transparency opens a host of interpretations. Takenaka takes these mysterious qualities and incorporates them into the real world. What kind of slippage will this reveal? I wonder where the glow emitted from her tableaux will ultimately go?

ARt Front Gallery
 

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Oku-Noto Triennale 2020+
Sep 4-Nov 5 ,2021
 

Oku-Noto Triennale 2020+

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Artists'Breath
Apr 3.Sat.2021- Jun 27.Sun.2021
 
Artists'Breath
Ichihara Lake Museum
 
“Artists’ Breath”
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CGHmCzoHnQz/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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 Catarog"transparency" vol.1 vol.2
 
transparency
Art Front Gallery

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Oku-Noto Triennale 2020+
Sep 4-Oct 24,2021
 
 
 “Artists’ Breath”
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CGHmCzoHnQz/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
 
 
Oku-Noto Triennale 2020+

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Gifu Land of Clear Waters Art Award IN THE CUBE
June(tue)-July5(sun),2020
on the theme of “Kioku no Yukue”
The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu／4-1-22 Usa, Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture

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Miyuki Takenaka exhibition " Soughing city"
in collaboration with Taira Ichikawa
 
Aug 21（wed)-25(sun)2019 11AM-7PM (25(sun)−5PM）
Shinjyuku Park Tower Gallery 1

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Art Central Hong Kong 2018
 
March 26 to April 1,2018
Central Habourfront, 9 Lung Wo Road, Central, Hong Kong
(Art Front Gallery)

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Miyuki Takenaka – New Story
2018. Mar. 2(Fri) - Mar. 25(Sun).(closed Mondays)
Art Front Gallery

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QuintetⅣ Five-Star Artists
Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art
January 13th (Sat.) - February 18th (Sun.), 2018.(closed Mondays)
 
1-26-1, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8338
Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Headquarters build. 42nd floor
10:00-18:00
Adults 600yen (500yen),University and High School Students (from 16 to 18 years)_ 400 yen (300yen)
[Artists]
Emiko Aoki, Miyuki Takenaka, Migiwa Tanaka, Misa Funai and Kumiko Moroi

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Shell Art Award 2017 Artist Selection
The National Art Center,Tokyo 1F Room 1B
Dec 13 2017-25　Close19
10:00-18:00
※15,22 10:00-20:00
25 10:00-16:00

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『Art Stage Singapore 2017』
Art Stage Singapore 2017, 12 - 15 Jan.
Marina Bay Sands,Sands Expo & Convention Centre
[Artists]
Masatake Kozaki, Takeshi Abe, Bunpei Kado, Nozomi Tanaka, Iku Harada, Alfredo&Isabel Aquilizan, Michiko Isono, Oscar Oiwa, Shinji Ohmaki, Kouseki Ono, Chihiro Kabata, Carsten Nicolai, Tokuro Sakamoto, Miyuki Takenaka, Masumi Nakaoka, Taisuke Fujiwara, Takanao Kaneko
 
Art Stage Singapore

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『Miyuki Takenaka : Shuko Terada』
Sep 12 2015(Sat)-Oct 17 2015(Sat)
12:00- 18:30 Gallery Caption
Close: Sun,Mon,Public holiday
 
□G A L L E R Y  C A P T I O N□

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『collection/ selection: 06』
May 1 2015(Fri)-MAY 23 2015(Sat)
12:00- 18:30 Gallery Caption
Close: Sun,Mon,Public holiday
Tomoko Arakawa.Masato Ito,Masaki Kawada,Miyuki Takenaka,Yasuhiro Niwa,Yukio Fujimoto
 
□G A L L E R Y  C A P T I O N□

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White-snake island（Novelist : Shion Miura / Book-cover design : Anna Suda / Picture : Miyuki Takenaka）
 
KADOKAWA

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Hikarie Christmas Art Fair 2013
 
Dec 13 2013(Fri) - Dec 25 2013(Wed) 11:00-20:00
8F Shibuya Hikarie　Hikarie Chiristmas Art Fair
Art guide tour Dec 15 2013(Sun) 15:00-
Guide：Tomio Koyama（Tomio Koyama Gallery),Toshio Kondo(Art Front Gallery）

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Miyuki Takenaka Solo Exhibition　Oct 1 2013(Tue)-Nov 2 2013(Sat), GALLERY valeur
GALLERY valeur

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Miyuki Takenaka Solo Exhibition ”Light Informed by Darkness” Aug 30 2013(Fri)-Sep 15 2013(Sun)
 

 
Art Front Gallery

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A special installation “Transparent presence” Jul 22 2013(Mon)-Sep 29 2013(Sun)

Anjin

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Miyuki Takenaka Interview (Interviewer Toshio Kondo)
Miyuki takenaka interview

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Group Exhibition “Watercolor painting exhibition -From Meiji era to Present-
 
Hiratsuka Museum of Art
Apr 20 2013(Sat)-Jun 16(Sun)
 
Hiratsuka Museum of Art

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Work shop "Let’s play with Watercolors"NEWS

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