WAITINGROOM is participating in CURATION⇄FAIR Tokyo 2025 from Friday, January 31 to Monday, February 24. This event consists of an exhibition (January 31-February 16) and an art fair “Art Kudan 2025” (February 21-24).

Saori Miyake’s works are exhibited in the group exhibition “The Beautiful, the Ambiguous, and Itself”. Miyake has been working with the photogram with using existing images that she encountered as motifs. Her works are created by drawing multiple drawings on a transparent sheet of paper, which are then superimposed on photographic paper and exposed to develop the shadows of the drawings. In recent years, Miyake has also been working on video works that reflect her thinking that has developed through her engagement with photograms, and she has also been working on cyanotypes sensitized by sunlight. These attempts allow Miyake to extract the “painterly imagery” inherent in everyone’s gazes.

Press & Private View：
1/31 (Fri.) 10:00-19:00 (Last Admission: 18:30)
Public View: 2/1 (Sat.) – 16 (Sun.) 10:00-19:00 (Last Admission 18:30)
*Booking is required
Venue: kudan house (1-15-9 Kudankita, Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo 102-0073 JAPAN)
Website

Ticket: Same-day ticket JPY2,500. -(tax incl.), Students and Persons with Disabilities JPY1,500. – (tax incl.), Residents and Workers in Chiyoda Ward JPY2,200. – (tax incl.) / Advance VIP ticket JPY30,000.- (tax incl.)

Selected Works

Left: Saori Miyake, “The missing shade 60-1”, 2024, gelatin silver print, 260×350mm
RIght: Saori Miyake, “Untitled”, 2021, Cyanotype on watercolor paper, 290×205mm

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At the Art Fair “Art Kudan 2025”, we will showcase the works by exonemo, Yuki Onodera, Saori Miyake, and Asako Fujikura on the main walls. Additionally, utilizing the distinctive space of Kudan House, we will display smaller works by our artists in a museum shop-like format. (Artists in the shop area: Rikako Kawauchi, Fumika Tsuchitori, Naho Kawabe, and Ryota Kito).

Press & Private View：2/21 (Fri.) 10:00-18:00 (Last Admission: 17:30)
Public View: 2/22 (Sat.) – 2/24 (Mon.) 10:00-18:00 (Last Admission 17:30)
*Booking is required
Venue : kudan house (1-15-9 Kudankita, Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo 102-0073 JAPAN)
Booth# : 2-6 (2nd Floor)
Website

Ticket : Advance ticket JPY3,000. – (tax incl.) / Same-day ticket JPY3,500. – (tax incl.), Students and Persons with Disabilities: JPY2,000. – (tax incl.), Residents and Workers in Chiyoda Ward: JPY3,200. – (tax incl.) / Advance VIP ticket：JPY30,000.- (tax incl.)

exonemo

Left: exonemo, “Click and Hold: x420px, y286px, 72ppi”, 2024, Acrylic and pencil on canvas, nail, 406×508mm
Right: exonemo, “Click and Hold: x1430px, y621px, 72ppi”, 2024, Acrylic and pencil on canvas, nail, 617×913mm

exonemo is a Japanese artist group by Kensuke Sembo and Yae Akaiwa formed in 1996 on the internet. Starting in 2000, they started their activities in an actual space, presenting installation work, performance and organizing events. They live and work in New York since 2015. In 2006, they won the Golden Nica for Net Vision category at Prix Ars Electronica. In 2012, they formed Internet Secret Society named “IDPW” and have been organizing “Internet Yami-Ichi” in both Japan and abroad since then. This exhibition will feature 3 works from the “Click and Hold” series of obliquely tilted paintings. Their recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition “On Memory” (2023, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo) ,a group exhibition “GEMINI Laboratory Exhibition” (2022, ANB Tokyo, Tokyo), a group exhibition “Aichi Triennale 2019” (2019, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi) and many others. At their solo exhibition “EXONEMO UN-DEAD-LINK [Reconnecting to Internet Art]” held in 2020 (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo), they were awarded the 2020 (71st) Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. In 2021, they were selected as the third artist for the Obayashi Foundation’s grant program “Visions of the City – Obayashi Foundation Research Program”, and a book documenting their research, “Infected Cities,” was published in 2023.

Yuki Onodera

Left: Yuki Onodera, “«Parcours» Place Saint Michel”, 2024, gelatin silver print, collage on canvas, 82×64cm
Right Yuki Onodera, “Parcours-045”, 2025, gelatin silver print on fiber base paper, postage stamp, 14×21cm (Frame size: 31.5×34.5cm)

Yuki Onodera was born in Tokyo 1962. In 1993, she established a studio in Paris and began to work internationally. Onodera’s experimental work, which does not fit within schemas of “photography,” often poses two questions: what is photography, and what can be done through it? She uses any possible method to realize her works, whether this means taking photographs with a marble inside her camera, or creating a story out of a legend and traveling to the ends of the earth to shoot it. Onodera is known her two-meter-high darkroom prints by herself, oil painting on a photography, as well as for other original hands-on methods. This exhibition will feature one canvas work and new postcard-sized works from the “Parcours” series, which features landscapes of Paris captured as she walked through the city. Among other locations, her solo exhibitions have been held at The National Museum of Art, Osaka (2005), Shanghai Art Museum (2006), The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (2010), The Museum of Photography, Seoul (2010) and Musée Nicéphore Niépce, France (2011) , Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (2015), Centre Photographie de Mougins, France (2022). Her work is held in collections around the world, including those of Centre Georges Pompidou, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Shanghai Art Museum and The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

Saori Miyake

Left: Saori Miyake, “Blue print”, 2023, Cyanotype on watercolor paper, 385×500mm
Right: Saori Miyake, “Blue print”, 2023, Cyanotype on watercolor paper, 500×385mm

Born in 1975 in Gifu and graduated from Master’s Degree Major in Faculty of Fine Arts at Kyoto City University of Arts in 2000. Currently lives and works in Kyoto. Miyake has been working with a photogram technique that consists of printing “shadows” of drawings by reversing existing images she has encountered in various ways, drawing them on transparent sheets where negative and positive space has been flipped, and then exposing them over a layer of photosensitive paper, for example. The images that are derived from looking at the world once objectified by the camera poetically reveal narrative, fragmentation, and multilayeredness. The artist considers that the “act of seeing” is not only a physical act, but also a psychological phenomenon. In recent years, Miyake has been working on video works that reflect the deeper thinking she has developed as a result of producing these photograms, as well as cyanotypes that are photosensitive to sunlight, while continuing to extract the notion of the “painterly image” that takes shape over the course of people looking at various things, making images of them in some way, sharing those images, and overlapping them with a new kind of gaze. This exhibition will feature two works from the “Blue print” series of cyanotype. Her recent exhibitions include a group exhibition “Gewalt : Devenir des resistances a la violence institutionnelle” (2024, Institut francais de Tokyo / Tokyo), a solo exhibition “Nowhere in Blue” (2023, WAITINGROOM / Tokyo), a group exhibition “Urban Sansui β” (2023, kudan house / Tokyo), a group exhibition “Mirrorless Mirror” (2022, gallery αM / Tokyo), a solo exhibition “Artist in Museum AiM Vol.9 Saori MIYAKE” (2021, The Museum of Fine Arts, atelier / Gifu), a group exhibition “Oku-Noto Triennale 2020+ A foremost art festival at the furthest edge of the world” (2021, Suzu city / Ishikawa). She has received the “The Kyoto Prefecture Culture Prize for Effort” in 2016, the “Sakuya -konohana award” in the Fine Arts category in 2013, “VOCA AWARD 2010” in 2010, and her works are in the public collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kyoto City University of Arts, and Monblanc Japan, among others.

Asako Fujikura

左：Asako Fujikura, “Triangular figure composite”, 2024, mixed media, 1650×870×270mm
右：Asako Fujikura, “Significant Steps”, 2024, mixed media, 850×650×260mm

Born in 1992 in Saitama, currently lives and works in Ibaraki. Graduated from the school of Foreign Language, majoring in South and West Asia Program, department of Persian at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 2016, and M.A. degree from the Department of New Media, Graduate School of Film and New Media, at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2018. With the theme of finding the primitive haunting nature that exists in contemporary cities, the artist creates urban landscapes using a 3DCG animation technique that emphasizes images with a focus on artificial textures and tactile qualities, and also installation work that brings motifs appearing in videos into the real world. This exhibition will showcase two mixed media sculptures that were featured in her solo exhibition at WAITINGROOM last year. Recent exhibitions include “MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan” (2025, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo), “Mindscapes”(Gana Art Center, Seoul) “A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection” (2024, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo), “Invisibles in the Neo City” (2023, SusHi Tech Square, Tokyo), “MOT Annual 2023 – Synergies, or between creation and generation” (2023, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo), “Energies in the Rural” (2023, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori), and a solo exhibition “Sunlight Announcements” (WAITINGROOM, Tokyo). Fujikura has been selected as a project member for the Japanese pavilion exhibition “IN-BETWEEN — A Future with Generative AI” at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia scheduled to be held in 2025. Major public collections include Takahashi Ryutaro collection (Tokyo, Japan), and the Taguchi Art Collection (Tokyo, Japan).