WAITINGROOM is pleased to present drawings by Rikako Kawauchi, a Tokyo-based artist born in 1990 in Tokyo, Japan, in the Shared Room with GNYP Gallery (First Floor) at NADA Villa Warsaw 2025. Based on her interest in food, artist Rikako Kawauchi produces artwork centered on the body and thought, as well as the vague interrelationships between the two. With the motifs of the self and of others who appear in and out of the communication within which various elements including dining, conversation and sex intertwine, Kawauchi creates cross-over works using a wide variety of media – starting from drawings and paintings to utilizing wires, resins, neon tubes, marbles and more. She says that she keeps the elusive body and the invisible movement of thought within the line, by drawing through her work.
Venue
Villa Gawrońskich (Warsaw, Poland)
Public Days
Thursday, May 22, 4-7pm
Friday, May 23, 12-7pm
Saturday, May 24, 12-7pm
Sunday, May 25, 12-7pm
VIP Preview
Wednesday, May 21, 7-11pm
More info: https://www.newartdealers.org/programs/nada-villa-warsaw-2025-2025/introduction
Room: GNYP Gallery + WAITINGROOM Shared Room (First Floor)
Left: conceal, 2025, watercolor and pencil on paper, 512 × 362 mm
Right: secret place, 2023, watercolor and pencil on paper, 242 × 333 mm
Rikako Kawauchi
Born in Tokyo in 1990. She completed her graduate studies at Tama Art University, Graduate School of Art and Design, Department of Painting, in 2017. Currently lives and works in Tokyo. Her recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition “INNER VECTOR: 11, 72, 2154” (2025, Beyond Gallery, Teipei, Taiwan), group exhibition “5th Anniversary Exhibition – Plastic Utopia: Our New Ecosystem” (2025, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Aomori), solo exhibition “Paintings & Drawings – Food, Animals, Organs, Plants, Bodies, etc, everything outside me is everywhere in the air, I breathe them in, I breathe them out.” (2024, Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne, Germany), solo exhibition “Under the sun” (2024, agnès b. galerie boutique, Tokyo), group exhibition “A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection” (2024, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo), solo exhibition “Even the pigments in paints were once stones” (2023, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo), solo exhibition “The Voice of the Soul” (2023, ERA GALLERY, Milan, Italy), solo exhibition “human closely” (2023, Lurf Museum, Tokyo), solo exhibition “line & colors” (2023, N&A Art SITE, Tokyo), group exhibition “Body, Love, Gender” (2023, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea), group exhibition “New Horizon – From History to the Future” (2023, Arts Maebashi, Gunma), solo exhibition “Colours in summer” (2022, Ginza Tsutaya GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo), solo exhibition “Lines” (2022, Van Der Grinten Galerie, Cologne, Germany), group exhibition “VOCA 2022” (2022, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo), solo exhibition “Empty Volumes” (2021, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo), group exhibition “TERRADA ART AWARD 2021” (2021, TERRADA Warehouse, Tokyo), solo exhibition “drawings” (2020, WAITINGROOM / OIL by BT, Tokyo), solo exhibition “Myth & Body” (2020, Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo), group exhibition “drawings” (2019, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo), solo exhibition “human wears human / bloom wears bloom” (2018, Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa), solo exhibition “Tiger Tiger, burning bright” (2018, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo), solo exhibition “SHISEIDO ART EGG vol.9 : Go down the throat” (2015, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo) and many others. She also received the Kenjiro Hosaka Award at the “1st CAF Award” exhibition” in 2014, Shiseido Art Egg Award at the “SHISEIDO ART EGG Vol.9: Go down the throat” in 2015, Yuki Terase Award at the “TERRADA ART AWARD 2021” in 2021, and VOCA Award at the “VOCA 2022” in 2022.
