msb gallery is pleased to present “I am here”, an exhibition by PAPER BRUT.
Based in Niigata, they create paper and objects from plants and bark found surrounding them.
They make a wide range of works, and handle all processes from cultivating raw materials to designing.
PAPER “BRUT”, which means "raw” paper in French, creates forms that take advantage of the characteristics of natural plants in homage to traditional techniques.
This exhibition showcases a group of works created using pigments extracted from plants, a new approach they have been exploring in recent years.
We hope you will feel the power of plants and enjoy a dialogue with them through their works.
About the Production Process
It begins by overlapping memories of everyday life with the time spent with the paper mulberry tree that the artists cultivate.
The works, woven like a diary, capture the transience and beauty hidden in familiar objects, quietly revealing the value of ordinary life.
Further developing into the act of extracting colors from plants, this shift represents a transition from treating the world as a subject to depict to a stage where the body is involved in the material creation process.
It progresses in conjunction with bodily movements responding to environmental changes such as light, humidity, and scent, gently synchronizing with the rhythm of nature. This reaction is of the same nature as the natural movements of insects moving toward flowers and plants reaching toward light.
These bodily responses indicate that the rhythm of the world is inscribed in the artist's bodily schema.
The paper and colors that emerge from this are traces of the moment when the world and the body intersect, and the works emerge as a space where the boundaries between the two unravel.
PAPER BRUT
msb gallery is pleased to present “Etching exhibition,” a solo exhibition by Kotaro Miura.
The countless fine dots and lines etched onto the tiny copper plates weave together the light of the stars and stories.
We hope you enjoy his beautiful blue works of fantasy that invite you on a journey through an imaginary starry sky.
Kotaro Miura
Born in 1986
Selected exhibitions
2025 Solo exhibition; Etching exhibition, msb gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Two persons show; Folklore, SPAN ART GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2024 Solo exhibition, atelier utopiano, Yokohama, Japan
Solo exhibition; Etching exhibition, msb gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2023 Solo exhibition; Etching exhibition, msb gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022 Two persons show; Folklore, Studio HOTDOG, Tokyo, Japan
2021 Two persons show; In the Woods of Star Tales, Yu Garo, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Solo exhibition, Yu Garo, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Solo exhibition, 8(eight), Tokyo, Japan
from May 14 to 24, 2026
12:00-19:00 -Last day until 17:00
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msb gallery is pleased to present “Un/Read -A Body Reading the Wind”, a solo exhibition by Keita Sakai.
Sakai works consistently focused on literacy-related errors and cognition.
When faced with letters or symbols, we are accustomed to "reading" them as a matter of course, and unconsciously try to find meaning in them. However, once this connection is broken, the words become patterns and detached from meaning begin to resonate with the body.
The works in this exhibition attempt to explore the bodily sensations that fluctuate on the boundary between reading and not reading.
In this era where knowledge is reduced to the mere processing of symbols, is it possible to rediscover the act of reading itself?
We would be delighted if you could experience it for yourself.
Biography
Keita Sakai
1997 Born in Tokyo
2021 MA Fine Art in Sculpture at Musashino Art University
Using the perceptual characteristics caused by dyslexia ー reading and writing difficulties ー as a starting point, he creates sculptures with the theme of “gap in recognition” related to literacy. He incorporates trivial everyday actions into his works and conducts his activities while considering the ambiguity of recognition, which means human error.
Awards
2023 Watowa Art Award 2023 Winner of the Second Grand Prix and Jury Prize of Kengo Kito
Kobe Art Marché 2023, Finalist
2022 Watowa Art Award 2022, Finalist
2021 The 15th Gunma Biennale for Young Artists, Finalist
2020 Kuma Foundation Creators’ Scholarship, 4th scholarship student
2019 Contemporary Art Foundation Award, Winner of Grand Prize
Solo exhibitions
2026 Before Lines Become Meaning, EDAUME, Saga, Japan
2024 Seeing the ambiguity, msb gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2023 Sequence, AOYAMA NOWLOADING, Tokyo, Japan
2022 PLAY-Patapata Nurinuri, A.R.C, Guangzhou, China
2021 COLORS, L'amour Art Space, Hangzhou, China
codecode, KITTE marunouchi 4/Floor, Tokyo, Japan
2020 Underline-Symbols in our everyday lives, Shibuya Hikarie8, CUBE＋COURT, Tokyo, Japan
msb gallery is pleased to present “Nature - Humans”, a solo exhibition by Ryota Shiibashi.
Shiibashi creates works with a three-dimensional feel, using collage techniques to piece together photographs of his own mountain hiking trails and experiences.
Since participating in ATAMI ART GRANT 2024, he has attempted to incorporate into his work a perspective that is conscious of the intersection between traces of human life and nature.
This exhibition will feature a group of works that reconstruct fragments of the city of Yokosuka.
We hope you will enjoy experiencing Shiibashi's dynamic expression.
Yokosuka, Kanagawa.
A place where mountains and sea lie in close proximity, and which developed as a naval base after the Meiji era.
In this landscape, now scattered with vacant houses, I conducted a year-long research project in 2025.
The tension between nature and human presence.
I collect, deconstruct, and reconstruct its traces.
Yokosuka is presented here as a single object.
Ryota Shiibashi
Ryota Shiibashi
A photographer & sculptor with a degree in Fine Arts from Bunsei University of Arts. Born in 1979 and raised in Yokohama. An invitation to scale Mount Karamatsu in the Northern Alps of Japan during his late twenties – in the company of his uncle – led to a passion for further climbing and an enduring fascination with the alpine scenery. This continues to inform his work, which has transitioned into hand-crafted delicate collage techniques since 2016. To date, his ventures further afield have included artist residencies in both Gwangju and Beijing.
Award
2025 “Miratap Art Award 2025” Finalist
2024 “ATAMI ART GRANT 2024” First Prize
2022 “Independent Tokyo 2022” Tagboat Special Prize
2004 First Prize at graduation wirk exhibition of Bunsei University of Art
Solo exhibitions
2025 “The Traverse of Time” Quadrivium Ostium, Kamakura, Japan
2024 “Sleeping, Holding” msb gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2023 “Studio Visit” DART × Singo Francis Studios, Kamakura, Japan
2021 “Landscape of qi” AnyOne × TEA HERE, Beijing, China
2019 “you are here, so I am here” Semi-Underground Space, Beijing, China
2018 “here, there, somwhere of those” ATELIER・K ART SPACE, Yokohama, Japan
Group exhibitions
2025 “Miratap Art Award 2025 Finalists Exhibition” Miratap Osaka Showroom, Osaka, Japan
“ATAMI ART GRANT x BEAMS CultuArt Showcase vol.2” B Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2024 “ATAMI ART GRANT 2024” YoVarious locations in Atami City, Shizuoka, Japan
“IWATAYA Life with Art” IWATAYA, Fukuoka, Japan
2023 “Food, Art, People and Town 2023 Autumn” Yokohama Portside District, Yokohama, Japan
“Independent Tokyo 2022 Selection” Tagboat Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022 “Independent Tokyo 2022” Tokyo Port City Takeshiba, Tokyo, Japan
2021 “China-Japan Culture and Art Exchanfe Exhibition” , Suzhou, China
“SICF22” Spiral hall, Tokyo, Japan
2020 “Wall Street Museum” The Chain Museum x NEWoMan, Yokohama, Japan
2019 “Objects & Images” Art WeMe Contemporary Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2018 “On Paper Supreme” Qindao Tiantai Art Center, Qindao, China, etc.
2017 “Some, Point” Space Ppong, Gwangju, Korea
2016-21 23 ATELIER・K ART SPACE, Yokohama, Japan
Art Fair
2024 “ART COUNCIL in AUTOMOBILE COUNCIL 2024”, Chiba, Japan
2022 “Art Fair Asia Fukuoka”, Fukuoka, Japan
“Art Nagoya 2022”, Nagoya, Japan
2021 “Beijing Contemporary Art Expo 2021”, Beijing, China
2020 “Art Gwangju 2020”, Gwangju, Korea
2018 “Intangibility, Digital, Fine art & Fair” Space Ppong, Gwangju, Korea
Artist Residencies
2019 Semi-Underground Space, Beijing, China
2017-18 Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
2017 Space Ppong, Gwangju, Korea
2015-18 Koganecho area management center, Yokohama, Japan
msb gallery is pleased to present “Art Doll Exhibition - The Forest of Crystals -”, a solo exhibition by Takuro Okuda.
He creates doll sculptures based on ball-jointed doll techniques, breathing life into form by using a variety of materials such as minerals, glass, textiles and antique elements.
This exhibition will feature a group of works expressing beautiful supernatural beings, in an attempt to embody invisible feelings and thoughts.
We hope you will enjoy the artworks, and allow them to gently awaken your inner world, letting them resonate within your own memories.
Takuro Okuda
1991 Born in Gero City, Gifu
2017 BFA, Kyoto Art University
msb gallery is pleased to present “Score of Ripples”, a solo exhibition by Ayami Nakashima.
Her unique world depicts detailed and precise expressions that remind us of mysterious natural beings, using mineral pigments.
In this exhibition, we will present her new works that depict a focus on her daily experiences and familiar things by layering the passage of time and emotions.
We hope you will come and see them.
If untied and woven the trace of many ripples that cover my shadow, it’s as if my eyes meet your heat.
Ayami Nakashima
Ayami Nakashima
2017 BFA (Japanese painting) , Musashino Art University
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Solo exhibition “Moon’s Plot”, gallery hydrangea, Tokyo, Japan
Solo exhibition “Record at the water border”, msb gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2023 Mother and Child Exhibition “Weaving a Garden”, Shibata Etsuko Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Three Person Exhibition “Encounter”, gallery field, Tokyo, Japan
2022 Tokeiso selection Christmas market Mineralholic! Vol.4, Books Sanseido Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan
Solo exhibition “Noun Cage” Librairie Astarte, Kyoto, Japan
Solo exhibition “Geode of the Unconscious” gallery hydrangea, Tokyo, Japan
Group exhibition of graduated students from Musashino Art University “I’m here.”, Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co. Ltd at unpel gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2021 Solo exhibition “Demons of the Shore”, Shibata Etsuko Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Group exhibition “Painting, Wear”, Sukiwa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2020 Solo exhibition “Outline of the Angel”, gallery hydrangea, Tokyo, Japan
Cherry Blossom Awards Exhibition, Sato Sakura Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Holiday Collection, Tsutaya Daikanyama, Tokyo, Japan
Solo exhibition “Forest of the Projecting Mirror”, Hakkendo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Solo exhibition “Water Vein”, Shibata Etsuko Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Publication
2021 Gekkanbijyutsu July Issue, Solo Exhibition 100 Letters Critic
Bijyutsu no Mado May Issue
2020 ExtrART file.26
2019 Gekkanbijyutsu August Issue, Monthly Gallery Interview Article vol.6
msb gallery is pleased to present “Blue Stone,” a solo exhibition by Ayano IGARASHI surnamed as kopfkino.
kopfkino creates imaginary plant specimens by combining paper with natural objects.
This will be her second solo exhibition following her first, "White Paper - Weiße Papier," and we will be showcasing a series of works primarily made with blue minerals.
Overlaying her own images generally associated with the color of blue, she has created imaginary plants that are born from various blue stones.
We hope you enjoy kopfkino’s creativity and the mystical beauty of the blue.
kopfkino Ayano IGARASHI
Selected exhibitions
2025 “Jeweler's caravan” Chiroptére store, Osaka, Japan
“What if museum exhibition” usaginonedoko, Kyoto, Japan
“On the plants” Fukuoka Island City Forum, Fukuoka, Japan
“Night Museum” Guignol, Osaka, Japan
“Beautiful specimens fair” usaginonedoko, Kyoto, Japan
“Mineralholic” Ikebukuro Sanseido, Tokyo, Japan
2024 Solo exhibition “Imaginary plant specimen” ranbu, Osaka, Japan
Solo exhibition “white paper -weißes papier-” msb gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2023 “What if museum exhibition” usaginonedoko, Kyoto, Japan
“Jeweler's caravan” Chiroptére store, Osaka, Japan
“Night Museum” Guignol, Osaka, Japan
“How to enjoy the rainy day” ranbu, Osaka, Japan
“SICF” Spiral Hall, Tokyo, Japan
2022 Tombo Pencil×minne FAN ART STUDIO, illustrated in May and June
2017 “touch” SMART SHIP GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan