Mio Moriyama,Ryotaro Sato,Yoshihiko Yamazaki
6 Dec 2025 - 15 Dec 2025(Sat, Sun, Mon Only)
As part of the Sapporo Culture Knot Week (SCKW) adopted project, “Ku-kan ARTIST’S FES” will be held at Ku-kan from December 6 to December 15, 2025. This project is an artist-led art fair and merchandise event held at Ku-kan. The event will feature ZONE A, which will display installation works that take advantage of the Ku-kan venue, and ZONE B, which will exhibit and sell works by artists. Through “Ku-kan ARTIST’S FES,” implemented as part of SCKW’s initiatives aimed at building networks and supporting artists, we aim to create an art event that includes not only fine artists but also creators working in various fields of expression.
Mio Moriyama
My work explores social issues deeply embedded in our lives, with a particular focus on aging and the complex relationships between parents and children.
Ryotaro Sato
Artist. Born in 1999 in Hokkaido, currently based in Kanagawa, Japan. He collects data circulated as assets and edits it while referencing images from photography, video, games, and other media to depict the current state of the internet. In recent years, he has focused on data, software, and platforms involved in contemporary image-making, exploring the relations of production surrounding imagination. Major exhibitions include “MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art” (Mori Art Museum, 2025), “Inorganic Friends” (Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, 2023), and “Viewpoints of Reality in the Multi-layered World” (NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], 2022).
Photo: Tayama Tatsuyuki
Photo Courtesy: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Yoshihiko Yamazaki
Born in Sapporo, Hokkaido in 1994. Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Sapporo Otani University in 2016, and completed the Graduate School of Education at Hokkaido University of Education in 2020. Currently enrolled in the Doctoral Program at the Graduate School of Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts. Recipient of the 34th Holbein Scholarship.
His practice involves deconstructing and reconstructing photographs shared on social media, creating collages that embed multiple layers of time and place as the foundation for painting. These works are further cited as “paintings within paintings,” accumulating in a nested structure. The resulting images, overlapping fragments of the everyday, embody both a sense of emptiness and an attempt to visualize aspects of contemporary visual culture such as “preservation” and “circulation.”
Selected exhibitions include Ryoko Kumakura & Yoshihiko Yamazaki: Links, Embed Images (Gallery & Bakery Tokyo 8fun, Tokyo, 2025), HAPS KYOTO selection #2 Yoshihiko Yamazaki (HAPS Office 1F, Kyoto, 2023), Door Scope and Bagel (Gallery MONMA, Sapporo, 2023), and 50th Anniversary Exhibition: With Artists Toward Tomorrow (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, 2016).
Schedule
6 Dec 2025 - 15 Dec 2025(Sat, Sun, Mon Only)
Time
13:00 - 19:00
Place
Ku-kan
Address
Scramble garage 8-1-62 Odorihigashi Chuo-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido 060-0041 Japan
(There is no parking at the venue. Please use a nearby toll parking lot.)