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“KG＋” is a public art festival that first started in 2013 with the aim of discovering and supporting upcoming photographers and curators with 2025 being the 13th anniversary of this festival. We strive to present the state-of-the-art skills of upcoming photographers widely enlisted here in Kyoto to around the globe.
In cooperation with “KYOTOGRAPHIE Kyoto International Photography Festival”, we give upcoming photographers and curators participating in KG＋ opportunities to talk and collaborate with world-renowned curators and gallerists from Japan and around the world.
“KG＋ SELECT” is another exhibition, where 10 artists out of the participants of “KG＋” are selected to exhibit their work by judges working at an international degree. KG＋SELECT Award 2025 Winner is held between the selected 10 artists, with the winner given the invitation to exhibit their work in the official KYOTOGRAPHIE program next year in 2026.

“KG＋SELECT” is an award branch within “KG＋” which kicked off in 2019 as an open competition. KG＋SELECT Awards 2026 Grand Prix winner will receive a grant to produce an exhibition for the official program of next year’s KYOTOGRAPHIE.

Venue：Kurochiku Makura Building
Period：2026.4.18–5.17
These exhibitions are organized or co-sponsored by sponsors or partners. Curating and corporate support help participating artists mount high-quality exhibits.

Venue: Various places in Kyoto city
Exhibition period: 2026.4.8–5.17
KG＋ is a public photography festival featuring exhibits by upcoming artists and curators at exiting new venues. Yellow flags scattered throughout Kyoto mark the exhibit locations, where new discoveries and exchanges.

Venue: Various places in Kyoto city
Exhibition period: 2026.4.8–5.17

KG＋からKYOTOGRAPHIEへ、
可能性と飛躍のアワード
Supported by Sigma

Venue：Kurochiku Makura Building

KG＋SELECTはKG＋のアワード部門として2019年に始まった公募型のコンペティションです。世界中から集まったエントリーの中から、審査員の選考により選ばれた10名のアーティストが、条件を揃えた会場を与えられ、製作費の支援を受け、1ヶ月にわたり展覧会を開催します。国際的に活躍する審査員が実際の展覧会を審査し、グランプリを選出します。グランプリに選出されたアーティストは、奨励金を受け、翌年のKYOTOGRAPHIEにて展覧会を開催します。さまざまな媒体やメディアからも注目されるKG＋SELECTは、KYOTOGRAPHIEのステップアップを経て、さらなる飛躍を可能にする展示型アワードです。

Jury: Andréa Holzherr; Thyago Nogueira; Lucille Reyboz; Yusuke Nakanishi

審査員の紹介

KG＋協賛企業主催による展覧会

These exhibitions are organized or co-sponsored by sponsors or partners. Curating and corporate support help participating artists mount high-quality exhibits that connect artworks, viewers, and society, while also providing messages about sponsor company initiatives.

春の京都で多彩な表現と出会う

今年は100以上の展覧会が京都市内各所で開催されます。京都市内に点在する黄色い旗が目印となり、地域・来場者・作品を繋げ、新たな発見や交流を創出します。ギャラリーに限らず、カフェや寺社仏閣、屋外など様々な会場を舞台に展開されています。

Closing Report: 2025; 2024; 2023; 2022; 2021; 2020; 2019; 2018; 2017; 2016; 2015

WEBSITE: 2025; 2024; 2023; 2022

KG＋からKYOTOGRAPHIEへ
可能性と飛躍のアワード

KG＋SELECT is an open-call competition launched in 2019 as the award section of KG＋. From entries submitted from around the world, ten artists are selected by the jury and given exhibition spaces under equal conditions, along with production support, to present exhibitions over the course of one month. Internationally active jurors then review the exhibitions in person and select the Award winner. The artist chosen for the KG＋SELECT Award receives a grant and is given the opportunity to present an exhibition at the following year’s KYOTOGRAPHIE. Attracting attention from a wide range of publications and media outlets, KG＋SELECT is an exhibition-based award that provides artists with the opportunity to make a further leap forward through this step toward KYOTOGRAPHIE.

The winner of the KG＋SELECT Award 2026 was Sridhar Balasubramaniyam. He will present an exhibition as one of the main programmes of KYOTOGRAPHIE 2027.

スリダー・バラシュブラマニヤム

Sridhar Balasubramaniyam

Manarsuzhal (The voyage of sand)

KG＋ Information Centre EVENT

K-Youth × KG＋ Portfolio Exchange

K-Youth × KG＋ Symposium: “Where Does Photography Take Place? — Across Practices, Systems, and Society in Japan and Korea”

KG＋ Infomation Centre

KG＋ACADEMY Project

Opening Live Performance: Ima Tenko(Butoh Dancer)×Morita Yuri(Photographer)

Women Photographers in Taiwan: Past and Present

Live Wet Plate Portrait Session

Workshop: Traditional washi paper/Photography

All Night PURPLE

Talking Photography in Korean — What Does “To Take” Mean?

Unreel TALK EVENT

Observing Photography of the Same Generation: Contemporaries East Asia Photography Studies

Guided tour of CAT ISLAND BLUES exhibition led by children for families.

『Love Songs ― 始まりの光』関連トークイベント（仮）

What Does it Mean to “Inquire”? — Two Artists in Dialogue with Daiko Matsuyama, Vice Abbot of Taizo-in

Photo-Talk-Exhibition KG＋2026

Book as Sculpture-写真集を彫刻として設計する-

[イベント1] 湿板写真デモンストレーション [イベント2] 湿板写真セルフポートレート体験

路

フォトウォーク (写真展Two Systems関連イベント)

工芸の魅力 「アート作品を撮る」

眠っている知覚をひらく

ディープシーイング・ワークショップ：写真撮影への瞑想的アプローチ

「善き眼」を開く：見るという行為のメカニズム

ゲストトーク「像の条件──見ること／わかることの境界」

刷ることの閾──新聞紙、その先の表現

KG＋ Academy #01 中澤有基

KG＋ACADEMY #02 侯 鵬暉

KG＋ACADEMY #03 北桂樹

KG＋ACADEMY #04 大畑政孝（株式会社サンエムカラー）、木村浩（株式会社サンエムカラー）、北原和規（株式会社UMMM)

KG＋ACADEMY #05 甲斐義明

KG＋ACADEMY #06 南島興

KG＋ACADEMY #07 きりとりめでる

KG＋ × 写真新世紀

KG＋ Portfolio Exhibition

Artist talk：中川もも x 山田健太朗

KG＋ Open Party

Now,In Order to Preserve Memory B. Printing Stories

KG＋からKYOTOGRAPHIEへ、 可能性と飛躍のアワード Supported by Sigma

Hyunmin Ryu

Kim Sae-hyun

Sridhar Balasubramaniyam

Manarsuzhal (The voyage of sand)

Chaofan Wan

Yes, the River Knows—Huangpu River

Hiroyoshi Taira

Zomeki -The Spirit of Awa Dance-

Piotr Zbierski

Solid Maze

Kim Eun Ju

Unhealed Light

Mila Rae Sarabhai

Window

SEO MINKYUNG

The Gestures

Aya Kishimoto

Behind Motherhood

Sohei Nakanishi

Urban Paradise - neither inside nor outside

KG＋協賛企業主催による展覧会

Sigma Lounge

"The Art of Engineering. Engineering for Art."

César Guardia Alemañi、Claudia Guadarrama、Gianluca Lanciai、鈴木 萌(Moe Suzuki)、Reinis Hofmanis、安西 剛(Tsuyoshi Anzai)、 他 9作家 | 9 other artists) /SHIFT80(KG＋ Discovery Award 2025 Winner)

Momo Nakagawa

Deborah Royer for Le Labo Fragrances

Le Labo: The Essence of Slow Perfumery

Tamaki Yoshida, Kazuhiko Matsumura

Threshold: Images in Flux

Kazuma Obara

Unreel - Fragments of the Human Condition

Shingo Goya

En Route by ALBUM

Himiko Chapuis

AIDA

Masanobu Ando

憂鬱な楽園

Daido Moriyama

Daido Moriyama

timobarber, ...and more artists

工芸の魅力「アート作品を撮る」

KG＋ACADEMY #02 侯　鵬暉

KG＋からKYOTOGRAPHIEへ、
可能性と飛躍のアワード
Supported by Sigma

César Guardia Alemañi、Claudia Guadarrama、Gianluca Lanciai、鈴木萌(Moe Suzuki)、Reinis Hofmanis、安西剛(Tsuyoshi Anzai)、他 9作家 | 9 other artists) /SHIFT80(KG＋ Discovery Award 2025 Winner)

RongRong&inri Love Songs — First Light 　New Publication Exhibition