
Yulia Skogoreva
SALT AND TEARS: The story of Nana
Horikawa Oike Gallery
“KG+” is a public art festival that first started in 2013 with the aim of discovering and supporting upcoming photographers and curators with 2023 being the 11th 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+ Awards 2023 Grand Prix 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 2024.
“KG+ Select” is an award branch within “KG+” which kicked off in 2019 as an open competition for photographers around the world. 10 artists are selected by judges and given exhibition space, and aid with setting up their own exhibition. For 1 month, whilst they are exhibiting their work, internationally renowned judges choose 1 out of the 10 artists as the winner of the KG+ Awards 2023 Grand Prix. The winner will be awarded a subsidy to hold an exhibition at KYOTOGRAPHIE the following year in 2024. “KG+ Select” attracts widespread media attention giving artists the opportunity to join the KYOTOGRAPHIE community, and promotes the development of promising artists
Horikawa Oike Gallery
Horikawa Oike Gallery
Horikawa Oike Gallery
Horikawa Oike Gallery
Horikawa Oike Gallery
Horikawa Oike Gallery
Kyoto Art Center
Kyoto Art Center
Kyoto Art Center
Kyoto Art Center
Fumiko Nakamura
Senior Curator at Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
Senior Curator/Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Curator/Aichi Triennale 2022
Nakamura is active in the Tokai and Kansai regions of Japan. A specialist in visual culture studies, photography, and contemporary art, she has been with Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art since 2007 and has curated such exhibitions as "In The Little Playground" (2009), "Art As Magic" (2012), and "Photography Will Be" (2014). She also founded the museum's solo exhibition series APMoA Project, ARCH (2012-2017) providing a platform for emerging artists. In 2015 she served as part of the curatorial team for the Japan Foundation's collaborative research project between Japan and South East Asia titled Condition Report. She also curated Play in the Flow, a 2017 group exhibition presented in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Stefano Stoll
Stefano Stoll (Zürich, Switzerland) is the Founder, Director, and Chief Curator of Images Vevey. This Swiss brand has four main activities: a biennial, an award, an exhibition space, and a publishing house. Since 2008, Stefano Stoll has made monumental outdoor installations the specialty of the visual arts biennial. Every second year, Images Vevey proposes site-specific outdoor and indoor photographic installations in Vevey’s streets, parks, and lake, on the facades of its building, in its museums, galleries and unusual venues. Besides managing the Grand Prix Images Vevey, one of Europe’s longest-standing grants for photographic creation, he launched and curates a permanent off-space dedicated to contemporary photography: L’Appartement – Espace Images Vevey. He is currently developing Images Vevey’s publishing house, committed to assisting innovative editorial projects, especially with the creation of the Images Vevey Book Award. He is a member of AICA, writes on cultural policy, visual arts and photography, and is regularly invited to international juries and chairs.
Paolo Woods
Paolo Woods is a documentary photographer, filmmaker and curator. He is the author of eight books and his work is widely exposed, collected and published.
He works on long-term projects that focus on subjects that are crucial for understanding the world we live in but difficult to translate photographically. His projects include A Crude World tackling the subject of the oil industry, Chinafrica were he documented the spectacular rise of the Chinese in Africa, Walk on my Eyes, an intimate portrait of the Iranian society, STATE on what happens to a society when the state collapses, The Heavens which is a unique photographic investigation into the workings of tax havens. In 2021 he published HAPPY PILLS, with Arnaud Robert, on how the pharmaceutical companies sell us happiness.
Lucille Reyboz
Photographer. Born in 1973 in Lyon, France, Lucille Reyboz began her journey with photography in Africa, where she spent most of her childhood. She first came to Japan in 1999, invited by Ryuichi Sakamoto to collaborate on his opera “Life.” As a portrait photographer, Lucille Reyboz produced numerous record covers for labels such as Blue Note and Verve working with many renowned artists over her 20 years in the industry. She exhibited her work in Africa, Japan and around the world; most notably in Visa pour l’image (2001), Phillips de Pury in New York (2007), and CHANEL NEXUS HALL, Tokyo (2011). She published several books, including Batammaba by Gallimard, Belles de Bamako and Impressions du Japon with Keiichiro Hirano by Editions de la Martinière. Together with Yusuke Nakanishi, Lucille Reyboz co-founded and is the co-director of KYOTOGRAPHIE in 2013, and KYOTOPHONIE Borderless Music Festival in 2023.
Yusuke Nakanishi
Lighting Director. Yusuke Nakanishi was born in 1968 in Fukuoka, and currently lives in Kyoto. He travels the world, expressing his impressions of light and shadow from his memories. He has worked as a lighting director for music videos, feature films, stages, music concerts, fashion shows and interior designs. He also created lighting object series eatable lights and Tamashii and has exhibited installations at the Hara Museum, School Gallery (Paris), including Nuit Blanche in Kyoto. He co-founded KYOTOGRAPHIE with Lucille Reyboz in 2013 and is the co-director. In Autumn 2022, he was involved in the creative direction for Van Cleef & Arpels exhibition LIGHT OF FLOWERS, which was held on the grounds of Shimogamo Shrine and the Tadasunomori Forest. In 2023, he co-founded KYOTOPHONIE Borderless Music Festival with Lucille Reyboz.
“KG+ Special” are exhibitions run by sponsor companies and KG+. Artists are given support by the sponsor companies and curators, aiding participating artists to create high-quality exhibits. Exhibits include the work and messages from sponsoring companies, connecting the work of artists with the audience and society.
Gallery PARC
ShinPuhKan SPOT
Bijuu 2F|SIGMA特設ブース
THE NORTH FACE STANDARD KYOTO
Hall Keiryu, 2F Hanbefugojo bldg.
Kyoto Station Building 7th floor, East square
Horikawa Oike Gallery
Teramachi Kyogoku shopping street
Kyoto Station Building Sky Way(10F)
Kurochiku Tenshokan 2F
KG + is a public photography festival featuring exhibits by upcoming artists and curators at exiting new venues. For KG + 2022, more than 60 exhibitions were held all around the city of Kyoto. The scale, time, and form of expression vary from exhibit to exhibit, but while rough, all the exhibits are original expressions bursting with energy. Yellow flags scattered throughout Kyoto mark the exhibit locations, where new discoveries and exchanges connecting neighborhoods, visitors, and artworks await.
KG+の中でも注目の展覧会。
Daitokuji Obai-in
Reminders Photography Stronghold Kyoto Paperoles
gallery NEUTRAL
gallery NEUTRAL
Gallery G-77
Shoyeido Kunjyukan
Toy Film Museum
Gallery Hakkaku
Bijuu Gallery
Now & Then Kyoto
Gallery HILLGATE
ONE AND ONLY
lux studio kyoto
THE TERMINAL KYOTO
tomomi gelato
GALLERY GARAGE
galleryMain
INKYO GARAGE
The Side
VOU
eN arts
haku kyoto
GOOD NATURE STATION 4F GALLERY
ZEN HOUSE GALLERY
galerie16
つぼみ堂|TSUBOMIDO
Myomanji-Temple
gallery metabo
Studio H
KIKA gallery
TASSEL HOTEL
Now open
HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO
TASSEL INN KYOTO KAWARAMACHI
node hotel
ARTRO
MEDIA SHOP gallery 2
Kyoto 27
カリモクコモンズ京都
Institut franco-japonais du Kansai
Gallery SUGATA
AMMON KYOTO
PURPLE
NTT WEST Sanjo Collaboration Plaza
京都市内各所で開催される多彩な展覧会。2023年は80以上の展覧会が開催されます。
Gallery G-77
AMS Gallery 2
AMS Gallery 3 and the lobby
Kuma
Watashino
SOCO
Gallery Take two
Hiiragiya Ryokan Black wall
Gallery HILLGATE
Gallery HILLGATE
Concept store PERMANENTE
Dohjidai Gallery
Sentido
JARFO KYO-BUNPAKU
ONE AND ONLY
COCOTO by COCO Gallery
Shijo-dori Underpass
itonowa
Community Lab N5.5
FabCafe Kyoto
The Rein Hotel
bonon kyoto
ru
GALLERY GARAGE
Mandaracha
Gallery Yougen
Mandaracha
The Side
MATSUO MEGUMI+VOICE GALLERY pfs/w1
MATSUO MEGUMI+VOICE GALLERY pfs/w1
GOOD NATURE STATION 4F GALLERY
Gion Higashi Ochaya
galerie16
KYOTO MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY Gallery Japanesque 2F
gallery metabo
gallery moto
hyakumanben[Frame]
hyakumanben[Frame]
backsGazai Gallery
YUGEISYA
つぼみ堂|TSUBOMIDO
Gallery35 KYOTO-KAMANZA
BnA Alter Museum
Now open
BnA Alter Museum
TSUGU 京都三条 by THE SHARE HOTELS
Now & Then Kyoto
kokoka Kyoto International Community House (kokoka)
Hilton Garden Inn Kyoto Shijo Karasuma
galleryTominokoji
Umekoji Potel Kyoto
Gallery35 KYOTO-KAMANZA