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開催概要

The 3 Brackets of KG+ 2023

About KG+

“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.

From KG + to KYOTOGRAPHIE
– Awarding Potential and Progress

“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

Yulia Skogoreva
SALT AND TEARS: The story of Nana

Horikawa Oike Gallery

Kouta Takahashi
80°05′

Horikawa Oike Gallery

Yuma Nishimura
Savepoint

Horikawa Oike Gallery

Léonard Bourgois-Beaulieu
Les corps lucides (the lucid bodies)

Horikawa Oike Gallery

Seok-Woo Song
Wandering, Wondering

Horikawa Oike Gallery

Gareth Phillips
Ligatures of Ivy

Horikawa Oike Gallery

Jaisingh Nageswaran
THE LODGE

Kyoto Art Center

Yuri Goto
pop ropes

Kyoto Art Center

Kino Koike
Damoy - Trans Siberian Railway

Kyoto Art Center

Sharon Lee
If Tomorrow Never Comes

Kyoto Art Center

Jury | 審査員
  • Fumiko Nakamura
    中村史子

    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.

  • ステファノ・ストール

    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.

  • パオロ・ウッズ

    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.

  • Copylight: Isabel Munoz
    ルシール・レイボーズ

    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.

    仲西祐介

    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.

Exhibitions supported by KG + and corporate sponsors

“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.

Daisaku Oozu
flow / float

Gallery PARC

Ryu Ika
The Circular Ruins: MOM LAND

ShinPuhKan SPOT

SIGMA
“Beyond the technology, is Art. “

Bijuu 2F|SIGMA特設ブース

Lui Araki
PERCEPTION

THE NORTH FACE STANDARD KYOTO

New Cosmos of Photography, The 30th Anniversary Book Publication Commemorative Exhibition
New Cosmos of Photography, The 30th Anniversary Book Publication Commemorative Exhibition

Hall Keiryu, 2F Hanbefugojo bldg.

Junko Kaisato
100 takaramono

Kyoto Station Building 7th floor, East square

SunM Color
Maniac for Photographers Hoheto Printing Method by SunM Color

Horikawa Oike Gallery

KG+ SELECT Artists
寺町京極|商店街美術館×KG+ Collaboration

Teramachi Kyogoku shopping street

KYOTOGRAPHIE and KG+ Poster Digest
KYOTOGRAPHIE and KG+ Poster Digest

Kyoto Station Building Sky Way(10F)

KG+ PHOTOBOOK FAIR 2023

Kurochiku Tenshokan 2F

Encountering a variety of expressions in Kyoto in the spring

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+ pick up

KG+の中でも注目の展覧会。

Yasutaka Kojima
Naka-Ima | Berlin

Daitokuji Obai-in

Anna Bedyńska, Isabel Moreno, Vikesh Kapoor, Wang Lu, Yoshi Okamoto, Katherine Longly, Claire Cocano, Yohei Koide, Yuri Goto, Sachiko Saito, and 11 artists
PHOTOBOOK AS OBJECT

Reminders Photography Stronghold Kyoto Paperoles

Ryuhei Yokoyama
CITY from the WIND / Rebellion and Freedom

gallery NEUTRAL

Shinichiro Uchikura
The Sea of Oblivion

gallery NEUTRAL

Anna Hayat and Slava Pirsky
“Rifts, Joints, and Rifts”

Gallery G-77

John Einarsen
Perception Beyond Borders

Shoyeido Kunjyukan

Kumiko Wakabayashi, Alma Schanzer
carnation×reincarnation

Toy Film Museum

Shashinkan Gelatine
seisei-setsu-setsu

Gallery Hakkaku

Ecole Penninghen
Un pas de côté

Bijuu Gallery

Yulia Skogoreva
CONNECTION

Now & Then Kyoto

Yuuki Toyoda
Signs of Life

Gallery HILLGATE

Sai
Days of seeing a world composed of boundaries

ONE AND ONLY

“Occhan”, people who are homeless
I'm—Snapshots taken by homeless people

lux studio kyoto

Tomas Svab, John Choy and more
SHITSURAI -Offerings Ⅸ - The Shore of Two Infinities-

THE TERMINAL KYOTO

Ayako ISHIBA
Before becoming a picture/Conditions for becoming a picture

tomomi gelato

Bobyea
Parapraxis

GALLERY GARAGE

Osamu James Nakagawa, Taira Jun
UNDERFOOT

galleryMain

Jun Kawajiri
Broken , but still here shining.

INKYO GARAGE

Akiyoshi Miyake
déjà vu phenomenon

The Side

Tsubasa Fujikura
NEON-SIGN9

VOU

ikushun
showcase #11 "Definitely Local" curated by minoru shimizu

eN arts

Osamu Yokonami
Assembly

haku kyoto

Hirotsugu Horii, Mai Narita, Tatsuki Katayama
Touch a distant place in you

GOOD NATURE STATION 4F GALLERY

Yuma Nishimura
Savepoint

ZEN HOUSE GALLERY

Masako Yasuki
Masako Yasuki Exhibition‘Procession of Light – exposed time, invisible forms’ (Video and photographs supervised by Shinjiro Maeda)

galerie16

TOGAWA x RAIZER
L8TUS

つぼみ堂|TSUBOMIDO

Yukou Tsuchimochi
"Prélude aux Métamorphoses"

Myomanji-Temple

Asano Tsutsumi
In progress

gallery metabo

Sharol Xiao
Live Hard, Love Harder

Studio H

Sander Wassink
Sensory echoes

KIKA gallery

Yuka Takasu
entre chien et loup

TASSEL HOTEL

Now open

JAPAN PHOTO AWARD WINNERS+INTUITION ARTISTS
JAPAN PHOTO AWARD Vol.10 + INTUITION|2023

HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO

Yuka Takasu
entre chien et loup

TASSEL INN KYOTO KAWARAMACHI

BIÉDE × QUENTIN SHIH
BIÉDE COLLECTION IN COLLABORATION WITH QUENTIN SHIH

node hotel

Kyoji Takahashi
Void

ARTRO

Hideto Sugano
SINTHOME 

MEDIA SHOP gallery 2

Tang Kwong San & Yuen Nga Chi
Somewhere in Time

Kyoto 27

YPF Exhibition
HUB - 接点

カリモクコモンズ京都

Philippe Brame
Nature, sa prière

Institut franco-japonais du Kansai

Akihito Yoshida
The Screw

Gallery SUGATA

Daido Moriyama
BOKU

AMMON KYOTO

Risaku Suzuki
Winter to Spring

PURPLE

KYOTOGRAPHIE Kids Competition Exhibition 2023 “Let’s break the ‘BORDER’!”&Petit Bateau Exhibition “Stripe Hide and seek”
KYOTOGRAPHIE Kids Competition Exhibition 2023 “Let’s break the ‘BORDER'!”&Petit Bateau Exhibition "Stripe Hide and seek"

NTT WEST Sanjo Collaboration Plaza

KG+

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。

Kyoka Akita
Far calls. Coming far.

Gallery G-77

Kawabata Shunki
Wave Of Universe

AMS Gallery 2

Masaru Kusaki
Drowning in colors

AMS Gallery 3 and the lobby

Daisuke Takeda
GRANDFATHER AND I

Kuma

Keiko Kitayama
Everyday is a good day

Watashino

Yuichi Mori
9000

SOCO

aisti
Sight of Lemon

Gallery Take two

Naoki Miyashita
Subtle.

Hiiragiya Ryokan Black wall

Masahiko Ohnishi
worship and peace

Gallery HILLGATE

Maco (Masahiro Yabuta)
Genpatsu : a landscape transcend time

Gallery HILLGATE

Benoit Pierre Emery
Carré. A Vintage Scarf Collection

Concept store PERMANENTE

Kotaro Fujioka
Donten - gloomy sky

Dohjidai Gallery

Naoki Miyashita
Neighbor's awaken. - Northern coastline.

Sentido

Hans Jörg Bachmann
The delightful depht

JARFO KYO-BUNPAKU

Kengo Osaka
KareHana

ONE AND ONLY

RASIKI
Red Lips

COCOTO by COCO Gallery

Kyoto Photographers Society: KAWANISHI Yoshiki, KUSAKI Masaru, HIRAI Tuyoshi, MIN WOONG GI, PARK SOON GOOK and others
KAMOGAWA STORY / SINCHEON STORY

Shijo-dori Underpass

[sic!] Artist Collective: Kai Cassuben, Dominique Donoval, Claudia Eschborn, Fabian Hammerl
Lesezimmer

itonowa

Kazuhiro Ohashi
Nagi-no-sora - the sky of the calm

Community Lab N5.5

Tomoyuki Koseko
Semi-Fiction

FabCafe Kyoto

Hisao Taira
Water flowing

The Rein Hotel

Manami Okazaki
TEXTILE DIVER ~into Timor Island~

bonon kyoto

Yasuyo Kuroki
Memories of floating light

ru

Akira Muramatsu
in-shin-sei-yuu

GALLERY GARAGE

Cindy Bissig
Blurred Reality “Disoriented”

Mandaracha

Yoko Ishii, Antonin Lainé
Abandoned Kingdoms

Gallery Yougen

Kaleidoscope of flowers
Kaleidoscope of flowers

Mandaracha

Issei Suda Photo School OGOB (Ryuji Ichikawa, Zeno Nishimoto, Hiroshi Tashiro, Hoi Kisyu, Yutaka Yamamoto and 4 other artists)
Sudaha6

The Side

Hayato Nishimura
Mounds

MATSUO MEGUMI+VOICE GALLERY pfs/w1

Kazutaka Sakai
Somewhere not here / fragments of kyoto

MATSUO MEGUMI+VOICE GALLERY pfs/w1

Tomoko Makino
You never know what was good for you until the end of your life.

GOOD NATURE STATION 4F GALLERY

Patrick Hochner
Faces of the Kagai

Gion Higashi Ochaya

Nanako Kato
camera

galerie16

Yi-Yun CHANG、Li-Ying CHIU、Tsu-Han HWANG、Yu-Hsuan CHIU
30-40-50:The Changes of 4 Female Artists

KYOTO MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY Gallery Japanesque 2F

Lee Oh
The Diary

gallery metabo

Toshitaka Ogasawara
The Flower transformation Ⅱ

gallery moto

Mitsuru Hashimoto
Style Photo DARK≠LIGHT 2022-2023

hyakumanben[Frame]

Kana Hashimoto
substitute A

hyakumanben[Frame]

Jinn Yagi
Sensitive daily life and panicky nights

backsGazai Gallery

OFF SHOT X YUGEISYA
Off Shot Japan Collectionneurs

YUGEISYA

ama-ZONE
Pretty War

つぼみ堂|TSUBOMIDO

Naomi Iida, Tomoko Ichinokawa, Tomoko Shiozawa, Satoko Nishioka
Mens et manus~hand and heart~

Gallery35 KYOTO-KAMANZA

Gio, YANG Cheng-Yun, YANG Chao Ciao, LIU Yao Pin
Edge of Memory

BnA Alter Museum

Now open

System of Culture
Exhibit 5 -Then, passed over

BnA Alter Museum

Mai Ito
Embrace woman

TSUGU 京都三条 by THE SHARE HOTELS

Kino Koike
Hama sa

Now & Then Kyoto

Dai Cesca
Twin Me

kokoka Kyoto International Community House (kokoka)

Micah Gampel
Kyoto Awakens, In Chic Street Fashion

Hilton Garden Inn Kyoto Shijo Karasuma

Philippe Brame
Pierres, arbres et autres secrets

galleryTominokoji

Kids group exhibition
Bridges

Umekoji Potel Kyoto

Satoru Watanabe, Aozii, Youko Ueda, Masahiro Ueno, Natsuo Usui, Eri Kato, Takashi Komine, Kimitake Tsuyuno,Chisono Numata
2B or not 2B with 渡部さとる『da.gasita』 in Kyoto

Gallery35 KYOTO-KAMANZA