About

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

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.