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biscuit gallery is pleased to announce it’s participation in WHAT CAFE EXHIBITION vol.45: ON PAPER: Art and Print Market, held at WHAT CAFE from Wednesday, April 29 to Wednesday, May 6, 2026.

This exhibition explores the expressive potential of “paper,” one of the most familiar materials for artists and a fundamental source of creative ideas. The presentation includes a wide range of works derived from paper, from light, delicate drawings to intricate printmaking and three-dimensional works utilizing traditional Japanese paper.

Marking its second edition at WHAT CAFE, the exhibition brings together ten Japan-based galleries dedicated to supporting emerging artists. A total of 49 artists will present approximately 500 works, all available for viewing and purchase.

In addition to artworks, the venue will features artist-produced goods and publications. Selected works can be purchased and taken home on the spot, making the exhibition accessible for first-time collectors while maintaining strong appeal for seasoned art audiences.

【Participating Artists】

Mizuki Ashikawa
Yoko Fujiwara
Suzuka Yagi
Taro Yamada

Works will be exhibited and available for purchase at the venue.

【Event Information 】

Title : WHAT CAFE EXHIBITION vol.45: ON PAPER: Art and Print Market
Venue : WHAT CAFE
Dates : April 29 – May 6, 2026 Hours: 11:00 – 18:00 (Closes at 17:00 on the final day)
Admission : Free
Website : https://cafe.warehouseofart.org/exhibition/what-cafe-exhibition-vol-45-on-paper-art-and-print-market/

【Inquiries】

For inquiries regarding this exhibition, please contact the organizer directly: WHAT CAFE
Email: what_cafe@terrada.co.jp (Terrada Warehouse, Business Development Team)

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biscuit gallery will be exhibiting in the Gallery Section of “ART OSAKA 2026,” starting on May 29, 2026.

biscuit gallery has been exhibiting at ART OSAKA since 2023, making this their fourth consecutive year and fourth appearance at the fair.

 

Overview

ART OSAKA 2026

Artists：
網代幸介｜Kosuke Ajiro　Profile
アハメッド・マナン｜AHMED MANNAN　Profile
菅野湧己｜Wakumi Kanno　Profile
杉田万智｜Machi Sugita　Profile
スヨン｜Suyeont　Profile
山田美優｜Miyu Yamada　Profile
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Dates: Friday, May 29 – Sunday, May 31, 2026
Venue: Congrès Square Grand Green Osaka
4F South Tower, GRAND GREEN OSAKA, 5-54 Ofukacho, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0011, Japan

Art Osaka Official Website：https://www.artosaka.jp

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Sawako Nasu will be participating in the group exhibition “Drinking under the Moonlight II” at SCÈNE (Tokyo).

This exhibition will feature paintings depicting the night sky, along with vintage furniture from Japan and France, presented alongside tableware reminiscent of wine and spirits, such as matching glasses from Old Baccarat and Lobmeyr, as well as individual special glasses from Gallé and Daum.

Seated quietly with a cup in hand, one looks up at the night sky.

This exhibition was created with such an evening in mind.

While the exhibition is by invitation and reservation only, Thursdays and Saturdays are public days, and anyone is welcome to visit without a reservation.

 

Overview

Exhibition Period: April 4th (Sat) – April 24th (Fri), 2026 *By invitation/reservation only
Hours: 12:00 – 18:00
Closed: Sundays, Mondays, and public holidays
Public Days: Thursdays and Saturdays *Open to everyone without reservationVenue: SCÈNE (Ripple Square D-B1, 3-15-6 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo)

Artists : Iori Nagashima, Naritaka Sato, Sawako Nasu (biscuit gallery), Shiro Tsujimura, and Yuichiro Moriyama, together with works by Yuichi Inoue
Antique Art: Old Baccarat, Galle, Daum, Lobmeyr, and others (Kyoto Bishou Gallery, Ueki Gallery)
Furniture : Pierre Guariche、倉俣史朗(es quart, 家具選定 笹ヶ瀬皐)
AtoZ

Please direct any inquiries about the artwork to SCÈNE.

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biscuit gallery (Shinjuku) is pleased to announce the opening of “Trace” (Kehai), the first solo exhibition by contemporary artist Wakumi Kanno, starting Saturday, April 11, 2026.

In March 2026, we are proud to present the first solo exhibition by Wakumi Kanno, a rising artist who has just graduated from the Department of Intermedia Art at Tokyo University of the Arts.

Kanno’s practice involves reconstructing familiar product packaging and labels using only “thread” as his medium. At first glance, his works possess a pop, catchy aesthetic that feels intimately woven into our daily lives. Yet, emerging from these hollow forms are the afterimages of “consumption”—an act we repeat every single day.

As the exhibition title “Trace” (Kehai) suggests, there is no physical “object” present. Instead, the stitched works harbor the vestiges of someone having once touched, consumed, and lived alongside these items. When packaging, originally intended to be consumed as a mere symbol, loses its function and transforms into an accumulation of thread, it begins to take on a sense of agency, as if posing a question to the viewer.

This exhibition marks the artist’s first solo show. As the delicate lines spun from thread overlap with the “trace” lingering around them, each viewer will surely find themselves moved by something hidden just beneath the surface of the everyday.

 

I sew the traces of memories that were never recorded.

Objects are consumed, used, and eventually let go.

Their forms remain within the system as blueprints or designs.

Yet, the sensations of touching them, the memories tied to them—these are preserved nowhere.

What I sew are the things that did not remain.

When I stitch the structure of an object that has outlived its function using only thread,

its original role is lost, and only the form remains in the space.

There, the faint traces of the bodies that once touched it

linger faintly.

Eventually, even the form may be lost,

and the outlines may unravel.

Even after losing its concreteness, a slight trace continues to drift.

It is memory in its formless state.

This exhibition, “Trace” (Kehai),

stitches these remnants, those not preserved by the system,

into the space.

 

菅野湧己｜Wakumi Kanno

【Information】

Wakumi Kanno　Solo Exhibition「Trace」

Location：biscuit gallery（Shinjuku）
Exhibition Period: Saturday, April 11 – Sunday, April 26, 2026
Hours: 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM　closed (Mondays and Tuesdays)
Saturday, April 11, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
The artist will be at the gallery on April 11,12,18, and 19
Admission：free
Organizer：biscuit gallery
Note: Please contact the gallery for inquiries about the artwork.

 

 

biscuit gallery will release it’s annual zine “biscuit gallery press Vol.5” through its publishing label biscuit books. The release date is February 21, 2026.

「biscuit gallery press Vol.5」Contents：

Featured Artists
Artist Profiles / Selected Artists – Art Busan & ART FAIR TOKYO
Yennie Ebihara、Miyu Yamada、Kosuke Ajiro、Yasuaki Kuroda、Sawako Nasu、Azisaka Koji、Wakumi Kanno、Mariko Kitajima、Machi Sugita、Hiroki Niimi、Eri Fukami、Kana Mitsunari、Hiroyuki Mori、Yosuke Yamanouchi、Yuzuki

 

Features
Gallery Column｜Global Action | biscuit gallery at International Art Fairs
Atelier Journey｜Yasuaki Kuroda
Collector’s Interview ｜Toshiaki Ohgi
In Conversation : Artists ｜Junichi Sato × Hiroki Niimi
Comic Series｜Yuzuki
Column Series｜Kohei Yamada

Through this book, we platform the thriving young contemporary art scene in Japan to domestic and international audiences.

 

【Further Information】

Title：biscuit gallery press Vol.5

Contents: This magazine covers the Japanese contemporary art scene, particularly the trends among young artists, focusing on the exhibition planning and artists featured by Biscuit Gallery.
Publisher: biscuit books
Publication date: February 21, 2026 
Size：A5
Number of Pages：32
Designer：Shinobu Ouchi
Price: 500 yen (excluding tax) *550 yen including tax
Language: Japanese/English
ISBN：978-4-9912414-7-5

Available at: biscuit gallery (Shinjuku), Ginza Tsutaya Books, Daikanyama Tsutaya Books, NADiff contemporary, and other art-related bookstores.
biscuit gallery store：https://shop.biscuitgallery.com/product/biscuit-gallery-press-vol-5-/

Kindle：https://amzn.asia/d/0awbwqBa

biscuit gallery press is currently seeking contributors (text writers, manga artists, designers, etc.), advertising sponsors, and bookstores that can stock our books. Please contact us via Contact.

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biscuit gallery is pleased to announce the group exhibition “In House: from the biscuit gallery Collection.”
The exhibition will run from Saturday, January 31st to Sunday, February 15th, 2026.

Five full years have passed since the biscuit gallery opened. From our founding until today, we have met many talented artists and have exhibited their works.

The title of this exhibition, “In House,” includes the meaning of “inside” the gallery stemming from the idea to present an exhibition from the collection we currently have. New works prepared for this exhibition are mixed with works that have been carefully stored in our archives, and have been curated to be presented as a group exhibition.

We organised this exhibition in collaboration with the furniture brand “Scandinavian Furniture Megane” . We decided on this collaboration because we believe art doesn’t just remain in the white walls of a gallery space rather by being welcomed into someone’s “house” and becoming a part of life, the work takes on new meaning.

We hope you can feel the moment in which art blends into daily life through the addition of carefully selected furniture. Through this exhibition we hope to present where the past and future of biscuit gallery intersects.

 

【Event Details】

In House：from the biscuit gallery Collection

Dates: 2026/1/31 (Sat) to 2/15 (Sun)

Open: 13:00 to 19:00 ※Closed from Monday to Wednesday

*Appointments are required on Wednesday. Please contact us.

Venue: biscuit gallery

Admission: Free

Exhibiting artists

Koji Azisaka, Kosuke Ajiro, Fumika Endo, Keisuke Kagetsu, Anri Katsuki, Wakumi Sugano, Yuki Kitazawa, KIM JIWON, Nagasawa Kaede, Miyazaki Ayako, etc.

Organizer: biscuit gallery

Collaborators : Nordic furniture Megane

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biscuit gallery (Shinjuku), a commercial contemporary art gallery, will be holding its open call exhibition “grid next,” following the strong response and numerous applications received in previous editions.

This third edition, titled “grid next : 2026 – Emerging Artists Showcase,” will once again be jointly organized with AWASE gallery, continuing the collaborative format established in the previous exhibition.

This exhibition, “grid next: 2026,” is a project that invites applications from art students and artists who have not previously exhibited at biscuit gallery. The exhibition will be held in Nudge Field (Shinjuku), which also houses biscuit gallery and AWASE Gallery. A total of approximately 25 artists are expected to exhibit in three exhibition rooms.

【Exhibition details】

Title：grid next : 2026 – Emerging Artists Showcase
Venue：nudge field（Shinjuku）
Dates：2026/8　※Tentative
Time：13：00〜19：00　※Mon-Wed (closed)
Admission：free
Organiser：biscuit gallery、AWASE gallery

【Application Information】

How to apply: Please fill out the application form.
Number of artists to be exhibited: Approximately 25
Application period: December 25, 2025 – April 30, 2026
Results: Artists will be notified by the end of May. *Applications will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis, and successful applicants will be contacted accordingly.

Application Link

【Application Requirements】
・Follow biscuit gallery and AWASE gallery on Instagram
・Eligible to artists who have not previously exhibited at biscuit gallery or AWASE gallery and who are aiming to pursue a professional career in the arts.
・Open to students or people below the age of 40.
・Open to artists working in two-dimensional, three-dimensional, video, or related media, whose works can be exhibited within the gallery space. The number of works to be exhibited will be discussed individually.
・For applicants residing in Japan, the artist or a representative must be able to install the works, and remove and collect works after the exhibition period.
・Applicants must submit a CV including reference images closely related to the proposed exhibition works, an artist statement, etc., via the application form.
・Submitted works must be new, previously not exhibited works and available for sale.
・The placement of works during the exhibition is at the discretion of the gallery.
・No application fee or exhibition fee is required.

※ Due to the high volume of inquiries regarding applications, an FAQ page has been prepared. Please refer to that page if you have any questions.

In addition, from this exhibition, we have prepared a special opportunity in which one participating artist will be selected to hold a solo exhibition.

【Information about the Award】
Based on visitor votes, social media user response, and judging by directors from both biscuit gallery and AWASE Gallery, one exhibiting artist will be awarded the right to hold a solo exhibition. *The 2025 winner was Momoka Ota.
https://awase-gallery.com/2025/11/29/unnecessary_walk/

【Notes】
・Copyright of submitted works remains with the applicant. However, the organizers reserve the right to freely use images of the submitted works for publicity and promotional purposes.
・Conditions related to the sale of exhibited works will follow biscuit gallery’s standard contract terms.

【Contact】
info@biscuitgallery.com
info@awasegallery.com

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biscuit gallery (Shinjuku), a commercial contemporary art gallery located in Shinjuku Ward, will be holding a group exhibition commemorating the 5th anniversary of its opening, biscuit gallery 5th Anniversary Exhibition “grid5,” from Saturday, February 21, 2026.

biscuit gallery (Shinjuku), which opened in March 2021, will celebrate its 5th anniversary in March 2026.

This exhibition, “grid5,” will be held as a group exhibition to commemorate the 5th anniversary of biscuit gallery, and will feature over 40 artists, including those who have previously exhibited at biscuit gallery, those who will be exhibiting in 2026, and up-and-coming artists. The exhibition will be divided into two parts, with the first part running from February 21st (Sat) to March 8th (Sun), and the second part running from March 21st (Sat) to April 5th (Sun).

Junichi Sato (fhána) will also be participating in this exhibition. As the first installment of his solo project, he will be providing a newly written theme song. The song will be available to listen to on social media and streaming sites (title and release date yet to be determined). We hope you will look forward to it.

*Opening Party Notice
The opening party will be held on Saturday, February 21st, the first day of the exhibition. It will be from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
Many participating artists will be present, so please feel free to join us. *Anyone can attend.

Anyone who purchases a work at this exhibition will receive a 5th anniversary tote bag as a gift.

【grid5 Event Overview】

grid5
biscuit gallery 5th anniversary exhibition

Venue：biscuit gallery（Shinjuku）
Dates：2025/2/21〜4/5　※Closed from 3/9 to 3/20 for setup.
※First Period：2/21〜3/8・Second period：3/21〜4/5

Time：13：00〜19：00 　※Mon〜Wed closed
Admission：free
Organizer：biscuit gallery

【First Period Artist】
Ahmed Manan, Yuri Ando, Junko Iwaoka, Wakumi Kanno, Yuuki Kitazawa, Seoyeon Kim,Kim Da-hye, Yasuaki Kuroda, Yumeno Goto, Junichi Sato, Kanna Takase, Tano Katsuharu, Kie Terasawa, Arisa Nakabayashi, Aika Nagano, Hiroki Niimi, Peronmi, Minori, Hiroyuki Mori, Miyu Yamada, Yosuke Yamanouchi, Saki Maruyama, LIAO YUAN YI

【Second Period Artist】
Amane Ishii, Fumiya Odagawa, Kato, Sakura Kise, Mariko Kitajima, Junichi Sato, Yuno Suzuki, Ayano Tamuro, Mizuki Nakazawa, Satsuki Nakata, Kano Nakamura, Sawako Nasu, Hiroki Niimi, Shimura Noguchi, Hal Matsuda, Takahiro Matsumoto, Kodai Mishiro, Saeko Mimura, Yuu Miyauchi, Kana Miyayama, Cocona Murayama, Jonghwan Lee

Exhibition Design：Yuta Fukuhara
Main visual design: Shinobu Ouchi

Theme Song：Jun Sato一 (fhána)
collaborators：AISHO、CYLINDER、dohing art、SUNNYES 
Organiser：biscuit gallery

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biscuit gallery will be participating in Art Fair Tokyo 2026, which will be held from Thursday, March 12th, 2026.

biscuit gallery has been exhibiting at Art Fair Tokyo since its opening, and this will mark its fifth consecutive year of participation.

This year’s exhibition will present a group show featuring artists who are actively expanding their practices not only within Japan but also internationally, as well as artists scheduled to exhibit in 2026.

We invite you to experience this group exhibition composed of each artist’s latest works.

Overview

Art Fair Tokyo 2026

Dates：2026/03/12− 15
VIP Preview：2026/3/12 ※Invitation Only
General Time Period：2026/3/13〜3/15
Venue：Tokyo International Forum Hall E
Base：Galleries｜N010

Planned exhibiting artists: Ajiro Kosuke, Nasu Sawako, Yamada Miyu, and others

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biscuit gallery (Shinjuku) is pleased to present “undercurrent,” a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Ai Natori.
This exhibition will run from Saturday, January 10th to Sunday, January 25th, 2026.

An opening party will be held on the first day, Saturday, January 10th, from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM, in which the artist will also be present.

This will be Ai Natori’s second solo exhibition at biscuit gallery, since her exhibit at biscuit gallery Karuizawa. In addition to the paintings she has been working on up until now, this exhibition will also feature her first ceramic sculptures. Ai Natori is an artist with promising future prospects. She will be participating in a group exhibition in Belgium in December 2025 and a solo exhibition in France in 2026.

The word “undercurrent” carries two overlapping meanings:
the quiet flow that moves beneath the surface,
and the invisible emotions, thoughts, faint echoes, and subtle signs that reside deep within the heart.

These inner movements—sometimes restrained, sometimes gently trembling—have always drawn me in.

Since beginning the “Blueness” series, a more subdued development of my earlier “Blue” works, I have encountered many people through my paintings, and new connections have formed.

Those exchanges have expanded the very force that sustains my creative practice.

What once began as semi-imaginary figures modeled after my younger sister has gradually transformed.
The faces I paint today continue to shift into more complex presences—reflecting the hearts of those who view my work as well as my own inner landscape.

 

It still feels like a small miracle that the tremor and fleeting strength embedded in the blue of my paintings reach people across different regions through social media, and that these feelings are sincerely received.

 

Those blue emotions eventually rose within me as the image of a traveler drifting through the silence of night, searching for a distant light in the darkness.

This vision led to a new body of work, Night and wonderer.
With each piece, I found myself moving closer and deeper into my own undercurrents—into moments that quietly transformed both the work and myself.

 

For this exhibition, “undercurrent,” I hope the thoughts I place into the color blue, and the feelings of those who encounter my paintings and sculptures, may flow toward one another like currents moving beneath the surface.

 

Through these works,
may the quiet stream that lies deep within your heart gently touch the undercurrents within mine.
I hope this space allows such subtle exchanges to unfold.

 

Ai Natori

Gallery Statement

Although Natori is popular among international audiences, it is intriguing how many fans are unaware that the blue saturating her works originates from her given name, Ai (藍), meaning indigo. In Japan, indigo is also known as “Japan Blue,” and has long been regarded as a color symbolizing the country’s distinct culture and aesthetic sensibility. Even without knowing its origins, viewers likely sense something inherently Japanese through Natori’s works.

 

Just as Tomio Miki remained obsessively devoted to the motif of the ear, and Yayoi Kusama to dots, Natori is is fascinated by and continues to paint indigo. This single-minded commitment reflects the very essence of her artistic practice.

 

Natori describes blue (indigo) as “the color of life and death.” The blue of the sea, where life begins, and the blue of the sky, into which life ascends. The fleeting expressions of the girls she depicts, and the latent sense of danger that lies beneath, seem to reside in that very flickering boundary created by blue. Blue is often treated in art as a color that symbolizes the accumulation of time and memory, and from this perspective, Natori’s choice to depict her figures in blue can be seen as almost inevitable.

 

In this exhibition, as a new endeavor, she presents ceramic works. Indigo is resistant to both high temperatures and fading, and its color is unlikely to deteriorate even within the flames of a kiln. For this reason, it has long been regarded as a color symbolizing “immutability” and “permanence.” It is also noteworthy that indigo has been widely used in Arita ware (Arita porcelain) from Saga, Natori’s hometown. By extending her expression beyond painting into the medium of ceramics, Natori enriches the symbolic resonance of indigo, showcasing greater conviction to her artistic practice.

 

Finally, it is worth noting Natori’s motif of “shoujo” (young girls), which has surprisingly seldom been discussed.

 

Natori first encountered art at the age of ten, when she began learning to paint under Isao Noda, who held art classes in her hometown. She was deeply moved when she happened to see Kuroda Seiki’s Nobe at the former Ishibashi Museum of Art (Kurume), and the presence of the girl depicted in that work had a significant impact on her practice. Moreover, Natori, who was physically weak as a child, had exceptionally close ties to her family. Her younger sister, with whom she was especially close, was a uniquely important presence in her life, and also the first person she consciously chose to depict as a subject in her work. The emotions and influences she carried in her childhood still resonate with her today. Through the act of painting, they continue to be sublimated thus becoming bright wishes and gratitude directed toward the figure of the young girl, taking form within her works.

 

Following her 2024 solo exhibition at biscuit gallery Karuizawa, Natori further explores her artistic practice in this show. We invite you to witness how new narratives unfold through the indigo that guides her practice.

 

From an Artism interview (IG @artism.___)

 

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Ai Natori
Born in Saga Prefecture
Degree in Imaging Arts and Sciences, Musashino Art University

From an early age, she studied painting under Isao Noda of the Action Art Association. Seeking a more abstract mode of expression, she went on to study in the Department of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Musashino Art University, expanding her practice into VJ performance, installation, and performance art. Her installation work was also exhibited at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in the exhibition The Imagination of Information Art.

In the spring of 2011, she returned to her roots and resumed creating through drawing. She subsequently received the KATHARINE HAMNETT LAB DESIGN AWARD and the New Artist Award at YOUNG ART TAIPEI. She is currently active mainly overseas, including exhibitions at the Carrousel du Louvre.

 

【Information】

Ai Natori Solo Exhibition
「undercurrent」

Venue：biscuit gallery
Dates：2026/1/10(Sat)〜1/25(Sun)
　　   Opening Party：1/10 (Sat) 16:00-19:00　
Time：13：00〜19：00 　※Mon〜Wed closed
Admission：free
Organizer：biscuit gallery