Kishio Suga

Kishio Suga solo exhibition at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

Taking place from June 12 to July 18, 2026, Suga's solo exhibition In the Depth of Things at Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyobashi will showcase new wall-mounted assemblages. 

Suga has written the following statement for the exhibition:

“In the Depth of Things”

A work is a “thing.” Of course, there are those who would say otherwise. The various things that surround people in everyday life are also “things.” When comparing those things with the “things” that are works, it is difficult to distinguish which is more real. Things that are not works and things that are said to be works both belong, as category of things, to the same realm. Most “things” are made to be useful to us; they have concrete functions and exist in our surroundings. Yet among these same surroundings are things that have no function, things that are unnecessary. That, it seems to me, is the “position” occupied by the things called “works.” A “work” emerges through the manifestation of human thought and consciousness and through relations with the external world, but in the end it is given into human hands as something that belongs nowhere. People do not easily forget the things they have once held in their hands. For that reason, consciousness itself becomes the issue, since it is also one of the foundations upon which people construct their worldview in order to live.

Kishio Suga, 2026

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