In 2021, we experienced the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, this coincides with the 10th year since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. These events culminated with our own unique circumstance and created distinctive echos.
With our present assembled from fragments both understood and imposed, the past decade has been a learning experience for the individual and the human species.
Considering life and memory mirror each other, photography becomes the expression that ulti- mately Echo’s our times.
For the 9th edition we invite artists using a variety of mediums to share their intimate reflection. They reveal the echoes that drove and moved them.
We hope sharing these creations and remembering the story around them will pay tribute to the dignity of those represented and keep us believing in the the power of Humanity.
Erwin Olaf
The Museum of Kyoto Annex
Thomas Dhellemmes
Ryosokuin Temple (Kennin-ji Temple)
Yuna Yagi
Ryosokuin Temple (Kennin-ji Temple)
Ngadi Smart
Demachi Masugata Shopping Arcade
DELTA / KYOTOGRAPHIE Permanent Space
Women Artists from the MEP Studio:
New perspectives in film and photography from France
Curated by Simon Baker
Yingfei Liang
KG+ Select 2020 Award Winner
David Shrigley
presented by Ruinart
RongRong & inri
Outdoor space of Biwako Sosui Museum and The Keage Incline
MIROIRS – Manga meets CHANEL Collaboration with Kaiu Shirai & Posuka Demizu
presented by CHANEL NEXUS HALL Kondaya Genbei Chikuin-no-Ma
supported by SHUEISHA Inc.
ECHO of 2011
Nijo-jo Castle Ninomaru Palace Daidokoro Kitchen and Tonan Sumi-yagura (Southeast Watchtower)
Ten years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in 2011.These events and the subsequent nuclear disaster are still effecting Japan today. People are struggling to recover and many of the challenges faced are unabating. These five exhibitions are dedicated to the victims of 3.11.
Atsunobu Katagiri
Kazuma Obara
Curated by Marina Amada
Richard Collasse
Chikuunsai IV Tanabe
Damien Jalet & JR
Programme associé
LES DRÔLESSES by agnès b.
KYOTO BAL