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until 15.06. | #4677ARTatBerlin | Loock Galerie presents from 02. May 2025 the exhibition Picnic on Paper by the artist Takehito Koganezawa.
To mark 25 years of collaboration with Japanese artist Takehito Koganezawa, LOOCK Gallery is presenting Picnic on Paper, a solo exhibition featuring drawings, watercolors, and a video work.
His work is currently included in In anderen Händen: Highlights der Sammlung Philara in der Miettinen Collection, Berlin (25.04.-27.07.2025) and will be shown in Takehito Koganezawa: Eins auf Zwei, Zwei aus Eins, a solo exhibition at the Humboldt Forum Berlin (24.05.–12.10.2025). This exhibition includes recent acquisitions made by the Museum für Asiatische Kunst and site-specific works by Koganezawa.
Reflecting on past experiences and his artistic practice, Koganezawa recently stated:
The earliest artwork I can recall was a drawing made with a ballpoint pen.
Not a drawing in the usual sense—more a quiet ritual of motion. I drew ovals over and over until the paper began to break. The movement of my hand flowed through the pen, leaving behind lines—traces of a gesture, fixed on the surface. It felt like running laps on a track: breathless, focused, and strangely excited. I think I was trying to touch the feeling itself.
There was wonder in how a physical act could stay in material, and a kind of reverence for the world that emerged—fragile, yet absolute. It brings to mind another moment: the first time I told a lie. A small one, harmless perhaps. But in it, I glimpsed how even a simple falsehood could split the world into two. I felt I had begun to understand the secret of language. (My father, of course, saw through it at once, and that little parallel world collapsed into a dead end.)
Yes—for me, drawing on paper is tied to that primal memory. It is a bodily act. It is also a fiction, a quiet invention.
Pan Paper Picnic.
A revolution moves forward, wearing the face of a joke.
The freedom on the surface of the paper—and the freedom behind it—slips past censorship through play.
The works presented in this exhibition not only explore the artist’s creative process and the endless possibilities that arise when he begins to work, but also the relationship between materials and the physical act of working on them.
Takehito Koganezawa, a resident of Berlin from 1999-2017, currently lives and works between Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan. Koganezawa has participated in several solo and group exhibitions around the world, most recently Recovery at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art in Kagawa, Japan (2023) and The View of Hanoi at the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea (2023). In 2024, he took part in the Van Gogh House Residency Program in London.
Vernissage: Friday, 02. May 2025, 3 to 7 pm
Exhibition period: Friday, 02. May – Sunday, 15. June 2025
Opening hours Gallery Weekend: Saturday, 03. May and Sunday, 04. May 2025, 10 am to 6 pm
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Image caption: Takehito Koganezawa, Inner Power, 2024. © Takehito Koganezawa, Courtesy LOOCK, Berlin
Exhibition Takehito Koganezawa – Loock Galerie | Kunstausstellung in Berlin – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin
