"Hibiya Art Park 2026" Directed by Yuko Nagayama Held at Hibiya Park; Takashi Kuribayashi, Rui Sasaki, and Taiki Yokote Participate
"Hibiya Art Park 2026," directed by Yuko Nagayama, will be held at Hibiya Park from November 13 to 29, featuring Takashi Kuribayashi, Rui Sasaki, and Taiki Yokote.Summary
The art event "Hibiya Art Park 2026 - Timeless Phenomena" will be held at Hibiya Park in Tokyo from November 13 to 29. Part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's "Flowers and Light Movement," it is directed by architect Yuko Nagayama, with Kensho Tambara as curatorial collaborator. Under the theme "Timeless Phenomena," the event uses Hibiya Park—which has watched over the city's changes for over 120 years since opening in 1903—as a stage to focus on overlooked nature, living creatures, human activities, and the overlapping of different times. The participating artists are Takashi Kuribayashi, Rui Sasaki, and Taiki Yokote. Kuribayashi explores "boundaries" between nature and humans, the visible and invisible, and inside and outside. Sasaki uses glass as her primary material to capture memories and presences, exploring place, time, and the human-nature relationship. Yokote's newly unveiled concept, "All We Imagine as Light, Gathered Around a Light," creates a "park within a park" in the plaza, installing slowly moving sculptures made from industrial products and leisure-sheet materials used in the park within a flower-filled space, evoking a landscape where beings living at different times and rhythms share one place. During the event, artist So Hanasaki's participatory performance "Hanataba Okan" will also take place, in which participants write wishes on bouquet wrapping paper and exchange bouquets with strangers. A food market featuring Blue Bottle Coffee, Toraya, TruffleBAKERY, DAN Curry, and others will also appear, incorporating walking, dining, and spending time in the park into the experience. Hibiya Art Park 2026 offers an opportunity to reconsider the possibilities of public space in everyday life through art.
(Source：美術手帖)