Hankyu Umeda Main Store: "Osaka Art & Design 2026" Brings Together Approximately 30 Artists, Including a Special Project by Internationally Acclaimed Yuichi Hirako!

©Yuichi Hirako photo by Osamu Sakamoto

Osaka Art & Design 2026

Period: Wednesday, May 27, 2026 – Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Location: Hankyu Umeda Main Store 1st floor concourse window, 9th floor, various floors, Hankyu Men's Osaka

*Dates vary for each event.

Hankyu Umeda Main Store will participate in "Osaka Art & Design 2026," a touring area event where visitors can explore various art and design works while touring the city of Osaka. The theme for this fourth iteration is "Art that accompanies daily life." Throughout the entire store, we will offer experiences that breathe new life into daily routines – not just admiring, but also wearing, using, and feeling with all five senses – through the works of world-leading creators and young artists.

Special Project "NON NATURE" by Internationally Acclaimed Artist Yuichi Hirako

〇Occupying a massive 80m concourse window! Featuring newly unveiled three-dimensional works.

LAMPENFLORA "Illuminated Vegetation"

◎Wednesday, May 20 – Monday, June 22 / 1st floor concourse window

A spatial composition that evokes vigorously thriving plants in an artificial concourse devoid of natural light. It creates a new "vegetation" that can only be formed because people are passing through the concourse.

〇Large-scale exhibition across three venues on the 9th floor

"SACRED TREE" ◎Wednesday, May 27 – Monday, June 8 *Ends 5 PM on the last day of the event / 9th floor Festival Plaza

Yuichi Hirako Curated Group Exhibition "THE MAP" ◎Wednesday, May 27 – Monday, June 8 *Ends 5 PM on the last day of the event / 9th floor Hankyu Umeda Gallery, Art Stage

Yuichi Hirako

Born in Okayama in 1982, based in Tokyo. Graduated from Wimbledon College of Art in the UK with a painting major in 2006. His work explores the coexistence of plants and nature with humans, as well as the ambiguities and questions that arise from this relationship. Triggered by a sense of discomfort with defining human-controlled plants such as houseplants, street trees, and park plants as "nature," he pursues the boundary between nature and humans in contemporary society through his artwork. His expressive methods are diverse, centered on painting, including drawing, sculpture, installation, and sound performance. He actively exhibits his works overseas in countries such as Korea, Taiwan, the UK, and the USA.

Various artists and creators also highlighted on each floor

yutaokuda solo exhibition "With Gratitude"

A large-scale solo exhibition centered on the "With Gratitude" series, which expresses the experience of inner change to a positive state through gratitude for "what already exists" amidst the anxieties and changes of the COVID-19 pandemic, using floral motifs and overlapping colors.

◎Wednesday, May 20 – Monday, June 8 *Ends 5 PM on the last day of the event / 8th floor Contemporary Art Gallery

◎Wednesday, May 27 – Tuesday, June 2 / 1st floor Kotokoto Stage 11

Tomoya Tsukamoto Solo Exhibition "Circulation of Light"

This exhibition's works, created with the theme of "Circulation of Light," express the constant flow of light and shadow, colors, and the transience of life. They depict the flickering of light and the flow of life embedded in nature through overlapping colors using dots and airbrush techniques.

◎Wednesday, June 10 – Monday, June 29 *Ends 5 PM on the last day of the event / 8th floor Contemporary Art Gallery

Coral Car (Sand) (Body: approx. H21×W51×D23cm / Box: H47×W86×D47cm) 2,695,000 yen [Limited global production of 175]

Lladró × Leandro Erlich

Coral Car (Sand)

An art edition inspired by Leandro Erlich's art installation, where a concrete car object placed on the seabed off Miami forms the foundation for coral. Adorned with over 1,000 marine-themed sculptural decorations, it is the culmination of extremely high craftsmanship, capturing the ephemeral yet beautiful charm of the underwater ecosystem. ◎Wednesday, May 27 – Friday, June 5 / 7th floor Special Selection Tableware "Lladró"

RE:COLLECTION vol.SOMETA With F

Amidst advancing digitalization, this project turns attention to the "joy of collecting," proposing an experience of re-appreciating old magazines and VHS tapes along with "the accumulation of time symbolized by plants = nature," breathing new values into them.

◎Wednesday, May 27 – Tuesday, June 2 / 8th floor Kotokoto Stage 81

D.I.T.R. MARKET — DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH —

Including Setouchi and surrounding regions