[YUGEN Gallery] Collection Exhibition "Ever-Changing -YUGEN collections-" (April 4 – April 24, 2026)

YUGEN Gallery (KD Minami-Aoyama Bldg. 4F, 3-1-31 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo) is pleased to announce the collection exhibition "Ever-Changing -YUGEN collections-," running from Saturday, April 4, to Friday, April 24, 2026. The exhibition is centered on the collection curated by YUGEN Gallery owner Hayashida, built through personal intuition and dialogue with the artists.

"Art is a simulator for getting used to change."

Musician and thinker Brian Eno defined the essence of expression this way in his book, A Year with Swollen Appendices. In an unpredictable modern era, engaging with art is an intellectual and sensory process that shakes existing values and allows us to continuously update ourselves.

The collection gathered by owner Hayashida through intuition and dialogue embodies a "power to affirm change" that resonates deeply with Eno's philosophy.

However, this is not a retrospective. By juxtaposing works collected in the past with the current expressions of the same artists, the exhibition presents the plurality of the "present." What emerges is not linear progress, but layers of time where difference and repetition, rupture and connection intersect. The works do not conclude in isolation; they generate new meanings through temporal shifts and responsive relationships.

AKIKO and Takashi Yamamoto dismantle the systems of language and characters, shaking the very premises of meaning generation.

Mikio Hasui and Yuji Suga rethink the relationship between the visible and the invisible through serene realism and lyricism.

Masahiro Masuda and Yo Nagao reconstruct subjective experiences such as memory and déjà vu, expanding the boundaries of perception.

Susumu Matsuura and EDO and YUMEKA embrace the noise and excess inherent in contemporary visual environments to establish new rhythms.

Through the filter of a single collector's gaze, these works embody "what art can do" from different angles. While existing in different phases, they intersect in the question of how we perceive and accept "change."

A collection is not a completed record of the past. It is an endless simulation designed to connect the "present" that artists continue to challenge with the "future" that we embrace.

We hope that through this exhibition, which captures the trajectories and powerful current positions of the artists as seen through the aesthetic eye of owner Hayashida, a new perspective for living through change will sprout in your hearts.

For more details, please visit the gallery's official website: https://yugen-gallery.com/blogs/exhibitions/ever-changing-yugencollections-tokyo

Exhibition Overview

■ Title: Ever-Changing -YUGEN collections-

■ Dates: April 4 – April 24, 2026