Hideo Takashima Solo Exhibition "Many Hollows" Featuring People and Creatures with Hollow Faces Made of Clay to be Held at Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO in Ginza

Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO, an art gallery operated by Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Store on the 5th floor of GINZA SIX, will host Hideo Takashima's solo exhibition "Many Hollows," featuring people and creatures with hollow faces made of clay.

Exhibition Period: May 14 (Thursday) – May 20 (Wednesday), 2026

Opening Hours: 10:30 AM – 8:30 PM (Closes at 6:00 PM on the final day)

The faces of the works, shaped like people and creatures, are hollow. By letting go of the face, which is supposed to convey the most, a unexplained blank space remains. Into this blank space, each viewer's memories and emotions quietly flow, beginning to take shape. It seems like nothing, yet something fills it. In this ambiguous state, a faint presence emerges between what is visible and what is invisible.

"With Emptiness" 10×15×10cm Clay, glaze, foil "Vase on Head" 24×16×10cm Clay, glaze, foil

"Robot of Empty Jar" 32×28×25cm Clay, glaze, foil "Filled with Emptiness" 24×12×10cm Clay, glaze, foil

Profile: Hideo Takashima

1981 Born in Tokyo

2010 Graduated from Tama Art University, Department of Crafts, Faculty of Art

2012 Completed Master's program in Crafts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tama Art University

2014 Completed Master's program in Sculpture, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts

Solo Exhibitions

2012 Hideo Takashima Exhibition, KOKI ARTS, Tokyo

Vase, KOKI ARTS, Tokyo

2015 Empty Jar Person, Gallery MARUHI, Tokyo

2017 Bonito Sculpture, KOKI ARTS, Tokyo

Hideo Takashima [Perspective on New Generation 2017], Gallery Q, Tokyo

2019 Public Production 77 Hideo Takashima Filled with Emptiness, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo

2020 Bonito Sculpture, museum shop T, Tokyo

2021 Hideo Takashima Exhibition, Gallery Q, Tokyo

Ten Thousand Years and One Day, Billiken Gallery, Tokyo

2022 Spreading, Interrupted, Connected, Galerie Paris, Kanagawa

2023 Creating the Outline of Existence, Kyotoba, Kyoto

Standing Like a Vessel, Ginza Tsutaya Books, Tokyo

2025 Filled with Emptiness, Gallery Nomart, Osaka

Shell and Sky, MEDEL GALLERY SHU HIBIYA, Tokyo

Awards

2005 Tamacon, Grand Prix, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan

2007 Mizunami Clay Festival, Semi-Grand Prix, Gifu

2008 The 44th Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition, Selected, Kanagawa

2010 Gunma Youth Biennale 2010, Selected, Gunma

2011 The 14th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, Selected, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki

Exhibition Overview

Hideo Takashima Solo Exhibition "Many Hollows"

Exhibition Period: May 14 (Thursday) – May 20 (Wednesday), 2026

Opening Hours: 10:30 AM – 8:30 PM *Closes at 6:00 PM on the final day

Venue: Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO

GINZA SIX 5F, 6-10-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

https://artglorieux.jp/

Admission: Free

About Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO

Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO is a gallery operated by Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Store.

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