In April 1993, Tsuyoshi Ozawa opened the world’s smallest mobile gallery on the street outside the Nabis Gallery, a long-established rental gallery in Tokyo’s Ginza district, which is home to a large number of art galleries. Ozawa’s ‘white cube’, created by painting the inside of a wooden milk box white, mimicked the exhibition space inside a typical art gallery. The project started out as a humorous expression of the artist’s scepticism about Japan’s unique ‘rental gallery’ system, where artists can hire exhibition space for a fee. Ozawa, an artist who himself became a gallery owner, has since given numerous artists the opportunity to exhibit their work and continues to organize shows both on the street and indoors. The gallery was closed in December 1995 and after a year of rethinking its direction, it reopened in 1997 as the New Nasubi Gallery. Ozawa later expanded the project overseas, the entire gallery often accompanying him on his travels to other countries. These days he collaborates with artists around the world, engaging easily with people from all walks of life as he continues to develop the concept.
Nasubi Gallery Tsuyoshi Ozawa
New Nasubi Gallery by Tsuyoshi Ozawa 2006
New Nasubi Gallery by Muneteru Ujino
New Nasubi Gallery by Yasuhiro Takeuchi
New Nasubi Gallery by Hironori Sakaguchi – “Nike-Air”
New Nasubi Gallery
New Nasubi Gallery
New Nasubi Gallery
New Nasubi Gallery
by Beck Cole
by Justine Cooper
by Yoo Seung-ho
by Yang Zhenzhong
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New Nasubi Gallery
New Nasubi Gallery
New Nasubi Gallery by Sutee Kunavichayanont 2006
New Nasubi Gallery by Sangeeta Sandrasegar 2006
New Nasubi Gallery by Michael Stevenson 2006
New Nasubi Gallery by Paiman 2006
by Jitish Kallat
by Kwon Ki-soo
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New Nasubi Gallery
New Nasubi Gallery
by Dinh Q LĂŞ
by Eko Nugroho
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