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Workshop of the project TOPOS: An Art School as a "Garden" for Mutual Learning on August 10, 2025. Photo: Kazuki Yoshimoto.

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS

Teppei Kaneuji and the constructions:
tower (UNIVERSITY)

One of Teppei Kaneuji’s major series and ongoing for more than twenty years, tower features abstract and variously perforated architecture with different creatures entering and exiting. Originating with drawings Kaneuji made while a student at Kyoto City University of Arts, the series has since developed across a range of mediums, from collage to moving image and stage performance, epitomizing the artist’s interdisciplinary practice. Distilling the process of making an exhibition into a work of art, tower (UNIVERSITY) explores creative practice, learning, how we connect with the world through artistic expression, and the site of an exhibition through the titular theme of the series in the setting of an art college.

(Translated by William Andrews)

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Artists
Teppei Kaneujithe constructions
Venue
Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery
Dates
2025.12.13 Sat.–2026.2.15 Sun.
Hours
10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Closed on
December 15, 22, 27–January 5, 13, 19, 23–26, February 2
Admission
Free admission
Organized by
Kyoto City University of Arts
With additional funding from
Program for Cultural and Art Promotion Utilizing Universities
With the cooperation of
Participants of the project TOPOS: An Art School as a "Garden" for Mutual Learning
dot architects
Art Front Gallery
Yumiko Chiba Associates
Coordinated by
TOPOS: An Art School as a "Garden" for Mutual Learning
Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery
Curated by
Mizuho Fujita (Chief Curator/Program Director, KCUA Art Gallery)
Contact

Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery
Phone: +81-(0)75-585-2010
Please send your inquiry from the form.

Artist Profiles

Teppei Kaneuji
Born in 1978, Teppei Kaneuji is an artist and sculptor who lives and works in Kyoto. He earned a graduate degree in sculpture at Kyoto City University of Arts in 2003, where he now teaches as the Associate Professor. He uses things around him as materials for his works, altering their meaning via a collage method that involves cutting off parts and attaching them elsewhere. He has done solo exhibitions at the Yokohama Museum of Art (2009), the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2013), Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (2016), and at other venues inside and outside Japan. Since 2011, he has also worked on set design and produced theatrical works in 2012. He received Kyoto City’s Best Young Artist Award in 2012, and the Kyoto Prefecture Culture Prize Award in 2015, and The 29th Takashimaya Art Prize in 2018.
https://teppeikaneuji.site/
the constructions
Cast:
Masamitsu Araki
Kazumichi Komatsu
contact Gonzo (Yuya Tsukahara, Ayaka Fujita, Keigo Mikajiri, Takuya Matsumi)
dot architects (Wataru Doi, Futo Kurahashi, Ryosuke Katsube, Eisuke Hirai)
Participants in Program C and staff members of TOPOS: The Art University as a Garden for Mutual Learning
(Mio Arai, Taisuke Asami, Mizuho Fujita, Aio Fukudome, Sawaka Furuno, Goku Hasama, Ryosuke Higo, Toshichika Kamon, Masahiro Katata, Rei Nakao, Natsuki Seta, Atsushi Tsukamoto, Sachiko Uchiyama, Natsuki Yamamoto)
Costumes: Kyoko Fujitani
Photography: Katayama Tatsuki and Kazuki Yoshimoto
Transportation: Kameoka Distribution Center Co., Ltd. (Takahisa Hitomi)

Venue setup and artworks packaging: Seido Ikeda, Atsushi Tsukamoto, Mitsuhiro Kishimoto, Chikara Masuyama, Yosuke Yano, and staff members of KCUA Art Gallery andTOPOS: The Art University as a Garden for Mutual Learning (Mizuho Fujita, Ryosuke Higo, Miharu Seta, Sachiko Uchiyama, Natsuki Yamamoto, Kazuki Yoshimoto)

...and more! (Updated December 8, 2025)

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Filmed and edited by Tatsuki Katayama on November 20, 2025.