Gallery Collaborations

Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, founded in 1950, is the first contemporary art gallery in Tokyo. At its inception, the gallery introduced Western avant-garde artists, such as Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein and Jackson Pollock to Japan; and promoted Japanese artists, such as Yoshishige Saito, Taro Okamoto, Jiro Takamatsu and the Gutai and Mono-ha artists domestically and abroad. In the early 1970s, the gallery begun working with Korean artists such as Kim Whanki, Lee Ufan and Park Seo-bo; and in the 1980s, it started exhibiting yet-unknown Chinese artists including Cai Guo-Qiang and Xu Bing. In 2002, the gallery opened Beijing Tokyo Art Projects (BTAP) in Beijing. Now operating as Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, the gallery continues its mission of discovering and promoting both established and rising artists.

Established in 2018 in Shanghai, Gene Gallery devotes to trace the unique style of Chinese contemporary art. The Chinese name of the Gallery, “Mi-Jin,” is derived from the Vimalakirti Sutra, “Only the awaken ones shall witness a tiny Indian mustard seed accommodating the chiliocosms, or the Great Universe.” As the name suggests, the Gallery is committed to art that encompass spirituality of the East and embody characteristics of the present. Along with collaborating with contemporary artists who share a similar cultural background and whose works represent experimental, meaningful breakthrough in East Asian art history, the ultimate goal of Gene Gallery is to contribute to the reconstruction of an artistic expression that embodies the cultural context and narrative of East Asia.