Ideocodes. ArtPozy, Contemporary Japanese Art 2025

Ideocodes. ArtPozy 2025 | Contemporary Japanese Art

01. 08. – 22. 08. 2025 / 06. 08. – 22. 08. 2025
Curators: Tomio Matsuda, Kasia Kujawska-Murphy

• Atrium UAP / 29 Marcinkowskiego Ave. / 01. 08. 2025, 19:00
• Pireus Gallery / 35 Głogowska Str. / 06. 08.2025, 17:00
• Aula Gallery UAP / 29 Marcinkowskiego Ave. / 06. 08. 2025,  18:00
  

Open hours:

Atrium – 10:00 – 18:00 daily
Aula Galery – Mon-Fri 12:00 – 17:00

Artists: Tomio Matsuda, Fusayo Kishino, Akishige Sai , Yoshihiro Saeki, Mayumi Shimizu, Seiji Takimoto, Tomoko Torii, Harue Takahara, KiyokoTanaka, Katsuko Konno, Minakata Lemon, Kazumi Yabuuchi, Chiaki Furukawa, Yuko Fuchigami, Takako Hirayama, Hiroko Nakano, Yuuki Kobayashi, Georges Paumier FR, Virginia Verran UK, David Oates UK

Special Guests with Solo Shows at Przystanek Pireus Gallery:
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ADRIANA MAJDZIŃSKA
ANDRZEJ BANACHOWICZ
KATARZYNA KUJAWSKA-MURPHY

Programme highlights:

• August, 1 – during the opening of solo exhibitions, the artist Mayumi Shimizu, a calligraphy master and a tea ceremony master will present a Calligraphy Performance, followed by a traditional Tea Ceremony;
• August, 6, 18:00 / Aula Gallery UAP – Part II of the Calligraphy Performance.

Contemporary Japanese art: emptiness and gesture, silence and sign. The cultivated practices of calligraphy and Zen painting are not merely forms of aesthetic expression, but philosophical disciplines. In their shadow, today’s artistic practice evolves — conscious of tradition, yet deeply engaged in dialogue with modernity, social change, and individual identity.

The exhibition Ideocodes. ArtPauses is the result of over twenty-five years of my collaboration with a group of artists united not so much by medium, but by sensitivity to the code — cultural, emotional, ideographic. Since 1999, our shared practice has been based on building bridges between East and West, between the silence of the brush and the noise of the digital age. The artists draw upon the idiom of Japanese calligraphy, focusing on the exploration of the sign as a cultural, semantic, and somatic phenomenon. Through color, they express the painterly asceticism of sumi-e, and they also explore installation, visual poetry, and intermedia forms.

The titular Ideocodes refer to signs that carry not only meaning but also experience — they are forms of concentration and communication beyond linear time. ArtPauses, in turn, are moments of suspension, pauses in action, in which art becomes less a representation and more a practice of presence.

The exhibition poses questions about the place of the contemporary visual sign in a world overwhelmed by information, while simultaneously revealing the potential of art as a form of knowledge, contemplation, and the precise expression of the inexpressible.

In this exhibition, we find art as a testimony of endurance — in attentiveness, in relationship, in form and emptiness, and above all, in friendship.