2025.11.12
Warehouse TERRADA to Host TERRADA ART AWARD 2025 Finalist Exhibition from January 16th (Fri), 2026
The five finalists, Daisuke Kuroda, Yuki Kobayashi, Sakura Koretsune, Yuske Taninaka, and Claire Fujita will show their new artwork at a warehouse venue
Warehouse TERRADA will host TERRADA ART AWARD 2025 Finalist Exhibition at G3-6F, our event space, from January 16th (Fri) until February 1st (Sun), 2026.
TERRADA ART AWARD is a contemporary art award designed to support emerging artists. In this exhibition, the five finalists, Daisuke Kuroda, Yuki Kobayashi, Sakura Koretsune, Yuske Taninaka, and Claire Fujita will present their works, including unreleased new creations, in five solo exhibitions. They will further develop their exhibition plans they submitted for this award and create unique shows in our G3-6F event space renovated from a warehouse. Also, the day before the exhibition, the final jury, Takahiro Kaneshima, Yukie Kamiya, Yuki Terase, Daito Manabe, and Meruro Washida, will present each jury’s award to the five finalists at the award ceremony.
Through TERRADA ART AWARD, we will continue to strive to improve the environment so that artists can sustain their activities. And we fully support the careers of our finalists—artists with the potential to drive the arts forward into the future—as they venture out into the world, break conventions, and discover their raison d’être.
[Overview]
Title: TERRADA ART AWARD 2025 Finalist Exhibition
Dates: January 16th (Fri) – February 1st (Sun), 2026 * Open every day
Venue: Warehouse TERRADA G3-6F (2-6-10 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002)
Open hours: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Last admission at 5:30 PM)
Entry fee: Free * No reservation required
[Finalist Exhibition Plan] (in Japanese alphabetical order)
Daisuke Kuroda
I focus on ghostly presences lingering in the city―forgotten or ignored―and create works that depict their forms through empathy and repulsion, based on various investigations. In recent years, I have been researching “sculpture”―a field I studied extensively and which formed the foundation of my artistic practice―and creating video works in which I portray sculptors. This time, I enact sculptors discussing their interpretations of Brancusi and his iconic work, “Bird in Space,” which served as a reference for many artists during the dawn of abstract expression in Japanese sculpture immediately after the war.
Yuki Kobayashi
This exhibition shares the current state of “The Wing Chun Project,” an interdisciplinary performance work originating from the Southern Chinese Martial Arts “Wing Chun.” Founded over 300 years ago by a female monk and martial artist from the Shaolin Temple, it was later popularized worldwide by the grandmaster “Yip Man,” and his disciples, who fled from Foshan to Hong Kong during the Sino-Japanese War after enduring the Chinese Civil War. Since 2019, through training, research, and exchanges in Hong Kong, China, and Japan, I have been trying to reinterpret the philosophy of the founder of Wing Chun Kung Fu and exploring the meaning of studying the history of war and colonial rule in East Asia, which is closely tied to its development, as well as the significance of learning combat and self-defense in modern society.
Sakura Koretsune
As I have explored whale-human relationships and visited various places, I have been given materials obtained from whales that were caught in past whaling activities. These materials were previously used to make a variety of tools but are no longer required. Stories can be recorded in writing or video and passed down as books or films. How can the materials and skills to use them be preserved? I seek a path to pass down stories and skills together by creating fictional toys.
Yuske Taninaka
I question the norm to understand the body only within the frameworks of scientific verifiability or economic productivity. At the same time, I want to remain excited about the body’s potential. Can we seek the possibility of solidarity that arises from bodies that simply coexist—neither ensnared by meaning or rationality, nor valued only for productivity or function? Healing and care may offer such an entry point. They are not simply recovery in service of economic demands, but acts through which the body reassembles its agency within community. What matters is not ability, but opening ourselves toward the question of capacity: How might we exist together, and how might we come into relation with others?
Claire Fujita
In today’s world, speed and efficiency often take precedence over depth and presence. The slower moments when we genuinely connect with people, objects, and the world around us are quietly disappearing. As life accelerates, it becomes increasingly difficult to understand others or to nurture relationships with care. Plants remind us quietly of another way of being. They do not speak, yet they respond sensitively to changes in light, temperature, and wind, continuously interacting with their surroundings. By visualizing these subtle reactions, I hope to reawaken our sense of connection between people and between humans and nature. Within the rush of our convenient, accelerated lives, this work seeks to open a small space where we can once again notice the quiet joy of coexistence.
[TERRADA ART AWARD 2025 Overview]
Name: TERRADA ART AWARD 2025
Qualifying Activity: Contemporary Art (including all forms of media such as two-dimensional works like paintings; photography; three-dimensional works (objects); textiles; videos; digital media art; physical expression such as performances, etc.; and sound art or music, etc.)
Support Detail: An opportunity to display works at the Finalist Exhibition, and 3 million yen awarded as creation cost*
Supplementary Prize: Ruinart Blanc de Blancs, Research and report grant up to 300,000 yen for artist’s next creation following the AWARD, PIGMENT TOKYO products worth 100,000 yen, free use of Warehouse TERRADA’s art storage services for two years, and free use of Warehouse TERRADA’s digital storage service for three years
Official Website: https://www.terradaartaward.com/en
Held by: Warehouse TERRADA
Sponsor: Japan Airlines and Ruinart (MHD Moët Hennessy Diageo K.K.)
Support: Shinagawa City
Operation Support: Fujiwara Haneda LLC and Rocket Pencil K.K.
* Please refer to the Entry Guideline page on the Award’s official website for details regarding the support (prize) for the finalists.
[TERRADA ART AWARD 2025 Jury]
Final Jury: Takahiro Kaneshima (Associate professor of SCAPe, Kanazawa College of Art), Yukie Kamiya (Head Curatorial Division, Chief Curator, The National Art Center, Tokyo), Yuki Terase (Art Intelligence Global Founder), Daito Manabe (Artist, programmer, and composer), and Meruro Washida (Director, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Associate professor of Tokyo University of the Arts)
Primary Selection Jury: Ryo Ikeshiro (Artist, musician, researcher, Associate Professor, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong), Shinji Ohmaki (Artist), Eriko Kimura (Director at Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art), Ryutaro Takahashi (Psychiatrist, Art Collector), Yuu Takehisa (Artistic Director of Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito), and Reiko Tsubaki (Curator, the Mori Art Museum)
(in Japanese alphabetical order)
[Related Event]
WHAT CAFE, an art gallery cafe, will host an exhibition from January 10th (Sat) to January 18th (Sun), 2026, in conjunction with TERRADA ART AWARD 2025 Finalist Exhibition. The show will spotlight recent works by award-winning or selected artists of TERRADA ART AWARD 2015.
Title: WHAT CAFE EXHIBITION vol.44 “From here to eternity: where the first TERRADA ART AWARD 2015 recipients are now”
Exhibition dates: January 10th (Sat) – January 25th (Sun), 2026
Venue: WHAT CAFE (2-1-11 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002)
Entry fee : Free
[AWARD Background]
Warehouse TERRADA has been involved in the art storage business since the 1970s. After the 1980s, we have worked alongside the local companies and residents on area development through art. In recent years, we renovated our warehouse facilities to open TERRADA ART STUDIO, which offers rental atelier spaces, and WHAT CAFE, , which showcases and sells works by emerging artists, striving to improve the environment so that artists can sustain their activities. By leveraging our art storage as our business foundation and transforming warehouse spaces into venues for creation and exhibition, we aim to further develop Tennoz as an international art capital. TERRADA ART AWARD is a contemporary art award established as part of our initiatives. And the award finalists challenge themselves to new expressions, utilizing a warehouse space as their stage to send artistic culture from Tennoz to the world. Warehouse TERRADA will continue to cultivate an environment where artists, galleries, and collectors can thrive together and contribute to vitalization of the area’s appeal and the art market.
- About Warehouse TERRADA
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Company Name: Warehouse TERRADA
Representative: President & CEO, Kohei Terada
Address: 2-6-10 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002, Japan
Foundation: October 1950
URL: https://www.terrada.co.jp/en