Warehouse TERRADA Announces Individual Jury Awards for TERRADA ART AWARD 2025 Finalists

TERRADA ART AWARD is a contemporary art award designed to support emerging artists. Finalists are selected from numerous domestic and international entries by the jury panel with an international perspective and a deep understanding of contemporary art. The five artists — Daisuke Kuroda, Yuki Kobayashi, Sakura Koretsune, Yuske Taninaka, and Claire Fujita — who received the Individual Jury Awards, will present their works at TERRADA ART AWARD 2025 Finalist Exhibition to be held from January 16th (Fri) through February 1st (Sun), 2026.

Since being selected as finalists in September 2025, the five artists have developed a wide range of works based on their submitted exhibition plans, spanning two- and three-dimensional works, sound, installation, video, and performance. This exhibition brings together these collections of work, including new pieces by each finalist. They reframe bodies, histories, overlooked presences, and relationships with others and with nature, reimagining the very notion of “what an artwork can be” from diverse approaches in today’s society where multiple values intersect. Their practices also open up new perspectives that point toward the future.

Each of the finalists received a suite of supplementary prizes, including Ruinart Blanc de Blancs from MHD Moët Hennessy Diageo K.K., one of the award sponsors, 100,000 yen worth of art supplies from PIGMENT TOKYO, two years of free art storage service, and a research grant of up to 300,000 yen for their next creation or exhibition.

We want to foster a society in which artists can thrive. Through TERRADA ART AWARD, 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.

This work by Taninaka, who is based mainly in Berlin exploring relations with others and surroundings and his own existence in a performative way, crossing across boundaries between sculptures and dance, was the most difficult one to imagine its final form among the finalists. However, that unintelligibility arouses our interest in how he looks at today’s society and the perspective of the world he is trying to explore. His attitude to challenge social systems we take for granted in everyday life based on his own body even though he cannot help but place himself in the circumstances and his persistence toward the creation lead the resulting sculpture to appealing forms. (Takahiro Kaneshima / Associate professor of SCAPe, Kanazawa College of Art)

I am very honored to receive Takahiro Kaneshima Award. Under this award’s unique concept of selecting finalists based on plans of works that have not been created yet, my work was thought objectively that was unsure to come into existence, but it is complete all in one piece. I am relieved now. This work is composed in multiple layers since it is an “instrument” that multiple people have to participate in to make the playing happen and at the same time it is a “sculpture” and an “interactive artwork.” The plan was full of unknown elements, but I feel happy to have got it into shape thanks to the team’s cooperation. What was impressive for me during the presentation to the final jury was when they asked the question, “how can you guarantee the possibility of this interactive work?” I replied, “honestly, I do not know yet. Some parts can vary depending on the operation side’s resources. I will discuss and cooperate with them proactively to make it happen.” As a result, the work is now complete as an instrument visitors can play together. I sincerely appreciate the efforts of all the on-site staff. (Yuske Taninaka)

We have summer with relentless heat waves and immeasurably heavy rain that make the earth cry out. Global warming and environmental changes are urgent tasks for us and also for artists. Ms. Koretsune first learned indigenous art in Alaska and then has visited various lands inside and outside Japan, exploring connections between living things and nature, especially between whales and humans while making full use of different artistic practices like works created by hands such as embroidery and pottery and works nurtured by thoughts such as poetry and words. She seeks to shape through her works as methods to share, remember and pass down stories, tools or techniques that remain in each place taking advantage of creativity of her expressions. Her works let us anticipate the power to imagine the future of the environments around us. (Yukie Kamiya / Head Curatorial Division, Chief Curator, The National Art Center, Tokyo)

I feel honored to make my exhibition happen in TERRADA ART AWARD 2025 and receive Yukie Kamiya Award. For this exhibition, where I combined my past work that I started about 10 years ago and a new work, I have created the works looking back on the change of my thoughts during that time. That was also the time I visited various places and finally encountered whale materials I used for the new work. Rapidly progressing environmental changes and imbalance between humans and other species of living creatures are urgent tasks for many. I feel that there are senses and stories that get lost while the theme is discussed more and more broadly. An event between a whale and a human may not be universal, but can show complexity and profoundness of interactions between humans and nature. I think that when facing a challenge that can affect everyone, imagination to think about complex situations as they are without simplifying the discussion is the key to clear up the future. That is what I would like to convey through my works. (Sakura Koretsune)

Through meticulous research, Kuroda affirms the enduring relevance of the past, which might otherwise fade into historical oblivion.
By engaging a wide audience without requiring prior artistic knowledge, his visceral yet comical narratives draw upon tangible historical fact, raising fundamental questions about how the past is translated and interpreted.
Increasingly relevant to today’s ‘post-truth’ world, in which powerful actors and corporations can exert strength through selective narratives that risk misrepresenting both contemporary and historical events, Kuroda’s incisive approach to the past encourages us to stay vigilant and guard the privilege of individual sovereignty. (Yuki Terase / Art Intelligence Global Founder)

I am very honored to receive Yuki Terase Award. Thank you. For me, creating my works is basically a solitary activity. I find different challenges and feel anxiety as if I were walking in darkness groping my way. So winning the TERRADA ART AWARD is a truly delightful and encouraging result for me.
This piece of work is a series including video works where I improvisationally play some sculptors about whom I have researched. I worked on it wondering how the sculptors who worked on human sculptures get to abstract expressions. This series of works is my answer to the question “what is a ‘sculpture’?” that every sculptor faces at least once.
I hope as many people as possible get a chance to see it.
Also, I would like to thank everyone that cooperated with the production, research and realization of this exhibition. (Daisuke Kuroda)

This work shows that there are “things of which you cannot eliminate time” in the world where speed is considered rightful. Using AI you can extract conclusions skipping processes. However, changes in life only happen in layers and understandings and relationships also arise only through “passing” of time. So, the time is not cost, but a material to create quality. On its foreground it has implicit knowledge that is not recorded in language, values or log – such as detection of signs, adjustment of senses of distance, reading of silence and reaction to slight difference – , which cannot be replaced by information obtained in a brief time. This work passes along as an experience the fact that if you hurry you lose sight of more things and reshapes the viewers’ speed of attention itself. (Daito Manabe / Artist, programmer, and composer)

I am deeply honored to receive Daito Manabe Award. In the age of drastic change of concept of values, I realized once again the importance of waiting and blank spaces that you cannot measure by efficiency or instantaneity through the production. I applied for this award considering it as a milestone to take my first step toward a new challenge after this exhibition. During the production, I kept facing the work in silence for three months and it became an irreplaceable time when I felt motivation in life and pure joy working with my hands in a calm manner while keeping distance from the outside world. I also had a great opportunity of support from many people and new encounters and thanks to them the work is complete. As my next challenge, I will work on activities to view a farm as a piece of artwork and combine equine therapy and art. I would appreciate it so much if you could support, participate in or cooperate in my practices after knowing my works through this award. (Claire Fujita)

Typically, martial arts tend to be associated with masculinity. However, Kobayashi physically learned and referred to the art of Wing Chun, allegedly founded by women, liberated the martial arts from masculinity and tried to reinterpret it as an art of physical communication from a queer perspective. He studied at a British university, but his field of works spans over various regions in Asia. He is neither exclusively based on Western countries, nor staying inside Japan and he creates crossing regions or cultures. He also steps over the boundary of art and performance. His sincere attitude to learn in different cultures is also impressive and it makes us anticipate the emergence of a new form of art based on research and decentering mindset. (Meruro Washida / Director, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Associate professor of Tokyo University of the Arts)

I am very honored to be selected as a finalist of TERRADA ART AWARD 2025 and receive Meruro Washida Award. I deeply appreciate your generous support I received during exchanges, disciplines and research in various locations since 2019 starting from Kyoto, to Hong Kong, Mainland China, New York, Yokohama and so on. As I won Meruro Washida Award, I received a comment about the boundary between art and performance and creation while crossing regions or cultures and it made me realize once again that every one of the encounters and learning experiences I had, such as my experience of sport in the past and living in the UK, had meanings, even though it may sound a little exaggerated. I am very delighted that the elements of my research process and physical communication received recognition and I was given this opportunity of exhibiting the work considering that the project contains multiple academic expressions. The award means a boost to evolve my future practices and I feel humbled to accept it. (Yuki Kobayashi)

* Please see the following for the finalists’ profile and exhibition details.
https://www.terradaartaward.com/en/finalist

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

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.

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)

The details of TERRADA ART AWARD 2027 will be announced later this year.

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