EXHIBI­TIONS

COBRA

Cobra was born in Chiba in 1981 and is now based in Tokyo. He is active as both an artist and as one of the directors of the artist-run space XYZ collective. He works across a variety of mediums, from painting and sculpture to photography, video, and sound, and incorporates his own performativity into artworks that investigate the historical means of “imitation” or “behavior” in art and contemporary culture. One of his signature pieces of recent years is the series Bird Gallery for Bird, which features miniature paintings of eggs installed inside birdcages. In his previous exhibition at Fig. in 2019, he debuted the painting series Rat Museum for Rat, with miniature paintings exhibited inside rat traps. This will be his second exhibition at Fig.

FIG.

Fig. is an artist-run space founded in Kita-Otsuka in 2017. Organized on a project basis, its exhibition program features both local and international artists and is often developed in collaboration with other art spaces from Japan and abroad. Past exhibitions include David Ostrowski, “Leeres Wasser (Anti Drawings)” (2023); Umico Niwa, “My Life Inside a Shoe (the phantom cricket)” (2023), organized with XYZ collective; “Drawing Fever I: Narrative, on-going” (2022); Nicolás Guagnini and Shizuka Okada, “Interference” (2021), organized with Galerie Max Mayer; Hannah Weinberger “wedidntwanttoleave.live” (2020), curated by Fitzpatrick Gallery with the Performance Agency; Cobra, “The Museum” (2019); and Shizuka Okada, “Slender and Long My Whistle” (2018).