3331 Arts Chiyoda is a former junior high school transformed into a vast art complex, opened in 2010. The venue inhabits a number of art galleries, design offices, a wood workshop, artist studios, a library, a roof top organic garden as well as a café and restaurant. Although the space is owned by local government and there are many community based programs, it is actually run by a private association. M-KOS visited the featured show 3331 Independents Scholarship (7–29 January 2012) at the main gallery, an annual open submission where eight finalists were selected individually by seven different juries and audience voting.
Tomoyo Kawase (selected by Hiroyuki Matsukage, artist / photographer)
Exhibition view. Installation by Tomoyo Kawase (front) Paintings by Nanae Mitobe (back). © Tomoyo Kawase / Nanae Mitobe. Courtesy 3331 Arts Chiyoda. Photo by M-KOS.
Hiroaki Ito (selected by Kazuhiko Hachiya, media artist)
Exhibition view. © Hiroaki ito. Courtesy 3331 Arts Chiyoda. Photo by M-KOS.
Maaya Miki (selected by Yukiko Shikata, media art curator)
Detail from A Story of the quadratic function with Pythagorean theorem, 2011. © Maaya Miki. Courtesy 3331 Arts Chiyoda. Photo by M-KOS.
Sonopuro-Nopuro (selected by Noi Sawaragi, art critic)
Exhibition view. The baby of a tender hearted huge living thing, 2011–12. © Sonopuro-Nopuro. Courtesy 3331 Arts Chiyoda. Photo by M-KOS.
Keiko Kimori (selected by Masato Nakamura, General director of 3331 Arts Chiyoda / artist)
Exhibition view. “paara” series. 2012. © Keiko Kimori. Courtesy 3331 Arts Chiyoda. Photo by M-KOS.
Hi!Leg (selected by the audience vote)
Exhibition view. I want to become famous project. 2011. © Hi!Leg. Courtesy 3331 Arts Chiyoda. Photo by M-KOS.
Nanae Mitobe (selected by O Jun, painter)
Michael Jackson, 2010. ©Nanae Mitobe. Courtesy 3331 Arts Chiyoda. Photo by M-KOS.
Haruka Yamada (selected by Taro Igarashi, Architecture critic)
Exhibition view. © Haruka Yamada. Courtesy 3331 Arts Chiyoda. Photo by M-KOS.
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