P.O.N.D. 2025 Swing Beyond / Swing Beyond

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PROFILE ｜ Otsukishuto
Born in Tokyo in 1996. Graduated from the Graduate School of Design, Tokyo University of the Arts.
Perform graphic design and art direction with the aim of updating visual media communication in the era of global capitalism. In charge of advertising, drinking water packaging, music events, museum publicity materials, logo design, etc. Main clients include Tokyo Metropolitan Government, AVEX, Mitsubishi Corporation, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo Biennale, etc. He also writes essays and columns.

<Spatial design>

PROFILE ｜ Yoshiaki Takahashi
Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1989. Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Architecture.
After obtaining an architect qualification, he renovated the former floor pillar factory in Edogawa-ku and opened it to the public as "Higashi-Kasai 1-11-6 A Warehouse" with his classmate Jun Adachi. With the address as it is, we consider the ideal way of a place that connects art and society, focusing on exhibitions planned with artists.

＜CONTRIBUTORS＞

Art Project| SOLO Contemporary
An international art project based in Madrid, Spain. Based on a large contemporary art collection and art center, he supports the artist's creative activities and accompanies experimental attempts. Through exhibitions, grants, and mentor programs, we promote diverse exchanges of expression and culture, and act as a platform that connects contemporary art and society.
We actively support expressions that utilize new media and technologies, and provide a place for research and experimentation. In addition, we are developing projects in which artists and audiences are involved in a variety of ways, and are developing initiatives to expand the possibilities of creation.

Treelikeswater ｜ Guno Lee
He is a photographer based in Seoul and founder of the independent bookstore Treelikeswater. Under the theme of everyday life, art, and connections with people, he explores expression through photography production, exhibition, publication, and collaboration.

Editor | Toshidai Ishigami
Born in Tokyo. Editor/Researcher.
『WIRED』 After editing the Japanese version and STUDIO VOICE, he founded MOTE Inc. In recent years, he has launched UNLIRICE, a media project focusing on Asian culture, and is engaged in research on dance music in Asian countries.

Photographer| Susumu Hamada
Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1987.
Filming mainly in the fields of portraits, interviews, and documents. His latest works include "Tokyo" (2022) and "Polyphony" (2024). In 2022, we started a personal project "HAMADA ARCHITECTSTM︎". A gentle anarchism centered on the production/sale of prototypes, the issuance of free paper, and dialogue.

Curators, Writers, Editors _ Sako Hayashi
Born in 1987. Representative of Aria.
After working as an advertising production company, editor of the magazine "Biju Techo", and director of the OIL by Bijutsu Techo Gallery, he opened Gallery Hikari Light in 2024. In addition to managing the gallery, he also works as an art management and writer.

Independent Curator| Li Zionbun
I came to Japan in 2014. Currently, he is engaged in theoretical research on the concept of sculpture in the digital age at the doctoral program at Tokyo University of the Arts. As an independent curator based in Tokyo, he develops planning and research activities focusing on Young Generation and alternative communities. He integrates his practical experience as a sculptor with his critical perspective as a media theory researcher, and explores fundamental problems in the post-media art scene.

＜ARTISTS＞
▶VENUE ｜ PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO
A group exhibition by 12 artists full of energy will be held at PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO. With the cooperation of contributors, various works from Japan and abroad are gathered. Through this year's theme "Swing Beyond", we will present an opportunity to step into new possibilities without being bound by existing frameworks in an era of intense change. In addition, please pay attention to the spatial composition created through dialogue between Yoshiaki Takahashi (1-11-6 A, Higashikasai) and participating artists.

Exhibition Period: October 24 (Fri) - November 10 (Mon), 2025
Entrance fee: Free
Space Direction: Yoshiaki Takahashi (Higashikasai 1-11-6 A Warehouse)

Composer, instrument inventor, creator of music machine | Koka Nikoladze
Composer, creator of prepared instruments, and creator of electromechanical music machines.
We are exploring the interaction between sound, objects, and performance. He was initially trained as a concert violinist, studied at the Tbilisi National Conservatory, and then studied composition at the Stuttgart College of Music and Norway Academy of Music. In 2009 he wrote Starshine for violin, prepared guitar, and percussion trios, and in 2012 his first opera Vor dem Gesetz premiered at the Wilhelm Palace in Stuttgart. Recent masterpieces include Singularity (2022), an orchestral work produced in collaboration with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.

Friends | Tonii
I like to play with friends, travel, and make things. As an idea of how to preserve important memories, we produce something using clothes, garbage, wood, etc.

Photographer, Multidisciplinary Artist| Dương Gia Hiếu
A multi-disciplinary artist based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He is active in a wide range of fields such as photography, interior, objects, and architecture. In his photographic works, he focuses on the fine and everyday texture of Vietnamese urban life, while his objects combine materials, parts, and colors in a sometimes contradictory and sometimes playful way to challenge the established premise of use, function, and comfort. In 2023, Zon Jahieu founded the design studio Ném Space, which began working to improve the relationship between people and things. Since then, "Ném Space" has developed into a place of exchange and culture, providing platforms to practitioners in Japan and abroad across fields.

Artist| masao
Born in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture in 1999. Graduated from the Department of Information Design, Tama Art University. During his enrollment, he created a work that rethinks the structure of unconsciousness and consciousness hidden in everyday life under the theme of "inquiry into unconsciousness" and "reinterpretation of relative". He explores new possibilities of visual language by crossing various media such as graphics, three-dimensional, video, and light. After graduation, he is involved in the production of logos and visuals in the cultural and advertising fields as a freelancer, and also presents directing and artwork for regional revitalization projects. In 2024, he held a solo exhibition "kapla". At the same time, we held a linkage event at circus Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo, and tried to connect urban culture and art. His activities are highly valued from the front lines of modern culture, such as the hip-hop scene and the dance music scene in Japan and overseas.

Ceramic artist| Yang Hongjo
Korean potter. He creates works based on sophisticated aesthetic sense and unique sculptural language. In his masterpiece Lost Shoes series, he redefines everyday objects through asymmetric forms and textures, combining artistry and functionality.

Painter | Marie Izawa
In order to pursue expressions that can only exist in a space with a framework of painting, he works with acrylic paint on the theme of "adaptation and repulsion". The canvas is regarded as a restricted "environment" like an aquarium tank, and it is drawn with the image of the creatures that become motifs grow up in it.
Creatures repeat adaptation and reaction to the "environment" and acquire forms for living. At the same time, the nature of the "environment" is highlighted by the activities of living things.

Three-dimensional writer| Hazusaba
Born in Sichuan, China, living in Tokyo. After completing a graduate school at Hokkaido University, he worked for a power company, and is currently enrolled in the sculpture course at Musashino Art University Graduate School.
He is interested in the sense of individual differences in institutional structures and the mercy of reality and fiction, and creates installations of movable structures using industrial parts and ready-made products. We are building a device that entangles the viewer's actions and reveals the relationship between perception and operation and response.

Contemporary Artists | Ayumi Kanno
Tales, legends, and ghost stories about the land that exist in every land. They are called folklores, which express through video installations the "alternative folklore" created by imagining the history and personal emotions behind them why they were spun by people. Through the production of his work, he is studying what a folklore reborn as a media art brings to us.

Photographer| Kurosawa Kanjin
Born in 1998. After graduating from the Department of Photography at Nihon University College of Art, he worked at a photography studio in Tokyo and became independent.
By reflecting impulses and emotions on the plane of photography, the inner surface and contours that cannot be verbalized are revealed. Through the act of modifying the portrait of oneself, he explores the form of self-understanding while repeating destruction and reconstruction.

New Media Artist| Choucho
Born in Ningbo City, China in 1999. Graduated from the Intermedia Arts School of China Fine Arts, a master's degree, and is currently a double master in painting at Tokyo University of the Arts.
His creations are always closely linked to modern times. By digging up images rooted in childhood memories and re-presenting visual images once widely known and forgotten in modern art contexts, it works as a reminder of the memory of a generation of Chinese. His work includes installations, experimental videos, and paintings. His work has been housed in museums and art institutions such as the White Rabbit Gallery in Australia, the CC Foundation, and MARTIN GOYA BUSINESS.

Sculptor | Mr. Takahashi
Born in Tokyo in 1999. Graduated from the Department of Sculpture, Tokyo University of the Arts.
We live every day with mysterious powers. I feel that there is "something" hidden in that power that science cannot explain. I focus on the relationship between objects and universal gravitation, and explore the unexplored force by intervening through sculpture. I think that the possibility is "something" that can not be grasped in shape, but that appears as a certain distortion.

Artist| Mizukamishuto
Born in Tokyo in 2001. Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts.
I want to find something that is a little shadowy but attractive in everyday life, and I want to watch the viewer's consciousness does not change using them as the subject. He works mainly with sculptures, installations, images, and 3D modeling.

▶VENUE ｜ １F ENTRANCE
At the front entrance on the 1st floor facing Koen-dori St., three-dimensional works by contemporary artist Kei Uruno are exhibited. This work, which incorporates everyday motifs and mechanical structures and assembles the entire space in a sculptural manner, gives a new rhythm and depth to the entrance connecting the city and the building. The structure of abstractly arranged rooms and the slight changes in the scale suggest the coexistence of "individuals" and "individuals" and the complex relationship with others and society. It shakes the viewer's sense, stops in the city, and gives an opportunity to reconsider oneself.

Exhibition Period: October 24 (Fri) - November 10 (Mon), 2025
Entrance fee: Free

Artist| Kei Uruno
Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1993. Based in Aichi. Graduate School of Fine Arts, Nagoya University of Arts, 2023. After experiencing the casting experience of mechanical parts, he began to develop practice in the art field. Inspired by the living world surrounding him, paintings, performing arts, etc., he presents three-dimensional works and installations using machines and stage structures based on familiar events.

▶VENUE ｜ ４F ATRIUM
In the atrium space on the 4th floor of Shibuya PARCO, installation works by Yuto Imaeda will be exhibited. A group of words that collect casual conversations and fragments of signboards filled with cities, and crystallized into poems are projected onto public media, an electronic bulletin board. It reveals emotions and signs hidden in everyday words three-dimensionally and visually. Experiences in the open space of commercial facilities will blur the boundaries between individuals and public, softly shake the viewer's senses.

Exhibition Period: October 24 (Fri) - November 10 (Mon), 2025
Entrance fee: Free

Artist and poet | Yuhito Imaeda
Born in 2002. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Art and Design.
Based on language expressions such as tanka poetry and poetry, he creates installation works using media such as electronic bulletin boards. By combining the contrast between popular advertisements and private words, poetry is sent to an unspecified number of individuals.

▶VENUE ｜ B１F GALLERY X BY PARCO
At GALLERY X BY PARCO on the 1st floor of Shibuya PARCO, a solo exhibition by Aiku Kurotaki, who won the P.O.N.D. AWARD 2024 Grand Prix, will be held.
Kurotaki sublimates the primitive appearance of us and beings, such as "Existence and Absence", "Micro and Macro", "0 and 1" and "Yes and No", using micro-materials called fibers. While traveling back and forth between the multilayered layers between the opposite worlds, we draw doubts and new perspectives on the existence of human beings in today and the world we perceive.
In this exhibition, in addition to the masterpiece "Human" series, large-scale installation works will be exhibited for the first time. In addition, we will also sell exhibited works and goods at the venue, so please drop in.

Exhibition Period: Friday, October 31, 2025 - November 10, 11:00 - 21:00
Venue: GALLERY X BY PARCO (Shibuya PARCO B1F)
Entrance fee: Free

Writer| Aiku Kurotaki
Born in 2000. Based in Kanagawa and Tokyo. Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University's Textile Design Department.
In April 2024, he held his first solo exhibition at SOM GALLERY. Kurotaki focuses on the modeling of textiles that create a three-dimensional structure by intersecting fibers, and creates three-dimensional works using a combination of warp and weft through manual work. In his masterpiece, "Human" series, by confining humans in a frame composed of regular thread arrangement, we highlight the patterned modern society and human thinking. Through his work, he attempts to highlight the emptiness of modern society and the human perspective that he perceives, and lead people to freedom from algorithms.

＜EVENTS＞

▶OPENING PARTY ｜ 10F PBOX
On the first day of the event, an opening party will be held at "PBOX" on the 10th floor.
From the artist who is active in various fields to the fresh talent that has begun to attract attention, a variety of artists gather together. New voices and beats that I have never met before are mixed, and live act and DJ play will create a unique rhythm in Shibuya night.
This event is also a place to hook up on young artists who will lead the next generation, and is a valuable opportunity to experience the energy that will open up the future scene up close. Enjoy a free and alternative night unique to this city, surrounded by music and enthusiasm.

Date and time: Opened on Friday, October 24, 2025, 18:30
Venue: Shibuya PARCO 10F PBOX
Entrance fee: Free
※Admission may be restricted depending on the congestion situation.

▶P.O.N.D. AWARD 2025 ｜ 4F PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO
One person was selected from the exhibitors of the group exhibition held at PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO by voting from the audience. The prize for the P.O.N.D. AWARD 2025 Grand Prix winner will be announced at a later date.
※Additional information will be announced on PARCO ART and official Instagram at any time.
※The contents of the project and participating artists are subject to change without notice.
※The products sold will end as soon as they run out.
※The event may be canceled due to weather and other factors.

▶DOMMUNE×P.O.N.D.2025 SPECIAL NIGHT ｜ 9F SUPER DOMMUNE
On the last day of the event, a special program will be held at SUPER DOMMUNE on the 9th floor. Directors, contributors and artists will come together to reflect on P.O.N.D. 2025, and will also announce the P.O.N.D. AWARD 2025 Grand Prix, which is determined by the audience's vote.  

Date and time: Monday, November 10, 2025 20:00-24:00 (planned)
Venue: Shibuya PARCO 9F SUPER DOMMUNE
Entrance fee: Free <1 drink system> ※Admission may be restricted depending on the congestion situation.

Additional information will be announced on SUPER DOMMUNE official website, PARCO ART, and official Instagram at any time.