Gallery Collaborations

MORI YU GALLERY is a contemporary art commercial gallery based in Kyoto, dedicated to promotion of young and well-established artists.

1. Our artists possess their own languages which would not let them get carried away with the present fashion.
2. Our artists reconstruct memory image as liveliest impressions as possible in their works by physical actions.
Contemporary artists should learn from Japanese traditional art, notably the context and style of Rinpa school as well as the artistic essence in the crafts made in Edo and Meiji periods. However, the work is to be full of originality without lapsing into simple imitations or superficial representations.
3. It would be too easy to express beauty and clarity with one's sharp, cold, and minimal sense. Thus there are a number of crisp but "skinny" works as such. But we consider that a work with its extrusive sense which tastes slick and crystalline momentarily until it melts down again would be excellent, regardless of whether it is two-dimensional, three-dimensional or photographic.
4. It is desirable that the artwork has as much diversity and timelessness, unbound to the traditional contexts of art history.

This is an adventure, which began in New York in 1990 at the gallery Arnold Herstand. Strengthened by our experience, we presented our artists for the first time in Paris in 2011.
Finally, we opened a gallery in the city of Clermont-Ferrand, center of France. Here we have been able to act at a local and an international level, satisfying our interest in cultivating cultural exchanges.
We have a beautiful space in a private house for experimentation and exhibitions, in which we share our discoveries and exchange with international galleries.
The essence of the gallery is to discover unknown new contemporary artists while showing very well known artists such as David Hockney, Aki Kuroda, David Nash, Grayson Perry, Suzanne Treister and Deborah Roberts.