anonymous art project

Artissima welcomes anonymous art project into its spaces, a project for the promotion of Japanese contemporary art with a vision that intertwines personal responsibility and collective commitment through contemporary art.

Created in 2023 by initiative of the Japanese entrepreneur Hiroyuki Maki – heir to a family tradition in which philanthropy is a fundamental value – the project supports both emerging Japanese artists and talents already well-known in that country but still unfamiliar on an international level. It encourages direct interaction between curators, museums and cultural institutions in Europe and Japan.

After the debut in Venice with the exhibitions of Kengo Kito and Mika Ninagawa with EiM, organized as collateral initiatives of the Japanese pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, anonymous art project chooses Torino and Artissima as a new setting in which to reinforce the bond with Italy.

anonymous art project is represented in Italy by Fuyumi Namioka, co-founder of the studio Veronesi Namioka, who curates all the activities and relations with art institutions and museums, as the cultural representative of the project. Helmed by the artistic director Masahiko Haito, with international curating by Kodama Kanazawa, at Artissima anonymous art project presents four protagonists of the contemporary scene in Japan, confirming Torino as a crossroads of artistic research and international openness. The artists are Aki Inomata (Tokyo, 1983), who presents Thinking of Yesterday’s Sky (2022 – in progress), a work that uses water, milk and 3D printing to reflect on memory and the perception of time; Yuki Hasegawa (Osaka, 1989), with the series Neon (2021–2023), which investigates the relationship between nature and artifice through vibrant colours and suspended atmospheres; and the art duo composed of Junya Kataoka, with the works Yajirogu Eda (Yajirogu Branch) (2023) and A performance of tea utensils through the bending of branches (2023), mixed media creations that enter a dialogue with the tradition and improvisation, and Rie Iwatake, with the series Shitsunai-Ga (Interior Pictures) (2024), prints that reinterpret the concept of the domestic landscape.