GALLERY MoMo is pleased to present a group exhibition of selected artists for the gallery’s 10-years celebration, titled “Zeitgeist.” All the artists have expressed interiorities of the day. The gallery has mainly focused on artists who were bon in 1980’s and depicted their interiorities.

Yoshitomo Nara was born in Aomori, Japan in 1959 and an artist who provide some motivation for the gallery to start the business. In 1999, a group exhibition titled “Temperature of the Time” at Setagaya Art Museum in Tokyo consisted in the theme of his works. Nara has an influence on a lot of artists.

Yousuke Kobashi was born in Nara, Japan in 1980 and the gallery has been working with him since 2006. The painting of self-portraits is central in his practice. Kobashi draws on Gauguin's “violet touch” and colors, as wells as certain decorative qualities of Matisse's style. This unrestricted sampling of techniques can be considered one of the methods to maintain freedom throughout the paintings. Those methods create Kobashi's very own unrealistic dream world.

Ai Shinohara was born in Kagoshima, Japan in 1984 and the gallery has been working with her since 2009. The paintings contain nature and animals, which are birds, goldfishes, or dinosaurs, are around the girls. They are depicted in detail and realistic.

Takeshi Makishima was born in Fukuoka, Japan in 1980 and is working in Berlin, Germany. Makishima has had exhibitions in Germany and was introduced at an exhibition titled Garden of Painting in the National Museum of Art, Osaka. He expresses serene and dreaming worlds that remind us fairy tales. Each his painting seems to have a story, but he leaves viewers to infer the story.

Andrej Dubravsky was born in Slovakia in 1987 and graduated from Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava in 2008. Dubravsky represents in Slovakia, Berlin and New York and has received high evaluations. Using the signature, he shows narcissistic self-presentation and inquiries of the own identity. Dubravsky expresses nostalgic scene that was the former socialist country he spent childhood.