Keio Museum Commons (KeMCo) introduces a new exhibition series titled “point of view”. This project sheds light on the university’s collections, artworks, and academic artifacts, which often cannot be fully explored in the traditional gallery setting.

The venue is the airy stair landing that opens to an outdoor view. The exhibition “point of view” refers to the objects displayed on the landing and the expansive KeMCo atrium space that encompasses them. The objects you encounter on the display base might range from artworks to academic research materials and everyday tools. We invite you to enjoy these unexpected encounters with objects while spending time in this unique space at KeMCo.

The first exhibition in the series presents “Gyobutsu Hoi” (object supplément) by contemporary artist Kazuo Okazaki who has been known for his work on objects since the 1960s. Okazaki’s creations will be showcased in four phases throughout 2025, aligning with KeMCo’s exhibitions over the year.

Photo: (C) Katsura Muramatsu (Calo works)

This first exhibition in this series will be broken up into four parts to coincide with the regular exhibitions scheduled at KeMCo in 2025.

1st part: Thursday, January 9 – Friday, February 7, 2025

[Upcoming dates]

2nd part: Monday, March 17 – Friday, May 16, 2025

3rd part: Tuesday, June 3 – Wednesday, August 6, 2025

4th part: October to December

Kazuo Okazaki (1930–2022)

Born in Okayama City, Okazaki studied art history at Waseda University and began his career in 1958 at the Yomiuri Independent Exhibition. His early works explored

interiority, questioning the boundaries between exterior and interior, illusion and reality, later broadening to themes of human existence. In 1963, he established the concept of

“Gyobutsu Hoi” (object supplément), a philosophy of perceiving the whole through its parts.

Okazaki has held numerous solo exhibitions at numerous major museums, including Kurashiki City Art Museum (1997), Nagi MOCA (2001), The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura (2010), Chiba City Museum of Art (2016), and Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (2016–17).

Organized by: Keio Museum Commons, YOKOTA TOKYO

With cooperation from: Japan Cultural Research Institute