PROFESSIONAL SECRETS – KYOTO 2025

Exhibition views of the latest series of Professional Secrets presented at Goethe-Institut in Kyoto.

Installation conceived for Goethe-Institut Library at Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, Japan 2025

Supported by Mondriaan Fund – the public fund for visual art and cultural heritage

Exhibition view of Professional Secrets at Goethe-Institut, Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, 2025

Exhibition view of Professional Secrets at Goethe-Institut, Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, 2025

Exhibition view of Professional Secrets at Goethe-Institut, Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, 2025

Professional Secret #021 Tetsuo Takasugi, Kyotango 2025
The invisible in what I do is the most important part. You don’t see it, but it is necessary.

Materials: Japanese Red Birch wood veneers

Exhibition view of Professional Secrets at Goethe-Institut, Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, 2025

Professional Secret #018 Enzio Wetzel, Kyoto 2025
We should all step down from our own mountains

Materials: Ebony wood veneers

Exhibition view of Professional Secrets at Goethe-Institut, Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, 2025

Professional Secret #022 Fukui Satomi, Kyoto 2025
Blackouts in language weave the deepest echoes

Materials: White Sycamore, Ziricote wood veneers

Exhibition view of Professional Secrets at Goethe-Institut, Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, 2025

Exhibition view of Professional Secrets at Goethe-Institut, Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, 2025

Exhibition view of Professional Secrets at Goethe-Institut, Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, 2025

Professional Secret #019 Jingyun Shi, Kyoto 2025
Time Will Tell

Materials: Zelkova, Angsana, Silky Oak wood veneers

Exhibition view of Professional Secrets at Goethe-Institut, Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, 2025

Exhibition view of Professional Secrets at Goethe-Institut, Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, 2025

Professional Secret #020 Masao Koishihara, Kyotango 2025
It takes years to achieve simplicity in order to create complexity—to eliminate the superfluous and focus on the essential.

Materials: Ziricote, Hinoki Cypress wood veneers

Exhibition view of Professional Secrets at Goethe-Institut, Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, 2025

Exhibition view of Professional Secrets at Goethe-Institut, Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, 2025

Professional Secret #021 Tetsuo Takasugi, Kyotango 2025
The invisible in what I do is the most important part. You don’t see it, but it is necessary.

Materials: Japanese Red Birch wood veneers

Exhibition view of Professional Secrets at Goethe-Institut, Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, 2025

Preparatory Drawing for Professional Secret #023

Preparatory Drawing for Professional Secret#018

Detail of Preparatory Drawing for Professional Secret#018