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