"Beyond our Horizons": from Tokyo to Paris

29.01 → 26.04.2026

Exhibition Free entrance

From January 29 to April 26 2026, the exhibition Beyond our Horizons: from Tokyo to Paris is being held at la Galerie du 19M in Paris/Aubervilliers. Building on the success of its Japanese edition, it travels to France in a reimagined presentation, celebrating the creative dialogue between Japanese and French artisans and designers. 

This new edition invites audiences, from Greater Paris and beyond, to explore new horizons.  

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the Exhibition

Détail d'une lanterne de Kojima Shoten x Maison Michel - à la Galerie du 19M Tokyo — ©le19M x Clarisse Aïn

Beyond our Horizons: from Tokyo to Paris invites visitors on a journey through materials, creativity, and craftsmanship.

Inspired by a conception of the world governed by elemental forces — echoed in the philosophy of the five elements earth (土, do), water (水, sui), fire (火, ka), wind (風, fu) and void (空, ku) – the exhibition explores the deep connections between nature and creation. These principles describe a world in perpetual dialogue, where harmony and impermanence, stability and movement, body and spirit respond to one another.

The five chapters of the exhibition celebrate the encounter between the Maisons d’art of le19M — Atelier Montex, Desrues, Goossens, Lemarié, Lesage, Lesage Intérieurs, Atelier Lognon, Massaro, Maison Michel, Paloma, and Studio MTX — Japanese craftsmanship and contemporary creation.  

New artists and designers have been invited by la Galerie du 19M to extend this dialogue, each offering a personal interpretation of the elements. Their spanning sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and light installations affirm that craft is not a fixed tradition, but a living art in perpetual transformation.

Their spanning sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and light installations affirm that craft is not a fixed tradition, but a living art in perpetual transformation.  
These principles describe a world in perpetual dialogue, where harmony and impermanence, stability and movement, body and spirit respond to one another.  Beyond our Horizons: from Tokyo to Paris highlights how artists and artisans have long drawn inspiration from nature’s rhythms. This ongoing process of transmission and renewal brings us back to what is essential: every act of creation opens a dialogue.  
Designed by ATTA – Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects –, the scenography unfolds in five movements, echoing the five elements. Light textile screens shape the spaces, drawing a fluid path between opacity and transparency. Their presence creates an architecture of air — structured yet open — in resonance with the atmosphere first imagined in Tokyo.
In Paris, this interplay of layers and light becomes a metaphor for dialogue itself: a space where traditions, materials, and cultures meet, overlap, and transform.

the Cultural programming

Based on the commitment to break down barriers
between different forms of savoir-faire and showcase them in conjunction with other art forms,
this season’s cultural programme opens a door onto the Japanese cultural and artistic scene in both Tokyo and Paris.

Craftsmanship and culinary arts, savoir-faire, music, literature, and discussions come together in an open and collaborative programme involving artists, creators, designers, media, local organisations, and creative venues.

The detailed programme will be announced on 15 January 2026.

the Editorial Comitee, Artisans and Artists

To conceive Beyond our Horizons exhibition,
la Galerie du 19M brought together five creative personalities with unique complementary profiles who share a sensitive, established understanding of the French and Japanese savoir-faire on display:
Momoko Ando; Yoichi Nishio; Shinichiro Ogata; Kayo Tokuda and Aska Yamashita.

With: Mathilde Albouy, Zengoro Eiraku, Julian Farade, Yukio Fujita, Pauline Guerrier, Daisuke Igarashi, Clara Imbert, Akiko Ishigaki, Koh Kado, Yasuyuki Kanazawa, Harumi Klossowska de Rola, Nile Koetting, konomad, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Thomas Mailaender, Yoshiki Masuda, Aurélie Mathigot, Mélanie Matranga, Shuji Nakagawa, Mitsue Nakamura, Simone Pheulpin, Morihisa Suzuki, Naoki Sutter-Shudo, Thomas Takada, Noritaka Tatehana, Mikiya Toyoshima, Xavier Veilhan, Jeanne Vicérial, and Miyoko Yasumoto.

About la Galerie du 19M in Tokyo

From 30th September to 20th October 2025, le19M was travelling from Paris to take up residence in the very heart of Tokyo, on the 52th floor of the Mori Tower.

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