They stand, once more, before the next name

KOTARO NUKAGA Roppongi is pleased to present Yohei Chimura’s solo exhibition ‘They stand, once more, before the next name,’ on view from June 6 through July 18, 2026. Alongside the sculptural series “The Experiment on the Origin,” in which tin is sealed within the body of glass, the exhibition presents an installation that envelops the entire gallery space in a skin of transparent vinyl. For Chimura, no material holds precedence over another. Melting and cooling, transformation and setting: the very process by which one material meets and responds to another unfolds across the whole of the exhibition space.

Born in Chiba in 1984, Chimura studied at the Toyama Institute of Glass Art and received his PhD from the Tokyo University of the Arts. Working across traditional metal casting and glass making, he has centered his practice on the instant in which matter undergoes transformation. His works have been shown at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, and the Toyama Glass Art Museum, among others, and since 2025 he has served as Associate Professor of the Glass Art Research Laboratory at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Grounded in the precision of craft yet continually facing the sheer physicality of matter itself, his practice extends the framework of craft by letting accumulations of objects open onto the social, and in this exhibition it finds a point of convergence.