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« Nomadic Exhibition 0.0 – MOHITORI Pavilion » by Noël Picaper (2024, architecture)

Exhibition
01 jul. 
 30 jul. 2025Institut français de Tokyo

Dates

From 01 jul. to 30 jul. 2025

Venue

Institut français de Tokyo
15 Ichigayafunagawaramachi, Shinjuku City, Tokyo 162-8415

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Exhibition

Villa Kujoyama, and YAU – Yurakucho Art Urbanism (an organization that manages an artists’ community in the Ōtemachi, Marunouchi and Yurakuchō districts, which are among the main business districts) have entered into a partnership to invite Noël Picaper (2024, architecture) to produce the MOHITORI architectural pavilion.

From April to August 2024, Noël Picaper completed a residency at Villa Kujoyama, during which he spent a week of research in Tokyo, with the support of YAU. In 2025, as part of the Nomadic Exhibition organized by the Tokyo University of the Arts, and the “Nuit de la Philo 2025: Agir pour le vivant” festival organized by the Institut français de Tokyo, dedicated to environmental issues and sustainability, and presented for the first time in Asia, Noël Picaper unveiled the “Nomadic Exhibition 0.0 – Mohitori Pavilion”.

 

Initially exhibited at Hotoria Plaza, Ōtemachi in Tokyo from Friday 30 May to Sunday 15 June 2025, this travelling pavilion can now be seen in the garden of the Institut français de Tokyo from 1 July to 30 September 2025.

 

This pavilion is designed as a dialogue between the Ōtemachi-Marunouchi-Yurakucho district, the water cycle and ordinary architectural elements (gutters, steps, roof). Through its intimate scale, it will question the relationship between city and nature with passers-by.

This project benefited from villa Kujoyama’s post-residency program, with the support of Institut français, Institut français du Japon, and Bettencourt Schueller Foundation

Related events

From May 23 to June 15, 2025 : Preparatory drawings exhibition by Noël Picaper at Institut français de Tokyo (15 Ichigaya-funagawara-machi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8415)

 

May 31, 2025 : “ The Attention to the Ordinary” : conference at Institut français de Tokyo

  • Time : 12:30pm – 1:30pm
  • Participants : Noël Picaper, Junpei Mori (Tokyo University of the Arts)
  • Moderator : Takahiro Ohmura (architect)
  • Free admission ; registration through Institut français de Tokyo’s website.

 

June 5, 2025 : Conference between Noël Picaper and Masato Ashida during the public opening of Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto).

  • Time : 6:00pm-7:30pm
  • Free admission without registration

Biographies

Noël Picaper  (2024, architecture)

Noël Picaper is an architect who graduated from ENSA Strasbourg in 2016. After gaining experience in Switzerland, Japan and France, in 2019 he set up Onomiau, an entity with which he works on a variety of formats: public pavilions, private project management, urban and landscape studies, exhibitions, teaching, fiction, etc.

Sensitive to the rituals and mysteries of places, he creates architectures that try to resist categories by playing on ambiguities (building/landscape, living/dead, furniture/sculpture, natural/artificial, etc.). Strange architectures that tell their own story through a composition of ordinary shapes and simple geometries. These structures come to meet us and tell us about the invisible qualities of the landscapes they traverse.

 

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Junpei Mori

 

Born in Malaysia in 1985. Graduate of the Graduate School of Architecture at Tokyo University of the Arts. Since his student years, he has reflected on the concept of time through architecture and continues to be involved in places that generate situations such as scenography, exhibitions and urban planning. Since 2013, he has been based in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, where he founded the “PARADISE AIR” art residency. More than 600 groups of artists have stayed there to date.

 

His main activities include MADLABO (until 2011), Tōno Off-Campus, the renovation of the Chiba House, a traditional Nanbu Magariya-style house in Tōno (since 2015), the design project for the new Hachinohe City Art Museum on the theme of learning (joint design with Tetsuo Nishizawa and Yoshihide Asako, 2017-present), visiting associate professor at the Laboratory for the Future of Art at Tokyo University of the Arts (2024-present), the art experiment centre VIVA (2019-present), and the urban art programme YAU in Yūrakuchō (2021-present). Founder of the company Interrobang Inc (since 2019).

 

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Masato Ashida

Representative of Masato Ashida Architectural Agency, co-representative of ENERGY MEET and the Future Research Institute, visiting lecturer at Chiba University and the Chiba Institute of Technology.

Born in Kyoto in 1975. Graduated from the Department of Architecture at Kyoto University in 1998, then obtained a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Graduate School of Engineering at the same university in 2001. From 2001 to 2011, he worked at the Hiroshi Naito architecture firm. In 2012, he founded Masato Ashida Architectural Design Office Co, Ltd, and in the same year co-founded ENERGY MEET Co, Ltd. He has been a visiting lecturer at Chiba University since 2017. In 2018, he co-founded Future Research Institute Co, Ltd. Since 2024, he has also been a visiting lecturer at the Chiba Institute of Technology.

 

He has received numerous awards, including the Architect of Tomorrow Award, the Good Design Award, the Kanagawa Architecture Competition Excellence Award, the Wood Design Award and the Asia Design Prize.

Credits

Conception : Noël Picaper/Onomiau
Organisation : Villa Kujoyama, Institut français du Japon, Fondation Bettencourt Schueller Yurakucho Art Urbanism (YAU), Université des Arts de Tokyo
Local coordination : Bureau d’architecture Masato Ashida
Production : Matsumoto Furniture Manufacturing Co.