About Exhibiting Artists in Art Collaboration Kyoto (ACK)
Sho+1 is pleased to announce its participation in Art Collaboration Kyoto (ACK), the contemporary art fair taking place at the Kyoto International Conference Center (ICC Kyoto) from November 7–9, 2026, bringing together 63 galleries from Japan and abroad.
As part of ACK’s Gallery Collaborations section, Sho+1 will present a shared booth with New York–based guest gallery Olney Gleason. Olney Gleason will feature works by Sara Anstis and vanessa german, and Sho+1 will feature works by Sato Brian Katsuhiko. The exhibition centers on three concepts: the body as figure, friction and disjunction, and connections across multiple realms. While differing in scale, medium, and cultural background, all three artists engage the body as a central motif, connecting it to invisible territories of mythology, spirituality, emotion, and memory. Anstis reinterprets the visual languages of mythology, folklore, and art history to create allegorical worlds charged with intimacy and psychological tension. german creates figurative sculptures known as “power figures” from minerals, beads, found objects, and other materials, giving physical form to the forces of love, healing, and community. Sato brings women, animals, and spiritual beings together through a pop-inflected, surreal visual language, constructing allegorical worlds where reality and fantasy intersect.
Rather than synthesizing these distinct practices into a unified framework, the exhibition deliberately allows their differences, disjunctions, and frictions to remain visible within a shared space. Through the tensions and resonances generated by their juxtaposition, the body becomes a conduit—a point of passage from the inner realm of the individual toward broader territories where reality and fiction, nature, community, and memory intersect.
We would be honored by your participation in this occasion.
Fair
Art Collaboration Kyoto
Host | Sho+1
Exhibiting artist Sato Brian Katsuhiko
Guest | OLNEY GLEASON
Exhibiting artist Sara Anstis, vanessa german
Booth Gallery Collaboration GC09
Dates
November 7 (Sat) – November 9 (Mon), 2026
Preview: November 6 (Thu) *by invitation only
November 7 (Sat) noon–7pm
November 8 (Sun) noon–7pm
November 9 (Mon) 11am–5pm*Please note that the last entrance is 1 hour before closing
Venue
Kyoto International Conference Center and others
Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-0001
Access by train: Kokusaikaikan Station on the Karasuma Subway Line (5-minute walk)
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