Kengo Kuma

Kengo Kuma is considered one of the most renowned contemporary architects, whose projects—such as the V&A Dundee Design Museum, the Tiffany store in Tokyo’s Ginza district, the National Stadium in Tokyo, and other buildings around the world—have attracted widespread attention. The natural connection to context, landscape, and history; the choice of materials—glass, stone, or wood; the interplay of lines and that special light; and the transparency captured by architectural and landscape photographer Erieta Attali through her lens—these elements make Kengo Kuma’s work so unique.

Less well-known are the architect’s hand-drawn sketches, which are now on display in the exhibition. While Kuma conceives of architecture in his drawings as a fluid process, as an interweaving of material and relationship to the surroundings, Attali turns her photographic gaze to those quiet moments in which built structure, nature, and light merge. In the juxtaposition of drawing and photography, a space of tension emerges between design and experience, imagination and reality.

Opening: June 12, 2026, 7 p.m.
Speakers: Kengo Kuma, Erieta Attali, Nadejda Bartels, Sergei Tchoban