In April 1993, Tsuyoshi Ozawa opened the world’s smallest mobile gallery on the street outside the Nabis Gallery, a long-established rental gallery in Tokyo’s Ginza district, which is home to a large number of art galleries. Ozawa’s ‘white cube’, created by painting the inside of a wooden milk box white, mimicked the exhibition space inside a typical art gallery. The project started out as a humorous expression of the artist’s scepticism about Japan’s unique ‘rental gallery’ system, where artists can hire exhibition space for a fee. Ozawa, an artist who himself became a gallery owner, has since given numerous artists the opportunity to exhibit their work and continues to organize shows both on the street and indoors. The gallery was closed in December 1995 and after a year of rethinking its direction, it reopened in 1997 as the New Nasubi Gallery. Ozawa later expanded the project overseas, the entire gallery often accompanying him on his travels to other countries. These days he collaborates with artists around the world, engaging easily with people from all walks of life as he continues to develop the concept.

Nasubi GalleryTsuyoshi Ozawa

New Nasubi Gallery by Tsuyoshi Ozawa 2006

New Nasubi Gallery by Yasuhiro Takeuchi

New Nasubi Gallery by Hironori Sakaguchi – “Nike-Air”

New Nasubi Gallery by Muneteru Ujino

New Nasubi Gallery

by Beck Cole

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New Nasubi Gallery

by Yoo Seung-ho

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New Nasubi Gallery

by Jitish Kallat

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New Nasubi Gallery by Sutee Kunavichayanont 2006

New Nasubi Gallery

by Dinh Q Lê

2006

New Nasubi Gallery by Michael Stevenson 2006

New Nasubi Gallery by Paiman 2006

New Nasubi Gallery

by Justine Cooper

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New Nasubi Gallery

by Kwon Ki-soo

2006

New Nasubi Gallery by Sangeeta Sandrasegar 2006

New Nasubi Gallery

by Eko Nugroho

2006

New Nasubi Gallery

by Yang Zhenzhong

2006