“SJP Opening Exhibition”

Place: Embassy of Sweden, Tokyo

Date: 23^rd May. ~ 15^th Jun.

Produced by: SJP

Supported by: EMBASSY OF SWEDEN TOKYO / Tyohu International Exchange Associates / SAS / ART BY XEROX / Minami Aoyama Gallery / Design Room TONAN / Restaurant Stockholm

Artists:Mikio Tsukioka / Kazuo Sinohara / Naoto Okuda / Eriko Kujiraoka / Michio Oki / Ruriko Shiroshita / Syoko Miki / Kuniyoshi Murata

Owe Gustafssonn / Charllotte von Poehl / Joachin Granit / Joakim Jakobsson-Gemicke / Kerstin Svenberg

Special Thanks to: Kaj Reinius, Yuko Nose


“Art In Our Town Exhibition”

Date: 6^th Dec.~24^th 2000

Produced by: Young Shop-Owners Group / SJP

Sponsored by: EMBASSY OF SWEDEN TOKYO / University of Electro-Communication

Exhibited at: 56 shops along the main street in Tyohu town

Artworks were exhibited by “Young Shop-Owners Group” at 56 local shops in Tyohu town center. People come and go, whether interested or not, something unusual was in their daily life. Artists, designers and students had an opportunity to involve with local society by showing people what on earth “art” is like, especially　artworks from Sweden are. It was also a project for the audiences and organizers to find and see the charms and possibility of the town again, by looking into usual shops and ordinary
empty spaces in an unordinary.

Artists: Setsuko Ishikawa / Kayo Ito / Kyoko Okuda / Rinkichi Kimura / Kazusa Shimonosono / Mana Shiroshita / Koya Takahashi / Masae Takahashi / Chie Nakajima / Katsuhiro Nakamura / Takeshi Nakamura / Mitsuharu Miyake / Naoki Morioka / Takeo Yanagi / Hukuichi Yoshida / Tomoko Yoshinaga / Toshiko Watanabe / Misao Tsukioka / Kazuo Sinohara / Naoto Okuda / Eriko Kujiraoka / Michio Oki / Akira Kataoka / Ruriko Shiroshita / Syoko Miki / Hajime Okuma / Kuniyoshi Murata / Eiji Moroi / A. Pritchard / Rou Kuwata / Hiroshi Narita / Jun Matsunaga / Nobuyoshi Iwano / Yuka Kakitani / Mio Motoshima / Kenpou Iwai / Owe Gustafsson / Charlotte von Poehl / Joachim Granit / Joakim Jakobsson-Gemicke / Kerstin Svanberg

“SJP International Art Exhibition”

Place:Tyohu Culture Center Tatsukuri

Date:20^th ~ 24^th of December 2000.

Produced by:SJP / Tyohu International exchange associates

Supported by:EMBASSY OF SWEDEN TOKYO / University of Elctro-Communication / Tyohu Town / Kobun Gallery / Wakate Shoninjyuku / Art by XEROX

Published by: Sankei News / Daily Mainichi

Artists: Setsuko Ishikawa / Kayo Ito / Kyoko Okuda / Rinkichi Kimura / Kazusa Shimonosono / Mana Shiroshita / Koya Takahashi / Masae Takahashi / Chie Nakajima / Katsuhiro Nakamura / Takeshi Nakamura / Mitsuharu Miyake / Naoki Morioka / Takeo Yanagi / Hukuichi Yoshida / Tomoko Yoshinaga / Toshiko Watanabe / Misao Tsukioka / Kazuo Sinohara / Naoto Okuda / Eriko Kujiraoka / Michio Oki / Akira Kataoka / Ruriko Shiroshita / Syoko Miki / Hajime Okuma / Kuniyoshi Murata / Eiji Moroi / A. Pritchard / Rou Kuwata / Hiroshi Narita / Jun Matsunaga / Nobuyoshi Iwano / Yuka Kakitani / Mio Motoshima / Kenpou Iwai / Owe Gustafsson / Charlotte von Poehl / Joachim Granit / Joakim Jakobsson-Gemicke / Kerstin Svanberg

“The Exhibition Feel each other, Live together”

Place: Shinpuku Temple

Date: 9^th ~ 13^th of April 200
Produce: Japan and Sweden Kusanone(Grassroot) Exchange Association / SJP

Supported by: EMBASSY OF SWEDEN TOKYO

Published by: Yomiuri News Paper

Artists: Kayo Ito / Mana Shiroshita / Chie Nakajima / Mitsuharu Miyake / Toshiko Watanabe /  Ruriko Shiroshita / Syoko Miki / Kuniyoshi Murata / Keimasa Hirose / Hironori Ogiwara / Michio Oki / Eriko Kujiraoka / Hajime Okuma / Naoto Okuda / Eriko Uchiyama / Sueko Miyamoto/Owe Gustafsson/Charlotte von Poehl/Joachim Granit / Joakim Jakobsson-Gemicke / Kerstin Svanberg

On 10^th of April, a painting workshop “Haru Sumizumi” was held at the exhibition space Tenpukuji temple. Mandara（曼荼羅）was drawn and painted by disabled people in collaboration with artists using Japanese traditional paintings on a WASHI paper. Mr. Christian Swardh was invited from Sweden by “Japan and Sweden Kusanone (Grass Root) Exchange Association”, he gave a talk about his life with supports of Swedish Society having been suffered by osteogenesis imperfecta. The purpose of the workshop was to welcome Mr. Swardh and for Japanese disabled people to communicate with him through art. Mr. Swardh produced cherry blossoms spread in colours. There was a heart-warming communications among everybody who participated in the workshop despite of the language difference. The exhibition was a charity deed and SJP artists joint the workshop.

“SJP Osaka Exhibition”

Exhibited at: Osaka Contemporary Art Center

Period: 8^th ~ 13^th of January 2001

Produced by: SJP

Supported by: EMBASSY OF SWEDEN TOKYO / Osaka prefecture

Artists: Toshiko Watanabe / Misao Tsukioka / Kazuo Shinohara / Naoto Okuda / Eriko Kujiraoka / Michio Oki / Ruriko Shiroshita / Syoko Miki / Kuniyoshi Murata / Sumiko Ikegami /  Yoshito Inoue / Reiko Kataoka / Keiko Tsujinami / Koji Hukunaga / Tomoko Murata / Kazuko Yamamoto / Kaoru Kamikawa / Masako Tajiri / Akira Kataoka / Taeko Ukon / Hajime Okuma / Naoto Okuda / Owe Gustafsson / Charlotte von Poehl / Joachim Granit / Joakim Jakobsson-Gemicke / Kerstin Svanberg

SJP Osaka exhibition was not only an exchange of East and West which was Japan an Sweden, it was also a cultural exchange of Tokyo and Osaka.

Nariko Oguchi
Art Curator, Osaka Contemporary Art Center