Design boom researches Osaka Art & Design 2025
Interactive SculpturesThe focus is on portable statements and color -delayed creatures Osaka'S urban landscape. As part of Osaka Art & Design 2025, until June 24th, artist and creative from Japan And abroad present an exciting variety of exhibitions, installations and Local work in the city. During our visit, various places explored – from Takuya Kumagai's playful capsule toy sculptures in W Osaka to Sayaka Miyata and Midori Hirotas embroidered world of amazement in the Umeda Twin Towers Concourse. Scroll down to discover the projects that have attracted our attention.
Osaka Art & Design Highlights in 2025 | All pictures with friendly permission from Osaka Art & Design
A sculpture that you can use to play like a Gacha Gacha toy
For his installation at the W Osaka Hotel Neu, Takuya Kumagai Japan's legendary capsule toy machines as 3D printed sculptures in the form of 'Play sculpture (until the machine: type atlas). 'The guests can interact with the work of how they would do with a real Gacha machine – to turn the dial, maintain a capsule and discover the miniature world inside. This sculptural playful experience introduces a surprise experience in the Design Hotel Lobby, while the concept of the forms of post -war artist Isamu Noguchi refers to both the game and the contemplation.
Takuya Kumai – play sculpture (until machine: type -Atlas)
A embroidered museum for botanical miracles and imagination
In a collaborative public installation on the windows of the main business of Hankyu Umeda, Sayaka Miyata and Midori Hirota.The new miracle museum: the gene of curiosity.'Influenced by the fantastic illustrations by Ernst Haeckel, construct the artists of imaginary organisms that develop through the merging of embroidery and AI. As if they would enter a Natural History Museum of the Future, the spectators encounter textile samples that radiate color, texture and tactile curiosity.
Sayaka Miyata / Midori Hirota – the new miracle museum: the gene of curiosity
Portable stories of femininity, which is rooted in tradition
Inside Creative Center Osaka presents the Polish artist and designer Joanna Hawrot her latest collection 'Invisible threads'An intercultural cooperation that merges the textile traditions of Poland with the shape and symbolism of the Japanese Kimonos. With designs that are developed in collaboration with Polish artists and represented by intimate photographs by Zuza Krajewska, the clothing becomes visual poems, whereby everyone researches female identity through material, draping and gesture. In the context of Osaka, these portable works of art, which are exhibited in Daimaru Umeda, serve as a calmer, but powerful cross -border dialogue.
Joanna Hawrot – Hawrot: Portable Art – Invisible Threads
Pops from Yokai Joy hidden in the city
Humorically, rooted in the Japanese folklore, Maki Takato's ''Yokai unit'Brings a line-up of modern 3D-scanned Yokai creatures onto the street and shop fronts of Osaka. Takato's Yokai, which often shines in the corners of buildings or from old houses or shines out of old houses, are updated with contemporary expressions and textures and become living symbols of life and memory. The installations indicate a new type of landscape in which the ghost world and daily routine coexist and are converted by joy, absurdity and the artistic approach of the artist into traditional mythology.