EXHIBITIONS
Ken + Julia Yonetani “CRYSTAL PALACE”
2025.1.30(Thu) – 2025.3.16(Sun)
Ken + Julia Yonetani is an internationally acclaimed unit of Japanese and Australian artists who transform environmental and social issues into aesthetic and humorous works of art through a variety of expressive methods, including installation, performance, sculpture and video.
This exhibition will feature “Crystal Palace: The Great Exposition of Industrial Works from All Nuclear Power Plants,” an installation of chandeliers made of uranium glass, which is one of their representative works. Each piece of this work is named after a country that possesses nuclear power plants. And the size of the chandelier is proportional to the total size of the power output (megawatts: see IAEA data) produced by the country’s nuclear power plants. The creation of this work began after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, and now 32 countries are present.
This work is named after the Crystal Palace, a huge, all-glass structure built in Hyde Park as the site of the world’s first world’s fair, the London World’s Fair, held in 1851.
The work illuminates the problems that exist in the shadows of industrial policies and economic development around the world with a bewitchingly beautiful green light unique to uranium glass, and asks us questions about these problems.
Ken + Julia Yonetani
Ken Yonetani is a former financial broker and Julia is a former university historian. They live and work in Kyoto Prefecture, where they also run an organic farm. They are known for their large-scale installations that focus mainly on environmental issues. Major group exhibitions include “Venice Biennale” (2009, represented Australia), “Singapore Biennale” (2013), and “Gangwon International Triennale” (2024, Korea). Major solo exhibitions include the National Gallery of Australia, 2015, and Kadokawa Musashino Museum, Saitama, 2020.
art cruise gallery by baycrew’s
- Address
- SELECT BY BAYCREW’S, Toranomon Hills Station Tower 3F, 2-6-1, Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-5503, JAPAN
- Entrance fee
- Free Entry
- Opening hours
- 11:00-20:00(19:30Last entry)
- Closed
- Open daily until March 16