Digital とRealA mixture of!
GamesとマツリThe emergence of a sacred place!
Takakura Kazuki Exhibition
Characters are words
2025.11.16(SUN) - 2026.3.1(SUN)
Organized by | Hyper Museum Hanno
Sponsored by | Hanno City, Hanno City Board of Education (Experience Project for Elementary and Junior High School Students in Hanno City), FM NACK5, TV Saitama
Cooperation | Sign Artec Co., Ltd.
The third exhibition at Hyper Museum Hanno features Takakura Kazuki, a highly anticipated artist who blends the digital and real worlds!
Inside and outside the exhibition hall, Takakura's characters, including demons, kappa, the 12 zodiac animals, Buddhist Shinto, and monsters, will be gathered together. Over 10 games that Takakura has created in the past will be exhibited and playable, with changes taking place over the period. There will also be a large installation space centered around the 4-meter giant "Hyperman," which also appeared at GINZA SIX. Hyper Ondo and AR characters will appear in various locations. A variety of events are also planned during the exhibition, including kagura, first shrine visits, and portable shrines.
Be sure to come and visit!
Artist Statement
Characters implemented immediately!
Every character has a voice, and the game has words. Festival dances become songs, and implementations are stored in a distributed format.
We will all gather together, pick them up, let them go, sing and play, then scatter again, saying goodbye as we make our way down the big mountain.
Takakura Kazuki
Hyperman 2025
You can play games!
Takakura Kazuki is an artist who connects art and digital games. He is constantly developing new games. These games themselves are contemporary art pieces with characters and stories, born from a worldview inspired by Eastern thought. There will be PCs set up throughout the exhibition space where you can actually play the games!
Game List
Mani Yugi TOKOYO Arcade ver. / Hyper Shrine (Snake) / Hyper Shrine (Demon) / Go Yugi OHENRO88 demo / GAME OVER / Seisei Seisei Shizuyo / NOSIDE / Tainai Meguri / Eternal Portal / TMT game, etc.
Zodiac digital painting
The twelve zodiac signs originated in ancient China and are still deeply rooted in the hearts of Japanese people as a connection between the universe and humans.
The symbols are 12 different characters: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Boar.
Takakura Kazuki has created a new digital painting of the world of the zodiac, printed it on canvas, and finished it into a one-of-a-kind art piece. If you would like to purchase the work, please contact us. What is your zodiac sign?
HYPER KIDS PROGRAM
Hyper Art & Hyper Kids Program
Hyper Museum Hanno is experimenting with the fusion of digital and natural art. This year's "Hyper Art Project & Kids Program" will feature Takakura Kazuki's new work, "Twelve Zodiac Signs Sugoroku AR Game."
On the ground outside the museum, characters of the 12 zodiac signs are printed, which serve as markers for the AR game. When the player holds their smartphone over the sign, a character of the 12 zodiac signs will appear and give them instructions. The game begins!
Players can also acquire the character as an NFT and add it to their collection.
AR games are cutting-edge games that use Augmented Reality technology to blend the real world with the virtual world. Players can immerse themselves in the augmented world. Takakura Kazuki has been experimenting with AR games as artworks for a long time.
Everyone, come and play in the metsä forest, an expanded world like never before.
*The dates will be announced one after another.
Takakura Kazuki Profile
Takakura Kazuki
Artist, born in 1987. Graduated with a master's degree from Tokyo Zokei University. Utilizing digital expression such as video games, pixel art, VR, NFT, and AI, he creates works that explore themes such as rewriting the rules of contemporary art through Eastern thought such as Buddhism, pursuing new value in digital data, and the aesthetics of character variation. Major exhibitions include the solo exhibition "Mecharial" at Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, the planned/exhibition "Character Matrix" at BUG, Ashikaga City Museum of Art, SusHi Tech Square, NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], solo exhibitions in Taipei, and exhibitions in New York and Mexico.
To coincide with this exhibition, his first picture book, "Oni Kappa and the Zodiac" (published by Sunread), has been published.
