MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY is pleased to present a solo exhibition by rising artist Kenta Takahashi, opening on April 23, 2026.

This exhibition emerges from the artist’s inquiry into the formation of the hybrid cultural conditions they take for granted in everyday life, and unfolds around the concept of “Allohistory”—a speculative framework that asks how existing styles and cultures might appear if inverted.
Through a sense of dissonance toward Western-derived notions and value systems of art, as well as the tendency for Nihonga (traditional Japanese painting) to be categorized as craft due to the materiality of its medium, the artist explores the possibility of alternative systems of value.
In this exhibition, the artist treats the modes and techniques of Nihonga and printmaking, which they have studied, not within the hierarchies of contemporary art but on equal terms, presenting ten works that embody a way of thinking that leaps from the present toward the future, and that articulate the present landscape.