Facility Information

Display Period, Venue

Display Period:

9/13 (Sat) – 11/30 (Sun)

Hours:

10:00 to 17:00 *Closed on Tuesdays

Venue:

The Seto Shinkin Bank Art Gallery
(36-11 Higashiibaracho, Seto-shi, Aichi 489-0897, Japan)
*You can enjoy the exhibition without a ticket.

Exhibition Overview

The region surrounding the city of Seto and the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum – both of which serve as venues for Aichi Triennale 2025 – is a famous Japanese pottery center. Home to many old kilns and rich in the distinctive clay used for local ceramics, the area also features a unique natural terrain with spring-fed wetlands and a wide diversity of indigenous plants.
Historically, the kilns were fired with wood from nearby forests, which for centuries underwent cycles of felling and replanting. Once coal became the main energy source, the landscape changed drastically, with many non-native plants beginning to thrive in the region’s nutrient-poor soil.
By presenting clay samples, raw ceramic materials, plant specimens, and informational panels, this exhibition brings visitors closer to the Seto region’s unique geology, terrain, and flora of the Seto region.
It also introduces documents and materials that shed light on the background of works by several Aichi 2025 artists whose creative processes involve in-depth research into Seto’s natural resources. In this way, we hope to offer a deeper understanding of the festival’s concepts and approaches.

• The Seto Shinkin Bank Art Gallery