Artist

Completed

2026-01

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“SUKIMA Gallery” is a project that transformed old buildings scheduled for demolition across Tokyo into galleries for a limited time.
Artist Ryuichi Ogino, the central figure in the project, viewed the emergency staircase at BnA_WALL Nihonbashi as a “gap = SUKIMA”, a space that is not normally used, and transformed it into a gallery for a limited time to create a mural.
The mural and space, which were carefully created using his free time, were conceived in the spring of 2025 and unveiled in January 2026.


[STATEMENT]
The air pressure might change when the door is closed.
When I opened the heavy door, I felt a sense of time slipping away.
The cylindrical emergency staircase that stretches from the basement to the fifth floor is usually unused, and the higher I climb, the more I feel cut off from everyday life.
It suddenly felt like a cave where no one ever sets foot.

BNA_WALL, an art hotel in Nihonbashi, has a main mural that can be viewed from the lobby, but there is also a project called MIR in which various artists stay and leave murals on the emergency stairs.

This time, I used the top of the emergency stairs, on the fourth and fifth floors, to create a mural installation that expresses criticality and urgency through the lens of “symbols.”

I hope you all enjoy this ‘SUKIMA’.
Thank you.

Ryuichi Ogino

[Photo]
Joji Shimamoto (@jojishimamoto)