Studio Adrien Gardère

Since 2005 Studio Adrien Gardère was in charge of the artistic direction and design of all exhibitions and installations of the international festivals of the Kennedy Center, the largest center of performing arts in the US, which offers more than 8.000 m2 of exhibition spaces.

Japan, Culture + Hyperculture — second International festival designed by the Studio — is the largest Japanese festival ever organized in the USA. The installations included famous architect Tadao Ando, artists Yayoi Kusama, Mika Ninagawa and fashion designer Junko Koshino.

For the textile company Nuno Corporation, the Studio designed Koï Current, an outsized school of fish, which recalls the Koi Kite Festival in Japan.

For Mikimoto’s jewelry collection of Obidome — traditional Kimono’s sash clip — the Studio designed an installation of oversized Shoji —traditional Japanese rice-paper partitions — displaying also ancient kimonos from the collection of the Textile museum of Washington DC.

The Festival also included an exhibition dedicated to Honda, Toyota and Mistubishi humanoid robots, to Mangas and Robot toys, to contemporary Japanese craftsmen (M. Motoko and Kawashima) and to photos of Hiroyuki Suzuki.