Kota Arinaga, Netz Series, “Dappled Sunlight” 木漏れ日, 2024, Glass, H19 1/4 x W8 1/2 x D8 1/2 in, H49 x W21.5 x D21.5 cm, (C28584NP)

Design Miami 2025
Kekkai: The Space Between
December 2 – 7, 2025
Convention Center Drive & 19th Street, Miami Beach

Ippodo Gallery is delighted to present Kekkai: The Space Between at Design Miami, December 2-7, 2025. The exhibition investigates the Japanese concept of kekkai—a boundary, threshold, or interface. Rather than a mere division, they explore it as a critical site of interaction: a porous plane where materials, forms, and ideas encounter one another, creating a dynamic and transformative dialogue.

The curated selection of works examines the tangible and conceptual boundaries that structure our experience: between nature and artifice, tradition and innovation, solid and void. Featuring an international roster of Japanese and European artists, including Agnes Husz, KAKU, Kan Yasuda, Ken Matsubara, Kenta Hirai, Kodai Ujiie, Laura de Santillana, Lee Jae Hyo, Masahiro Maeda, Midori Tsukada, Mitsukuni Misaki, Shihoko Fukumoto, Ymer & Malta, and Yukiya Izumita.

Through a masterful and conscious engagement with materiality, each piece acts as a contemporary kekkai, framing the profound and poetic moments that occur in the liminal space where one state transitions to another. In response to a world saturated with noise and information, this exhibition constructs a necessary domain for contemplation, the essential “space between”. The collection invites a closer look at the boundaries—both visible and implied—that define, separate, and ultimately, connect.

They look forward to welcoming you soon to Miami Beach!

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