GALLERY MoMo

GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku is pleased to present “Let’s Pink! 6”, a group exhibition curated and organized by artist Satoshi Osada, on view from Saturday, January 17 to Saturday, February 14, 2026.

This exhibition is the sixth installment of a series themed around the color pink, previously held three times in Tokyo between 2009 and 2010, and twice in Okinawa in 2014 and 2024. Marking the first Tokyo edition in sixteen years, this iteration brings together six artists who each explore the diverse expressions and renewed possibilities embodied by the color pink.

Osada approaches pink not merely as a symbol of cuteness, but as a color capable of gently enveloping people and the world, at times carrying a sense of festivity or spirituality. The series has continued as a platform for artists to engage with pink in their own ways and to present unique worlds that emerge from that dialogue.

We invite you to experience the varied interpretations of pink brought forth by each participating artist.

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“Let’s Pink!” is an exhibition that was held three times in Tokyo between 2009 and 2010, and for the fourth and fifth times in 2014 and 2024 at Gallery Lafayette in Okinawa.
This exhibition adopts “pink” as its theme color, consciously engaging with expressions that use “pink” and attempting to draw out the color’s abundant charm. Participating artists share the theme of “pink” and explore new possibilities inherent in this color. Pink is said to have healing effects, to promote the secretion of female hormones, and to create a sense of calm, but beyond these effects, the color can present many different expressions depending on how it is expressed and perceived.

There are moments when one may feel enveloped by the depth of “pink,” and moments when one may be surprised by unexpected qualities of the color.

This sixth edition will be held in Tokyo for the first time in 16 years, since the third exhibition.
The participating artists are six in total: three based in the Kanto region and Nagano—Fumiaki Akabane, Ayano Kaeba, and Osamu Watanabe—and three based in Okinawa—Satoshi Osada, Daichi Sato, and Erika Yamashiro. I would like to highlight Akabane and Sato, who are participating for the first time.

Akabane focuses primarily on painting, yet in recent years has developed works incorporating materials such as sand, hemp fiber, beeswax, and substances reminiscent of “soil.” His solo exhibition Rotten Symphony features “anthropomorphized plants and fungi,” and is described as depicting a world that contains the fundamental desires and contradictions of human beings. For him, the “human body” and “living beings” are not isolated individuals but parts of a system connected to forests, soil, fungi, and microorganisms—a relationship he seeks to visualize through painting.

Sato is based in Okinawa, yet possesses a global perspective. In his paintings, characters quietly engage in conversation or appear as though performing music, creating scenes in which “the blink of time” and “stories within the margins” can be felt despite the still imagery. By adding extraordinary elements to seemingly ordinary scenery and motifs, he generates a “coexistence of déjà vu and unfamiliarity.” When classical pictorial elements such as composition, allegory, and narrative overlap with images shaped by the pop and internet age, a sense of “displacement” emerges—an experience that reveals the depth of his work.

A shared characteristic of Akabane’s and Sato’s works is the way motifs or elements that appear contradictory become connected or overlap. Through these connections and overlaps, viewers standing before their works may feel as if they have entered into the paintings themselves—experiencing the unreal world vividly, as though becoming inhabitants of it. In a contemporary era where connection and overlap among people, objects, and events are growing increasingly tenuous, their works remind us of the importance of such relationships. By exhibiting Akabane’s and Sato’s “pink” works together in the same gallery, we hope that their works will connect and overlap with one another as well, offering viewers the chance to experience new charms and expressions of “pink.”
Additionally, all six artists—including Kaeba, Yamashiro, Watanabe, and Osada—share a common characteristic: their range of expression exceeds any single medium or genre.

As the organizer, I (Osada) moved from Tokyo, where I had lived for 13 years, to Okinawa in 2013. In Okinawa—a new home with a warm climate, warm people, and generous inclusiveness—I have sought new possibilities as an artist. Coincidentally, this pursuit overlaps with the concept of “Let’s Pink!”, which seeks new possibilities in the color “pink,” a color that envelops and fascinates people. While the fifth exhibition was held in Okinawa in 2024, ten years after the previous edition, I feel great joy and purpose in presenting the sixth edition in Tokyo, where the works of Okinawa-based artists can be introduced alongside those of artists from other regions.

Satoshi Osada, Organizer of “Let’s Pink!”