Best Gallery In Japan: Nanzuka Underground / 2024 WORLD ART AWARDS

The World Art Awards has announced the 20 Best International Galleries and/or Museums for the year 2024, with Nanzuka Underground receiving the award for the Best Gallery in Japan. Selections are based on years established, industry reputation, location, size, aesthetics, socially relevant exhibits, motivational and educational programs, online presence, represented artists — and references from artists, clients, and visitors.

World Art Awards: “Best in Japan: Nanzuka Underground is situated down the trendy backstreets of Urahara, adjacent to the Harajuku United Arrows building. The gallery comprises four floors, two of which are used for exhibitions, while the upper floors are dedicated to offices and expansive terraces that look out onto the streets of Harajuku.”

NANZUKA is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2005 in Shibuya, Tokyo, as an experimental art gallery dedicated to redefining the creativities in design, illustration, street culture, fashion, music and etc. as academic subjects, while rediscovering the artists who have been evaluated outside of the fine art scene after the World War II, such as Keiichi Tanaami, Hajime Sorayama, Harumi Yamaguchi and Toshio Saeki. Besides, collaborating with many international galleries to support emerging Japanese artists in the international art scene, including Hiroki Tsukuda, Ryuichi Ohira, Makoto Taniguchi, Masato Mori and Haroshi. Simultaneously, the gallery works with international artists who represent the global contemporary art scene.

Exhibitions during this season:

・NANZUKA UNDERGROUND
Koichi Sato/ “Specifically Random”
March 22th (Fri.) — April 28th (Sun.), 2024

・NANZUKA 2G
Ana Pavón Porras/ “I spit even honey”
March 15th(Fri.) — April 14th(Sun.), 2024

・3110NZ by LDH kitchen
Raymond Lemstra/ “Horizons”

Website: https://nanzuka.com/

Art gallery in the special wards of Tokyo, Japan

Address: 3 Chome-30–10 Jingumae, Shibuya City, Tokyo 150–0001, Japan

Tuesday — Saturday / 11:00–19:00, Closed on Sundays and Mondays

Tel: +81–3–5422–3877

Email: info@nanzuka.com

World Art Awards: “This year we awarded art establishments with buildings hundreds of years old presenting Old Master originals, and conversely we selected new boundary-pushing art facilities. We opted for many high-rated private galleries representing important young work, from painting to digital to photography to sculpture. Most of these focus on advancing their regional artists, be they Burmese, Chilean, Colombian, Georgian, Latvian, Malaysian, Moroccan, Japanese, Portuguese, African, American, Latin American or Native-American.

“Our diversified roster this year includes a renowned three-story London showplace and a Prague institution (offering Czech legends of the 19th-20th century as well as European masters like Renoir, Chagall and Picasso). We chose an Australian gallery made of Australian materials specializing in Australian wood sculpture — and the only gallery in Taiwan that has focused on the art of photography for over 15 years. We also tributed large, modern art facilities with influential international presences in Morocco, Japan, Israel and USA.”

World Art Awards 20 Best Galleries & Museums for 2024 are:

Best in Australia: Bungendore Wood Works Gallery

Best in Chile: Isabel Aninat Gallery

Best in Columbia: Beatriz Esguerra Art

Best in Czech Republic: Knupp Gallery

Best in Georgia: UGallery

Best in Israel: Corridor Contemporary

Best in Japan: Nanzuka Underground

Best in Latvia: Galerija Romas Darzs

Best in Malaysia: Gallery des Artistes / Gallery@Tropicana

Best in Morocco: Comptoir des Mines Galerie

Best in Myanmar: New Treasure Art Gallery

Best in Portugal: Underdogs

Best in Taiwan: 1839 Contemporary Gallery

Best in United Kingdom: Miart Gallery London

Best in USA / Alabama: Alabama Contemporary Art Center

Best in USA / Arizona: Exposures International Gallery Of Fine Art

Best in USA / Iowa: Moberg Gallery

Best in USA / Nebraska: Kiechel Fine Art

Best in USA / South Dakota: South Dakota Art Museum

Best in USA / Utah: Ogden Contemporary Arts

www.WorldArtAwards.net annually awards the 20 Best International Galleries, and with their critique months later, awards 300+ living contemporary artists (painters, photographers, sculptors and digital artists).