Opening September 13, 2025, in Toyama, Japan, Shimizu Tokuko, Shimizu Miho, and Øyvind Renberg will take part in the GO FOR KOGEI exhibition 2025. Their show features a broad range of Tokuko Shimizu’s textile posters, first created for Miho Shimizu and Øyvind Renberg during the Danger Museum period. Miho and Øyvind will also present graphic and sculptural works that contextualize the projects Tokuko’s posters were part of.
Tokuko Shimizu has produced two new textile pieces for the occasion. Her diptych paraphrases the theme of the GO FOR KOGEI exhibition to meditate on her own creative life. A diary page from 2004 and a current snapshot, both rendered in thread, portray the artist at work, separated by two decades.
LINK TO THE GO FOR KOGEI SITE HERE
Tokuko Shimizu: TEXTILE POSTERS (2022)
This is the first Catalogue Raissoné on the art of Tokuko Shimizu, a housewife whose creative path evolved alongside the chores of her Tokyo home. With an ongoing interest in art, history and culture and a serious commitment to exploring diverse techniques, her works in oil, weaving, Japanese dye, and fabric patchwork collage, display great inventiveness and vitality.
The book concentrates on Shimizu’s series of textile exhibition posters, embroidered on commission by her artist daughter, Miho and collaborator Øyvind Renberg, from 2002 to 2008. Beautiful color reproductions of the posters are interspersed with new photographic projects by Gottingham that explore the personal relationship between mother and daughter.
Accompanied by an in-depth interview and a detailed index and exhibition history, the book chronicles the overlap of art and life in a family with a rare artistic collaboration.