Studio GROSS / スタジオグロス 建築事務所・ギャラリー Office/Gallery
Architecture, Curation, Design, Film making, Illustration, Photography
5-14-13 Higashiogu, Arakawa-Ku, 116-0012 Tokyo, Japan
116-0012 東京都荒川区東尾久 5-14-13
Angus Schaefer 「さらば」
Exhibition
November 17-19 2023
13:00-19:00
Opening Reception + Farewell
Saturday, November 18 2023
17:00〜
We are happy to announce the beautiful solo show of talented painter and friend Angus Schaefer.
Although a little sad, this show also makes his farewell to Tokyo. On this occasion, we invite you all, whether friends, fans or curious, to celebrate with us on the third weekend of November.
さらば！
Angus is a painter from the United States working with a mix of contemporary and traditional East Asian media. He studied Nihonga, “Japanese Painting”, as a research student in the Tokyo University of the Arts, learning the techniques and history of Nihonga.
In miniature worlds all around, little kami await you. Explore their peculiar personalities, curious forms, and color-filled extravagance at the Angus Schaefer Exhibition at Studio GROSS.
ジェーファー アンガスはアメリカ出身の画家で、現代だの画材と伝統的な東アジアの画材をミックスした作品を制作している。東京藝術大学で研究生として日本画を学び、日本画の技法と歴史を学んだ。
小さなの世界では、小さな神たちがあなたを待っています。スタジオ・グロスで開催されるアンガス・シェーファー展で、その特異な個性、不思議な形、色彩にあふれた世界を楽しんでください。
Understanding Urban Consequences
2019 City Walk Tokyo with Michael Müller, Mayor of Berlin, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Tokyo
2019 Interview with DAAD – German
2019 City Walk Tokyo with the Building Committee of the German Federal Parliament, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Tokyo
2019 Won Tokyo Start-Up Challenge, supported by Tokyo Institute of Technology Fund for Research and Innovation
2019 Won Merit Prize, The 46th Nisshin Kogyo Architectural Design Competition ‚自然の上に暮らす‘
2019 Finalist Transfer Architecture Video Awards, Zurich, Switzerland – with 「Yoshino Cedar House」
2019 Video Series Production and Direction for the Canadian Center for Architecture with c/o Tokyo, Kayoko Ota
2020 Published in Shinkenchiku 新建築 2020年1月号 – featured 46th Nisshin Kogyo Architectural Design Competition
2020 Collaborating Supervisors at EVER AFTER Workshop, Tokyo University of the Arts (PIA lab + Ishinomaki Laboratory) + Exhibition at DesignArt Tokyo 2020
2020 Exhibition and Talk Event at OGU MAG Gallery, Tokyo 「クリーニングデイ＝モノと対話する日」
2020 Exhibition of Finalists Transfer Video Award 2019, ‚Ville, Architecture, Payasage au cinéma‘ MCBA, Lausanne, Switzerland
2020 Guest Lecture at IUBH International University of Applied Sciences, Hannover, German
2021 Guest Lecture at Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany
2021 Finished Koizumi Building 「小泉ビル」Facade Renovation, Tokyo, Japan
2021 Finished 「OGUMAG +」 Renovation Project with a Gallery, Cafe, Atelier and Residence
2021 Lecturer for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Scrivener Association 「空き家の利活用セミナー」
2021 Lecturer at Goethe-Institut Tokio + City Walk
2021 Guest Lecture at University of Tsukuba, World Heritage Studies, 「Global Learning: Heritage, Creativity and Art」
2021 Exhibition and Talk Event at OGU MAG Gallery, Tokyo 「OGU MAG+ みんなの活動 6/17(木)-6/27(日)」
2021 Published in 商店建築10月号 – featured 「OGU MAG ＋」
2021 Co-Teaching at HTWK Leipzig, Entwerfen + Baukonstruktion, Prof. Anthusa Löffler, Community and Material Research center
2021 Shortlisted at the Transfer Architecture Video Award, Zurich, Switzerland – with 「A Story of A House」
2021 Video screening premiere of 「A Story of A House」at OGU MAG+ Farm
2021 Models Talk CCA video series – Release event + conversation (Giovanna Borasi, Kayoko Ota, Studio Gross, Kumiko Inui, Kazuko Akamatsu, Erika Nakagawa)
2021 Models Talk CCA video series – Dezeen feature
2021 Guest Lecture at Fukushima University 「空き家ー都市資源」
2021 Won Merit Prize, The 48th Nisshin Kogyo Architectural Design Competition ‚人間の家‘ 日新工業建築設計競技 (佳作)
2022 Published in Shinkenchiku 新建築 2022年1月号 – featured 48th Nisshin Kogyo Architectural Design Competition
2022 Published at architechturephoto – featured 「OGU MAG+」
2022 University of Tsukuba – World Heritage Workshop – 昭和の遺産を分析し再構築 – 筑波大学 世界遺産調査
2022 Baunetzwoche#595 IDEEN FÜR TOKIOS LEERE HÄUSER
2022 werk, bauen + wohnen, CH, 06/2022 – ‘Mehr <ma> bitte! – Leerstand und Revitalisierung in Tokio’
2022 Finished first phase Moritaya Sake-shop 「モリタヤ」 酒店 東京 改修
2022 Published at Fundacion Arquia – featured Films: OGU MAG+, Kazuya Morita, Go Hasegawa, Kazuyo Sejima, Akiya, Atelier Bow-Wow
2022 Published at New Gens – featured Studio GROSS
2022 Published Film: 「Szenen eines Hauses – Ein zeitgenössisches Portrait des Senshintei」 – ある家の風景 現代に生きる「洗心亭」の姿
2022 Guest Lecture at University of Tsukuba, World Heritage Studies, 「Global Learning: Heritage, Creativity and Art」
2022 Guest Critic at HTWK Leipzig, Entwerfen + Baukonstruktion, Prof. Anthusa Löffler, Media and Health center
2022 Published in Shinkenchiku 新建築 2022年8月号 – featured 「OGU MAG＋」
2022 Published in buildingsomethingoffbeat – featured 「小泉ビル」
2022 Finished 「KOWORK」 Renovation Project – After school activity 柏市 改修
2022 Part time lecturer at Musashino Art University – Tokyo, Japan
2022 Part time lecturer at Tokyo Denki University – Tokyo, Japan
2023 HOUSE 03 featured at ‚Make Do With Now: New Directions in Japanese Architecture‘ exhibition in Basel by Swiss Architecture Museum
2023 HOUSE 03 featured at ‚Make Do With Now: New Directions in Japanese Architecture‘ exhibition catalog
2023 Guest Lecture at Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
2023 Part time lecturer at Tokyo Denki University – Tokyo, Japan
2023 Part time lecturer at Kanto Gakuin University – Yokohama, Japan
2023 Guest Lecture at Meiji University, IAUD – Tokyo, Japan
2023 Research Assistant at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
2023 Part time lecturer at Tsukuba University, Japan
2023 PARK-PLATZ – part of URBAN WALKS Goethe-Institut East Asia
2023 AFFR Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam featured「MAKE DO WITH NOW」with Q&A
2023 FilmTage Erfurt featured「MAKE DO WITH NOW」with discussion
2023 HOUSE 03 featured at ‚Make Do With Now: New Directions in Japanese Architecture‘ exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark
2023 Archifest Singapore featured「MAKE DO WITH NOW」
2023 PARK-PLATZ – part of URBAN WALKS Round Table discussion, Seoul, Korea
2023 FilmFest Akizuki featured「MAKE DO WITH NOW」
2023 HOUSE 03 featured at ‚Make Do With Now: New Directions in Japanese Architecture‘ exhibition in Tallinn, Estonia
Curated Exhibitions and Studio Events
2019 SEP 「Opening Studio GROSS」 with Irene Yamaguchi
2019 OCT 「Residential + Studio Building Berlin」 ifau + Heide & von Beckerath, PHOTOGRAPHY: Andrew Alberts
2019 NOV 「One footstep, touching the ground」 Guillaume Barborini, Co-Curated by Masamichi Tamura (artport/ Echangeur22)
2019 DEC 「忘年会」Neighbourhood Event
2020 JUL 「Life PaintingーAndrea Terceros」+ 「domestic island」with Andrea Terceros, Eirdis, DJ: Lucia Filippini, Aske Albertus, IG live with Tokyo Weekender
2020 AUG 「Chuhwui Pop-Up Shop」Local Jewelleries
2020 AUG 「警戒: Don’t Come Outside」Aquiles Hadjis
2021 FEB 「MINERAL」Shiho Morisugi, Photo Shooting for a young local children’s fashion label
2021 MAR「MINERAL」Shiho Morisugi, Photo Shooting for a young local children’s fashion label
2021 MAY 「On life and intimacy」 Guillem Ayora
2021 AUG 「Obaachan no kami」Chloe Paré & Theodor Maier
2021 OCT 「Art Sale」Ousmane Bâ
2021 OCT 「Halloween Party」Kizuna
2022 MAR「 人間の家はソフトなまち」Asami Togawa
2022 JUN「 Soybean planting」Neighbourhood Event
2022 JUL「 TANABATA」Studio GROSS with Ebony Bižys
2022 NOV「 Kumanomae Yoga fes」Neighbourhood Common Space
2022 NOV「 Arakawa Pottery Pop-Up Tour」Ido Ferber
2022 DEC「 October November」Elisabeth Kihlström, Yuki Higashino
2023 MAR「 AESTHETIC FICTION – Dismantling the Light of Frank Lloyd Wright 」Karina Nimmerfall
2023 JUN「 Extolling the Virtues of Peach Blossoms over Pine Needles 」Karine Fauchard, Lazar Lyutakov
2023 SEP「 Iʻm here」Maurizio Cirillo – as part of PARK-PLATZ by Studio GROSS
2023 NOV「 ICELAND」Akase Yuki
2023 NOV「 さらば 」Angus Schaefer
Models Talk: CCA c/o Tokyo video series
Models Talk is a new three-part video series that the CCA produced together with architectural curator and editor Kayoko Ota (Tokyo) and Studio GROSS (Tokyo and Berlin), as part of our CCA c/o Tokyo program.
Socially engaged approaches in architecture, including participatory design, reprogramming, and minimum intervention, are increasingly common—but can often yield predictable results. This series of videos focuses instead on works that challenge convention in order to address current urban issues, and uses the particularities of film as a format to convey the ideas defining these works. In each video one architect leads the viewer through a model that acts as a guide by way of the problems, concepts, and inventive propositions that underlie the work.
Motivated by the desire to illustrate architectural concepts and make them more easily accessible, Models Talk gives a platform to three architects working through contemporary challenges to express their proposals.
In Recipe for Mixed Rice (10 minutes), the viewer is dropped first with Kumiko Inui on a train through Nobeoka, then through her approach to designing for its train station: an inclusive workshop that asks how space can be “freed up, not filled.” Kazuko Akamatsu reveals a similarly generous exercise in urban redevelopment in A Matter of Void (9 minutes). “Because [Shibuya is] such a dynamic place, I thought it would be more appropriate to create an environment where people can feel they’re in the middle of this constantly moving city.” Erika Nakagawa, then, conceives of any new project as “an addition to its surrounding environment” in A Neighbourhood in A House (13 minutes). The series reveals a shared empathy in how these contemporary practitioners approach design questions and the role of documentary film as an intimate vehicle behind-the-scenes of these processes.
Anne Groß
1984 Born in Hoyerswerda, Germany
2012 Completed Diploma Degree, Architecture, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus
2012 Completed Master Degree, European Architecture, BTU-Cottbus, TUT-Tallinn, UAL-Lisbon, PW-Wroclaw, UI-Innsbruck, US-Seville, TAU-Tel Aviv, UDK-Berlin
2013 Joined gmp – Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners, Berlin
2014 Joined KADEN+LAGER, Berlin
2016 Joined DAAD Scholarship Program, Tokyo
2019 PhD Researcher, TSUKAMOTO Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2019 Founded Studio GROSS
Sebastian Groß
1985 Born in Berlin, Germany
2012 Completed Master Degree, European Architecture, BTU-Cottbus, TUT-Tallinn, UAL-Lisbon, PW-Wroclaw, UI-Innsbruck, US-Seville, TAU-Tel Aviv, UDK-Berlin
2013 Joined gmp – Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners, Berlin
2016 Joined Rei Mitsui Architects, Tokyo
2017 Joined Klein Dytham Architecture, Tokyo
2019 Founded Studio GROSS
Tokyo – Berlin
WE PLAN – Architecture, Refurbishment, Interior
WE SHARE – Knowledge, Space, Japanese Language, Intercultural Competence, Architectural Consultancy
WE FILM – Kazuya Morita Architecture Design Studio, Go Hasegawa, Kazuyo Sejima, Akiya, Atelier Bow-Wow @anne_studiogross
WE RESEARCH – Tsukamoto Lab @colorstudyjapan
WE BUILD – Models, Furniture, Content
WE PAINT – Urban Activism
WE DRAW – Illustrations @sebastian_studiogross
WE SHOP – Everyday Items made in Japan: Kitchenware, Hardware, Furnishing, Architecture Accessory, Fashion