Supporters | Atsushi Kaga: Open Studio Visit

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Join us for our annual Autumn Open Studio. The tour will visit artist Atsushi Kaga at his TBG+S Studio as he prepares for his solo exhibition, Just another human experience at The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art, 08 November 2025 – 22 February 2026.

Behind the playful and surreal façade of Atsushi Kaga’s misleadingly simple and faux-crude works lurks much darker territory, wherein the artist confronts serious issues of cultural politics, paranoia, the complex search for personal identity and the daily philosophical crises of facing the harsh realities of the world. Through the eyes of a self-proclaimed ‘Otaku’, and influenced by the Japanese story-telling cultures of Manga and Anime, Atsushi Kaga’s razor-sharp wit and extraordinary imagination takes the viewer, willingly led, on a journey of exploration through a complex and often brutal, but hilarious, alternate universe.

Atsushi Kaga (born 1978) is a Japanese artist who lives and works between Ireland and Japan. Recent solo exhibitions include: The world will not end tomorrow, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco (2024); Ukiyo-e, Encounters, mother’s tankstation, Art Basel Hong Kong (2024); Things Will Carry Us Through, Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2023) and your memorabilia floats in the air, mother’s tankstation, London (2022).