Yasuhiro Ogawa: Flowing

Ogawa's color photography moves on the threshold between landscape and abstraction, between perception and dissolution.

– Yasuhiro Ogawa, Winter Train, China, 2025

Color increasingly gains independence in his works and replaces clear forms without sacrificing the precision of the composition. His images unfold in a sensitive balance of structure and openness.

Ogawa stands in a Japanese photographic tradition in which nature is not primarily understood as a motif, but as a state—as a space of time, emptiness, and resistance. His photographs are less representations of landscape than surfaces of perception on which light, color, movement, and duration are inscribed. Abstraction appears in Ogawa's work not as a formal stylistic device, but as the consequence of an attitude: a way of seeing that approaches the world tentatively and openly, developing its own form in the process of perception.

From March 14 to May 30, 2026, Galerie Buchkunst Berlin will present the exhibition “Yasuhiro Ogawa – Flowing.” The show brings together central groups of works by the Japanese photographer from recent years and juxtaposes them with new works. This compilation reveals the inner continuity and coherence of his photographic thinking.

Opening hours: Thursday to Saturday from 2 to 6 p.m.

Runtime: Mon, 16/03/2026 to Sat, 30/05/2026

Takes place here:

• Galerie Buchkunst Berlin