Four artist open call for participants platform "TYPELESS_Vol.3" notice work production artists are decided

Shibuya Area Management Association (the location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Director representative: Yoichiro Sakai) aimed at making environment where thing, artist who did public space from all over thing, the redevelopment to solve the issue of scenery such as graffiti, sticker in front of Shibuya Station wealthily could challenge and carried out artist open call for participants platform "TYPELESS" on the stage of the community space in front of Shibuya Station. We carried out over twice of 2023 and 2024 in total and won favorable reception, but as a result of having carried out the public open call for participants of artist curator this year as "TYPELESS Vol.3", participation of four artists was decided after fair examination from the number of record-high application.

By this project, work of chosen artist is notified by urban space of Shibuya. Work is going to be released in February, 2026. In addition, we may be changed without notice on Pub. Date.

Please refer to this press release for the details of open call for participants contents.

<February, 2026 work exhibition place>

Area targeted for this work notice is all eight pillars in front of Shibuya Station Mark City. We will announce notice point of each writer, development work score later.

[the past enforcement]
Work notice spot photograph of "TYPELESS Vol.1" which was released in March, 2024. It is coming out until February, 2026.

(reference) the whole map of notice point

Participation artist profile [the order of the kana syllabary]

■Jo Katayama

We are from Niigata for 1,985 years. Tokyo art university art department crafts department dyeing and weaving specialty is a graduate for 2,011 years.

Using technique of "batik print", we produce work which assumed real scenery motif under the theme of "Chill" (till).

By describing scene and phenomenon with paramnesia, person of appreciation is separated from reality through work temporarily and regains calmness and calmness and expresses experience brought back to own sense.

We deal with use of work, commission work to plural companies in "Nomad" (s+arts, Tokyo, 2025), "Diversity gradation" (anonymous bldg., Tokyo, 2024), participation in domestic and foreign art fair, Amazon TV screenshot for main private exhibition.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joe_0822/

■Funahashi Marino

We are from Aichi for 1,989 years. We get close to picture from cause of influence of father who is painter, the childhood period.

We complete Musashino Art University Graduate School molding graduate course design specialty space direction design course.

We focus at color and form, temperature that existence called memory has and time, and, in accord with coexistence contained in scenery at time, various things abstract scenery to coexist and express as composition. We replace the way of coexistence with color and relationship of feel of a material and, in the present age to diversify, search and explore ideal view of the world that we got of harmony.

We ask vague feelings and sense to lie hidden in innermost of people by screen constitution that had physical thickness that afterimage and time of sense that stroke of the pen reminds of based on sense and memory and concept of "symbolic abstraction" to rise as symbol thing as it is connected in the inside of person of appreciation have calmly while being nonfigurative painting.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marino_mcrooms/

■Ryosuke Misawa

Artist. We are from Fukui for 1,992 years. Rikkyo University modern psychology department picture body subject is a graduate. It moves into action based in Tokyo.

The cause of concept to "observe universality" through own technique "media paradox" in the subject produces light. We rebuild light that is invisible existence as painting and space installation.

Winning "LIFE LAND SHIBUYA AWARD" Masamichi Tooyama judge special prize hosted by Tokyu, Kagoshima art museum sponsorship "prize for the fourth Makurazaki-shi international art exhibition" are selected for main award.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryosuke_misawa_53/

■hachimokuuki (goat Hiro comes)

We are from Nagaoka-shi, Niigata for 1,991 years.

We advocate "search of pictorial representation which is Melancomic" on theme of production and move into action based in Tokyo. We feel charm with human being and complexity that this world has so that impression of "shade" such as sorrow and sorrow and impression of "positive" such as joy and warmth, contradicting impression are complicated in one existence and research expression through picture.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melan.comic/

■Sponsorship, cooperation

Sponsorship　　　：Shibuya Area Management Association

Support　　　：Shibuya-ku

Administration cooperation　：Embedded Blue Inc.

■Shibuya Area Management Association

Of turnout creation, Shibuya whom "move Shibuya in sense of fun.", and the Shibuya station square area management is constructing in o concept in the future of image disseminate information; is high by charm of town of Shibuya including event enforcement in one station square area

We carry out ru public interest-like approach.

Official homepage: https://shibuyaplusfun.com/

Official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shibuya_plusfun/

■Administration, production partner Embedded Blue Inc.

We are good at project design connecting art and society and develop business mainly on culture artwork support of artist support, company and art project plan in public space. We deal from creation to business development with original style doing cowound with artist by team comprised of business side that experienced IT, financial industry and creator having a variety of skills and originality widely.

Business outline:

・Artist agent

・Art project plan (town planning business through culture artwork support project, art of company)

Official homepage: https://www.embeddedblue.com/

Official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/embedded_blue_inc/