We are pleased to announce that Yufan Lu, an artist working between China and Finland, has been selected as the first-ever grant recipient of RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES. This year’s jury consisted of Alexa Becker, Erik Vroons, Giuseppe Oliverio, Staton Winter, and Marina Paulenka, who engaged in careful and thoughtful deliberation before selecting Lu’s project, “Return.” […]

RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES Artist-in-Residence Program | Winter–Spring 2026 RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES started as a branch of Reminders Photography Stronghold in Tokyo and has hosted exhibitions, workshops, and artist residencies.We are now accepting applications for our Winter–Spring 2026 Artist-in-Residence program. The selected artist will stay at RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES for two weeks between February and May […]

We are pleased to announce that Ilja Niederkirchner, a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist, has been selected as the autumn artist-in-residence at RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES. His long-term project “GESPENSTER” explores the history of his family against the backdrop of twentieth-century political conflicts between Germany and the Soviet Union. At its heart are the intertwined lives of his […]

As part of a recent talk event, I had the opportunity to share some reflections as a curator on how exhibition spaces interact with the viewer’s body, memory, and emotions. What follows is a written record of those thoughts—an attempt to articulate the questions and explorations that emerged at the intersection of exhibition design and […]