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.” […]

Born out of the exhibition “After all” held this spring at RPS Kyoto Papéroles, After the after all is a special artist book that reconstructs the materials and elements generated during the show into a new, tangible form. Created by reusing materials that were originally destined to be discarded after the exhibition, this book transforms […]

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 […]

As part of our program in December 2025, we are pleased to present Yoshikatsu Fujii’s solo exhibition “Five Before the Fall.” Fujii, working from the perspective of a third-generation A-bomb survivor (Hibakusha), has been creating the “Hiroshima Graph” series since 2015. Through this long-term project, he has revisited overlooked testimonies of history, traced the lives […]