MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL Annex: Outdoor Exhibition by Three Artists in Yoyogi Park in December

The outdoor art exhibition “MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL Annex” will be held for 24 days, from Friday, December 4 to Sunday, December 27, 2026, at the Panorama Plaza in Yoyogi Park (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo). It is organized by an executive committee that includes avex Creator Agency and by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and hours are 11:00–22:00. Three artists take part, Dan Isomura, Shota Yamauchi and Hiiragi Yonezawa, with Isomura and Yonezawa presenting new works. According to Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT], admission is free.

Reinterpreting “Rising Signs” in a park

According to the organizers, the Annex is an attempt to reinterpret “Rising Signs,” the theme of the main festival “MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2026,” in Yoyogi Park, an urban public space. It aims to show not a finished culture but the process by which different forms of expression and different people intersect, and it also seeks to create unplanned encounters with art in the park.

According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s press materials (September 15, 2026), the main festival ran from October 9 to 12 in the Tennoz canal area (Terrada Warehouse and other venues). The materials list both the main festival and the Annex as highlight programs of “ARTE TOKYO” (October 10 – December 31), an art festival organized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and others. The Metropolitan Government positions Yoyogi Park as a hub connecting Shibuya, Harajuku and Omotesando. In December, core programs such as Yasuhiro Suzuki’s “The Person of Air” and Sou Fujimoto’s “Sky Pavilion” are also planned in and around the Panorama Plaza.

What can be seen? Three artists and their new works

• Dan Isomura, “STARS”: A new video by an artist who works across painting, sculpture, video and sound installation. Images of people playing and dancing with handheld fireworks overlap and turn into a galaxy-like swarm of lights.

• Shota Yamauchi, “In Between... Us?”: A new outdoor version of a performance installation presented this year at Nakameguro Park. The white, branching structure, reminiscent of tree roots or nerves, was inspired by the idea of the rhizome; it changes its state by sensing surrounding sounds and shifts in the environment, and this time it also responds to visitors’ voices and movements.

• Hiiragi Yonezawa, “Anima/Fossile”: A new animation trace mural in which hollows evoking the forms of people and creatures and the afterimages of bodies are carved into a large wall. By day the traces are visible, and at night light illuminates the depths of the hollows.

Yamauchi was born in Gifu Prefecture in 1992 and completed the Media Creation course of the Graduate School of Film and New Media at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2016. His work is part of “Encounter with the Unknown,” a project he is pursuing as a CCBT Artist Fellow for fiscal 2025, and CCBT co-organizes its presentation. Yonezawa explores themes such as the corporeality of digital animation characters and is also active in music, directing music videos and performing as a VJ.

Venue, admission and access

The venue is the Panorama Plaza in Yoyogi Park, and CCBT’s event page lists admission as “free.” According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association, Yoyogi Park is a 3-minute walk from Harajuku Station on the JR Yamanote Line and from Yoyogi-koen Station and Meiji-jingumae (Harajuku) Station on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line. Check the official website for arrangements in case of rain and other details.

Editor’s perspective

All three works incorporate light and video or respond to voices and movement. Like the mural whose hollows are lit from within at night, they give visitors reasons to come by day and by night to the winter park, which stays open until 22:00. December events are gathered in our December art event calendar.

Overview

Name: MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL Annex
Dates: Friday, December 4 – Sunday, December 27, 2026 (24 days)
Hours: 11:00–22:00
Venue: Panorama Plaza, Yoyogi Park
Address: 2-1 Yoyogi Kamizonocho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Admission: Free (according to CCBT’s event page)
Organizers: MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL Executive Committee (avex Creator Agency Inc., Area Management TENNOZ, Tennoz Canalside Revitalization Association), Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Co-organizer: Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] (Shota Yamauchi’s work)
Operation: Lights Inc.
Official website: https://avex.jp/meetyourart/festival/annex/
*Information as of October 19, 2026. Please check the official website for the latest information.

*Top image: from a press release by avex Creator Agency Inc.

*This article was compiled by the TOKYO ART SPHERE editorial team based on press materials from the MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL Executive Committee (avex Creator Agency Inc.) (September 15, 2026) and official information from CCBT and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

Text: TOKYO ART SPHERE Editorial Team