Kyoto Art Center aims at supporting artists and people related to art by building favorable cooperation between citizens and the city. Under the leadership of its director, the center is managed by the advisory board and executive committee who formulate the management policy, and select artists who want to use the studios.

From its opening in 2000 to FY2005, the center was operated by the “Kyoto City Association for Arts and Culture”. Since FY2006, the city government designated the same association to manage the center under the title of a “designated management association”.

Administrative structure

Director・Advisor・Executive Committee・Advisory Board name list

Director

建畠 晢 TATEHATA Akira

Deputy Director

山本 麻友美 YAMAMOTO Mayumi

Advisor

千 宗室 SEN Soushitsu

Executive Committee

chairman

田中 誠二 TANAKA Seiji

member

稲賀 繁美 INAGA Shigemi
柿沼 敏江 KAKINUMA Toshie
平芳 幸浩 HIRAYOSHI Yukihiro
広瀬 依子 HIROSE Yoriko
ほんま　なほ Naho Honma
森山 直人 MORIYAMA Naoto
平賀 徹也 Tetsuya Hiraga

Advisory Board

member

井上 八千代 INOUE Yachiyo
太田 耕人 OTA Kojin
太田垣 實 OTAGAKI Makoto
久保田 敏子 KUBOTA Toshiko
森口 邦彦 MORIGUCHI Kunihiko

Prospectus

In April 2000, the spring of the new millennium, the Kyoto Art Center took its first steps. In order to create a new wind of artistic creation in the 21st century, it aims to become a base for unprecedented operations and activities. It's not a museum, it's not a theater, it's not a hall. In a free way that is not bound by the old system, it aims to become a melting pot that gives birth to new art and culture by exuding the power and heat of creative expression related to the present.
The 21st century is an era in which art and culture create cities. Culture and the arts create vitality in cities and enable the enrichment of citizens' lives. The Kyoto Art Center plays a central role in this effort. The inspiration and fusion of various artistic genres that continue to diversify and diffuse, the fusion of various paradigms such as art and academia, art and industry, tradition and modernity, and the chaos that orients the place where chaotic energy swirls, will lead to the creation of art and culture in the new century.
There are two basic directions of activities. The first is to make use of Kyoto's excellent artistic and cultural traditions and accumulations in the present day. The other is to use Kyoto's broad academic climate as a backdrop to enable experimental attempts to create new visions.
There are three specific activities that we intend to carry out for the time being in preparation for a new departure. First of all, it will support the production and presentation activities of young artists, and will not only be a fusion of various artistic genres, but also a place where art, academia, and industry intersect. The second function functions as an art and culture information center that responds to and disseminates information and communication networks in a timely manner, including the publication of information and criticism magazines. The third is the artist-in-residence program, which accepts artists and people involved in the arts from Japan and abroad, stimulating each other and enabling various encounters and exchanges involving citizens and the next generation of children through artistic creation.
The Kyoto Art Center is not just a new vessel. In order to become a bastion of unprecedented artistic and cultural creation, we will pursue a constant review of operations and the construction of new systems. The Art Center has also set sail on the sea of art and cultural creation in the new century.

2000 Kyoto Art Center Steering Committee