Yuki Okumura - Long White Playground
23 - 29 October 2026, Mon – Thu, 12:00 – 18:00
Lange Zaal, Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
Exhibition with works made on site by the students of Yuki Okumura’s research class, also in connection with Okumura’s PhD defence.
Yuki Okumura is an artist and PhD researcher at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and ARIA. He explores the intuitive conception and procedural performance of self-instructed, chance-oriented simple actions as a way of working to explore and update both self and world at once. Recent exhibitions in which he has employed this approach to ‘navigate’ individuals through the given space include Big White Playground, Secession, Vienna; Parasite the White Cube, Het Bos, Antwerp; and Medium and Dimension: Plastic, CS-Lab, Tokyo, all 2025.
Okumura’s PhD project at the Academy, Conceptual, Performative, Pedagogical, translates what he calls the ‘conceptual-performative’ method into a cross-disciplinary curriculum in order to incorporate the principle of the method and activate its full potential in today’s higher art education.
(Image: the Lange Zaal, photo by Yuki Okumura)
This exhibition is part of Art x Research x City -ARIA's month for Research in the Arts- and research festival ARTICULATE 2026
SLARG Research Exhibition
28 October - 1 November 2026, Sint Lucas Antwerpen, showroom
SLARG Research Exhibition presents the work of artists and researchers Garine Gokceyan, Robin Vanbesien, Ayoh Kré Duchâtelet, Brenda Bikoko, Dimitri van den Wittenboer, Irma Foldényi, Reem Silleh & Joachim Ben Yakoub, Karen Vermeren, Sam Vanbelle, Myrthe Bokelmann, Célia Tort Pujol, Lieven Menschaert & Frederik Debleser, Jeroen Bocken, Jonathan Paepens & Sander Van de Vyver.
The exhibition showcases works-in-progress, experiments, and proposals, offering an inside look at SLARG’s one-year, two-year, and PhD research projects. Practice-based research in the arts is a slow, often challenging process, and this exhibition invites you to explore the complexities and ongoing challenges faced by the researchers.
Our researchers will be present and are looking forward to engaging in dialogue with you. Research is an ongoing, collaborative process, and your impressions and feedback are valuable contributions to their journey.
The exhibition will open on Wednesday 28 October at 17:00. It runs from Thursday 29 October till Sunday 1 November, 14:00 - 17:00.
On the opening night, 28 October, you can meet the researchers or join a guided tour (18:00) led by Petra Van Brabandt, head of research at Sint Lucas Antwerpen. Petra will guide you through the various projects on display.
This exhibition is part of Art x Research x City -ARIA's month for Research in the Arts- and the SLARG Research Week 2026.