＊Publication scheduled for early January, Pre-orders now available

＊Online reservation perks: Exhibition catalog with artist signature + Exhibition B2 poster (see slide 1 for designs; one design randomly selected from 4 designs, shipped tri-folded)

＊Limited to pre-orders placed by January 4, 2026; first come, first served for online orders (up to 100 copies)

The art team SIDE CORE has been developing projects across Japan while maintaining its base in Tokyo. Underlying this practice is the realization from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake that “a city depends on other regions in every aspect of life.” SIDE CORE redefines street culture not as “artistic expression in urban public space,” but as “the street” that mediates between different places and values. They attempt to reconceive street culture not as artistic expression confined to city streets, but as an artistic movement based on chains of movement and culture that connect local areas and regions. This exhibition focuses on modes of artistic expression that connect different places, viewed through the lens of roads and movement. By featuring works on this theme and creating free spaces that pop up temporarily in the exhibition zones, the museum becomes a place where diverse values and ways of life intersect—proposing new possibilities for artistic expression in a museum context. Guest artists will share artistic movements that weave everyday life and street culture—through skateboarding, graffiti, and music events—with the global community.

The title “Living road, Living space” reflects SIDE CORE’s vision of street culture as a practice in which people with different objectives and backgrounds exchange their ideas and values without being bound by a single force or purpose. This exhibition at the 21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa seeks to provide an opportunity to discover and rediscover “places for living” in diverse settings. Focusing on modes of artistic expression that connect different places through the lens of roads and movement, the exhibition features works on these themes alongside free spaces that temporarily open “another road” within the museum. Furthermore, by inviting guest artists to focus on artistic movements that weave ways of living outside institutions into everyday life—through expressions of street culture such as skateboarding, graffiti, and music events—and sharing these with the global community, the museum becomes a place where diverse values and ways of life intersect, proposing new possibilities for artistic expression.

To accompany this exhibition, SIDE CORE Living road, Living space will be released as the first publication by SIDE CORE in ten years. As a comprehensive survey of the practices that have significantly developed since the previous work ATYPICAL FOOTPRINT (2012-2014), it comprises a documentation of the exhibitions along with essays, bodies of work, and chronology. In collaboration with the exhibition design, Toru Kase, Aiko Koike, Jujiro Maki, and Mariko Okazaki handled the art direction, with Misako Taoka as the designer. As a book that traverses the trajectory followed by SIDE CORE, it showcases the artist’s works and background with rich content. A ZINE documenting a project based in the Noto Peninsula, Road to Noto, will accompany this book as an appendix.