On-Site

about On-Site

We are a place to make and enjoy art. We support your creative and artistic exploration. 

 On-Site is an artist-run organization and space located near Lake Teganuma in Abiko city, Chiba prefecture, Japan. An 1980s apartment building was recently renovated and launched in the fall 2019, and is now an inspiring space for artists, art enthusiasts, and local communities. 

At On-Site we offer an artists-in-residence, digital printing lab, and gallery space. Artists, both domestic and international, can stay in the own apartment while working on their project in the studio, print with a large format printer in the lab, and have open studio exhibitions and talk events in the gallery space. 

We named this organization On-Site, in the hopes that here, we could foster various cultural/artistic activities, dialogues, and ample time for the artists developing their projects. 
 

In the early 20th century, many writers such as the Shirakaba-ha, “White Birch School,” an influential Japanese literary coterie, found the scenery of Lake Teganuma so beautiful that they temporarily lived nearby the lake and worked on their creative activities. In this area you will still find the traces of their homes and artistic practices, and the scenery they loved.      

While feeling the remnants of that era, we will try to be a new place where artists and local people can get a sharper understanding of diverse cultures, and get closer to art through supporting artistic activities.       

“Historically, so many art communities have started like that, in less expensive out of the way places, haven’t they? And then 10 years later they are so trendy…,” one of my friends in New York said to me. Having been encouraged by his words, we also believe and work toward the hope that an art community will be growing from here. 

Please join us with your ideas and curiosity.