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Beyond dualism,
igniting a new Renaissance from the East.
We B-OWND any Boundaries.
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We B-OWND any Boundaries.
Crafts are completed through use, nurturing beauty
within relationships.The act of reconnecting—between people,
between natural materials and expression, between tradition and innovation—is the source of craft's beauty.B-OWND revives this "beauty of relationships" in the modern era,
presenting new standards of value to the world.
Based on Eastern aesthetic philosophies of relationships
rooted in "wabi-sabi" and "engi/emptiness",B-OWND is a production enterprise redefining
Japanese crafts and contemporary art.Today, we live in an era that questions
the meaning of "art".Art is no longer just for "raising issues" or "criticism"—
it's time for it to open up to more fundamental,physical forms that align with daily life.
B-OWND believes that "art is a medium
for reconnecting relationships".Between people, nature and society, between ethnic groups—
we untie tightly bound knots and carefully reweave them.Through this practice, we seamlessly connect culture and industry,
passing them on to the future.
Through exhibitions, events, permanent galleries,
and collaborations,we organically reweave works, spaces, and experiences.We untie boundaries between artists and society,
daily life and art, nurturing richer points of connection.Through this process, crafts and art transcend
individual works to becomecultural assets inherited
by the future.
Business / 01
B-OWND is an art business that challenges value-added production in the craft domain
B-OWND's Business
Value-added production that creates new value through the multiplication of historicity and contemporaneity—that is B-OWND's business. We support the sustainable evolution of crafts and art through cross-sectional design of contextualization, authorization, and trend creation.
We handle everything from artist management to sales, spatial production, collaboration with IPs like manga, blockchain certification utilization, and overseas expansion.
Through gallery operation, online sales, and media communication, we make context visible, and further promote trend formation and authorization through overseas exhibitions and collaborations, shaping new market and artistic value for crafts.
We operate as a comprehensive producer that connects Eastern aesthetics to the present and shares them with the world.
Comprehensive support from artist discovery to exhibition planning, building domestic and international sales channels, and PR/SNS strategy. While creating an environment where artists can focus on creation, we build systems to deliver works broadly. Through collaboration with B-OWND, we expand our artists' fields of activity, delivering their individuality to the world while nurturing new cultural trends.
We produce exhibitions and tea room installations that incorporate crafts and art into hotels, commercial facilities, and urban spaces. We handle everything from planning to design and construction. We redefine space itself as an experience. We create "places of relationship" that remain in people's memories and design spaces to become cultural transmission hubs.
We collaborate with cultural IPs like anime, manga, games and companies to create collaborative works and limited products. We connect different contexts of tradition and contemporary culture to create new value.
We provide a distribution infrastructure connecting artists and buyers by linking physical gallery stores with online markets. We introduce artists' stories along with their works and communicate to collectors both domestically and internationally.
Through media and content, we give context to crafts, create spread through PR and SNS, and further connect to expert and academic evaluation. Through storytelling that combines historicity and contemporaneity, we enhance the cultural value of crafts. By visualizing the underlying thoughts and stories, the meaning of works deepens further.
Since its release in 2019, B-OWND has guaranteed authenticity and provenance through blockchain artwork certificates. We establish systems trusted in international markets and position art as an asset for the future. Through technology, we secure the value of works and build foundations for a sustainable cultural economy.
Projects / 02
Connecting the in-between of people, culture, and hearts through art—reframing relationships.
Bringing People, Culture, and Hearts Together.
A series of projects that reconnect the "in-between" of diverse categories like people, culture, nature, and technology through art. By reexamining divided relationships and giving them new meaning, we encourage quiet transformation in society.
Going beyond the challenges of individual artists/galleries, we aim to reconstruct the entire cultural industry.
