Life Is Art Is Motherhood Is Art Kyoto Closing Reception & Artist Talk

Please join us for a closing reception and conversation with several of the Life Is Art Is Motherhood Is Art exhibition’s artists from 3 – 5 pm on May 10, 2026, at the Gallery Maronie, 4th-floor gallery. Light refreshments will be served, and the talk will be held from 3:30 – 4:30 pm.

Artists Daniela Kostova, Aline Müller, and Satomi Shirai will discuss the exhibition’s core themes with exhibition curator Christopher Pelham. Reframing “motherhood” as a lived threshold—emerging between the private and the public, child-rearing and self-care, the body and the environment—the conversation considers how parenting can be understood as a creative path. Through their respective practices, the speakers will discuss how child-rearing connects to ecology, current social realities, and the collective consciousness of their local contexts; what kinds of responsibility can be assumed as mothers; and how the intimacies of family life are intertwined with the wider world. The talk will be conducted in English with consecutive interpretation into Japanese.

You can learn more about the exhibition itself here.