~Produced by the international contemporary art festival "Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2025"~

Starting Friday, May 2, 2025, the art space "CASO" in the Osaka Bay Area will host Europe's most cutting-edge immersive art exhibition, "EUROPEAN DIGITAL ART EXPERIENCE: THE IMMERSIVE IN OSAKA 2025 (ImmersiveArtExperience.com)."

This exhibition has been planned as part of "Study: Osaka Kansai International Arts Festival 2025," an international arts festival being held during the Osaka, Kansai Expo, and will be held from Friday, May 2nd to Wednesday, May 14th, coinciding with EU National Day (May 9th).

This exhibition is curated by Stefano FAKE, founder of the Florence, Italy-based THE FAKE FACTORY, an award-winning international art festival-based collective that focuses on immersive artworks such as video mapping and light art. As one of Europe's most cutting-edge digital art collectives, the group uses light, sound and video to lead viewers into the works.

Utilizing phygital technology (a method of expression that combines digital and physical spaces), the exhibition connects with the physical world through light, providing viewers with an aesthetically refined sensory experience.

This immersive art exhibition will feature work from leading artists who have been working in the field of immersive digital art for many years.

 

◼︎List of participating artists

VIDEOGEIST, PIXEL SHAPES, MP-STUDIO, ROCCO HELMCHEN & JOHANNES KRAAS , BETTY MÜ, KANAKA, WOA STUDIO, PANI PAWLOSKY, MICHELE PUSCEDDU, LEANDRO SUMMO, OOOPSTUDIO, MOULAB COLLECTIVE, FLxER, INZIST, OLO CREATIVE FARM, FULL FRAMES, HIGH FILES , H3, LUCA AGNANI, SEBASTIEN LABROUNIE, JEREMIE BELLOT, OCUBO, TELENOIKA, JONAS DENZEL, MOMAP STUDIO, DARKLIGHT STUDIO

 

◼︎Curator Stefano FAKE Profile

Italian visual artist (born October 7, 1971) creates immersive art experiences using projection mapping, lighting, large-scale paintings, murals, mixed-media sculptures, sound effects and installations.
In 2001, he founded THE FAKE FACTORY, an award-winning video art studio based in Florence, Italy. His work has been exhibited in museums and art galleries around the world.

◼︎THE FAKE FACTORY ( https://thefakefactory.art/ )

Founded in 2001 in Florence, Italy, this studio specializes in video art, immersive art, and digital mapping. Under the direction of its founder, artist and visual designer Stefano FAKE, the studio has now formed an international network that brings together over 500 professionals from a wide range of fields, including emerging media artists, architects, designers, filmmakers, engineers, musicians, and philosophers.
The studio conducts linguistic experiments in new media, and is an important base for contemporary visual design research both in Italy and abroad. It has worked on hundreds of projects, including 3D mapping, immersive art, film production, stage design, architectural installations, fashion shows, and museum exhibitions, and has won numerous awards at international art festivals for promoting the fusion of art and technology.
Official site: https://immersiveartexperience.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/immersiveartexperience/

 

◼︎Comment from Curator Stefano FAKE

Immersive digital art is art that aims to draw the viewer into the work and immerse them in the work itself. It uses light, sound, video, and animation to stimulate and involve the viewer's senses. The artist aims to create a space that acts as a "container for emotions" and generate a seamless flow of sensations. Andy Warhol once said that "Pop art is about loving things," but in his words, immersive art is about "loving people." This is because installations in this genre create a significant relationship between the artist and the viewer.

Over the past 20 years, new forms of artistic expression have been born one after another. At the same time, the consciousness of the viewer has changed, and instead of "appreciating the work," it is now required to "immerse oneself in the flow of the senses." In phygital art, digital data is linked to the physical world through light, providing the viewer with an aesthetically refined sensory experience.

This exhibition will introduce works by artists who have taken on new forms of expression and promoted European creativity to the world.

◼︎Comments from the European Union (EU)

The European Union (EU) through the European External Action Service (EEAS) supports arts and culture activities that foster dialogue and creativity. As part of this, the EU is proud to support "Study: Kansai International Art Festival 2025" through an immersive arts experience that connects artists and creators. This initiative demonstrates the EU's deep understanding and ongoing commitment to the power of the arts to inspire society by promoting cultural exchange and innovation.

 

◼︎"EUROPEAN DIGITAL ART EXPERIENCE: THE IMMERSIVE IN OSAKA 2025" Event Summary

Venue: SEASIDE STUDIO CASO (2-7-23 Kaigandori, Minato-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture)
Period: Friday, May 2, 2025 to Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Organized by: Osaka Kansai International Arts Festival Executive Committee (Artlogue Inc.)
Co-organized by: Delegation of the European Union to Japan (EEAS) / European Union (EU)
Cooperation: Taishinsha Delight Co., Ltd.
Official site: https://immersiveartexperience.com

 

■Study: What is the Osaka Kansai International Arts Festival?

Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2025 is an international contemporary art festival to be held from April 11th (Fri) to October 13th (Mon), 2025, mainly in Osaka and Kansai. This year, the fourth time, it will be held simultaneously with the Osaka-Kansai Expo, and the venues will be symbolic locations in Osaka, such as the Expo site (Yumeshima), Osaka Culturarium Tempozan, designed by Tadao Ando, ​​Osaka Prefectural International Conference Center (Nakanoshima), designed by Kisho Kurokawa, the Nishinari-Senba area, and the National Museum of Ethnology (Expo Commemoration Park, where the 1970 Expo was held). Taking advantage of the Osaka-Kansai Expo, which is expected to attract 28.2 million visitors with 158 countries and regions participating, the festival will create a place for new dialogue and discovery through domestic and international art projects as an "art festival to study the relationship between art, people, and society."

 

■ Overview of "Study: Osaka Kansai International Arts Festival 2025"

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・Official website and social media

Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2025 Official Website: https://osaka-kansai.art/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/study_okiaf/
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StudyOKIAF/
Official LINE account: https://lin.ee/YRCAlUD

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■Company Profile

ARTLOGUE Inc.
・Representative: ARTLOGUE Inc. CEO Daisuke Suzuki ・Head office location: Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture ・Established: July 7, 2017 ・Business operations: Planning and management of "Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival" / Planning and management of web media "ARTLOGUE" and "Art Tourism"

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■ Contact Information

ARTLOGUE Inc. Public Relations Office Name: Tomimatsu & Ichikawa Email address: study-pr@artlogue.org
Inquiry form: https://osaka-kansai.art/pages/contact