About ARTerrace
ARTerrace is a company dedicated to creating new connections between Japanese fine crafts and society through the sale and rental of craft artworks, art installations for businesses and public facilities, events featuring Japanese craft artists, video and editorial content production, and business partnerships.
About ARTerrace
VISION
A society in which richness of spirit lives on,
through the culture and traditional kogei of Japan
PURPOSE
Carrying traditional kogei out into the world, and on into the future
The name ARTerrace comes from ART and Terrace—a word that also carries the Japanese verb terasu, to illuminate.
Through exhibitions and sales, events, media and business matching, we design new points of contact between the finest Japanese kogei and society, and we were founded to carry kogei out into the world and on into the future.
We are a group company of Anchor Ship Partners.
ARTerrace is a “kogei platform” that accumulates information on craft artists, their works and their techniques—Living National Treasures among them—centred on the art kogei and contemporary kogei of Japan. Alongside building an archive of articles and video recorded in direct interviews with artists, we sell craft works, rent out and display works for corporate clients and events, plan events such as workshops and conversations featuring craft artists, and support collaboration between businesses and artists.
Working from our partnership agreement with the Japan Kōgei Association, ARTerrace reaches across the craft fields of Japan to create new points of contact between kogei and daily life, regions and organisations of every kind.
BUSINESS
Designing varied encounters with kogei
Encounter
Display and
rental of works
For companies and facilities, we propose the display and rental of craft works in offices, entrances, reception spaces, hotels, commercial facilities and elsewhere. We have a record of installations in real spaces, including permanent displays of works aboard Asuka II and Asuka III.
Learn
Publishing
Through video, articles and social media produced from our own interviews, we publish information on artists, works, techniques and the circumstances in which works are made. We also take part in producing media of various kinds on kogei, including the supply of video material to television programmes and exhibitions.
Experience
Event planning
For companies, organisations and facilities, we plan and run conversations, lectures, workshops and dinners with craft artists, Living National Treasures among them. We propose the artist, the content and the format according to your purpose and your participants.
Buy
Online gallery / e-commerce
We operate an online gallery in Japanese and English handling works by craft artists, Living National Treasures among them. We serve purchases by both individuals and companies, and also offer the management of work records and transaction histories using blockchain technology, together with a brokerage service for the secondary market.
Connect
Business matching
Through collaboration with craft artists, the use of their works and projects that draw on regional resources, we connect makers with companies, businesses, local governments and regions. We support partnerships in business and in cultural promotion that make use of kogei.
FOR BUSINESS
For companies and businesses
ARTerrace welcomes enquiries from those who wish to bring craft works into the spaces of a company or a facility, those considering the rental or purchase of works, and those considering a project featuring craft artists or a partnership with a region or a business.
We want to bring craft works into a space
We propose the display and rental of works for offices, reception spaces, hotels, commercial facilities and elsewhere.
We want to select and purchase craft works
Drawing on a number of artists and craft fields, you can consult us on choosing works to suit your purpose, your space and your budget.
We want to run a project featuring craft artists
We plan and propose craft events—conversations, lectures, workshops and more—to suit the purposes of a company, an organisation or a facility.
We want to produce video or content on kogei
Drawing on our experience of interviewing artists and documenting the making process, we supply video material and take part in producing programmes, exhibitions and the like.
We want to explore a partnership with craft artists or a region
You can consult us on collaboration with craft artists, and on projects that connect kogei with a region or a business.
TRACK RECORD
Track record of collaboration
NYK Cruises Co., Ltd.
Permanent display of works aboard Asuka II; guest-room production for Asuka III; planning and running of onboard craft workshops and conversation events
Tokyo National Museum (Independent Administrative Institution)
Overall management of the production of a replica of an Important Cultural Property, and assistance with its documentation
Japan Kōgei Association
The only partnership agreement concluded with a private company; advancing initiatives in cultural promotion, including support for exhibitions.
BS Asahi
Production assistance for Living National Treasure × Living National Treasure, a conversation programme featuring Living National Treasures
Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store
Supply of video for the special exhibition held alongside the Japan Traditional Kogei Exhibition
TV Asahi
Supply of video material documenting craft artists at work
OVERVIEW
Company profile
Our principal shareholder, Anchor Ship Partners Co., Ltd., is a ship investment fund established by members of the shipping finance team of The Industrial Bank of Japan (now Mizuho Bank). Beginning in 2019 with an equity participation in the operating company of Asuka Cruise, it has advanced wide-ranging collaboration with regional financial institutions across all 47 prefectures of Japan, and has concentrated on promoting regional revitalisation, cultural advancement and related aims.
