2026
A rotating exhibition platform
Seasonal exhibitions, Tokyo
Friends Of presents exhibitions, installations, screenings, and cultural projects that invite people into conversation through art, design, architecture, photography, and contemporary practice. Each edition introduces new voices, new perspectives, and new reasons to return.
BECOMEA partner
get tickets
A PLATFORM FOR CULTURAL EXCHANGE
Friends Of exists to help remarkable work travel farther than it otherwise could.
Throughout the year, artists, designers, architects, photographers, filmmakers, collectives, galleries, institutions, and independent practitioners are invited to share new work, revisit important ideas, and create encounters that could only happen here.
Some projects last a weekend.
Others remain for weeks.
Each becomes part of a growing conversation between Japan and the wider world.
Friends Of operates within the Tokyo Salone ecosystem as its exhibition arm.
Where Moments cultivates proximity and Speculative Futures tests consequence, Friends Of creates space for work to be experienced directly. It invites audiences to encounter practice at scale, in immersive and carefully designed environments.
Our focus is cultural reciprocity.
Each edition is intentionally composed, aligning global alum practitioners with regional collaborators. The result is not importation, but exchange. Not presentation, but participation.
WHO PARTICIPATES
Artists.
Designers.
Architects.
Photographers.
Filmmakers.
Curators.
Independent publishers.
Cultural institutions.
Students.
Collectors.
Visitors.
People arrive through different disciplines.
They leave connected by shared curiosity.
Designed FOR DIALOGUE
Curated Installations
Exhibitions are spatially designed to encourage reflection and sustained conversation.
Cross-Border Collaboration
Global and regional practitioners co-create experiences grounded in mutual exchange.
Public Engagement
Friends Of extends beyond closed rooms, inviting broader audiences into the ecosystem.
An Evolving Platform
Each exhibition builds upon the last, forming a living archive of creative exchange across time and place.
Some exhibitions simply ask us to slow down and look more carefully.
Others become opportunities for artist talks, screenings, workshops, shared meals, or informal conversations that continue long after leaving the gallery.
Every exhibition is an invitation to encounter not only the work, but the people and ideas behind it.
the constellation
Tokyo Salone is not contained within a convention center. It unfolds across restaurants, galleries, studios, workshops, cafés, gardens, listening rooms, hotels, kitchens, and cultural institutions throughout Tokyo and Kyoto.
Every place shapes the conversations it hosts. Together, the cities become our campus.
Soho House Tokyo
Third-week Monthly
Monthly conversations exploring emerging ideas, practices, and practitioners through dialogue, reflection, and exchange.
Massif Tokyo
Quarterly / Monthly
Year-round gatherings that build trust, momentum, and community between the larger moments of the constellation
Throughout the year, the constellation unfolds across Japan
The annual gathering at the heart of the constellation, bringing domestic and international voices together through talks, workshops, shared experiences, and conversation.
An exploration of engineering, mobility, JDM culture, and the communities that continue to shape them.
A gathering exploring hospitality, food culture, culinary innovation, and future systems of care.
A forum examining the signals, technologies, and cultural shifts shaping tomorrow.
An invitation-led gathering exploring how a new generation is redefining luxury through identity, density, urban influence, and lived culture.
After the Flame
A space for reflection, integration, and the conversations that continue after gathering.
Held in Sound
An exploration of listening as cultural practice through sound, silence, attention, and shared experience.
Some experiences are intimate.
Some are public.
Some are invitation-led.
Together they form a living ecosystem of relationships, ideas, and exchange.
Partners
Built alongside our partners.
Partner withTokyo Salone
Tokyo Salone is built for the long term. Rather than sponsoring a single event, our partners become part of an evolving cultural institution connecting global creative communities with Japan.
If our ambitions align, we'd love to start a conversation.
Founding partner inquiry
Partners
Built alongside our partners.
Partner with Tokyo Salone
Tokyo Salone is built for the long term. Rather than sponsoring a single event, our partners become part of an evolving cultural institution connecting global creative communities with Japan.
If our ambitions align, we'd love to start a conversation.
Founding partner inquiry
constellations
SHIBUYA
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
NIGHTSHIFT SHAKEDOWN
FRIENDS OF
FUTURE OF
THIRDSPACE THIRDWEEKS
MOMENTS
held in sound
COLLECTIVE
yes,
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Commercial Disclosure
Code of Conduct
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2026
A rotating exhibition platform
Seasonal exhibitions, Tokyo
Friends Of presents exhibitions, installations, screenings, and cultural projects that invite people into conversation through art, design, architecture, photography, and contemporary practice. Each edition introduces new voices, new perspectives, and new reasons to return.
BECOME A partner
get tickets
A PLATFORM FOR CULTURAL EXCHANGE
Friends Of exists to help remarkable work travel farther than it otherwise could.
Throughout the year, artists, designers, architects, photographers, filmmakers, collectives, galleries, institutions, and independent practitioners are invited to share new work, revisit important ideas, and create encounters that could only happen here.
Some projects last a weekend.
Others remain for weeks.
Each becomes part of a growing conversation between Japan and the wider world.
Friends Of operates within the Tokyo Salone ecosystem as its exhibition arm.
Where Moments cultivates proximity and Speculative Futures tests consequence, Friends Of creates space for work to be experienced directly. It invites audiences to encounter practice at scale, in immersive and carefully designed environments.
Our focus is cultural reciprocity.
Each edition is intentionally composed, aligning global alum practitioners with regional collaborators. The result is not importation, but exchange. Not presentation, but participation.
WHO PARTICIPATES
Artists.
Designers.
Architects.
Photographers.
Filmmakers.
Curators.
Independent publishers.
Cultural institutions.
Students.
Collectors.
Visitors.
People arrive through different disciplines.
They leave connected by shared curiosity.
Designed FOR DIALOGUE
Curated Installations
Exhibitions are spatially designed to encourage reflection and sustained conversation.
Cross-Border Collaboration
Global and regional practitioners co-create experiences grounded in mutual exchange.
Public Engagement
Friends Of extends beyond closed rooms, inviting broader audiences into the ecosystem.
An Evolving Platform
Each exhibition builds upon the last, forming a living archive of creative exchange across time and place.
Some exhibitions simply ask us to slow down and look more carefully.
Others become opportunities for artist talks, screenings, workshops, shared meals, or informal conversations that continue long after leaving the gallery.
Every exhibition is an invitation to encounter not only the work, but the people and ideas behind it.
the constellation
Tokyo Salone is not contained within a convention center. It unfolds across restaurants, galleries, studios, workshops, cafés, gardens, listening rooms, hotels, kitchens, and cultural institutions throughout Tokyo and Kyoto.
Every place shapes the conversations it hosts. Together, the cities become our campus.
Soho House Tokyo
Third-week Monthly
Monthly conversations exploring emerging ideas, practices, and practitioners through dialogue, reflection, and exchange.
Massif Tokyo
Quarterly / Monthly
Year-round gatherings that build trust, momentum, and community between the larger moments of the constellation
Throughout the year, the constellation unfolds across Japan
The annual gathering at the heart of the constellation, bringing domestic and international voices together through talks, workshops, shared experiences, and conversation.
An exploration of engineering, mobility, JDM culture, and the communities that continue to shape them.
A gathering exploring hospitality, food culture, culinary innovation, and future systems of care.
A forum examining the signals, technologies, and cultural shifts shaping tomorrow.
An invitation-led gathering exploring how a new generation is redefining luxury through identity, density, urban influence, and lived culture.
After the Flame
A space for reflection, integration, and the conversations that continue after gathering.
Held in Sound
An exploration of listening as cultural practice through sound, silence, attention, and shared experience.
Some experiences are intimate.
Some are public.
Some are invitation-led.
Together they form a living ecosystem of relationships, ideas, and exchange.
Partners
Built alongside our partners.
Partner with Tokyo Salone
Tokyo Salone is built for the long term. Rather than sponsoring a single event, our partners become part of an evolving cultural institution connecting global creative communities with Japan.
If our ambitions align, we'd love to start a conversation.
Founding partner inquiry
constellations
SHIBUYA
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
NIGHTSHIFT SHAKEDOWN
FRIENDS OF
FUTURE OF
THIRDSPACE THIRDWEEKS
MOMENTS
held in sound
COLLECTIVE
yes,
Legal
Commercial Disclosure
Code of Conduct
privacy policy
Liability & Risk
Media Release
subscribe
© Semi Permanent / TOKYO SALONE