Project O+O is a collaboration between artist Gabriel Orozco and designer Shinichiro Ogata. Co-presented with kurimanzutto, the project transforms HIGASHI-YAMA Tokyo into a temporary extension of Orozco’s home, a living exhibition where artworks, specially designed objects, and culinary experiences converge in an environment of artistic exploration.
Featuring new works by Gabriel Orozco, the exhibition explores the connection between art, gastronomy, and hospitality, reflecting the creative dialogue between Tokyo and Mexico City and the longstanding friendship between Orozco and Ogata. This collaboration will continue to unfold in Mexico City next year.
Celebrating the culinary traditions of Orozco’s native Mexico, the experience includes casual tacos by day and a reservation-only omakase by night, served on custom-designed tableware by Ogata in collaboration with Cooperativa 1050° Oaxaca.
Gabriel Orozco
Working through drawing, photography, sculpture and installation, Orozco draws from everyday materials and circumstances, as well as from his own encounters and routines. Among his best-known works are drawings on airline boarding passes, a modified Citroën automobile (La DS, 1993), Empty Shoe Box (1993) and a whale skeleton covered in graphite patterns (Mobile Matrix, 2006). Over the past decade, he has expanded this engagement through a series of large-scale landscape projects: a permanent garden for the South London Gallery (2016), the cultural master plan for Chapultepec Park in Mexico City (2019–present), and a site-specific garden commission for the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul (2026). Orozco has presented major exhibitions at leading institutions worldwide, among them The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010); Tate Modern, London (2011); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2012); Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2015); The Noguchi Museum, New York (2019); and Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2025). He has participated in the Venice Biennale several times (2017, 2005, 2003, and 1993) and in Documenta (2002 and 1997). His work has been the subject of more than 25 monographs.
Shinichiro Ogata is a leading figure in Japanese craft and design, and the founder of Simplicity Co. He lives and works in Tokyo and Paris. Ogata has spent his career working with traditional Japanese craftsmen, materials, and techniques to define a contemporary way of being, rooted in the culture and traditions of Japan. In Japan, he has developed his own specialized establishments, including tea houses, restaurants, tea and confectionery brands, and a collection of handmade craft objects. In addition to his own company's brands, Ogata directs a wide range of projects across architecture, interior, product, graphic, and packaging design, always grounded in craftsmanship. He founded OGATA to share this work with a wide international community.