The Container

The Container is a contemporary art gallery in Nakameguro, Tokyo.
The gallery has opened in March 2011 to create a site that encourages people to engage with art installations and works, where the emphasis is on curation and the accessibility of contemporary art and ideas to the general public.

As the name suggests, the physical space is no more than a constructed shipping container (485x180x180cm), housed inside Bross hair salon, in one of Tokyo’s most beloved and trendy neighbourhoods.

The Container invites Japanese and international artists to make site-specific installations four times a year. Each installation remains on view to the public for two-and-a-half months. 

Since 2013, The Container also started to publish full-colour, bilingual (JP/EN) exhibition catalogues, available on Amazon worldwide, as well as on a variety of online publishers and academic and public libraries across the US.

The gallery receives extensive international coverage, including ArtAsiaPacific, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Glass Magazine, Art & Antiques Magazine, Dazed & Confused, Blouin Artinfo, Art-iT, Bijutsu-Techo, NHK, Tokyo Art Beat, The Japan Times, and The Sunday Times, Guardian, CNN, WIRED Magazine, travel guides and in-flight magazines, to mention only a few.