Hiromart Gallery opens 'Look at the Flowers'
- Hiromart Gallery said on May 18 that it would open “Look at the Flowers,” a solo exhibition of Josephine Rossing’s monotype prints in Tokyo. (hiromartgallery.com) - Josephine Rossing, a Stockholm-born artist based in Tokyo, describes her images as drawn from memory, with added light, sound and color. (hiromartgallery.com) - The exhibition is scheduled to run from May 29 through June 28 at Hiromart Gallery, according to the gallery’s exhibition listing. (hiromartgallery.com)
Hiromart Gallery said on May 18 that it would open “Look at the Flowers,” a solo exhibition by Josephine Rossing built around monotype prints and memory-based imagery in Tokyo. The announcement appeared on the gallery’s X account and was later reflected in the gallery’s exhibition listings. (hiromartgallery.com) The show is scheduled to open on May 29 and run through June 28. Rossing is a Stockholm-born artist who is now based in Tokyo. ### What exactly did Hiromart Gallery announce? (hiromartgallery.com) Hiromart Gallery said it was opening “Look at the Flowers,” a solo exhibition of Rossing’s work, in a May 18 post on X. The gallery’s English-language shows page also lists “Look at the Flowers” under a May 28, 2026 posting, and identifies Rossing as the artist. (hiromartgallery.com) The gallery’s Japanese exhibition page describes the show as Rossing’s solo exhibition and gives the run dates as May 29 to June 28, 2026. Tokyo Art Beat separately lists the same exhibition at Hiromart Gallery Tokyo with a May 29 start date. ### What are the works in the show? (hiromartgallery.com) Hiromart Gallery said the exhibition features monotype prints. In the announcement language surfaced on the gallery page, the works are described as images or scenes “expanded from memory,” matching Rossing’s longer-running practice of reworking remembered places and experiences into altered visual forms. (hiromartgallery.com) A 2024 Hiromart Gallery exhibition text for Rossing said her inspiration comes from places, experiences and things she has seen, and that she adds light, sounds and colors to those remembered images. That earlier gallery description said the process produces “alternative images” based on actual ones. (hiromartgallery.com) ### Who is Josephine Rossing? Josephine Rossing is a Swedish artist born in Stockholm who now lives and works in Tokyo, according to Hiromart Gallery materials. The gallery says she studied at Halmstad Art School and later at Domen Art School in Sweden. Hiromart Gallery’s past exhibition pages show Rossing has exhibited with the gallery before. (hiromartgallery.com) A 2025 winter group-show page lists her alongside Andy Brown and Masanobu Sakakibara, while earlier exhibition material says the gallery had previously presented her solo shows and works on paper. ### How does this show fit with her earlier work? (hiromartgallery.com) A 2024 Hiromart Gallery text for Rossing’s solo exhibition “It must Be Leaves” described a practice centered on memory, lived experience and transformed imagery. That language closely tracks the framing used for “Look at the Flowers,” suggesting continuity in subject matter even as the new show centers on monotype prints. (hiromartgallery.com) The gallery’s Japanese page for the new show says Rossing sees the monotype process as one that can sharpen the character of memory and allow the work to communicate more directly. That description ties the medium itself to the exhibition’s central theme. (hiromartgallery.com) ### When and where can people see it? “Look at the Flowers” is scheduled to run from May 29 through June 28 at Hiromart Gallery in Tokyo, according to the gallery’s exhibition page. Tokyo Art Beat carries the same listing and start date for the show. Hiromart Gallery’s broader venue profile says the gallery opened in Tokyo in June 2010 and presents curated solo and group exhibitions by Japanese and international contemporary artists. (hiromartgallery.com) The gallery has directed visitors to its social media for the latest exhibition updates. (japan-live-exhibits.com) (hiromartgallery.com)