Kim Gaeun & Lena Aframova

Kim Gaeun
Born in Seoul in 1987. After graduating from the Department of Architecture at the Korea National University of Arts, Kim Gaeun has worked as a pen drawing artist and picture book author. Since 2019, beginning in Yokohama, Japan, she has been engaged in community-based art projects that promote local culture. Major works include the solo exhibition Sei il mio Dono! (Salerno Municipal Art Museum, Italy, 2019), the solo exhibition The Gift from Journey Given (Manabia Terrace Museum, Yamagata, 2022), the mural Dreamers (Kanagawa Park, Yokohama, 2024), and the publication of the picture book Language of Love(2026).

Lena Aframova
Lena Aframova is a Ukrainian-Israeli artist and curator based in Koganecho, where she has worked as a long-term resident artist. Having lived in Japan for the past 20 years, she has developed a multidisciplinary practice spanning photography, writing, and spatial installation.
Central to her practice is THE ROOM, her studio and gallery by the river, which functions both as a site of artistic production and as a space for curatorial experimentation and collaboration.