Yuji Agematsu's Year-Long 'Zip' Series at Galerie Buchholz Berlin

Galerie Buchholz in Berlin presents Yuji Agematsu's 'Zip: 01-01-2024 – 12-31-2024', a year-long exhibition spanning the entire 2024 calendar year. The show features the artist's ongoing series of small-scale assemblages encased in cellophane wrappers, collected daily from the streets of New York. Each 'zip' is a meticulous arrangement of found objects—cigarette butts, wrappers, plastic fragments, and organic debris—compressed into a single day's detritus. Agematsu's practice transforms urban waste into intimate time capsules, reflecting on consumption, temporality, and the overlooked beauty of the mundane. The exhibition at Galerie Buchholz marks a significant presentation of this durational project, which Agematsu has pursued since the 1990s. The press release and exhibition images are available online.