Pace Gallery to Open New Tokyo Space in Azabudai Hills Spring 2024

Pace Gallery continues its Asian expansion with a new Tokyo location in the Azabudai Hills district, set to open spring 2024. The building is designed by Thomas Heatherwick, with interior architecture by Sou Fujimoto, who previously designed the Musashino Art University Museum and Library and the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. The space spans over 5,000 square meters across three floors, with two exhibition floors totaling about 3,000 square meters and a top floor featuring a private terrace for outdoor sculpture. Azabudai Hills is a Mori Building Company urban regeneration project, described as a 'modern urban village' powered by renewable energy with extensive green areas, developed over thirty years. CEO Marc Glimcher noted Tokyo's growing importance in the Asian art ecosystem. Pace has represented major Japanese contemporary artists including Lee Ufan, Yoshitomo Nara, Kohei Nawa, and teamLab, the latter already having a space in Azabudai Hills. The gallery's involvement with Tokyo's art scene dates back to the 1960s. The opening follows the recent debut of Tokyo Gendai fair and the presence of Western galleries Perrotin and Blum & Poe in the city.