Tiger Tanuki is an art consultancy and gallery founded by Danish art historian Malene Wagner in 2014. The aim is to cultivate Japanese art and aesthetics within and across commercial and academic contexts.
We collect and source works of art, curate exhibitions, as well as giving talks, researching and writing for various publications such as Tokyo Weekender, Waraku Magazine and Kinfolk.
Other collaborations include Muji (DK), MUDEC (IT), Sway Gallery (UK), Ateneum (FI) and Uniqlo (DK).
Upcoming book
project on modern and
contemporary
Japanese prints
– stay tuned !
Kyosai Kawanabe is perhaps the most fascinating and unique artist of the Meiji Era (1867-1912) in the transition from old to new Japan. A master creator of both the natural and supernatural world, he was drawn to both the humorous and horrible, which followed him from an early age.
Although still considered somewhat foreign and exotic by many of us in the West, some aspects of Japanese culture have been adopted into mainstream Western culture – just think of sushi, sake and sakura. With this exhibition, the largest one on manga held outside of Japan to date, British Museum shows that manga too has a place in modern-day Western (pop) culture.
