Celebrating the American-Japanese friendship, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts hosted the biggest Japanese festival ever organized in the United States of America.

In charge of all the exhibition design, the Adrien Gardère Studio designed or artistically directed all 13 exhibitions and installations of the festival.
The installations included famous architect Tadao Ando, artist Yayoi Kusama, Mika Ninagawa, and fashion designer Junko Koshino. An outsized school of fish made of  textile recalling the Koi Fish Kite festival in Japan  was designed for the textile company Nuno Corporation, a play of partitions and shoji was set up for Mikimoto’s obidome jewelry collection and kimonos. 
The exhibitions also included Honda, Toyota and Mistubishi robots, as well as themes devoted to Mangas, Animes and toy Robots.

Japan ! Festival - Video Highlights
Education department - Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Célébrant l’amitié américano-japonaise, le Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts a produit et accueilli le plus grand festival du Japon jamais organisé aux Etats-Unis.

Responsable de l’ensemble des expositions du festival, le Studio Adrien Gardère a assuré la direction artistique et le design des 13 expositions et installations temporaires, parmi lesquelles des installations de l’architecte Tadao Ando, de l’artiste Yayoi Kusama, et de la photographe Mika Ninagawa.

Le festival comportait notamment des expositions de textile (Nuno Corp. Reiko Sudo), de bijoux et de kimonos (Mikimoto), de robots (Honda et Toyota), de manga et de jouets, ainsi que des expositions d’artisans japonais contemporains (M. Motoko - Kawashima).

Japan ! Festival - Video Highlights
Département Education - Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.