About us

In 2002, the CAI * CAI Contemporary Art Gallery, specializing in contemporary Japanese art, was established in Hamburg with the participation of the Sapporo-based gallery CAI Contemporary Art International and the Japanese company Prism Co., Ltd.

Subsequently, Mikiko Sato re-established the gallery in a new form and has continued its activities since 2008 under the name Mikiko Sato Gallery.

Focusing on poetic and conceptual works connected to Japanese aesthetics and perceptions of nature, she realizes exhibition projects, initiates and coordinates international exchange programs, and collaborates with companies and public institutions. Through these activities, she promotes international artistic dialogue between Japan and Europe.

Her partners include renowned museums and cultural organizations such as (selected):

The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Collection of Art, Prints and Photographs, Photography
 Collection)
Behörde für Kultur und Medien - Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg
Kunsthalle Mannheim
Museum Angewandte Kunst frankfurt am Main
RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 (UK)
Begehungen e.V./ CHEMNITZ Kluturhauptstadt Europas 2025
Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Art in Japan/APCA JAPAN
Sächsische Akademie der Künste Dresden
Staatliche Museum Dresden / Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München 
Humboldt Forum, Berlin / Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Stiftung für die Hamburger Kunstsammlung / Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg 
Staatliche Galerie Kiel
Kunstverein Rügen e.V.
Museum Haus des Papiers, Berlin
Kunst Museum Bonn
Ernst Barlach Haus Hamburg 
Kunst-station Sankt Peter köln 
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Museum Sinclair-Haus
Kunstverein Rügen e. V.
Kunsthaus Hamburg
Salzkammergut 2024, Bad Ischl (Kluturhauptstadt Europas)
EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee
A.N.D. Aoyama Nomura Design
HERMES JAPON CO.,LTD.
August + Margrith Künzel Landschaftsarchitekten AG (Schweiz)