Erik Augustin Palm

Kanagawa, Tokyo

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Articles

Japanese Artist Ulala Imai Turns Her Kids’ Toys into Cuddly Paintings

3 weeks ago | artsy.net | Erik Augustin Palm

In a quiet residential pocket of Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture, about an hour southwest of Tokyo, Japanese painter Ulala Imai lives surrounded by architecture that evokes her past. She shares a newly built, tiered, and spacious home—elegant, minimalist, airy, and flooded with soft white light—with her husband and children.
Då: Telefonen. Nu: Vadå? Är världsutställningen fortfarande relevant?

1 month ago | omni.se | Erik Augustin Palm

Publiktrycket har varit lägre än väntat när världsutställningen i Osaka öppnat. Inga slutsålda dagar och stämningen på området är gemytlig men stillsam. Omni är politiskt obundna och oberoende. Vi strävar efter att ge fler perspektiv på nyheterna. Har du frågor eller synpunkter kring vår rapportering? Kontakta redaktionen
Inside teamLab Abu Dhabi, the Art Collective’s Most Ambitious Project Yet

1 month ago | artsy.net | Erik Augustin Palm

ArtErik Augustin PalmteamLab, installation view of teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi, 2025, Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi © teamLab. Courtesy Pace Gallery. On the waterfront of Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island, a cloud-like structure has risen. White and amorphous, the building offers few clues from the outside about what lies within. This is Phenomena, the newest permanent museum by the Tokyo-based digital art collective teamLab, opening to the public on April 18th.
Heaven from hells: The sulfuric pleasure of Unzen Onsen

1 month ago | japantimes.co.jp | Erik Augustin Palm

The legends of Unzen Onsen passed down through the ages paint a chilling picture. In this mountain resort town, stories of demons, white snakes rising from the mist and Buddhist monks using the boiling waters and steaming pools — onsen (hot springs) colloquially known as “jigoku” (hells) — as metaphors for divine condemnation are not simply folklore. Instead, they are ways of reckoning with the dual nature of the town’s dramatic landscape.
Tekniken de svenska bolagen vill visa för världen

1 month ago | omni.se | Erik Augustin Palm

När världsutställningen i Osaka öppnar är de svenska bolagens fokus på tryggare städer, självtänkande fordon och automatiserad vardag. Omni är politiskt obundna och oberoende. Vi strävar efter att ge fler perspektiv på nyheterna. Har du frågor eller synpunkter kring vår rapportering? Kontakta redaktionen
World’s first public bonsai museum reopens after renovations

2 months ago | businessandamerica.com | Erik Augustin Palm

After a five-month closure for a rigorous garden renovation, the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum formally reopened on March 21, unveiling a series of updates that aim to enhance both the exhibition experience and the health of the trees themselves. Established in 2010, the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum is the world’s first public museum dedicated to bonsai art.
World’s first bonsai museum reopens after climate-focused renovations

2 months ago | japantimes.co.jp | Erik Augustin Palm

After a five-month closure for a rigorous garden renovation, the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum formally reopened on March 21, unveiling a series of updates that aim to enhance both the exhibition experience and the health of the trees themselves. Established in 2010, the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum is the world's first public museum dedicated to bonsai art.
Tokyo Creative Salon sees the city as both runway and canvas

2 months ago | japantimes.co.jp | Erik Augustin Palm

It is a spring midday on March 13, and the opening event of Tokyo Creative Salon 2025 is unfolding at Tokyu Plaza Harajuku’s cultural hub, Harakado. The space, which will serve as the festival’s nerve center through March 23, is alive with the hum of conversation and the shuffle of designers, artists and industry insiders moving through immersive installations and fashion showcases.
Augmented reality artist Omega C navigates a precarious scene for XR art

2 months ago | japantimes.co.jp | Erik Augustin Palm

At Harajuku Station, amid the sea of street-style aficionados and busy commuters, one tall figure stands apart. Artist Adrian Steckeweh exudes warmth and grace, enveloped in a sculptural, otherworldly-looking pink jacket of his own design, accessorized with self-3D-printed jewelry, including a centipede bracelet. As we walk down Omotesando, passersby take notice. Originally from Germany, Steckeweh, 37, moved to Tokyo 10 years ago where he works as an architect.
Aboard Japan’s most luxurious train, the journey is the destination

Feb 28, 2025 | japantimes.co.jp | Erik Augustin Palm

Luxury rail travel has always carried an air of nostalgia, a lingering connection to a time when the world moved at a slower, more deliberate pace. In Japan, where the shinkansen has redefined efficiency, there exists an anomaly — the Seven Stars in Kyushu, a train that moves not with speed but with intention.