Landscape work looking 1,000 years into the future - World's First Photographic View of "A Thousand Rocks Landscape" Built in the Mountains of Korea

Moonlight Art Association will hold a photo exhibition of a huge landscape work built deep in the mountains of Korea, "Building up a Thousand Rocks - A Landscape of Rocks Reaching Toward the Heaven," from November 15 (Sat) to 17 (Mon), 2025, at OZstudio, Shibuya, Tokyo.

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The exhibition will feature photographs and the development process of the megalithic landscape work, which is approximately 240 meters long and 50 meters high, and the entire area surrounded by mountain ranges as a single work of art. This is the first time in the world that this garden, which is shaped by the overlap of landscape design and religiosity, is shown as a photographic exhibition.

In recent years, as digital devices have become increasingly popular and "smartphone dementia" has become an issue, there has been a movement to return to nature, as evidenced by the creation of botanical garden-like offices by an American IT company and the term "natural neighborhoods" becoming popular among young people on social networking services (SNS). In architecture as well, architectural works that transcend the boundaries between nature and artifice and incorporate the earth into their designs, such as the Chichu Art Museum on Naoshima (Tadao Ando), the Odawara Cultural Foundation Enoura Weather Station (Hiroshi Sugimoto), and Roden Crater (James Turrell), are attracting attention.

The garden presented in this exhibition is a natural sanctuary designed by a pastor with no architectural experience, and was built with the intention of remaining for 1,000 years, using natural stone as a material and incorporating even the topography into its conception. It was built over a period of about 30 years, and is still a living work of landscape architecture. The rock landscape built in the center of the building is a challenge to pile rocks vertically, which is not usually done, and the landscape, which was completed despite collapsing five times, conveys the universal question, "What do people pile and what do they leave behind in their lives?

Exhibition Outline

Title ：Photograph Exhibition "Building up a Thousand Rocks - A Landscape of Rocks Reaching Toward the Heaven"

Sponsor ：Gekimei Geijutsukai

Venue ：OZstudio Shibuya Higashi (3F Philpark Shibuya Higashi, 1-25-5 Higashi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)

Dates ：● November 15, 2025 (Sat) 10:00-18:30

　　　　　　　Sunday, November 16, 2025 14:00-18:30

　　　　　　　Monday, November 17, 2025 9:00-18:00

Ticket types:

　　　　　　　Photo exhibition (Adults ¥850)

　　　　　　　Photo exhibition with commentary by an expert guide (¥1,000)

　　　　　　　Photo exhibition + hands-on talk event with forest guide (¥1,250)

Number of exhibited works: 11 works on the wall, 40 works in total including books, etc.

Special program: Hands-on talk event with a forest guide

　　　　　　　After viewing the photos in the exhibition, you will receive a lecture by a forest guide.

　　　　　　　After viewing the photos in the exhibition, visitors will experience how to see nature from a new perspective while walking through the streets of Shibuya.

　　　　　　　This is an event where you can experience how to view nature from a new perspective while walking through the streets of Shibuya, and then return to the exhibition to experience the change in perspective when viewing the photos.

　　　　　　　This is an event where you can experience a change in your viewpoint when you return to the exhibition and look at the photos again.

~Special website for the photo exhibition~ (Japanese only)

https://sennoiwa2025.studio.site/

■About the Organizing Organization

The Moonlight Art Association studies the Wolmyeong-dong area, which is home to magnificent rock formations unparalleled in the world, from the perspectives of art and architecture. It also contributes to the promotion and development of culture and art by holding various photo exhibitions and expert symposiums from the viewpoints of architecture, art, and nature.