In the heart of Roppongi, where skyscrapers, nightlife, and art institutions collide, Perrotin Tokyo brings a touch of Parisian salon culture to Japan. Part gallery, part gathering place, it’s a spot where contemporary art meets conversation, and where international names and local audiences come together.
Tucked inside the Piramide Building in Roppongi, just steps from the Mori Art Museum and the buzz of Roppongi Hills, Perrotin Tokyo has become a cornerstone of the city’s contemporary art scene. Since opening in 2017 with a solo exhibition by Pierre Soulages, the gallery has steadily expanded, doubling its space in 2019 and adding a bookstore, the Perrotin Store Tokyo, in 2020.
Last year on July 2024, Perrotin introduced the Perrotin Salon on the building’s second floor. Inspired by the Enlightenment-era salons of 17th- and 18th-century France, the space is a nod to gatherings where people from different walks of life came together to exchange bold ideas about art, philosophy, and society. It’s a fitting concept for Tokyo, where Perrotin has spent nearly three decades cultivating strong connections with Japanese culture and audiences.
Perrotin Tokyo Pyramid Building View Photo by Artpreciate
Thanks to our 30-plus years of bond commitment to Japan and its artists, institutions, collectors, and people, I am delighted to continue to deepen and nurture our relationships with the launch of Perrotin Salon Tokyo. Establishing my gallery in Tokyo since 2017 has opened doors and created opportunities I never dreamed about, I believe that a strong commitment is necessarily to work on a long-term basis with high-level artists and collectors. Expending our gallery in Tokyo will create complementarity and interactivity with the local art scene and will stimulate the whole gallery!
— Emmanuel Perrotin – Founder
On View Now: Nikki Maloof
Aspects of Daily Life
September 10 – October 25, 2025
Perrotin Tokyo, Piramide Building 1F
Nikki Maloof exhibition at Prrotin Tokyo. Photo by Artpreciate
Nikki Maloof’s latest exhibition at Perrotin Tokyo slows time down to a painterly pause. Her works sit somewhere between melancholy and humor, much like a haiku—brief yet resonant, tender yet edged with irony.
Poetry has long accompanied Maloof’s practice. In her 2024 painting Flounder, stacked fish stare out wide-eyed, caught in a suspended state of being “there and not there.” The image recalls a verse by haiku master Matsuo Bashō:
In the spring that goes away /
The birds scream /
The eyes of the fish in tears.
Maloof’s paintings invite close looking. Transparent glazes, layered like the Flemish masters, produce nuanced shades. In Flounder, aubergine tones mingle with earthy browns. Her palette feels more restrained than in earlier series, steering toward a kind of purity. And with this shift, the space of her paintings also changes. Instead of Renaissance perspective’s measured order, Maloof builds what she calls a “contracted space” something felt more than constructed, resonant with an Eastern sense of time and perception.
The result is work that feels both grounded and contemplative: everyday life seen through layers of poetry, history, and quiet revelation.
Steph Huang – When an Encounter Takes Place
September 10 – October 25, 2025
Piramide Building, 1F, 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Perrotin also presents the debut solo exhibition of London-based Taiwanese artist Steph Huang. Known as a poet of materiality, Huang creates playful sculptures and idiosyncratic assemblages using found objects and malleable materials. Her works transform the everyday into a tactile, lyrical experience.
When an Encounter Takes Place invites viewers on a journey through time and memory, wandering from the banks of the Thames to the streets of Japan, pausing at family gatherings, or lingering on quiet moments along the Mediterranean coast. Each sculpture and installation feels like a fragment of lived experience, reassembled into something both familiar and strange, intimate yet universal.
Steph Huang exhibition at Perrotin Salon Tokyo. Photo by Artpreciate