Sohei Nishino | Diorama Map Venice, 2026

VENICE

Michael Hoppen Gallery is proud to present Sohei Nishino's latest diorama map: Venice. This fragile and unique city has now been preserved in over 450 rolls of film and forms a key part of our presentation at TEFAF Maastricht, opening Thursday 12 March. 

"I walk through these cities, camera in hand, capturing multi-facetted views that I then combine, one by one, in accordance with my memories, arranging them into a map that portrays all the singular aspects of the place. The result is quite different from the denotative expression of a map; it uses photographs (single 35mm frames) of concrete objects or shapes as units to recreate a geographical representation, expressing the city through human memories and images. This means that the finished work is anything but an accurate map, it is simply the town as seen through the eyes of a single individual, a trace of the way in which I walked through it, an embodiment of my awareness, a microcosm of the life and energy that comprise the city.” - SOHEI NISHINO

Nishino's visionary approach to contemporary cartography combines photography, collage, and psycho-geography to create large photographic studies of urban landscapes. Drawing inspiration from the 18th century Japanese mapmaker, Inō Tadataka, Nishino re-imagines the cities he has walked into large scale collages. 

Large: Paper size 140 x 307 cm, Edition of 5 + 2AP's

Small: Paper size 100 x 219.4 cm, Edition of 15 + 2AP's