NEW YORK.- Kaikai Kiki announced the second edition of GEISAI Museum, which will be held on Sunday May 11, 2008 from 10 am to 6 pm at Tokyo Big Sight. Over six hundred artists will display and directly sell their work to the thousands of collectors and visitors expected for the one-day event, and their works will be ranked by a jury exclusively composed of museum directors, hence the name GEISAI Museum.

GEISAI Museum 2 comes as a sequel to the first GEISAI Museum event, which took place in 2003. It is also part of the GEISAI events series that has been produced and promoted by Kaikai Kiki since 2001. Along with them, it constitutes one of the many ways Kaikai Kiki has been helping to develop the art market in Japan while also providing opportunities outside the traditional grid for artists worldwide. GEISAI Museum 2 follows GEISAI Miami that ran concurrently with Art Basel Miami Beach and was the first edition of GEISAI to take place outside of Japan.

The vibrant, eccentric atmosphere that has become a GEISAI trademark is reflected in GEISAI Museum 2’s open selection process where booths will be rented to artists on a first-come-first-serve basis with no pre-selection process. Furthermore, GEISAI Museum has no restraint on medium, allowing fashion designers, musicians, performers and any other artist to exhibit alongside those working in more traditional visual media. The open process participates in the general goal of the fair to provide artists the opportunity to exhibit their work to the public and art world at large in a professional setting without having gallery representation.

This year, the international jury will consist of Yoshiko Mori, Administrative Director of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Fram Kitagawa, Deputy Director of the Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima; Yutaka Mine, Director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; and Victor Pinchuk, Philanthropist and Founder of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the PinchukArtCentre, Kiev. The jury will tour through the fair assigning ratings to the exhibitors. At the end of the day the ratings will be tallied and the exhibitors will receive their rank. Gold, bronze and silver medals will be awarded to the three highest-ranking artists.

Venue: GEISAI Museum 2, Tokyo Big Sight East Hall 4, 3-21-1 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0063, Japan, www.bigsight.jp. Dates: Sunday, May 11, 2008. Hours: 10 am to 6 pm.

GEISAI Museum 2 will be followed by GEISAI #11, which will also take place at Tokyo Big Site on September 14, 2008. The eleventh edition of the flagship GEISAI fair will be twice the size of previous editions, encompassing an entire additional hall space of Tokyo Big Sight. GEISAI #11 differs from GEISAI Museum in that the jury will consist of a variety of artists and art professionals beyond museum directors.