Ninagawa was one of a number of dealers who set up shop during the 2000s as Japan was coming out of its ‘lost decade’ of economic decline: not an easy moment to start selling art. Yet her gallery, Take Ninagawa, thrived and now represents the likes of Shinro Ohtake and Aki Sasamoto from Japan, and Wang Bing, Danh Vo and Ken Okiishi from abroad. In October she opened an exhibition of work by Ryoko Aoki, ready for Art Week Tokyo, the fourth edition of the annual citywide festival pioneered by Ninagawa herself. Now staged in collaboration with Art Basel (Ninagawa sits on the fair’s selection committee for its Basel edition), the event draws an international crowd and is eager to establish a new hub in Asia to rival Seoul and away from the censorship present in Hong Kong and mainland China. Over 50 galleries and museums across the city took part in the event, which included a selling show at Okura Museum of Art curated by Mami Kataoka, and AWT Video, a series of moving image works programmed by Sohrab Mohebbi that screened at SMBC East Tower.