The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
"A Perspective on Contemporary Art 6: Emotional Drawing" Exhibition
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[17]- Media: Drawing - Installation - Digital - Art Talk
- 2008-08-26 - 2008-10-13
This show presents works in which artists' emotions seem to have been teased out by embracing the fragile quality intrinsic to drawing. Featured are sixteen artists from Asia, Europe and the Middle East (...)
"Between the Wall and the Ground" Exhibition
[0] [5]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Art Talk
- 2008-08-09 - 2008-10-13
The wall rising upright in front of us and the horizontal expanse of the ground under our feet are the two "planes" that comprise the foundation of our perception of the world. How have these "planes" (...)
"Carlo Zauli: A Retrospective" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2008-06-17 - 2008-08-03
Known internationally as a great innovator of modern ceramics, Carlo Zauli (1926-2002) was an Italian master ceramic artist who had considerable influence also on Japanese counterparts. This is the first (...)
"Architectural Creation Peter Märkli and Jun Aoki" Exhibition
[0] [17]- Media: Drawing - Architecture
- 2008-06-03 - 2008-08-03
The two architects, Peter Märkli (b. 1953) from Switzerland and Jun Aoki (b. 1956) from Japan, share a strong interest in paintings and sculpture. This exhibition presents many of more than 300 drawings (...)
"Kaii Higashiyama: A Retrospective" Exhibition
[0] [8]- Media: Painting
- 2008-03-29 - 2008-05-18
This is a retrospective exhibition on landscape artist Kaii Higashiyama, born in 1908. He established a unique style characterized by planarity and simplicity as can be seen in his representative work (...)
"Self / Other" Exhibition
[0] [27]- Media: Painting - Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Video installation - Art Talk
- 2008-01-18 - 2008-03-09
Today, in the chaos of diversity, how can we pay attention to "the other," the one different from oneself, and accept its values? To begin with, do we "understand" ourselves? This exhibition presents contemporary (...)
"Yasuo Kuniyoshi: Centering on Donated Works" Exhibition
[0] [2]- Media: Painting
- 2008-01-02 - 2008-03-20
Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953) was a painter who developed his career in the U.S. during the tumultuous period from the early 20th century to the postwar years. This small show presents more than twenty pieces, (...)
"Modern Age in Japanese Sculpture: From its Beginnings through the 1960s" Exhibition
[0] [2]- Media: Sculpture - Art Talk
- 2007-11-13 - 2007-12-24
Various sculptural expressions can be found in traditional Japanese culture. Aside from Buddhist statues, statues of deities, architectural decorations, and other crafted objects, "sculpture" from a Western (...)
"Skies and Stars: Celestial Images" Exhibition
[0] [1]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture
- 2007-10-27 - 2007-12-24
Almost everyone has wondered about another planet while staring at stars in the sky, or gazed at cloud formations and seen the shapes of particular things. In ancient times, human beings always found inspiration (...)
Ikuo Hirayama "A Retrospective - Pilgrimage for Peace"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2007-09-04 - 2007-10-21
Ikuo Hirayama is a highly acclaimed artist that is particularly well known for his intellectual and lyrical works based on folklore and anecdotes, such as the painting "Transmission of Buddhism". He has (...)
"The Sense of Collapse" Exhibition
[0] [13]- Media: Painting - Photography - Prints
- 2007-08-18 - 2007-10-21
Abandoned ruins, catastrophic scenes from wars and disasters, the decay of things over time, as well as the disintegration of personal identity -- a sense of collapse is frequently depicted in the art (...)
Henri Cartier-Bresson "Retrospective"
[0] [47]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography
- 2007-06-19 - 2007-08-12
The photographer who never missed a decisive moment, Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) studied painting before starting to focus on photography in the early 1930s. Recognized as the master of taking candid (...)
Henri Michaux "Emerging Figures"
[0] [10]- Media: Painting
- 2007-06-19 - 2007-08-12
Henri Michaux is a Belgian painter as well as a poet who worked in France. For about a half century since the 1930s he created peculiar drawings with his signature abstract marks that are neither symbols (...)
"Ai-Mitsu" Exhibition
[0] [11]- Media: Painting
- 2007-03-30 - 2007-05-27
Celebrating the 100th anniversary since he was born, this is a retrospective exhibition devoted to an exceptional painter from the World War II period, Ai-Mitsu, who had a huge influence on the history (...)
"Fiction for the Real" Exhibition
[0] [28]- Media: Painting - Photography - Prints - Digital
- 2007-03-10 - 2007-05-27
It is often said that art forms became diversified in the 1990s more than ever before. The scene was rather chaotic, reflecting upon the remarkable development in information technology as well as the (...)
Tsuji Kako Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Art Talk
- 2007-01-19 - 2007-03-04
Kako Tsuji (1871-1931) is a prominent Japanese artist, known as part of the 'four kings' along with Seiho Takeuchi, Hobun Kikuchi, and Kokyo Taniguchi. He was active in modern Kyoto as both an artist and (...)
Taikan Yokoyama "Metempsychosis"
[0] [3]- Media: Painting - Art Talk
- 2007-01-02 - 2007-03-04
As part of the permanent collection exhibition "Masterpiece from the Collection", the entire 40 meters of the Important Cultural Property "Metempsychosis" by Taikan Yokoyama (1868-1958) will be on display (...)
"Modern Art in Wanderings: In Between the Japanese and Western Style Paintings" Exhibition
[0] [3]- Media: Painting
- 2006-11-07 - 2006-12-24
Contemporary Japanese paintings are sometimes categorized as being either Nihonga (Japanese paintings) or Western style paintings. This categorization started in the Meiji Era and has been adopted by the (...)
"Photography Today 3: Resolution/Dissolution" Exhibition
[0] [9]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2006-10-31 - 2006-12-24
"Resolution/Dissolution" follows "The Absence of Distance" (1998) and "Site/Sight - Place and Scenes" (2002). The boundary surface between two different domains has always been an important theme to (...)
Modern Paradise Exhibition
[0] [12]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Art Talk
- 2006-08-15 - 2006-10-15
This exhibition features more than 100 pieces from the massive art collections of the Ohara Museum and National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo: paintings, sculptures, photographs and more. The works depict (...)
"Body in Pieces" Exhibition
[0] [4]- Media: Painting
- 2006-08-05 - 2006-10-15
Jiro Yoshihara: A Centenary Retrospective
[0] [6]- Media: Illustration - Art Talk
- 2006-06-13 - 2006-07-30
This is the first large scale retrospective of Jiro Yoshihara (1905-1972) to be held in Tokyo. Osaka-born Yoshihara pioneered avant-garde art for over fifty years and was well known overseas as the leader (...)
"Duration / Rupture"
[0] [8]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2006-05-30 - 2006-07-30
The four artists were born around the 1930's and debuted as artists in their 50s. They continue to produce high quality work to this day and personify post-war Japanese art. Work from their early stages (...)
Tsuguharu Foujita Exhibition
[0] [30]- Media: Painting
- 2006-03-28 - 2006-05-21
One of the leading painters of the Ecole de Paris, Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968) created elegant nude paintings which fascinating "milky-white" skin tones continue to fascinate people even today. In commemoration (...)
Contemporary Prints: Transformation of Photographic Image
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2006-03-11 - 2006-05-21
This exhibition features print works that involve the use of photographs. "Prints" used to refer to either wood-block or copper-plate prints, but the usage of photography with print is becoming more popular (...)
Kunitaro Suda Exhibition
[0] [2]- Media: Painting
- 2006-01-13 - 2006-03-05
Kunitaro Suda (1891-1961) studied aesthetics and art history at Kyoto University, before exploring the history and techniques of oil painting in Europe. He developed and established a unique style of light (...)
August Sander "Face of Our Time"
[0] [27]- Media: Photography
- 2005-10-25 - 2005-12-18
August Sander (1876-1964) was a photographer best known for his numerous portraits of German people in the Weimar period. His major project, aiming at presenting Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts (People of (...)
German Contemporary Photography
[0] [34]- Media: Photography
- 2005-10-25 - 2005-12-18
Since the 1990s German photography has been attracting wide attention not only in the domain of photography but in the broader context of contemporary art. Presenting works of photographers such as B. (...)
Cubism in Asia: Unbounded Dialogues
[0] [7]- Media: Painting
- 2005-08-09 - 2005-10-02
Originated in the early twentieth century by Picasso and other artists, Cubism was one of the most important developments in modern art to have such a global and enduring impact. Presenting about 130 works (...)
Video Installation by Bill Viola and Contemporary Works From the Museum Collection
[0] [5]- Media: Video installation
- 2005-07-26 - 2005-10-02
Last year the museum acquired Bill Viola's The Quintet of Remembrance (2000), a silent video installation into which human emotion is condensed. Featuring Viola's installation, this show presents contemporary (...)
Kokei Kobayashi - Master of the Modern Japanese Painting
[0] [1]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2005-06-07 - 2005-07-18
Kokei Kobayashi (1883-1957) was an artist who, in a period of new art consciousness (Taisho to Showa eras), managed to innovate and push the format of Japanese painting while preserving its traditional (...)
Van Gogh in Context
[0] [8]- Media: Painting
- 2005-03-23 - 2005-05-22
Each of the dominant themes in the art of van Gogh (1853-1890), such as religion and labor (the Netherlands), light (Paris), utopia (Arles), and the antinomy between nature and religion (Saint-Rémy-de-Provence), (...)
Misao Yokoyama and Masayoshi Nakamura - A New Phase in Postwar Japanese-style Painting from the Museum Collection
[0] [1]- Media: Painting
- 2005-03-05 - 2005-05-22
Both Misao Yokoyama and Masayoshi Nakamura explored new possibilities of postwar Japanese-style painting, ushering in a new phase in the painting circles with their dynamic composition. This exhibition (...)
Graphic Designs of Takashi Kono
[0] [4]- Media: Graphics
- 2005-01-12 - 2005-02-27
Best known by his posters for Shochiku Kinema, a major movie production company, Takashi Kono (1906-1999) was a designer whose career almost entirely overlapped with the history of Japanese graphic design. (...)
Traces - Body and Idea in Contemporary Art
[0] [5]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2005-01-12 - 2005-02-27
Incisions on the canvas, spattered paint, hand prints left on picture planes--mainstream images of postwar art often involve the principle of causality, bearing vivid traces of physical activities or raw (...)
Yayoi Kusama "Eternity - Modernity"
[0] [4]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2004-10-26 - 2004-12-19
From her early paintings of proliferating nets to soft sculpture and performances after she moved to the United States, Yayoi Kusama (1929- ) has never ceased to explore new possibilities in expression, (...)
Ihei Kimura － The Man with the Camera
[0] [3]- Media: Photography
- 2004-10-09 - 2004-12-19
Ihei Kimura (1901-1974), one of the leading photographers of his time, broke new ground in reportage photography using small cameras, an achievement still amazing even today. Using several parts of the (...)
RIMPA
[0] [3]- Media: Painting
- 2004-08-21 - 2004-10-03
Typified by Korin Ogata (1658-1716), the Rimpa school created by far the most gorgeous works in modern Japanese art. Comprising selected Rimpa masterpieces as well as those of Shunso Hishida (1874-1911), (...)
2D
- Graphics (18)
- Illustration (35)
- Painting (211)
- Drawing (42)
- Calligraphy (7)
- Photography (99)
- Prints (32)
- Other (62)
3D
- Architecture (13)
- Sculpture (69)
- Installation (56)
- Furniture (13)
- Fashion (25)
- Product (25)
- Crafts (48)
- Ceramics (21)
- Other (42)
Screen
- Film (9)
- Video installation (23)
- Digital (2)
- Other (4)
Misc.
- Art Party (55)
- Art Talk (79)
- Performance Art (10)
- Art Competition (1)
In & Around:
Ginza, Shimbashi(73) Ueno(32) Kiyosumi, Odaiba(12) Nihonbashi, Kudanshita(77) Omotesando(53) Shinjuku(62) Shibuya(29) Roppongi(42) Nakameguro(38) Musashino, Tama(34) Yokohama, Kanagawa(33) Kanto: others(47)
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