Museum of Modern Art, Saitama - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Museum of Modern Art, Saitama. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
Suma Maruki Exhibition
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[1]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2008-07-05 - 2008-08-31
Suma Maruki (1875-1956) began painting after she turned 70, and for the 11 years until she passed away at the age of 81, she created more than 700 works. She was encouraged to start painting by her sun (...)
"58th Prefectural Exhibition"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Calligraphy - Photography - Sculpture - Crafts
- 2008-05-27 - 2008-06-18
Painting, sculpture, craft, calligraphy, and photography works submitted through a public open call will be on display.
"Permanent Collection Part I" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Furniture
- 2008-04-22 - 2008-07-13
- "Recently Donated Modern Nihon-ga from the Okuma Collection" Including 10 masterpieces by Taikan Yokoyama, a total of 47 works from the Okuma Collection are on display. The exhibition is divided into (...)
"The Beautiful World of Western Printmaking - Wandering in the Microcosm of Paper" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Prints - Art Talk
- 2008-04-05 - 2008-05-18
The history of European printmaking goes back to the later 14th century. Woodcuts are the earliest printmaking technique, and from as early as the 15th century, copperplates began to be used to create (...)
Morikazu Kumagai Exhibition
[0] [4]- Media: Painting - Calligraphy - Art Talk
- 2008-02-02 - 2008-03-23
"People often asks me what I want to do now or what I hope for, but there's nothing especially, except that I'd want to live longer if I could," Morikazu Kumagaya said at the age of 91. He was born in (...)
Permanent Collection Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2008-01-24 - 2008-04-13
- "Challenge for the Visual Senses - from the Modern to Contemporary" Works by Picasso, Delvaux, Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, and others are on view. - "Research Program 'Edo Modern by Settai Komura'" Settai (...)
"New Vision Saitama III" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Other - Sculpture - Installation
- 2007-12-26 - 2008-01-27
Museum of Modern Art, Saitama presents the third exhibition of "New Vision Saitama," featuring seven Saitama-based emerging artists each selected by seven of the museum's curators. The selected artists (...)
"Rural Song - Nature and People as Seen in Contemporary Painting" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2007-10-27 - 2007-12-16
This exhibition brings together works on theme of nature and man in rural life by painters in the Barbizon school and Impressionist such as Millet, Monet, and Pissarro, as well as Japanese painters Chu (...)
Permanent Collection Part 3 Exhibition
[0] [1]- Media: Painting - Prints - Other
- 2007-10-04 - 2008-01-20
"25th Anniversary Exhibition from Museum Collection" This exhibition gives an overview of the museum collection including nihon-ga, modern, and contemporary art. "Muse Forum - MoMAS Art Station!" The (...)
Cang Xin + Zhu Ming "Art, Body, Interaction 2"
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2007-07-21 - 2007-07-21
This symposium addresses questions of where art is created and the ways in which we look at it. Two Chinese artists have been invited to hold performances that will engage with viewers as a form of dialogue, (...)
"Line, Sign, Letter - Experiments with Books" Exhibition
[0] [7]- Media: Prints - Installation - Other
- 2007-07-20 - 2007-09-30
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama attempts to create a new type of exhibition based on its permanent collection, breaking out of the ordinary notion of permanent collection exhibitions. This exhibition (...)
Hiroshi Teshigahara "A Trace of Endless Borders"
[0] [2]- Media: Calligraphy - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2007-07-14 - 2007-10-08
This is a retrospective exhibition of Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927-2001) who worked in various media from film, ceramic, calligraphy, landscape architecture, to installation using bamboo. He was born in the (...)
57th Prefectural Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Calligraphy - Photography - Sculpture - Crafts
- 2007-05-29 - 2007-06-20
This exhibition includes a wide range of works selected from an open call for submissions. The entire gallery space (from the basement to the third floor) is filled with art.
"Tatsuhiko Shibusawa: Museum of Illusions" Exhibition
[0] [8]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2007-04-07 - 2007-05-20
This exhibition is held in commemoration of French novelist, and art writer Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928-1987). In the literature world, Shibusawa is known for his translation of works by the Marquis de Sade (...)
”Surrealism" Exhibition
[0] [1]- Media: Painting
- 2007-02-21 - 2007-03-25
This exhibition focusses on Surrealism, the revolutionary art movement of the 20th century, featuring 30 artists from the period. The exhibition consists of four chapters with an introduction; "Beyond (...)
"Paris, Enchanted Capital of Art: Ecole de Paris and the Japanese Artists" Exhibition
[0] [1]- Media: Painting
- 2007-01-06 - 2007-02-12
Paris at the beginning of the 20th century saw artists from all over the world honing their crafts. This exhibition focuses on the exchange between artists of the Ecole de Paris, such as Modigliani and (...)
Permanent Collection - Season Three
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2006-10-19 - 2007-01-28
The exhibition will have four categories: - Modern paintings and sculptures - Contemporary art - resonating colors and shapes - Photogram - photographs without cameras - Research Program: Tracing (...)
"The Art Museum Dreams of the Cretaceous Period" Exhibition
[0] [8]- Media: Other - Sculpture - Other
- 2006-10-07 - 2006-12-24
The Cretaceous Period is usually thought to have no relation to the art world. Recently however, the lines between art and other fields have become blurred, and the gap between museums of natural science (...)
Toshiya Motai's Challenge: Landscapes, Windows, Paintings
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation - Art Talk
- 2006-07-21 - 2006-10-15
Toshiya Motai combined works from the museum's collection with his own to create an exhibition that rediscovers the beauty of landscapes. Selected works include oil paintings by Claude Monet and Ryusei (...)
Mandala Exhibition: The Buddahs of Tibet and Nepal
[0] [3]- Media: Painting - Performance Art
- 2006-07-08 - 2006-09-24
This exhibition explores the significance of mandalas in the contemporary world. A mandala is a generic term for any plan or geometric pattern which represents a microcosm of the universe from the human (...)
56th Saitama Prefecture Art Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Calligraphy - Photography - Sculpture
- 2006-05-30 - 2006-06-21
Works by the residents of Saitama Prefecture will be displayed on all floors.
Horst Janssen "Eyes Towards Hokusai"
[0] [1]- Media: Painting - Art Talk
- 2006-04-05 - 2006-05-21
To celebrate Germany Year in Japan, the work of Horst Janssen （1929-95) and his connections with Hokusai Katsushita will be introduced. Janssen's deformed drawings and prints of portraits, self-portraits, (...)
I Paint What I Hate and I Paint What I Love
[0] [2]- Media: Painting
- 2006-02-11 - 2006-03-26
Ben Shahn (1898-1969) is a representative painter of the American art from the 1930's until the 1960's. Born in a Jewish family in Kaunas, Lithuania, he moved with his family to New York at age 8. At 13, (...)
The Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture
- 2005-10-29 - 2005-12-25
Ghent is situated 50 km from Belgium capitol Brussels and the Medieval influence is still maintained. The Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent was established in 1798 and is one of the oldest museums in Belgium. (...)
House Collection: 2nd Phase
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints
- 2005-07-27 - 2005-10-30
Four concurrent exhibitions of pieces selected from the museum's permanent collections are held: -Landscape paintings from Japan and the West. -Curators' eyes: Dots and Nets -Drawings and prints by (...)
The Curator's Point of View - Point and Net
[0] [1]- Media: Painting - Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Installation
- 2005-07-27 - 2005-10-30
This special program tries to approach the museum's permanent collection from a unique perspective by setting an independent theme, attempting an original combination of works of art, and showing them (...)
300% Spanish Design / Fashion and Spanish Culture
[0] [10]- Media: Graphics - Fashion - Product
- 2005-07-16 - 2005-10-10
This event aims to highlight the relationships between Spain and its design culture through two concurrent exhibitions. "300% Spanish Design" follows the modern history of products and graphic design (...)
Saitama Museum of Modern Art Permanent Exhibition 4th Period
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2005-02-02 - 2005-04-24
“Still Life: Universe on the Table” Infinite imagination is devoted to stills, as can be seen in the works of Picasso and Tamayo. “World of Makoto Takada: The Poetry of Pointillism” The colorful and (...)
Chair Design: The Birth of Japanese "Za" and the Future
[0] [1]- Media: Furniture
- 2005-01-29 - 2005-03-27
Chairs are like people. They are shaped in accordance with our act ‘to sit’, and support us in the home, at school, at work, in public – every conceivable environment. Many types of chairs are available (...)
Kurata Hakuyo Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2004-11-03 - 2005-01-16
“Make sure nothing is shaken off…” Hakuyo Kurata is known for the scrupulous depiction of ‘everyday scenery’, like vibrant trees and cloudless skies. This exhibition recollects his artistic career through (...)
Saitama Museum of Modern Art Permanent Exhibition 3rd Period
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Other
- 2004-10-20 - 2005-01-30
“Selected Collection – From Monet to Picasso” Representative Western Works from the Collection. “World of Morikazu Kumagai – Bad Painting is Painting Nonetheless” An exploration of the unique and simplified (...)
The Man Ray exhibition -
[0] [1]- Media: Photography - Painting - Other
- 2004-09-11 - 2004-10-27
This exhibition introduces and give the opportunity to explore mysterious world of the Man Ray through 300 pieces of drawings, objects, prints, photographs, and etc.
2D
- Graphics (13)
- Illustration (35)
- Painting (159)
- Drawing (32)
- Calligraphy (8)
- Photography (83)
- Prints (26)
- Other (45)
3D
- Architecture (10)
- Sculpture (59)
- Installation (31)
- Furniture (13)
- Fashion (13)
- Product (16)
- Crafts (35)
- Ceramics (20)
- Other (54)
Screen
- Film (8)
- Video installation (15)
- Digital (5)
- Other (7)
Misc.
- Art Party (28)
- Art Talk (44)
- Performance Art (6)
- Art Competition (1)
In & Around:
Ginza, Shimbashi(56) Ueno(28) Kiyosumi, Odaiba(14) Nihonbashi, Kudanshita(54) Omotesando(40) Shinjuku(64) Shibuya(32) Roppongi(39) Nakameguro(36) Musashino, Tama(36) Yokohama, Kanagawa(23) Kanto: others(38)
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