Hara Museum of Contemporary Art - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Hara Museum of Contemporary Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Video Art Screening "VIVA Festival"
This VIVA Festival takes off where the 2006 edition left off, screening a series of a total of 33 works of video art over two days. The selection was made by Ana de Alvear, an independent curator and artist (...)
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mama! milk "Fragrance of Notes"
Mama!milk (http://www.mamamilk.net) is an acoustic-instrumental duo consisting of accordion player Yuko Ikoma and contrabass player Kosuke Shimizu. To celebrate the release of their new album 'Fragrance (...)
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"Osu! Handicraft Club Activities" Workshop
"Ossu! Shugeibu" (http://www.ultratama.com/syugeibu.html)is a group of seven good-looking guys who turn unique ideas into handcrafted goods. In this workshop, or extracurricular activity, you will turn (...)
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"Art Scope 2007/2008- Faces of Existence" Exhibition
- Media: Drawing - Installation - Video installation - Art Party - Art Talk
- 2008-06-28 - 2008-08-31
Art Scope, a mécénat activity of Daimler Foundation in Japan, provides contemporary artists from Japan and Germany the chance to experience life in each other’s country. For the 2007/2008 year, Izumi Kato (...)
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"Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection" Exhibition
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present an exhibition of selections from its permanent collection of approximately 1,000 works. These will include artworks from the areas of painting, (...)
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Pipilotti Rist "Karakara"
This autumn the Hara Museum is pleased to present "Karakara," a solo exhibition by the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, a leading figure in Europe's contemporary art scene. This is surprisingly the artist's (...)
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"Meet the Artist: Eva Teppe Slide Lecture" Talk Event
Hara Museum presents a slide lecture by Eva Teppe, one of the artists to be featured in "Art Scope 2007/2008" in the summer of 2008. Since 2003, the Hara Museum has collaborated with Daimler Chrysler (...)
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Izumi Kon "A certain gardener - a moment of plentitude"
The Hara Museum is presenting a project by the artist Izumi Kon consisting of three parts: a garden (set within the Sculpture Garden), an installation of paintings (exhibited in the first-floor corridor) and (...)
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Flowers "Paradise" Dance Performance
Led by Yumi Yoshimoto, the troupe "flowers" has a cast that changes with each performance.Not confined to the conventional theater, the troupe turns any place of their liking into a stage. The keywords (...)
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"Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection" Exhibition
This is an exhibition that showcases about 50 works by artists from Japan and Asian countries.
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Henry Darger "A Story of Girls at War—Of Paradises Dreamed"
Orphaned at an early age and sent to an asylum after being diagnosed as mentally deficient, Darger (1892-1973) lived a solitary life from his youth until his death at 81. During this time, he wrote an (...)
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Adriana Varejão Exhibition
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is holding a solo exhibition by Adriana Varejão, a woman artist at the forefront of the contemporary art scene in Brazil. In her work, Varejão displays a sharp sensibility (...)
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VIVA Festival
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is holding a two-day video art project featuring short films by 31 artists such as Isaac Julien and Mariko Mori from 14 countries including Armenia, Brazil, Germany, (...)
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Jason Teraoka "Neighbors"
This exhibition showcases Teraoka’s latest work: a series of 88 paintings entitled "Neighbor". Born and presently based in Hawaii, since the mid-1990s, Teraoka has exhibited throughout Hawaii where he (...)
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"Art Scope 2005/2006" Exhibition
What does the experience of living in a foreign culture mean or what kind of stimuli does it provide to artists? Koji Mori and Kohei Nawa were recently dispatched to Berlin and Katja Strunz and Georg Winter (...)
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Tabaimo Exhibition "Yoroyoron"
Tabaimo has received a lot of attention for her video installations which use animation, and this exhibition consists mainly of her newest works from 2006. Some of the artist's latest activities will also (...)
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Deutsche Bank Collection meets Zaha Hadid "Tokyo blossoms"
Featuring about 150 works from the Deutsche Bank Collection, with the participation of the architect Zaha Hadid, who will be in charge of the installation design of the exhibition.
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Camille Henrot Film Viewing, the Hall
In her work, Camille Henrot depicts the love and hate, desire, and day-to-day work of human beings through images taken from pre-existing movies and movies made by herself which she manually modifies. The (...)
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Olafur Eliasson "Your Light Shadow"
This show marks Eliasson's first solo exhibition at a Japanese art museum, and precedes the installation of a permanent installation by the artist on the museum's rooftop next spring. In addition to his (...)
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Dining Event - Nanpushokudo and Miwa Yanagi
Nampushokudo will hold a special dining event on the theme of the exhibition Miwa Yanagi: The Incredible Tale of the Innocent Old Lady and the Heartless Young Girl. The artist Miwa Yanagi is also scheduled (...)
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Wisut Ponnimit’s Live by the garden
The artist Wisut Ponnimit, cartoonist, musician and popular Bangkok pop culture figure will come to the Hara Museum to give a special solo performance on an untuned piano. The music will be improvisational (...)
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Miwa Yanagi : The incredible Tale of the Innocent Old Lady and the Heartless Young Girl
The centerpiece of the exhibition at the Hara Museum will be the Fairy Tale series which the artist started in 2004, providing an indication of the artist’s most recent development. This series uses as (...)
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The I Within You: Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection
The Hara Museum was originally built as a private mansion during the early part of the Showa era, and even now retains a residential quality following its rebirth as an art museum. Its history and special (...)
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Antoni Tàpies - Titan of Spain: Defiant Paintings
Born in Barcelona in 1923, Antoni Tàpies is a prominent figure in Spanish contemporary art and a successor to the spirit of Picasso, Dalí and Miró and other geniuses of the twentieth century. His works, (...)
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Art Scope 2004: Cityscape into Art
Exhibition featuring young Japanese and German artists, Michiko Shoji and Johannes Wohnseifer, who were appointed to Artist-in-Residence program called Art scope by Daimler Chrysler Foundation in Japan. (...)
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25 Years of Collecting at the Hara Museum
This winter, the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates its 25th anniversary since its foundation. During this time, it has expanded its holdings to some 850 works of contemporary art by artists (...)
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Yoshitomo Nara - From the Depth of My Drawer
This exhibition features drawings, paintings, photographs, three-dimensional works and installations by Yoshitomo Nara, ranging from small, early pieces made in the 1980s to his latest works. Planned by (...)





