Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
"Lost Homes: Model Reconstruction of Villages on the Sanriku Coast" Exhibition
[7][7]- Media: Architecture - Art Talk
- 2011-12-13 - 2012-01-15
Held as part of a series of events related to the ongoing exhibition "Architectural Environments for Tomorrow—New Spatial Practices in Architecture and Art", this exhibition attempts to recreate the diverse...More »
Tetsuro Kano "Naturplan: Bloomberg Pavilion Project"
[7][3]- Media: Installation
- 2011-10-29 - 2011-11-27
Is our idea of ‘nature’ the same as that of, for instance, a bird’s? In this installation, consisting of ready-made objects, Kano invites wild birds to enter, expanding the possibilities of time and space...More »
"Architectural Environments for Tomorrow - New Spatial Practices in Architecture and Art" Exhibition
[164][35]- Media: Architecture
- 2011-10-29 - 2012-01-15
We are living in a changing twenty-first century: What spaces will our architects and artists make? How will they respond to these shifts? Featuring the collaboration of twenty-eight architects from fourteen...More »
"Berlin 2000-2011" Exhibition
[185][26]- Media: Painting - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2011-09-23 - 2012-01-09
Berlin has undergone a dramatic transformation since the destruction of the wall in 1989. The city has attracted artists from around the world with its boundless possibilities, allowing them to communicate...More »
Frederic Back Exhibition
[43][8]- Media: Illustration - Painting - Film
- 2011-07-02 - 2011-10-03
Frederic Back (born 1924, Saarbrucken, currently living in Montreal) is the winner of two Academy Awards. With the support of Studio Ghibli, this exhibition will present his most famous animation, ‘The...More »
Kohei Nawa "Synthesis"
[254][55]- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Digital
- 2011-06-11 - 2011-08-28
Solo exhibition of work by Kohei Nawa (b. 1975), an artist who develops sculpture and spatial expressions utilizing the concept of the "cell". Nawa uses fluid materials and media such as beads, prisms,...More »
"Silent Narrator: On Plural Stories"/"Special Feature: Takashi Ishida" Exhibition
[29][16]- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation
- 2011-06-11 - 2011-10-03
In order to deepen people’s appreciation of contemporary art the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo will hold a series of exhibitions drawing on the museum's collection of over 4000 works in order to approach...More »
Goma "Memory Ⅱ"
[11][0]- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2011-06-01 - 2011-06-30
Goma is an internationally-active didgeridoo player who unfortunately got into an rear-end collision accident on a Tokyo highway in November 2009, causing damage to his higher brain functions and mild...More »
"Tokyo Wonder Wall Open Call 2011 Selected Works" Exhibition
[25][4]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-05-28 - 2011-06-19
Tokyo Wonder Wall was founded in 2000 as a platform for promoting the work of young up-and-coming artists. Artists are selected through an open call for submissions, and selected works are exhibited at...More »
"Dancers x Musicians Jam Session: Liber"
[1][0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2011-05-14 - 2011-05-14
This event presents a number of different dancers across multiple genre, exploring the idea of "liber", or freedom, being without restraint.More »
Kyoji Takubo Exhibition
[68][12]- Media: Photography - Architecture - Installation
- 2011-02-26 - 2011-05-08
The first comprehensive solo exhibition in Tokyo devoted to Kyoji Takubo (1949—), an artist known for his Chapel of Apple restoration project. After initially working in such genres as performance art...More »
"MOT Annual 2011: Nearest Faraway" Exhibition
[172][30]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-02-26 - 2011-05-08
Each year since 1999, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo has held a MOT Annual exhibition to showcase new trends in art, with a focus on the Tokyo metropolis. This time, the 11th MOT Annual will look at...More »
"MOT Collection Chronicle 1947-1963: Days of Independent Art Exhibitions (Special feature: Pipilotti Rist)"
[9][4]- Media: Painting - Photography
- 2010-10-29 - 2011-01-30
The ‘Chronicle’ exhibitions are a series of themed exhibitions that began last year with the aim of proposing a revised view of postwar Japanese art. The current exhibition features works from the ‘Independent’...More »
"Tokyo Art Meeting: Transformation" Exhibition
[249][54]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2010-10-29 - 2011-01-30
People have always been fascinated by images of transformation involving the human body. What does it mean for human beings to transform themselves into “something other than human”? Transformations into...More »
"Catalysis for Life - New Language of Dutch Art & Design" Exhibition
[114][22]- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Product
- 2010-10-29 - 2011-01-30
Having first received attention during the nineteen-nineties for its avant-garde approach, Dutch design reflected the changing values of the times in which large numbers of people have become uncomfortable...More »
"Karigurashi no Arrietty x Yohei Taneda" Exhibition
[45][7]- Media: Illustration - Installation
- 2010-07-17 - 2010-10-03
In conjunction with the 2010 summer release of Karigurashi no Arrietty, a new epic movie by Studio Ghibli, MOT will hold a "Karigurashi no Arrietty x Yohei Taneda" exhibition. Production designer Yohei...More »
Art Hunting tour around Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo and Kiyosumi Shirakawa Galleries
[3][1]- Media: Painting - Installation - Art Talk
- 2010-05-01 - 2010-05-01
This Art Hunting Tour offers participants the chance to hear the real story behind some of Tokyo's most intriguing contemporary art venues. The tour will first make a stop at the Museum of Contemporary...More »
MOT Collection "Plastic Memories" Exhibition
[126][20]- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2010-04-24 - 2010-06-20
In order to deepen people’s appreciation of ‘contemporary art’ the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo will hold a series of exhibitions, based on the ‘MOT Collection’ of over 4,000 works, that approach the...More »
Hussein Chalayan "From Fashion and Back"
[162][38]- Media: Installation - Fashion - Film
- 2010-04-03 - 2010-06-20
Fully established at the forefront of contemporary fashion design, the twice named “British Designer of the Year” Hussein Chalayan is renowned for his innovative use of materials, progressive attitudes...More »
AN10-MOT Annual 2010 - Neo-ornamentalism
[127][29]- Media: Graphics - Illustration - Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2010-02-06 - 2010-04-11
Ever since 1999, the “MOT Annual” exhibition has explored new trends in art in contemporary Japan, employing themes closely linked to the times. The 10th MOT Annual will take “ornament” as its theme and...More »
Technoclasm Cyber Arts Japan - Ars Electronica 30 years for Art and Media Technology
[153][27]- Media: Video installation - Media Arts
- 2010-02-02 - 2010-03-22
To mark the 30th anniversary of “Ars Electronica,” an international media art festival held in Linz, Austria, MOT will hold a special exhibition of creations from the fields of art, technology, science,...More »
"Luxury in fashion Reconsidered" Special Exhibit: Kazuyo Sejima Spatial Design for Comme des Garçons
[141][34]- Media: Architecture - Installation - Fashion
- 2009-10-31 - 2010-01-17
The free-spirited imagination of Rei Kawakubo (Comme des Garçons) continually yields fashion designs of startling originality that impart intellectual stimulus and a sense of fulfillment to the wearer—clothing...More »
"MOT Collection" Exhibition
[5][7]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Installation
- 2009-10-31 - 2010-04-11
Drawing on the museum's rich holdings of more than 4000 works, this exhibition presents a choice selection of works across three sections: "A Reconsideration of Postwar Japanese Art: Chronicle 1945, 1951,...More »
Rebecca Horn "Rebellion in Silence: Dialogue between Raven and Whale"
[204][65]- Media: Installation - Video installation - Art Talk
- 2009-10-31 - 2010-02-14
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is pleased to announce a solo exhibition this fall of the work of Rebecca Horn, a major representative of the contemporary German art world. This will be the first...More »
"Masahiko Inoue: Entrance Space Project" Exhibition
[42][14]- Media: Painting
- 2009-10-31 - 2010-03-28
Masahiko Inoue is a popular long-form manga artist known for works such as "Vagabond", "Slum Dog" and "Real". For this project at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Inoue has created an artwork using...More »
"Luxury in Fashion Reconsidered" Exhibition
[86][27]- Media: Fashion - Art Talk
- 2009-10-31 - 2010-01-17
The word “luxury” denotes a richness that derives from excess—an item gorgeous to behold, our special feelings when wearing such an item, our psychological satisfaction at its high refinement. Today, we...More »
"Swedish Fashion: Exploring a New Identity" Exhibition
[36][10]- Media: Fashion
- 2009-10-31 - 2010-01-17
Swedish fashion has traditionally strongly inclined toward functionality and simplicity of design. In recent years, however, experimental Swedish designers who display strong individuality, unfettered...More »
Kosho Ito "Works 1974-2009: Order and Chaos"
[91][13]- Media: Installation - Ceramics - Art Talk
- 2009-08-01 - 2009-10-04
Kosho Ito (1932- ) is an artist who uses clay to create large-scale installations. Born into a family of metal engravers in Kanazawa, Ito got his start in the world of traditional ceramics but thereafter...More »
MOT x Bloomberg Public Space Project: Maki Onishi + Yuki Hyakuda
[48][12]- Media: Installation
- 2009-08-01 - 2010-01-17
Amid the recent trend toward prominently cross-disciplinary practices between architecture and art, the young architectural unit made up of Maki Onishi and Yuki Hyakuda have garnered much attention for...More »
"The Colors of Mary Blair" Exhibition
[104][33]- Media: Painting - Other - Other
- 2009-07-18 - 2009-10-04
Mary Blair (1911-1978) produced concept art and color styling for such Disney films as Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland, as well as character designs for the Disneyland Resort attraction It's a Small...More »
"Summer Playground" Exhibition
[31][13]- Media: Installation - Video installation - Art Talk
- 2009-07-18 - 2009-10-05
A historian once had it that "human beings are made for play." Prior to the desire to create culture, he maintained, was a deep-seated impulse to play - as with word-chain games, the fun of connecting...More »
"Tokyo Wonder Wall Open Call 2009 Selected Works" Exhibition
[5][1]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2009-06-06 - 2009-06-28
Tokyo Wonder Wall was founded in 2000 as a platform for promoting the work of young up-and-coming artists. Artists are selected through an open call for submissions, and selected works are exhibited at...More »
Ryoji Ikeda +/- [the infinite between 0 and 1]
[253][63]- Media: Installation
- 2009-04-02 - 2009-06-21
Ryoji Ikeda is one of the Japan's foremost electronic musicians and a world renowned composer and artist. His highly refined works and performances confront tirelessly the boundaries between technology...More »
Post-renovation Reopening
[22][1]- Media: Painting - Installation - Art Talk
- 2009-03-21 - 2009-03-31
To commemorate its post-renovation reopening, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo is holding an exhibition of pieces from its collection from March 21st-31st 2009 with free admission for all. In addition,...More »
"Neotropicalia - When Lives Become Form" Exhibition
[156][36]- Media: Painting - Architecture - Installation - Fashion - Art Talk
- 2008-10-22 - 2009-01-12
Brazil, home to the vast Amazon and to a people with a passion for samba and soccer. Right now, this nation of mixed ethnicities, which absorbed a multitude of immigrants and forged a hybrid culture, has...More »
Daido Moriyama + Miguel Rio Branco Exhibition
[93][16]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2008-10-22 - 2009-01-12
This exhibition by Daido Moriyama and Magnum photographer Miguel Rio Branco is part of a program of events scheduled to commemorate the year of Japan-Brazil exchange and the 100th anniversary of Japanese...More »
Hugues Reip "Parallel Worlds"
[142][27]- Media: Installation - Other
- 2008-07-26 - 2008-09-28
Can fiction become fact? French artist Hugues Reip invites you on a “fantastic voyage” to parallel worlds. Reip will construct worlds of the imagination by means of his own, totally unexpected multi-media...More »
"Understanding the Secrets of Takahata/Miyazaki Animation" Exhibition
[39][5]- Media: Other
- 2008-07-26 - 2008-09-28
Expression, background, movement-the Layout is the blueprint for the animation film, showing all instructions. In the first endeavor of its kind in Japan, Studio Ghibli will join MOT in exploring the power...More »
Kimihiko Okada Exhibition
[6][3]- Media: Sculpture
- 2008-07-05 - 2008-09-28
Venue : MOT Sunken Garden (B2F) [Image: "Aluminum Landscape" (2008) , photo : Keizo Kioku]More »
Oscar Oiwa "Dreams of a Sleeping World"
[82][33]- Media: Painting
- 2008-04-29 - 2008-07-06
Born in 1965 in Sao Paolo to second-generation immigrants to Brazil, Oscar Oiwa is an artist who depicts imaginary worlds with a rich narrative element and generous humor. Growing up equally familiar with...More »
"Rooftop Gardens" Exhibition
[134][25]- Media: Illustration - Painting - Drawing - Installation
- 2008-04-29 - 2008-07-06
Gardens are things that evince the various relationships between nature and humans. This exhibition explores the notion of the garden in modern and contemporary art, taking the light-filled third floor...More »
Tadashi Kawamata "Walkway"
[132][23]- Media: Photography - Installation
- 2008-02-09 - 2008-04-13
Tadashi Kawamata is a "walkway." Tracing his journey over the past 30 years, from 1978 to 2008, we see that his career has been a continuing attempt to connect -- and be a "walkway" between art and the...More »
"MOT Annual 2008 Unraveling and Revealing" Exhibition
[101][23]- Media: Photography - Prints - Other - Sculpture - Art Talk
- 2008-02-09 - 2008-04-13
The group exhibition "MOT Annual" started in 1999 to introduce young artists whose works take a set theme that reflects the times and contemporary direction in art. This year's theme was "to unravel."...More »
"Space for Your Future" Exhibition
[260][48]- Media: Painting - Architecture - Film - Art Talk
- 2007-10-27 - 2008-01-20
The personalization of information, diversification of values, and a variety of networks characterize the 21st century. The genre crossovers and creative direction of the past few years evoke images of...More »
"MOT Collection 3" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2007-10-20 - 2007-01-27
Yukihisa Isobe "Summer Happening"
[22][7]- Media: Painting - Prints - Installation - Film
- 2007-07-28 - 2007-09-30
Born in 1935, Yukihisa Isobe has in recent years been producing works that explore the relationship between changes that have taken place in the natural environment and regional societies. Despite his...More »
Kazuo Oga Exhibition
[53][13]- Media: Illustration - Film
- 2007-07-21 - 2007-09-30
Kazuo Oga has worked as an art director for animations creating background scenery for a number of pieces. His first art direction for a feature film was "My Neighbor Totoro" (1988) by Studio Ghibli, in...More »
"Tokyo Wonder Wall 2007" Exhibition
[16][10]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture
- 2007-06-16 - 2007-07-08
Six years ago, this exhibition of work by the next generation of cutting-edge artists began, with the works shown at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building. Now this exhibition is being held at the...More »
The “MOT x Bloomberg Public ‘Space’ Project”
[53][8]- Media: Installation
- 2007-06-02 - 2008-01-20
The “MOT x Bloomberg PUBLIC ‘SPACE’ PROJECT” is a program aimed at providing support to young artists and expanding access to art, using the extensive 7,400m2 of exhibition space at Museum of Contemporary...More »
"The Myth of Tomorrow" Exhibition
[78][25]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2007-04-27 - 2008-04-13
"The Myth of Tomorrow" is a work that Taro Okamoto was commissioned to make for a hotel in Mexico City between 1968 and 1969. However, due to a deterioration in the financial affairs of the people who...More »
"Thai Contemporary Art - Show Me Thai" Exhibition
[46][17]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2007-04-18 - 2007-05-20
This is the first exhibition to take an overview of Thai contemporary art. To celebrate the 120th year of Japan's establishment of good relations with Thailand, the museum is holding this exhibition in...More »
Marlene Dumas "Broken White"
[88][38]- Media: Painting - Art Talk
- 2007-04-14 - 2007-07-01
”Anger, sadness, bereavement, and love-these days we rely on photographs and movies to express such emotions with power and realism. I want to give back to paintings these themes that were once the territory...More »
37th Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Symposium
[2][0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2007-03-04 - 2007-03-04
Symposium: "The art of today seen from the past" Location: Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2nd Floor Basement Lecture Hall. Capacity: 200 people (first come, first served) Reservation not required. General...More »
Hiroshi Nakamura "Pictorial Disturbances 1953-2007"
[7][5]- Media: Painting
- 2007-01-20 - 2007-04-01
A steam locomotive traveling in mid-air; one-eyed girls in sailor suits; scenery moving past train windows at high speed... The works of Hiroshi Nakamura (born 1932) strike a powerful impression in the...More »
MOT Annual 2007 "From a World as Large as Life"
[37][9]- Media: Painting
- 2007-01-20 - 2007-04-01
This exhibition, the 8th in the "MOT Annual" series, presents the work of five artists, each of whom express themselves in different ways, but are using their art as a way to respond to the themes of communication,...More »
Qiu Anxiong Exhibition
[15][4]- Media: Video installation - Art Talk
- 2007-01-20 - 2007-04-01
This exhibition presents, for the first time in Japan, the works of Qiu Anxiong, an emerging Chinese artist born in Szechwan Province in 1972 who currently lives and works in Shanghai. Qiu represents...More »
Shinro Ohtake "Zen-Kei"
[123][35]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography
- 2006-10-14 - 2006-12-24
The first major retrospective exhibition ever devoted to painter Shinro Ohtake, an artist who has continually evolved and remained a creative force at the forefront of contemporary art. Occupying the entire...More »
Toshihiro Yashiro "Kaitenkai Live! @ Tokyo Wonderwall"
[0][0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2006-09-03 - 2006-09-03
The artist, known for images of of himself spinning with scenaries and architecture as a back ground, will be hosting a public co-production session at the exhibition "Tokyo Wonderwall" held at the Museum...More »
Disney Art Exhibition
[28][4]- Media: Illustration - Drawing - Prints
- 2006-07-15 - 2006-09-24
This exhibition brings together 550 original drawings from Disney films including "Snow White", "Pinocchio" and "Sleeping Beauty" - the biggest ever exhibition of Disney animation. There will also be...More »
Collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain
[193][65]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation - Film
- 2006-04-22 - 2006-07-02
The Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain presents its collection for the very first time in a major exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT). This exhibition brings together major...More »
MOT Collection - Art Since the 1960s
[52][14]- Media: Painting - Photography - Prints
- 2006-04-15 - 2006-09-24
Last year, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo renamed its permanent exhibition "MOT Collection" and with this show aims to take a fresh look at the works in the museum's possession. The two-part "MOT...More »
MOT Annual 2006 "No Border" - From Nihonga to Nihonga
[84][36]- Media: Painting
- 2006-01-21 - 2006-03-26
Since its first edition in 1998, the MOT Annual has introduced many contemporary artists, mainly young ones. Every year, the MOT selects a time-reflecting theme and the artists responding to it. Discover...More »
Positioning − In the New Reality of European Art from Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary
[121][40]- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2006-01-21 - 2006-03-26
After the collapse of the communist control over Central and Eastern European countries, those were able to successfully adapt to the new political and social landscape & environments, so much so that...More »
“Tokyo Prefectural Art Museum” 1926-1970
[8][3]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture
- 2005-09-23 - 2005-12-04
Opened in March 1995, the MOT celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. This exhibition is a good opportunity to look back on the museum's origins by reviewing the activities of the ex-Tokyo Prefectural...More »
Isamu Noguchi - From Sculptures to Spatial Design
[120][37]- Media: Sculpture
- 2005-09-16 - 2005-11-27
Celebrating 101 years since the birth of Isamu Noguchi and the opening of his last project, the Moerenuma park in Hokkaido in July this year, this exhibition introduces the world of Noguchi through the...More »
Howl's Moving Castle - The Grand Circus Exhibition
[3][1]- Media: Illustration - Installation - Film
- 2005-04-27 - 2005-08-31
Set against the backdrop of a 1950s Italian countryside, the characters from the movie "Howl's Moving Castle" jump out of the screen and join a circus troupe. This exhibition fuses a circus and "Howl's...More »
Rouault
[5][1]- Media: Painting - Prints
- 2005-04-16 - 2005-06-26
Georges Rouault (1871-1958) is known to represent 20th Century religious painting. With his profound subject matter and a luminescent, halo-like painting style that is reminiscent of stained glass windows...More »
Koji Enokura: A Retrospective
[5][5]- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2005-01-15 - 2005-03-21
Koji Enokura (1942-1995) started his artistic activities in the late 1960s, in an era marked by social questioning. Influenced by the Mono-ha movement and the Provoke photographers, Enokura created works...More »
Picasso - Metamorphoses: Forme et Erotisme
[1][4]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2004-09-18 - 2004-12-12
This exhibition features 160 works by Picasso dating from 1925 to 1937. Incorporating many pieces from the permanent collection at the Picasso Museum in Paris, this shows explores the artist’s involvement...More »
MOT Annual 2005 "Life Actually"
[1][8]- Media: Illustration - Painting
- 2004-01-15 - 2005-03-21
This year's annual exhibition "Life Actually" at MOT works around the theme of "love, life, and laughter," and features works of female Japanese artists who have been addressing the issues women have...More »
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