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.

  • poster for "Lost Homes: Model Reconstruction of Villages on the Sanriku Coast" Exhibition

    "Lost Homes: Model Reconstruction of Villages on the Sanriku Coast" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Tetsuro Kano "Naturplan: Bloomberg Pavilion Project"

    Tetsuro Kano "Naturplan: Bloomberg Pavilion Project"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Architectural Environments for Tomorrow - New Spatial Practices in Architecture and Art" Exhibition

    "Architectural Environments for Tomorrow - New Spatial Practices in Architecture and Art" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Berlin 2000-2011" Exhibition

    "Berlin 2000-2011" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Frederic Back Exhibition

    Frederic Back Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Kohei Nawa "Synthesis"

    Kohei Nawa "Synthesis"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Silent Narrator: On Plural Stories"/"Special Feature: Takashi Ishida" Exhibition

    "Silent Narrator: On Plural Stories"/"Special Feature: Takashi Ishida" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Goma "Memory Ⅱ"

    Goma "Memory Ⅱ"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Tokyo Wonder Wall Open Call 2011 Selected Works" Exhibition

    "Tokyo Wonder Wall Open Call 2011 Selected Works" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Dancers x Musicians Jam Session: Liber"

    "Dancers x Musicians Jam Session: Liber"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Kyoji Takubo Exhibition

    Kyoji Takubo Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "MOT Annual 2011: Nearest Faraway" Exhibition

    "MOT Annual 2011: Nearest Faraway" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "MOT Collection Chronicle 1947-1963: Days of Independent Art Exhibitions (Special feature: Pipilotti Rist)"

    "MOT Collection Chronicle 1947-1963: Days of Independent Art Exhibitions (Special feature: Pipilotti Rist)"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Tokyo Art Meeting: Transformation" Exhibition

    "Tokyo Art Meeting: Transformation" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Catalysis for Life - New Language of Dutch Art & Design" Exhibition

    "Catalysis for Life - New Language of Dutch Art & Design" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Karigurashi no Arrietty x Yohei Taneda" Exhibition

    "Karigurashi no Arrietty x Yohei Taneda" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Art Hunting tour around Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo and Kiyosumi Shirakawa Galleries

    Art Hunting tour around Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo and Kiyosumi Shirakawa Galleries

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    • 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 »

  • poster for MOT Collection "Plastic Memories" Exhibition

    MOT Collection "Plastic Memories" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Hussein Chalayan "From Fashion and Back"

    Hussein Chalayan "From Fashion and Back"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for AN10-MOT Annual 2010 - Neo-ornamentalism

    AN10-MOT Annual 2010 - Neo-ornamentalism

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Technoclasm Cyber Arts Japan - Ars Electronica 30 years for Art and Media Technology

    Technoclasm Cyber Arts Japan - Ars Electronica 30 years for Art and Media Technology

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Luxury in fashion Reconsidered" Special Exhibit: Kazuyo Sejima Spatial Design for Comme des Garçons

    "Luxury in fashion Reconsidered" Special Exhibit: Kazuyo Sejima Spatial Design for Comme des Garçons

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "MOT Collection" Exhibition

    "MOT Collection" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Rebecca Horn "Rebellion in Silence: Dialogue between Raven and Whale"

    Rebecca Horn "Rebellion in Silence: Dialogue between Raven and Whale"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Masahiko Inoue: Entrance Space Project" Exhibition

    "Masahiko Inoue: Entrance Space Project" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Luxury in Fashion Reconsidered" Exhibition

    "Luxury in Fashion Reconsidered" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Swedish Fashion: Exploring a New Identity" Exhibition

    "Swedish Fashion: Exploring a New Identity" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Kosho Ito "Works 1974-2009: Order and Chaos"

    Kosho Ito "Works 1974-2009: Order and Chaos"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for MOT x Bloomberg Public Space Project: Maki Onishi + Yuki Hyakuda

    MOT x Bloomberg Public Space Project: Maki Onishi + Yuki Hyakuda

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "The Colors of Mary Blair" Exhibition

    "The Colors of Mary Blair" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Summer Playground" Exhibition

    "Summer Playground" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Tokyo Wonder Wall Open Call 2009 Selected Works" Exhibition

    "Tokyo Wonder Wall Open Call 2009 Selected Works" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Ryoji Ikeda +/- [the infinite between 0 and 1]

    Ryoji Ikeda +/- [the infinite between 0 and 1]

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    • 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

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Neotropicalia - When Lives Become Form" Exhibition

    "Neotropicalia - When Lives Become Form" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Daido Moriyama + Miguel Rio Branco Exhibition

    Daido Moriyama + Miguel Rio Branco Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Hugues Reip "Parallel Worlds"

    Hugues Reip "Parallel Worlds"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Understanding the Secrets of Takahata/Miyazaki Animation" Exhibition

    "Understanding the Secrets of Takahata/Miyazaki Animation" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Kimihiko Okada Exhibition

    Kimihiko Okada Exhibition

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    • Media: Sculpture
    • 2008-07-05 - 2008-09-28

    Venue : MOT Sunken Garden (B2F) [Image: "Aluminum Landscape" (2008) , photo : Keizo Kioku]More »

  • poster for Oscar Oiwa "Dreams of a Sleeping World"

    Oscar Oiwa "Dreams of a Sleeping World"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Rooftop Gardens" Exhibition

    "Rooftop Gardens" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Tadashi Kawamata "Walkway"

    Tadashi Kawamata "Walkway"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "MOT Annual 2008 Unraveling and Revealing" Exhibition

    "MOT Annual 2008 Unraveling and Revealing" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Space for Your Future" Exhibition

    "Space for Your Future" Exhibition

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    • 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

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    • Media: Painting - Sculpture
    • 2007-10-20 - 2007-01-27
  • poster for Yukihisa Isobe "Summer Happening"

    Yukihisa Isobe "Summer Happening"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Kazuo Oga Exhibition

    Kazuo Oga Exhibition

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    • 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

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    • 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 »

  • poster for The “MOT x Bloomberg Public ‘Space’ Project”

    The “MOT x Bloomberg Public ‘Space’ Project”

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "The Myth of Tomorrow" Exhibition

    "The Myth of Tomorrow" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Thai Contemporary Art - Show Me Thai" Exhibition

    "Thai Contemporary Art - Show Me Thai" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Marlene Dumas "Broken White"

    Marlene Dumas "Broken White"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for 37th Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Symposium

    37th Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Symposium

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Hiroshi Nakamura "Pictorial Disturbances 1953-2007"

    Hiroshi Nakamura "Pictorial Disturbances 1953-2007"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for MOT Annual 2007 "From a World as Large as Life"

    MOT Annual 2007 "From a World as Large as Life"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Qiu Anxiong Exhibition

    Qiu Anxiong Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Shinro Ohtake "Zen-Kei"

    Shinro Ohtake "Zen-Kei"

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    • 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"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Disney Art Exhibition

    Disney Art Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain

    Collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain

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    • 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 »

  • poster for MOT Collection - Art Since the 1960s

    MOT Collection - Art Since the 1960s

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    • 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 »

  • poster for MOT Annual 2006 "No Border" - From Nihonga to Nihonga

    MOT Annual 2006 "No Border" - From Nihonga to Nihonga

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Positioning − In the New Reality of European Art from Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary

    Positioning − In the New Reality of European Art from Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary

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    • 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 »

  • poster for “Tokyo Prefectural Art Museum” 1926-1970

    “Tokyo Prefectural Art Museum” 1926-1970

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Isamu Noguchi - From Sculptures to Spatial Design

    Isamu Noguchi - From Sculptures to Spatial Design

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Howl's Moving Castle - The Grand Circus Exhibition

    Howl's Moving Castle - The Grand Circus Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Rouault

    Rouault

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Koji Enokura: A Retrospective

    Koji Enokura: A Retrospective

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Picasso - Metamorphoses: Forme et Erotisme

    Picasso - Metamorphoses: Forme et Erotisme

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    • 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 »

  • poster for MOT Annual 2005 "Life Actually"

    MOT Annual 2005 "Life Actually"

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    • 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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