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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.

"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 »
"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 »
"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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
"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 »
"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 »
"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 »
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 »
"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 »
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 »
"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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
"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 »
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 »
"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 »
"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
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 »
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 »
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 »
"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 »
"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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
“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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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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