Mori Art Museum - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Mori Art Museum. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
MAM Art Course #2: "Trying Your Hand at Buying Contemporary Art: Latest Updates from the Art Market"
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[0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-06-30 - 2008-06-30
Instead of just being a casual observer of art, what would being a collector mean, acquiring works of art and having them adorn your own living space? Misa Shin, an active fundraiser and public relations (...)
MAM Art Course #1: "Opening up the Art inside You to Society"
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-05-23 - 2008-05-23
Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation handsets will be provided. The speaker for this talk is one of Japan's foremost contemporary artists, Tatsuo Miyajima. This first edition of the MAM Art (...)
"British Contemporary Art" Lecture Series
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-05-17 - 2008-06-24
A look at contemporary art from the UK, divided into three periods - the 1980s, 90s, and 2000 onwards. Simultaneous Japanese-English interpretation will be provided for the 1st and 2nd lectures 1st (...)
"Art is for the Spirit: Works from the UBS Art Collection" Exhibition
[0] [26]- Media: Painting - Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Installation
- 2008-02-02 - 2008-04-06
Warhol, Lichtenstein, Basquiat, Richter, Gursky, Araki, Morimura, Sugimoto, Miyamoto, Hatakeyama... Featuring around 140 works by 60 prominent international artists from The UBS Art Collection, the exhibition (...)
"Another landscape: from the Mori Art Collection" Exhibition
[0] [5]- Media: Painting - Photography - Other
- 2008-02-02 - 2008-04-06
"Another Landscape: From Mori Art Collection" In the summer of 2005, the Mori Art Museum began assembling a collection focusing on contemporary Asian art. This gradually expanding collection today includes (...)
"Roppongi Crossing 2007: Future Beats in Japanese Contemporary Art" Exhibition
[0] [63]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Performance Art
- 2007-10-13 - 2008-01-14
“Roppongi Crossing” is a series of exhibitions produced by the Mori Art Museum to introduce Japanese creative talent working in a wide range of genres. The first in the series was held in 2004 – and is (...)
MAM Project 006: Nishi Tatzu
[0] [11]- Media: Installation - Art Talk
- 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-24
Japanese artist Nishi Tatzu, who has been based in Cologne, Germany, since 1987, has a reputation for creating audacious and often humorous projects in public spaces. In the past, he has constructed temporary (...)
Lecture Series “Le Corbusier and Me”
[0] [1]- Media: Architecture - Art Talk
- 2007-06-25 - 2007-08-05
Le Corbusier's impact on Japanese architecture and design was significant in both the pre- and post-war periods. In this four-part lecture series, Japanese architects draw on their personal experiences (...)
Le Corbusier "Art and Architecture - A Life of Creativity"
[0] [78]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Architecture - Furniture
- 2007-05-26 - 2007-09-24
Architectural giant, the founder of modernism, the greatest architect of the 20th Century - just some of the accolades that have been attached to Swiss born Frenchman Le Corbusier (1887-1965). Perhaps (...)
“Le Corbusier Today: 21st Century Significance and the Call for World Heritage Listing” Symposium
[0] [2]- Media: Art Talk
- 2007-05-26 - 2007-05-26
There is a movement at the moment to have a selection of Le Corbusier's buildings included on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Section 1 of the Symposium, which features the Director of the National Museum (...)
MAM Project 005: John Wood and Paul Harrison
[0] [18]- Media: Video installation
- 2007-02-28 - 2007-05-06
This is the fifth exhibition in the Mori At Museum’s series for supporting the activities of Promising Young Artists, and is the first solo exhibition in Japan for this UK-based video art duo. UK based (...)
"The Smile in Japanese Art: From the Jomon Period to the Early 20th Century" Exhibition
[0] [29]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Crafts - Ceramics
- 2007-01-27 - 2007-05-06
From ancient times, Japanese art has included many different aspects of laughter and humor. Sometimes this is deliberate, and sometimes the observer just happens to find them funny. This exhibition presents (...)
"All about Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art" Exhibition
[0] [53]- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2007-01-27 - 2007-05-06
Contemporary artists often look at the world from slanted perspectives in order either to highlight or counteract the conservatism of social norms, systems and thought. In doing this they imply alternative (...)
Bill Viola "Hatsu-Yume (First Dream)"
[0] [73]- Media: Video installation
- 2006-10-14 - 2007-01-08
The first retrospective in Asia of one of the world’s leading video artists. Bill Viola, first traveled to Japan in 1980 on a one-year arts fellowship to study and experience first hand its cultural traditions (...)
160 years of LOEWE: "Take Me With You" - Special Exhibition
[0] [1]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture
- 2006-09-14 - 2006-09-19
20 upcoming artists from Europe and Asia explore the women's bag as a concept, through photographs, paintings and sculptures.
"BMW - A History of Innovation seen in Vintage Cars" - Special Exhibition
[0] [2]- Media: Other
- 2006-09-13 - 2006-09-20
The philosophy and revolutionary attitude of the BMW brand are revealed through a line-up of both vintage and contemporary BMW cars.
Africa Remix | Lecture series
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2006-05-28 - 2006-08-05
“What is African about African Art?” *Japanese-English and sign language simultaneous interpretation A presentation of their work and teaching by Jane Alexander and El Anatsui, followed by discussion (...)
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent
[0] [42]- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2006-05-27 - 2006-08-31
Africa - what comes to mind when envisaging this vast continent? Africa is marked by diversity - the beauty and majesty of its deserts, savannahs and tropical rainforests as well as by the soaring high-rises (...)
MAM Project 004: Choe U-Ram - 53F Gallery 2
[0] [13]- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Art Talk
- 2006-03-10 - 2006-05-07
Korean artist Choe U-Ram's unique works explore the boundary between fine art and science, and in particular, cybernetics. With the current state of technological advancement, where robots in every day (...)
Tokyo - Berlin / Berlin - Tokyo | Lecture series
[0] [3]- Media: Art Talk
- 2006-02-04 - 2006-04-16
Session "Tokyo - Berlin / Berlin - Tokyo" *Japanese-English and sign language simultaneous interpretation Date: 13:00-17:00, February 4 (Sat.) Speakers: Gabriele Knapstein (Curator, Staatliche Museen (...)
Session "Tokyo - Berlin / Berlin - Tokyo"
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2006-02-04 - 2006-02-04
Speakers: Gabriele Knapstein (Curator, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie), Omuka Toshiharu (Professor, Tsukuba University), Angela Schneider (Deputy Director, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie), (...)
Tokyo - Berlin / Berlin - Tokyo
[0] [43]- Media: Painting - Photography - Prints - Architecture - Film - Art Talk
- 2006-01-28 - 2006-05-07
A joint project and exhibition planned by the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo and the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin to be shown in Tokyo from January 28 to May 7, 2006 and in Berlin from June 7 to October 3, 2006. (...)
Hiroshi Sugimoto - End of Time
[0] [83]- Media: Photography - Architecture - Art Talk
- 2005-09-17 - 2006-01-09
Hiroshi Sugimoto is one of the most significant Japanese contemporary artists to have emerged in the last 30 years. In his photographic series, as well as his experiments with sculptural objects, architecture (...)
Follow Me! : Chinese Art at the Threshold of the New Millennium
[0] [24]- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation
- 2005-07-02 - 2005-09-04
Contemporary China is characterized by an incredible dynamism. Things seem to be transformed everyday, fuelled by astonishing economic growth, frantic urban development and the preparations for the 2008 (...)
China: Crossroads of Culture
[0] [19]- Media: Sculpture - Crafts - Ceramics
- 2005-07-02 - 2005-09-04
A New Look at the Birth of Classical Chinese Culture: Previously Unknown National Treasures Rewrite the Traditional View of History. The Mori Art Museum presents an exhibition of art from ancient China (...)
MAM Project 003: ROR (Revolutions On Request) - Tokyo City View Observation Deck
[0] [5]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2005-05-14 - 2005-07-18
ROR was formed in 1998 by a group of young artists in Helsinki. Its current members - Karoliina Taipale (b. 1973), Jiri Geller (1970), Klaus Nyqvist (1976) and Panu Puolakka (1972) - each specialize in (...)
The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art From East Asia
[0] [24]- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation
- 2005-03-29 - 2005-06-19
A reverence for nature, an inner calm, a sense of harmony, a delicate aesthetic balance - qualities that uniquely define the traditional arts of Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan - are still very much evident (...)
The World is a Stage: Stories Behind Pictures
[0] [19]- Media: Painting - Photography - Film
- 2005-03-29 - 2005-06-19
The world abounds with stories. Myths, folktales, fantasies, mysteries and romances are conveyed to us by word-of-mouth, print, pictures, video and in other ways too. For all people, in both east and west, (...)
Archilab Symposium "The Architecture of Possibility"
[0] [1]- Media: Architecture - Art Talk
- 2005-01-30 - 2005-01-30
Some of the world's leading critics and architects discuss the possibilities of architecture - both for our lives and the future. Bookings accepted by website, e-mail or fax. E-mail: ppevent@mori.art.museum (...)
Archilab: New Experiments in Architecture, Art and the City, 1950-2005
[0] [9]- Media: Architecture
- 2004-12-21 - 2005-03-13
Archilab:"New Experiments in Architecture, Art and the City, 1950-2005 ” examines for the first time ever in Japan those radical and visionary approaches to building design and urban planning that, since (...)
Archilab Curator's Talk
[0] [0]- Media: Other
- 2004-12-21 - 2004-12-21
A great chance to learn about this extensive exhibition from those who know it best: the curators. Marie-Ange Brayer (Director, FRAC Centre Collection, Orleans, France), Frederic Migayrou (Chief Curator (...)
Mori Art Museum Japanese Contemporary Art Charity Auction
[0] [0]- Media: Art Party
- 2004-12-03 - 2004-12-03
As part of its first anniversary celebrations the Mori Art Museum, with the cooperation of Sotheby’s Japan, has organized a charity auction of contemporary Japanese art that will be held on 3rd December. (...)
Lecture Series "Body Transforming"
[0] [0]- Media: Fashion
- 2004-11-05 - 2004-11-20
The body is what makes up who we are, yet at the same time is a concept that is extremely difficult to grasp. Fashion wraps, gives image and form to the body. This is a series of lectures (3 in total), (...)
Colors: Viktor & Rolf & KCI
[0] [6]- Media: Fashion
- 2004-08-24 - 2004-12-05
A reinterpretation of 400 years of international fashion history, "Colors" examines relationships between colors, feelings and function in historical and contemporary costume from around the world. Once (...)
Ozawa Tsuyoshi: Answer with Yes and No!
[0] [7]- Media: Photography - Installation - Painting
- 2004-08-24 - 2004-12-05
Ozawa Tsuyoshi has revolutionized the Japanese art scene and established an international reputation with satirical works that reinvent notions of creativity and community. Ozawa' s work is nostalgic for (...)
2D
- Graphics (15)
- Illustration (33)
- Painting (228)
- Drawing (39)
- Calligraphy (14)
- Photography (84)
- Prints (27)
- Other (37)
3D
- Architecture (9)
- Sculpture (63)
- Installation (45)
- Furniture (6)
- Fashion (18)
- Product (21)
- Crafts (41)
- Ceramics (30)
- Other (36)
Screen
- Film (9)
- Video installation (19)
- Digital (2)
- Other (3)
Misc.
- Art Party (57)
- Art Talk (51)
- Performance Art (9)
- Art Competition (2)
In & Around:
Ginza, Shimbashi(80) Ueno(32) Kiyosumi, Odaiba(19) Nihonbashi, Kudanshita(80) Omotesando(54) Shinjuku(61) Shibuya(39) Roppongi(44) Nakameguro(28) Musashino, Tama(28) Yokohama, Kanagawa(28) Kanto: others(47)
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