Watari-um, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Watari-um, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
"Makoto Nomura: Summer Holiday Children's Workshop"
[0][0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2011-08-28 - 2011-08-28
Music workshops for children aged 3 to 10. Please see the Watari-um website for how to make reservations.More »
"Kusama's Body Festival in 60s" Exhibition
[193][27]- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2011-08-06 - 2011-11-27
This exhibition looks at Yayoi Kusama's art in the 1960s. Kusama left Japan in 1957 and starting working in New York after passing through Seattle. Over the next 16 years until her return in 1973 she was...More »
"One Day Art Kindergarten" Kids Workshops
[2][0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2011-06-19 - 2011-07-03
Program of art, dance and poetry workshops for kids, held as part of the "Bambini di Reggio Emilia" exhibition. See website for more details.More »
Akihisa Hirata "Living in Creatures"
[13][3]- Media: Architecture - Art Talk
- 2011-05-28 - 2011-07-31
Scale architecture models of "house S" and "tree-ness house" will be on display in the basement bookshop, with books specially selected by the architect to awaken your curiosity and imagination. Simultaneously...More »
"Bambini di Reggio Emilia" Exhibition
[159][18]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2011-04-23 - 2011-07-31
During WWII, a local community of farmers and laborers founded a special school in Reggio Emilia, a small town in northern Italy. The school kept faithful records of the wonder and surprise that its students...More »
"Last Multiple: Blackboard Drawings" Exhibition
[11][3]- Media: Drawing
- 2011-03-01 - 2011-04-03
Joseph Beuys' blackboard drawing "Continuity" is his last limited edition work (edition of 40), first conceptualized during a visit to Japan in 1984 and finally completed in 2011 after 27 years. The work...More »
"Heartbeat" Exhibition
[152][19]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation - Art Talk
- 2011-01-22 - 2011-04-17
11th installment in the I Love Art series featuring works by 14 artists from the museum's collection of contemporary art, set against a musical backdrop by Ryuichi Sakamoto. A total of 96 works will be...More »
"Nigo's Art Bookstore"
[4][0]- Media: Other
- 2010-12-15 - 2011-01-30
(held at On Sundays, in the basement of Watari-um) Nigo, the famed producer of A Bathing Ape who is also an avid collector of art and vintage products, will open a limited period secondhand bookstore...More »
"Paper-Wood Products on Sale!" Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Product
- 2010-10-30 - 2010-11-29
On display are prototypes and newly-launched furniture pieces, accessories and toys made out of "paper-wood" - a thinly layered plywood-like material. *At the museum shop On Sundays.More »
Sou Fujimoto "Forest, Cloud, Mountain”
[218][26]- Media: Architecture - Art Talk
- 2010-08-14 - 2011-01-16
Contemporary architecture today is attempting to break into the next stage of its development. Previously, the discipline was obsessed with how to prioritize functionality and practicality in residential,...More »
Ryoko Aoki "Wildflower Seeds"
[4][2]- Media: Drawing - Installation
- 2010-07-01 - 2010-08-23
(Held at the gallery in On Sundays, the art bookshop in the basement of the museum) On display are new works by Ryoko Aoki, a Kyoto-based contemporary artist who depicts little omens of gentle change...More »
Tam Ochiai "Spies are only revealed when they get caught"
[57][10]- Media: Drawing - Video installation - Art Talk
- 2010-05-22 - 2010-08-08
This solo show by Tam Ochiai features works that depict the mundane trivialities of life, including a suite of mysterious videos that emerged by accident from a broken video camera, a staircase that leads...More »
John Lurie "You Are Here"
[180][33]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2010-01-30 - 2010-05-16
When he developed an intractable neurological illness in the late 90's, John Lurie, no longer able to perform or act, turned to painting as a means of self-expression. In today's irrational world, his...More »
Aoyama Gokaicho 2009
[6][1]- Media: Painting - Other - Other
- 2009-11-06 - 2009-11-15
Aoyama has been an area where the most progressive creators gathered to create new forms of expression. Even a casual visitor should be able to feel its creative energy. Aoyama Gokaicho 2009 is the final...More »
"A Visit to Luis Barragan's House" Exhibition
[219][39]- Media: Painting - Architecture - Sculpture
- 2009-09-09 - 2010-01-24
Luis Barragan (1902-1988) is one of the most representative Mexican architects of the 20th century and his works are internationally renowned as icons of modern architecture. This exhibition focuses...More »
"The Collectors in Our Time Part 1: Towa Tei" Exhibition
[7][2]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2009-06-01 - 2009-06-29
DJ Towa Tei has used artworks by Barry McGee and KAWS for his CD jacket design, and his live performance and music videos are always artistically stimulating. For his unique sensibility, Towa Tei has become...More »
Aloïse Corbaz Exhibition
[60][15]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2009-05-16 - 2009-09-02
Aloïse Corbaz was born in Switzerland in 1886, and worked as a nanny at Wilhelm II's Sanssouci palace in Potsdam. Plagued by schizophrenia at the age of 31, she spent 46 years (from the age of 32-78) in...More »
Masaya Nakahara "Painting Pending"
[7][1]- Media: Painting - Art Talk
- 2009-03-27 - 2009-04-27
From March 27th, paintings by musician Masaya Nakahara are on display at the bookstore on the basement level of Watari-um. He is most known for his hardcore noise music, but is also active as a writer....More »
"The Fallen Angels" Exhibition
[63][8]- Media: Photography
- 2009-03-20 - 2009-05-10
Shimabuku "New Works"
[102][21]- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation - Art Party - Art Talk
- 2008-12-12 - 2009-03-15
Currently based in Berlin, Shimabuku has concentrated on site-specific projects and performances since the early 1990s, exhibiting at various locations all around the world. He visits places, uncovers...More »
Tsuyoshi Ozawa's "Xijing Olympics"
[1][0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-11-13 - 2008-11-13
In August, when the Beijing Olympics were being held, "Xijing Men," a new art unit consisting of Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Chen Shaoxiong and Gimhongsok organized a parallel imaginary "Xijing Olympics" in Beijing,...More »
"I Love Art" Exhibition
[115][11]- Media: Painting - Other - Sculpture - Installation - Other
- 2008-09-05 - 2008-12-07
This is an exhibition of 108 works focusing mostly on previously unexhibited pieces, such as a 1988 work by Julian Schnabel (America, 1951-), who has in recent years won much attention for his work as...More »
Fabrice Hyber "Seed and Grow"
[37][10]- Media: Drawing - Video installation
- 2008-04-26 - 2008-08-31
1. Opening Talk April 26th (Sat) 17:00-18:00 Speaker: Fabrice Hyber Hyber will speak about the exhibition theme of "growing seeds," his recent activities, as well as the farms he has helped to build...More »
Katsumi Watanabe Exhibition
[36][10]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2008-02-09 - 2008-04-20
Photographer Katsumi Watanabe passed away on January 29th, 2006, leaving thousands of photographs that he had taken, mostly in the shadows of Shinjuku. This artist left his hometown in Iwate prefecture...More »
"Kumagusu's Forests: The Universe According to Minakata Kumagusu" Exhibition
[56][13]- Media: Drawing - Photography - Film - Art Talk
- 2007-10-07 - 2008-02-03
A suspicious man wearing only a koshimaki (waistcloth). This is how this artist was photographed at the age of 43 standing in the forest close to Tanabe City, Wakayama Prefecture in 1910. Why has this...More »
Barry McGee Exhibition
[149][30]- Media: Painting - Installation - Art Talk
- 2007-06-02 - 2007-09-30
Barry McGee's name became known throughout the art world after his exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1998 and the 2001 Venice Biennale. Rumors of a graffiti artist named TWIST who...More »
Bruno Taut "From Alps Architecture to Katsura Detached Palace"
[167][40]- Media: Architecture - Art Talk
- 2007-02-03 - 2007-05-27
The ideas and principals of German architect Bruno Taut (1880-1938), who is known for having 'rediscovered' the Katsura Detached Palace, have recently been regaining attention. Not long ago, Berlin...More »
Boroboro Dorodoro Exhibition - The Return of Japanese Subculture
[62][12]- Media: Drawing - Installation - Art Party - Art Talk
- 2006-10-14 - 2007-01-28
The art scene in the United States has recently begun to regain its momentum with the emergence of street subculture. Led by Barry McGee, the artists are from a generation that grew up on Japanese manga...More »
Bye, Bye Nam June Paik
[180][40]- Media: Installation - Video installation - Art Talk
- 2006-06-10 - 2006-10-09
In Soho during the 1960s, a small young man of Asian descent walked down Mercer Street with a video recorder in his hands. He spoke fluently in many language and conversed in depth of music and philosophy...More »
I Love Art 8 "Beautiful Cities in Dreams"
[105][21]- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2006-03-03 - 2006-06-04
"I Love Art 8" will feature over 100 works by 13 photographers from the collection of the Museum. Also on display will be an array of installation and video works that set the stage for "cities which we...More »
Federico Herrero "Live Surfaces"
[75][17]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2005-10-29 - 2006-02-26
Federico Herrero (born in 1978 in Costa Rica) emerged on the international art scene at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001. His gigantic painting of animals won him recognition and a special prize for young...More »
Temporary Immigration - Everyday Transcience
[40][9]- Media: Drawing - Other - Installation
- 2005-07-02 - 2005-10-23
Airplanes have made high-speed travel possible, and various forms of technology have hypered up daily life to an unprecedented extent. Cell phones, for instance, have changed what kids do after school,...More »
Tensin Okakura The Awakening of Japan
[6][2]- Media: Other
- 2005-02-05 - 2005-06-26
Larry Clark - Punk Picasso
[1][3]- Media: Photography
- 2004-10-01 - 2005-01-30
This exhibit of Larry Clark, nicknamed "Punk Picasso," displays: photographs from his childhood and teenage years, his favorite record collections, props from movies, and pictures from 9/11.More »
