Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
"Projext N 33 Tomoko Nagai" Exhibition
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[0]- Media: Painting
- 2008-04-12 - 2008-06-29
In most cases, Nagai starts by developing the background of her painting. Her stories take place in different places and situations such as a forest, a snowy landscape, beach, someone's room and so on. (...)
"Formula One™ - The Great Design Race" Exhibition
[0] [9]- Media: Graphics - Product
- 2008-04-12 - 2008-06-29
Formula One™, abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of motor sports. The best cars and designs, the infatuation with speed in one of the world's top sports events that captures hearts everywhere. This (...)
"Masuo Ikeda Revealed: A Retrospective" Exhibition
[0] [1]- Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture - Ceramics
- 2008-01-26 - 2008-03-23
Masuo Ikeda, who had an international reputation as a printmaker, demonstrated his great talent in a wide range of fields such as painting, sculpture, ceramic, novel, essay, scenario and film direction. (...)
"Project N 32 Satoko Nachi" Exhibition
[0] [2]- Media: Painting
- 2008-01-26 - 2008-03-23
Needless to say, various forms of self-portraits have been created throughout the course of art history. As is discussed in the book, "An Art History of the Self-portrait" (Ed. Atsushi Miura, Tokyo National (...)
"Project N 31 Soichi Yamaguchi" Exhibition
[0] [5]- Media: Painting
- 2007-11-03 - 2008-01-14
Soichi Yamaguchi's painting "Mai-mai Shigure" won the grand prize at Geisai #9 in 2006, when the artist was still a sophomore at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music. Psychedelic color usage (...)
"Nordic Modernism: Design & Crafts" Exhibition
[0] [28]- Media: Furniture - Product - Crafts
- 2007-11-03 - 2008-01-14
Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark - each of these Nordic countries has its own distinctive topography and culture, but have developed a similar approach to design and cultivated a rich life style. Geographically (...)
"From the Collection 024: All Things in the Universe" Exhibition
[0] [5]- Media: Painting
- 2007-07-21 - 2007-10-14
In Japanese custom, there has traditionally been the perception that everything in nature has a soul. Thus nature has been the object of worship since ancient times. The works on display in this exhibition (...)
"Project N 30: Soju Tao" Exhibition
[0] [7]- Media: Painting
- 2007-07-21 - 2007-10-14
"Melting Point" Exhibition
[0] [45]- Media: Installation
- 2007-07-21 - 2007-10-14
Artists Jim Lambie, Ernest Neto and Kiyomichi Shibuya, who take the concept of transforming space as their theme when creating their installation work, will turn Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery into a dynamic (...)
"From the Collection 023: Between Here and There" Exhibition
[0] [4]- Media: Painting
- 2007-04-14 - 2007-07-01
Introducing surrealist works from the collection such as those of Minoru Nomata who paints imaginary architecture on canvas, and Yoko Ochida who is popular for the fantastic and peaceful world she depicts (...)
"Project N29: Yukiko Suto" Exhibition
[0] [4]- Media: Painting
- 2007-04-14 - 2007-07-01
"Architecture of Terunobu Fujimori and Rojo" Exhibition
[0] [36]- Media: Architecture - Art Talk
- 2007-04-13 - 2007-07-01
One of the leading researchers of modern Japanese architecture, Teranobu Fujimori started to produce his own architecture in the 1990s. Since then, he has produced a number of distinctive buildings that (...)
"Works from the Soil: Life meets Mother Earth in the Collection" Exhibition
[0] [9]- Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture
- 2007-01-13 - 2007-03-25
The Tokyo Opera City Collection runs to over 2,600 works, including oil paintings, Nihonga paintings, woodblock prints, sculptures and craft works, mainly made by post-war Japanese artists. From this large (...)
Toyo Ito "The New 'Real' in Architecture"
[0] [48]- Media: Architecture - Art Talk
- 2006-10-07 - 2006-12-24
Known for his use of the lightness and transparency of glass, his organic structures that appear to move, his fusion of new technologies with handmade techniques, and for his realization of hitherto impossible (...)
Ingo Maurer "Light: Reaching for the Moon"
[0] [46]- Media: Installation - Art Talk
- 2006-07-08 - 2006-09-18
This is the first solo exhibition in Japan for Ingo Maurer (b. Germany, 1932- ), who has been the focus of attention from fashion designer Issey Miyake and architect Jean Nouvel. Aiming to make visitors (...)
Toru Takemitsu "Visions in Time"
[0] [26]- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation - Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2006-04-09 - 2006-06-18
Toru Takemitsu, a composer who was artistic director of the Tokyo Opera City Cultural Properties Group (1995-1996) died before seeing the completion of the concert hall and the art gallery. To commemorate (...)
project N25 Shino Hirata Exhibition
[0] [7]- Media: Painting
- 2006-04-09 - 2006-06-18
For this solo exhibition, as well as showing canvases, project N has allowed Shino Hirata to paint 'on' the walls of the exhibition space. Seeing how his worlds of Macro and Micro mix on the walls of the (...)
project N24 Hiroshi Kobayashi Exhibition
[0] [14]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2006-01-14 - 2006-03-26
Kobayashi first burst onto the scene with colorful flowers resembling digitally treated mosaic images. Now stuffed animals seem to have taken the front seat in Kobayashi's world. The fanciful world invites (...)
From the Collection "Focus on Abstraction: Color, Form and Space"
[0] [7]- Media: Painting
- 2006-01-14 - 2006-03-26
With the birth of abstract painting in the first half of the 20th century the meaning of a painting as something recreating the real world, got lost. A painting could now exist as an independent entity. (...)
Conversation With Art, On Art
[0] [49]- Media: Painting - Installation - Product - Art Talk
- 2006-01-14 - 2006-03-26
Bauhaus to Contemporary Art - From the DaimlerChrysler Art Collection. The exhibition is a worldwide touring exhibition that introduces a number of works of art selected from DaimlerChrysler AG (Germany)’s (...)
Stephen Balkenhol - Skulpturen und Reliefs
[0] [28]- Media: Sculpture
- 2005-10-15 - 2005-12-25
Stephen Balkenhol (1957~) is one of the leading contemporary sculptors in Germany and has produced an important collection of wooden sculptures of figures and animals motifs. He chips off the wood leaving (...)
Masayoshi Aigasa "Daily Life"
[0] [5]- Media: Drawing
- 2005-10-15 - 2005-12-25
Solo exhibition of Masayoshi Aigasa, one of the main artists of the Tokyo Opera City collection. After graduating from art school, and a series of failures in art competitions, he gave up oil painting (...)
project N23 Taro Morimoto Exhibition
[0] [4]- Media: Illustration - Painting
- 2005-10-15 - 2005-12-25
Flowers that blossom all over the canvas, and daringly trimmed characters. These motifs have been dissolved almost up to the level of non-recognition. Almost, because we can still see what they are, planted (...)
The Life and Art of Nambata Tatsuoki
[0] [5]- Media: Drawing
- 2005-07-15 - 2005-09-25
Tatsuoki Nambata was born in Hokkaido on July 13th, 1905. After meeting poet and sculptor Kotaro Takamura by chance, Nambata got interested in art, and decided he wanted to become a painter. After World (...)
Saeko Takagi Exhibition - Project N22
[0] [6]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2005-07-15 - 2005-09-25
Saeko Takagi depicts the world as full of colours, blessed with soft lights - an ecological view of a world where human beings, animals and plants would live together, bathed in shining light and blowing (...)
Fumio Nambata Exhibition - Gallery 3/4
[0] [7]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2005-07-15 - 2005-09-25
Fumio Nambata (1941-1974) was famous for his sensitive sceneries. He won the sympathy of many people by drawing his own joy and pain without any concealment or euphemistic tendency. Born in Setagaya (Tokyo) (...)
Museums by Yoshio Taniguchi
[0] [12]- Media: Architecture
- 2005-04-08 - 2005-06-26
We are proud to present this one-person show of architect Yoshio Taniguchi, one of today's most recognized architects. Taniguchi is famous for his expansion design for the newly re-opened Museum of Modern (...)
Moriyama, Shinjuku, Araki
[0] [12]- Media: Photography
- 2005-01-15 - 2005-03-21
This is the first joint exhibition of the two most prominent contemporary Japanese photographers, Daido Moriyama and Nobuyoshi Araki. The theme is the city of Shinjuku, where the 2 artists kept coming (...)
Wolfgang Tillmans - Freischwimmer
[0] [8]- Media: Photography
- 2004-10-16 - 2004-12-26
Wolfgang Tillmans (1968-), born in Germany and now works in London, first came into the art scene in early 1990's with his collections of photography that freshly captured the contemporaty youth culture. (...)
Takarazuka: The Land of Dreams
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation - Installation - Photography
- 2004-07-24 - 2004-09-26
This exhibition traces back Takarazuka theatre's 90-year history gathered from valuable references and date, as it reviews Takarazuka's attraction and the process of establishing their exquisite standing. (...)
2D
- Graphics (14)
- Illustration (32)
- Painting (213)
- Drawing (37)
- Calligraphy (14)
- Photography (84)
- Prints (26)
- Other (35)
3D
- Architecture (9)
- Sculpture (60)
- Installation (42)
- Furniture (6)
- Fashion (18)
- Product (20)
- Crafts (39)
- Ceramics (28)
- Other (35)
Screen
- Film (9)
- Video installation (19)
- Digital (1)
- Other (3)
Misc.
- Art Party (54)
- Art Talk (49)
- Performance Art (7)
- Art Competition (1)
In & Around:
Ginza, Shimbashi(77) Ueno(32) Kiyosumi, Odaiba(19) Nihonbashi, Kudanshita(75) Omotesando(54) Shinjuku(61) Shibuya(39) Roppongi(43) Nakameguro(25) Musashino, Tama(28) Yokohama, Kanagawa(28) Kanto: others(47)
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