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.
"Nambata Fumio: Works 1960-1974" Exhibition
[19] 
[4]- Media: Painting
- 2012-01-14 - 2012-03-25
Fumio Nambata (1941-1974) produced a large number of wonderful works notable for their delicate lines and coloring. His watercolors, drawings, and his vivid life left a firm impression on postwar art in...More »
"Collection 040: Questions to Understand Ourselves" Exhibition
[19] [6]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2012-01-14 - 2012-03-25
Introduces more works from the 3,000-strong Terada Collection.More »
"Project N 48: Midori Sato" Exhibition
[12] [2]- Media: Painting
- 2012-01-14 - 2012-03-25
"Feel and Think: A New Era of Tokyo Fashion" Exhibition
[130] [24]- Media: Fashion
- 2011-10-18 - 2011-12-25
This exhibition introduces young designers who have developed their own unique creativity within the context of the Tokyo fashion scene and designed the reality of the 2000s in Japan. Maintaining a distance...More »
"The Museum Collection 039: Younger Generation" Exhibition
[3] [2]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2011-10-18 - 2011-12-25
This exhibition focuses on artists born in the second half of the 1960s or later. Exploring the contemporaneousness of the Terada Collection, it also provides an opportunity to examine the collection from...More »
"Project N 47: Erika Kaminishi" Exhibition
[8] [3]- Media: Drawing
- 2011-10-18 - 2011-12-25
"Project N 46: Toru Ishii" Exhibition
[12] [7]- Media: Crafts
- 2011-07-16 - 2011-10-02
Born in 1981 in Shizuoka, Toru Ishii grew up on a diet of anime, video games, plastic toy models and soccer. He makes dyed fabric works using traditional Yuzen techniques typically employed in the production...More »
"house inside city outside house: Tokyo Metabolizing" Exhibition
[152] [26]- Media: Architecture - Installation
- 2011-07-16 - 2011-10-02
Metabolism, which spread from Japan in the 1960s, was based on the revolutionary concept of cities made to metabolize through the replacement of components in the same way as a machine. The face of Tokyo...More »
"Collection 038: Tomoyuki Hotai" Exhibition
[5] [5]- Media: Sculpture
- 2011-07-16 - 2011-10-02
Tomoyuki Hotai (b. 1956) is a sculptor known for his work matching wood with bronze. This exhibition introduces visitors to his mysterious work where quiet composite power exists alongside the tranquil...More »
"Collection 037: Lee Ufan and Korean Artists" Exhibition
[25] [11]- Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture
- 2011-04-09 - 2011-06-26
The Terada Collection comprises mostly "Oriental abstract" artworks, many of which are by Korean artists who work with a monochrome palette of black and white. This exhibition showcases a variety of works...More »
Takashi Homma "New Documentary"
[142] [30]- Media: Photography
- 2011-04-09 - 2011-06-26
Takashi Homma is one of Japan's foremost contemporary photographers. His unique style characterized by a sense of detachment from his subjects, cool unemotional gaze and restrained colors have all won...More »
Shinpei Kusanagi Exhibition
[21] [10]- Media: Painting
- 2011-04-09 - 2011-06-26
Shinpei Kusanagi is an illustrator and book designer by training who has also been making outstanding paintings in recent years. Painted on unbleached cloth without a first coating, his works create abstract,...More »
"036: My Old Rivers and Mountains Home Part III" Exhibition
[7] [3]- Media: Painting
- 2011-01-15 - 2011-03-27
Third installment in a series of exhibitions showcasing works selected by Kotaro Terada, who has donated numerous pieces to the museum. On display are works that explore uniquely Japanese themes and concepts. [Image:...More »
Kana Yoshida Exhibition
[12] [6]- Media: Painting
- 2011-01-15 - 2011-03-27
Kana Yoshida's mountain climbing experiences in Yosemite Park, Yellowstone National Park, New Mexico, Borneo and Norway have served to expand and stimulate the boundaries of her daily perception for her...More »
Yutaka Sone "Perfect Moment"
[94] [15]- Media: Sculpture
- 2011-01-15 - 2011-03-27
Los Angeles-based international artist SONE Yutaka's work has been featured in numerous exhibitions throughout the world. In recent years he has also established studios in China and Mexico. In the former,...More »
"Feasts on the Paper" Exhibition
[4] [1]- Media: Prints
- 2010-10-23 - 2010-12-26
[Image: Kizashi Kakizaki, "Reddish Brown River" (1994) block print, 14.5 x 21.0cm]More »
Misaki Kawai Exhibition
[2] [2]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2010-10-23 - 2010-12-26
Both Misaki Kawai's paintings and sculptures have something inimitable about them, especially their fluorescent day-glo colors and rough surface textures created using cardboard and fabric. Although her...More »
Dominique Perrault "Urban Landscape"
[128] [13]- Media: Architecture
- 2010-10-23 - 2010-12-26
This exhibition showcases projects that Perrault has undertaken to date around the world, beginning with the French National Library. In particular, it examines works in which the architect has focused...More »
"From Ensor to Magritte: Belgian Painting between 1880 and 1940" Exhibition
[73] [12]- Media: Painting
- 2010-07-28 - 2010-10-03
This exhibition is the first comprehensive show of its kind, featuring well-known paintings by Belgian and Flemish Expressionist, Surrealist and Symbolist artists from the 19th and 20th century that draw...More »
"From the Collection 033: Geometric Images" Exhibition
[10] [3]- Media: Painting
- 2010-04-10 - 2010-07-04
Unlike representative painting, abstract painting stimulates the imagination of the viewer, who wonders what it is that is being depicted in the work. This exhibition focuses on geometric abstract works...More »
"Project N41: Yoshiko Kita" Exhibition
[12] [5]- Media: Painting
- 2010-04-10 - 2010-07-04
Yoshiko Kita is a Kyoto-based artist. Her watercolor works are realized beautifully on cloth, making effective use of its particular texture and feel. As a result of the pigment getting absorbed by the...More »
Genichiro Inokuma "Inokuma-san"
[113] [30]- Media: Illustration - Painting - Other
- 2010-04-10 - 2010-07-04
The picture book Inokuma-san, by poet Shuntaro Tanikawa, begins with the line "Inokuma-san, who from childhood loved drawing pictures, has drawn many that are charming." "Inokuma-san" is artist Genichiro...More »
Cecil Balmond "Element"
[218] [37]- Media: Architecture
- 2010-01-16 - 2010-03-22
Cecil Balmond is a structural engineer who transcends the framework of structural engineering in his creative collaborations with architects. This exhibition explores the world of mathematics and algorithms...More »
Tamie Okuyama Exhibition
[4] [2]- Media: Painting
- 2009-10-17 - 2009-12-27
Works by Tamie Okuyama who combines refined oil painting techniques with oriental philosophy to deepen her understanding of the happy and mysterious experiences surrounded by nature she had during her...More »
Daisuke Sumita Exhibition
[5] [3]- Media: Painting
- 2009-10-17 - 2009-12-27
It is only recently that Sumita committed himself seriously to oil paintings. While he did attend the oil painting course at Musashino Art University, he only painted rarely, spending his time on theater,...More »
Verner Panton Exhibition
[177] [48]- Media: Drawing - Product - Video installation
- 2009-10-17 - 2009-12-27
Danish designer Verner Panton (1926-98) is perhaps best known for his Panton Chair, formed as a single piece in colourful plastic, but he has worked with other renowned Danish designers such as Poul Henningsen...More »
"Gallery Talk by Gallerist Sueo Mizuma on Tomoko Konoike's Exhibition"
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-09-16 - 2009-09-16
Sueo Mizuma of Mizuma Art Gallery will guide participants through Tomoko Konoike's exhibition "Inter-traveler", explaining the background to each of the works. This is a unique chance to gain an insight...More »
Tomoko Konoike Book Signing Event
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-09-09 - 2009-09-09
Place: Gallery 5 (Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery Museum Shop) *Limit on number of participants may be applied. The catalogue for Tomoko Konoike's Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery exhibition "Inter-traveller",...More »
Tomoko Konoike "Inter-Traveller"
[111] [46]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Art Talk
- 2009-07-18 - 2009-09-27
This exhibition offers the first comprehensive overview of Konoike's current and past work. Here, Konoike presents the internal world of human beings as a planet, the Earth. Employing most of her old and...More »
"6+ Antwerp Fashion" Exhibition
[164] [37]- Media: Fashion
- 2009-04-11 - 2009-06-28
Antwerp gained overnight recognition as a major center for fashion in the 1980s with the emergence of the "Antwerp Six." That success was grounded in the comprehensive education provided by the Royal Academy...More »
"From the Collection 029: Women" Exhibition
[5] [2]- Media: Painting
- 2009-04-11 - 2009-06-28
This exhibition features works from the collection that have a woman or women as their motif. It covers a large variety of techniques and forms of expression, giving an overview of the wealth of art that...More »
"Project N37 Takashi Abe" Exhibition
[14] [3]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2009-04-11 - 2009-06-28
[Image: "Day Dream #26" (2009) Acrylic paint, wood cubes, wood panel 42.0 x 59.4cm]More »
"Diener & Diener" Exhibition
[109] [19]- Media: Architecture
- 2009-01-17 - 2009-03-22
The exhibition Diener & Diener is a presentation of the work and the architectural approach of a Basel-based group of architects. In their design, the relationship between the buildings and the urban...More »
"From the Collection 028: Nambata Tatsuoki and Fumio" Exhibition
[2] [2]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2009-01-17 - 2009-03-22
Featuring two main artists of the collection; Tatsuoki Nambata (1905-97), one of Japan’s best known abstract painters and his son, Fumio (1941-74). Dynamic but profound paintings by Tatsuoki, and sensitive...More »
"Project N36 Ryosuke Hara" Exhibition
[5] [3]- Media: Painting
- 2009-01-17 - 2009-03-22
Teruo Isomi + Seishi Ozaku Exhibition
[4] [3]- Media: Prints
- 2008-11-01 - 2008-12-28
Introducing the richness of the world of prints by featuring the work of two celebrated print artists, Teruo Isomi and Seishi Ozaku. This exploration goes beyond to an examination of “Black and White,”...More »
"Project N35 Yuki Mashimo" Exhibition
[2] [4]- Media: Painting
- 2008-11-01 - 2008-12-28
Yuki Mashimo employs abstract patterns and chimerical motifs which are reminiscent of bird and flower paintings by Jakuchu Ito. For instance, she used traditional motifs like "shibo-sei" (star cross) and...More »
Mika Ninagawa "Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors"
[111] [27]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2008-11-01 - 2008-12-28
Mika Ninagawa is one of the most popular photographers in Japan. She is also well-known as the director of the movie Sakuran, 2007, which is based on a comic by Moyoko Anno. As a photographer, she has...More »
"Project N34 Keisuke Kondo" Exhibition
[5] [3]- Media: Painting
- 2008-07-19 - 2008-10-13
"Trace Elements: Spirit and Memory in Japanese and Australian Photomedia" Exhibition
[96] [28]- Media: Photography
- 2008-07-19 - 2008-10-13
Trace Elements: Spirit and Memory in Japanese and Australian Photomedia features work by Australian artists Philip Brophy, Jane Burton, Alex Davies, Genevieve Grieves and Sophie Kahn together with Japanese...More »
Hiroshi Asada Exhibition
[6] [5]- Media: Painting
- 2008-07-19 - 2008-10-13
Hiroshi Asada (1931-97), who studied from Western old masters, produced many paintings with psychological aspects which reveal anxiety and obsession in daily life. This is his retrospective exhibition,...More »
"Projext N 33 Tomoko Nagai" Exhibition
[2] [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....More »
"Formula One™ - The Great Design Race" Exhibition
[35] [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...More »
"Masuo Ikeda Revealed: A Retrospective" Exhibition
[11] [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....More »
"Project N 32 Satoko Nachi" Exhibition
[5] [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...More »
"Project N 31 Soichi Yamaguchi" Exhibition
[15] [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...More »
"Nordic Modernism: Design & Crafts" Exhibition
[121] [30]- 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...More »
"From the Collection 024: All Things in the Universe" Exhibition
[5] [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...More »
"Project N 30: Soju Tao" Exhibition
[7] [8]- Media: Painting
- 2007-07-21 - 2007-10-14
"Melting Point" Exhibition
[189] [46]- 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...More »
"From the Collection 023: Between Here and There" Exhibition
[3] [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...More »
"Project N29: Yukiko Suto" Exhibition
[4] [4]- Media: Painting
- 2007-04-14 - 2007-07-01
"Architecture of Terunobu Fujimori and Rojo" Exhibition
[133] [39]- 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...More »
"Works from the Soil: Life meets Mother Earth in the Collection" Exhibition
[25] [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...More »
Toyo Ito "The New 'Real' in Architecture"
[166] [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...More »
Ingo Maurer "Light: Reaching for the Moon"
[167] [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...More »
project N25 Shino Hirata Exhibition
[15] [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...More »
Toru Takemitsu "Visions in Time"
[70] [27]- 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...More »
project N24 Hiroshi Kobayashi Exhibition
[4] [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...More »
From the Collection "Focus on Abstraction: Color, Form and Space"
[10] [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....More »
Conversation With Art, On Art
[150] [50]- 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...More »
Stephen Balkenhol - Skulpturen und Reliefs
[66] [29]- 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...More »
Masayoshi Aigasa "Daily Life"
[2] [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...More »
project N23 Taro Morimoto Exhibition
[2] [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...More »
The Life and Art of Nambata Tatsuoki
[2] [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...More »
Saeko Takagi Exhibition - Project N22
[3] [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...More »
Fumio Nambata Exhibition - Gallery 3/4
[3] [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)...More »
Museums by Yoshio Taniguchi
[11] [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...More »
Moriyama, Shinjuku, Araki
[5] [11]- 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...More »
Wolfgang Tillmans - Freischwimmer
[2] [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....More »
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....More »
2D
- Graphics (23)
- Illustration (39)
- Painting (190)
- Drawing (43)
- Calligraphy (2)
- Photography (95)
- Prints (34)
- Other (9)
3D
- Architecture (4)
- Sculpture (56)
- Installation (39)
- Furniture (8)
- Fashion (12)
- Product (14)
- Crafts (27)
- Ceramics (22)
- Other (8)
Screen
- Film (18)
- Video installation (14)
- Digital (0)
- Other (1)
Misc.
- Media Arts (3)
- Art Party (44)
- Art Talk (27)
- Performance Art (7)
- Art Competition (1)
Area:
Ginza, Shimbashi(59) Ueno, Yanaka(25) Kiyosumi, Odaiba(21) Kyobashi, Nihonbashi & Kudanshita(66) Omotesando, Aoyama(38) Shinjuku(49) Shibuya, Setagaya(39) Roppongi, Akasaka(46) Nakameguro, Ebisu(30) Musashino, Tama(30) Yokohama, Kanagawa(22) Kanto: others(47)
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