Takasaki Museum of Art - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Takasaki Museum of Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Antonin & Noémi Raymond Exhibition
In the midst of WWI, Antonin Raymond and Noémi Pernessin met each other on a ship while escaping the upheaval of Europe. When Antonin was 26 years old and Noémi 25, they got married and began a creative (...)
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"Touch Heart: Interactive Exhibition"
This exhibition presents sculptures that you can touch with your hands. Also, works by handicapped artists as well as works from the museum collection are on display. [Image: Yoshitatsu Yanagihara "Signpost, (...)
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"Artist Kingdom - Yoko Negishi + Ayako Mizumura - Shapes of Heart" Exhibition
"Artist Kigdom" is a series of exhibitions featuring artists from Gunma Prefecture. The 4th exhibition of this series presents "psychological landscapes" by two female artists, Yoko Negishi and Ayako Mizumura. (...)
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"The World of Cinema - Movie Poster Collection by Tadaki Ishii" Exhibition
This exhibition features a total of more than 8000 posters from the collection of Tadaki Ishii. Selected posters from a wide range of films such as SF, drama, history, action, and other genres are on display. Please (...)
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Atsuhiko Misawa "Animals"
Atsuhiko Misawa is one of the most highly acclaimed contemporary sculptors, who creates lovely animals sculptures with distinctive carving marks. This exhibition presents his wooden sculptures of an elephant, (...)
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Ikuo Nakamura "27,000 Hours of Journey into the Ocean"
Ikuo Nakamura takes the alluring seascapes around the world and the dramas created by sea creatures as the subjects of his works. This exhibition introduces selected photographs from the past 40 years (...)
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"Kaoru Yamaguchi and the People from his Hometown" Exhibition
This artist, who has investigated the realm between abstract and representational art, is from the city of Takasaki. Before he entered the Chuo Gadan, he continued to concentrate on his studio work in (...)
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"I Love Picasso!" Exhibition
The collection at Takasaki Museum of Art includes nationally and internationally renowned artworks. Among the collection, masterpieces from the 20th century including some by Picasso are on display. Born (...)
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"The Road to Western Style Modern Japanese Paintings" Exhibition
Works from the Yamaoka collection will be shown at 2 venues - the Takasaki City Museum and the Takasaki City Tower Museum - to revisit the birth of Western-style paintings in Japan. This collection had (...)
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Koji Arai + Akira Mizuno "Kingdom of Artists"
"Kingdom of Artists" introduces young artists related to Gunma Prefecture. For the third exhibition in the series, two artists with completely different styles will be introduced. Koji Arai studied (...)
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Yoichi Takada "Breathing Wings"
['Twin Wings', 2000]
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"Labyrinth + Art Museum" Exhibition
This exhibition presents the collection of Tomio Isahai, who ran a private museum in Maebashi City before passing away in 2001. Isahai was born in 1930, and joined the Bank of Japan where he worked at (...)
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The World of Trick Art
Postwar Japan gave birth to many illusions and so-called "tricky" art appeared in paintings and sculptures. Enjoy being taken in by light art from the 60's, super realism from the 70's, and parodies from (...)
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Yoji Machida "Journey Artwork"
Yoji Machida creates oil paintings while educating young minds as a high school and university teacher. Following his policy of placing value on on-site observation, the Takasaki-based artist travels all (...)
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Le Charivari and Daumier Exhibition
Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) took the world by storm in the 19th century with his political lithographic work on newspapers such as 'Caricatures' and 'Le Charivari'. This exhibition features the world of (...)
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The World of Po Ogura
Po Ogura (1924-2004) was born in Takasaki. He joined the modern art movement at an early age and was an active member of the local art scene. His works are known for their blue tones which evoke the (...)
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Jiro Oyamada
The talents of Jiro Oyamada (1915-1991) began to be recognized in the early '50s. This exhibition will draw the light on the world of Oyamada's art, at times grotesque, yet powerful and calm at the same (...)
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A Hundred Years of Folly
While it was the century of great creation and progress, the 20th Century was also the century of destruction and folly. This exhibition will examine all the acts of folly that were committed throughout (...)
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Setsuya Nakamura Centennial: Art is Love
Retrospective exhibition of Setsuya Nakamura (1905-1991) in celebration of his 100th birthday.
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Creator Kingdom / Collection Part II
This exhibition was planned to foster the growth of young local artists, and to promote the establishment of a free and lively “Creators’ Kingdom” in Gunma Prefecture. “Creators’ Kingdom” will take place (...)
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Fantastic Art in Europe: Vision and Imagination XIX-XX Centuries
The works featured in this exhibition are of artists who expressed the “invisible” within the human soul. European modernity is characterized by the development of rational scientific thought, but a strong (...)
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Seimiya Naobumi's Vision
Seimiya (1917-1991) is a wood-block artist, who`s engravings and printing are wonderfully delicate and left a strong impression on many people. Now is the opportunity to see his works. The exhibition display (...)




