Exhibition/event has ended.

"Quiet Attentions: Departure from Women" Exhibition

Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito
Finished

Artists

Yuki Kimura+Jutta Koether+Ei Arakawa, Kanghyun Ahn, Laura Belém, Fumiko Kobayashi, Sachiko M, Midori Mitamura, Hwayeon Nam, Susan Philipsz, Ranjani Shettar, Nobuko Tsuchiya, Su-Mei Tse, Tatiana Trouvé
*Art Tower Mito will be closed for a while for maintenance and security inspections because of the east Japan earthquake.

In this fast changing society, the art of women is more diversified than ever. "Wack! Art and the Feminism Revolution" held at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2007 and "Femmes @ Pompidou" at the Pompidou Center in Paris in 2009-2010 are some of the exhibitions that reexamine the relationship between women and art since the year 2000. Continuing in that frame of reference, our upcoming exhibition introduces the presently progressive form of new and recent installations and three-dimensional works of an up and coming generation of 14 artists from 9 different countries. Among them include artists from Korea, Brazil and India, where contemporary art has become more widely recognized in recent years. The works include various mediums such as photography and video installations, sound and three-dimensional installations, and drawings.

The participating artists will conceive the works based on the perception of sound and ambience, gesture, memory, passage of time, the laws of the world and the social mechanism that go by unnoticed in our daily life. The artworks that are created from quietly paying attention to the inconspicuous, function as an "open space" for dialogue and communication with others, instead of being a "self-contained domain." We invite people to rediscover polyphonic beauties that exist within everyday experiences if we just focus our eyes and ears. This exhibition will attempt to update the relationship between women and art.

During the exhibition, we will welcome a novelist, architect, activist and a food coordinator to hold various performances, events and workshops.

Schedule

Feb 11 (Fri) 2011-Mar 11 (Fri) 2011 

Opening Hours Information

Hours
10:00-18:00
Closed
Monday
Open on a public holiday Monday but closed on the following day.
Closed during the New Year holidays.
FeeAdults ¥900; High School Students and Under, Seniors 70 & Over, Persons with Disability Certificates + 1 Companion free.
VenueContemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito
https://www.arttowermito.or.jp/english/
Location1-6-8 Goken-cho, Mito-shi, Ibaraki 310-0063
Access20 minute walk from the North exit of JR Mito Station; From the North exit of JR Mito Station, take the Ibaraki Kotsu bus and get off at Izumicho-itchome. The venue is 3 minute walk from there.
Phone029-227-8111
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