Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo) - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo). Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Time Flows: Reflections by 5 Artists
- Media: Photography - Architecture - Sculpture - Installation - Video and Film
- 2020-09-19 - 2021-01-11
A reservation is required to visit the museum. Booking starts from September 7 (Monday). 2020 has been a year of much trepidation in face of uncontrollable world events. Amidst such turbulence, this...More »
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Mercedes-Benz Art Scope 2018-2020
*A reservation is required to visit the museum. Booking starts from July 16 (Thursday) at 10:00. The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is delighted to present Mercedes-Benz Art Scope 2018-2020. Since...More »
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Yasumasa Morimura: Ego Obscura, Tokyo 2020
- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Product - Fashion - Animation - Performance Art
- 2020-01-25 - 2020-07-12
*By appointment only. (Please visit official website for the details.) Yasumasa Morimura has been acclaimed for his self-portraits in which he re-enacts famous paintings, movies, and moments in history....More »
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Izumi Kato “Like a Rolling Snowball”
This exhibition, Kato’s first major solo show at an art museum in Tokyo, features some 30 of his most recent paintings and sculptures. More »
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The Nature Rules: Dreaming of Earth Project
This spring, the Hara Museum will present The Nature Rules: Dreaming of Earth Project, an exhibition conceived and directed by Jae-Eun Choi. The Dreaming of Earth Project was launched by Choi in 2014 to...More »
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Interpretations, Tokyo
Interpretations, Tokyo is a limited three-day exhibition featuring paintings by Gerard de Lairesse (1640-1711), an artist who was contemporaneous with Rembrandt, and the works of six Tokyo-based artists....More »
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Sophie Calle “Exquisite Pain: From the Hara Museum Collection”
This exhibition reprises Sophie Calle’s “Exquisite Pain,” a show originally held from 1999 to 2000 and with works that became part of the Hara Museum Collection. Sophie Calle is largely known for her highly...More »
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Lee Kit “We Used to be More Sensitive”
This autumn, the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art will present Lee Kit “We Used to be More Sensitive” the first exhibition to be held at a Japanese museum by the Hong Kong-born and Taipei-based artist....More »
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Mami Kosemura: Phantasies Over Time
Mami Kosemura’s first museum solo will showcase about 30 pieces ranging from early animations to her most recent photographic and video installations, many of which incorporate her signature motifs – the...More »
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My Favorites: Toshio Hara Selects from the Permanent Collection (Part 2)
- Media: Graphics - Painting - Drawing - Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Installation - Video and Film - Media Arts
- 2018-03-21 - 2018-06-03
Since he started the Hara Museum in 1979 as one of Japan’s first museums dedicated to contemporary art, the director Toshio Hara has devoted himself to the promotion of international exchange and the advancement...More »
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My Favorites: Toshio Hara Selects from the Permanent Collection (Part 1)
- Media: Painting - Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Installation - Crafts - Ceramics - Video and Film - Media Arts
- 2018-01-06 - 2018-03-11
Since he started the Hara Museum in 1979 as one of Japan’s first museums dedicated to contemporary art, the director Toshio Hara has devoted himself to the promotion of international exchange and the advancement...More »
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Peter Burr “+ Peter Burr: Art & Animation” Film Screening & Lecture
There is beauty, as well as something a little scary, in the computer animations and installations of Brooklyn-born creator Peter Burr, who has attracted growing attention for his work presented at SFMoMA,...More »
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Keiichi Tahara: Photosynthesis with Min Tanaka
In 1971, at the age of 20, Keiichi Tahara went to France. Fascinated by the light in Europe, the quality of which was unlike any he had seen in Japan, he made the nature of light itself a focus of exploration,...More »
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Mercedes-Benz Art Scope 2015-2017: Wandering to Wonder
- Media: Photography - Prints - Installation - Video and Film - Workshops - Talks
- 2017-05-27 - 2017-08-27
Mercedes-Benz Japan has sponsored Mercedes-Benz Art Scope since 1991, a mécénat activity that gives contemporary artists from Japan and Germany a chance to experience a different culture. The Hara Museum...More »
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Mika Ninagawa “The days were beautiful”
The 60 photographs by Mika Ninagawa that make up this exhibition are a record of the days that preceded the death of her father the theater director Yukio Ninagawa. In her words, they were taken “with...More »
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Elizabeth Peyton “Still Life”
Elizabeth Peyton’s 2017 exhibition at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art marks the first major survey of her work in Japan. The artist has personally selected a group of over 40 works from across her...More »
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Kishin Shinoyama ”La Maison de Rendez-vous”
The Hara Museum will hold a solo exhibition by Kishin Shinoyama, a photographer who has remained at the forefront of his field since the 1960s. Shinoyama currently has an ongoing exhibition, “The People...More »
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Our Permanent Collection!
For the first time since its 35 Year Anniversary Celebrations in 2014, the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art utilizes all of its exhibition spaces to present its rich and diverse collection which in total...More »
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Masaharu Sato “Tokyo Trace”
The Hara Documents exhibition series was launched in 1992 to promote the work of curators and emerging artists. The tenth installment presents “Masaharu Sato – Tokyo Trace.” Born in Oita, Japan in 1973,...More »
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Time Present―Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection
This exhibition presents a panorama of photographic art made between 1970 and 2010 from the Deutsche Bank Collection, which ranks as one of the most important collections of contemporary art on paper in...More »
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Cy Twombly— Fifty Years of Works on Paper
Cy Twombly, one of the most important artists of the 20th century, worked vigorously in both painting and sculpture but is best remembered for his distinctive style of “drawn poetry.” The Hara Museum presents...More »
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Pâques (Easter) Celebration 2015
Marking the festival of Easter with a great Easter Egg hunt throughout the gardens of the Hara Museum! Grab your baskets and get set to uncover chocolate treasures while learning about the spring festival,...More »
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Mika Ninagawa “Self-image”
With her vividly colored photographs Mika Ninagawa has drawn wide spread attention in recent years in her fresh approach to the medium, attracting collaborations with film, music videos and fashion design...More »
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Selections from the Hara Museum’s Collection
Two years ago, the Hara Museum acquired the work entitled Dialogue by Lee Ufan (b. 1936, Korea). Previous works by the artist in the Hara Museum Collection included representative works from early in his...More »
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Akio Suzuki + Aki Onda Duo Performance
One of the leaders of Japanese sound art Akio Suzuki and the New York based internationally active Aki Onda, come together for a one night only performance at Hara Museum of Contemporary Art. While they...More »
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Art Scope 2012-2014 - Remains of Their Journeys -
Artscope is an exchange program between Japanese and German art museums in which contemporary artists are selected to travel to their host country and develop work within another cultural experience. As...More »
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Nicolas Buffe, The Dream of Polifilo
Nicolas Buffe became an overnight sensation as the innovative art director for the opera Orlando Paladino staged at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris in 2012. Born in Paris and now based in Tokyo, Buffe...More »
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Michaël Borremans “Advantage”
The renowned Belgium contemporary artist Michaël Borremans presents his first Japan based solo exhibition with a series of 30 paintings and moving images which reflect the opaqueness of contemporary society. [Related...More »
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“Cutie & Boxer” Special Screening + Talk Event
Marking the Japan release of the documentary film “Cutie & Boxer” recording the turbulent married life of Ushio and Noriko Shinohara and their everyday lives in New York through a special screening...More »
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“Seiza Week at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art”
The Hara Museum welcomes back Shutaro Oku, the film director and producer whose projection mapping productions Byakuya and Silver Spoon delighted audiences when they were performed in 2011 inside the museum’s...More »
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Yasumasa Morimura - Rembrandt Room Revisited
Renowned for his series of self portraits in unique interpretations of actresses and characters from famous paintings, Morimura here presents a reworking of an exhibition presented at the same museum 20...More »
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Eiichiro Sakata “Enoshima”
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art presents the first public showing of Eiichiro Sakata’s Enoshima, a photo series comprised mainly of landscapes encountered by the famed photographer during visits to...More »
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Sophie Calle "For the Last and First Time"
This exhibition by one of France’s leading contemporary artists consists of two parts. "The Last Image" (2010) is an installation that weaves together text and photographs taken by the artist about people...More »
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"MU - Pedro Costa & Rui Chafes" Exhibition
New and representative works by two leading Portuguese artists – film director Pedro Costa, known for works that straddle documentary and fiction, and Rui Chafes, a sculptor who stretches the possibilities...More »
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"Home Again - 10 Artists Who Have Experienced Japan" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation - Talks - Performance Art
- 2012-08-28 - 2012-11-18
The Hara Museum is proud to present Home Again - 10 Artists Who Have Experienced Japan. In our globalized world today, active international exchange is occurring in all areas of life, including the world...More »
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Masako Ando "Hara Documents 9: The Garden of Belly Button"
Masako Ando paints children, animals and plants on porcelain-smooth canvas surfaces. Her works are characterized by delicate lines, multi-layered colors and a depth that seems to draw the viewer in. "Hara...More »
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"Bestiaire" Performance Event
Bestiaire (Bestiary) is a set of five choreographic works created specifically for Hors Pistes Tokyo 2012 based on the Bestiary series of films by Chris Marker over the years from 1990 to 1994 (Cat Listening...More »
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Keiichiro Shibuya "ATAK018 Memories of Origin Hiroshi Sugimoto Concert Version"
One-night only piano and computer performance by Keiichiro Shibuya, who created the music for the documentary "Memories of Origin: Hiroshi Sugimoto". *The exhibition "Hiroshi Sugimoto: From Naked to...More »
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"Easter 2012: Where's Your Rabbit?"
Easter-themed exhibition with fun workshops for kids conducted by a French patissier from Pierre Herme, and a hunt for easter eggs and bunnies in the garden. See website for reservations.More »
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"Hiroshi Sugimoto: From Naked to Clothed" Exhibition
Hiroshi Sugimoto is known for works that explore the essence of photography as a medium and its ability to illuminate the meaning of humanity and the world we live in. This exhibition showcases works from...More »
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Jean-Michel Othoniel "My Way"
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Japan of the French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel. Reconstructed within the unique space of the Hara Museum, formerly...More »
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"Projection Mapping + Performance Vol.1: Byakuya"
Performance featuring video by Shutaro Oku and dance choreographed by Ikuyo Kuroda.More »
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"Art Scope 2009-2011: Invisible Memories" Exhibition
Art Scope, a mécénat activity of Daimler Foundation Japan, provides contemporary artists from Japan and Germany the chance to experience life in the other country. As a partner in the program since 2003,...More »
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Yasuhiro Suzuki "Donation Box Called Well"
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is proud to announce the debut of Yasuhiro Suzuki’s Donation Box Called Well, a gift to the museum by an anonymous donor. This one-of-a-kind donation box will be installed...More »
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Ming Wong "Life of Imitation"
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present Ming Wong: Life of Imitation, an exhibition by the Berlin-based Singaporean artist Ming Wong (b. 1971), which won the Special Jury Mention Award...More »
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"Be Alive! - Selections from the Hara Museum Collection" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video and Film
- 2011-01-14 - 2011-06-12
This exhibition showcases a selection of work by today’s most engaging contemporary artists that exhort us to “be alive!” – to live in the moment and grapple with life’s challenges in high spirits. On...More »
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"VIVA Festival" Exhibition
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce a two-day video art festival featuring short films by 34 artists from 16 countries, such as Isaac Julien, Francis Alÿs, Hans Op de Beeck and Jun...More »
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Jae-Eun Choi "Forests of Asoka"
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in a Japanese museum by the Korean female artist Jae-Eun Choi. For her theme, Choi has chosen the image of the tree,...More »
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"Blank Museum"
This four-day event of music, videos and performance will take place during the interval between regular exhibitions. There has almost never been an event held in the galleries while the museum is closed...More »
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William Eggleston "Paris-Kyoto"
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of William Eggleston’s work at a Japanese museum. The exhibition focuses on two series of works commissioned by...More »
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Yang Fudong "The General’s Smile"
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in Japan by Yang Fudong, a Chinese film artist who has been highly active on the international scene in recent years....More »
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"Hara Museum Collection" Exhibition
This will be the first Collection Exhibition since last spring to occupy the whole museum. About 40 paintings, sculptures, photographs and video works will be on display, selected from the museum collection...More »
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"Cartoon Talk@Hara: The Evolving Role of Political Cartoons"
Hara Museum is pleased to hold a lecture by Daryl Cagle, one of America’s most prolific cartoonists and the daily editorial cartoonist for MSNBC.com. *Limited to 80 seats (first-come, first-serves basis) *Reservation...More »
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Evening Talk: Eva Berendes + Meiro Koizumi
The Hara Museum, in partnership with Daimler Foundation in Japan, has hosted the international contemporary art exchange program Art Scope since 2003. Eva Berendes and Jan Scharrelmann, the German artists...More »
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"Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art" Exhibition
This exhibition was planned by the Japan Foundation to introduce a new generation of contemporary Japanese artists to the world. Prior to the world tour, the show will be shown at the Hara Museum. Curated...More »
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Jim Lambie "Unknown Pleasures"
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is proud to present the exhibition Jim Lambie: Unknown Pleasures. Selected as the Scottish representative at the Venice Biennale (2003) and nominated for the Turner...More »
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Video Art Screening "VIVA Festival"
This VIVA Festival takes off where the 2006 edition left off, screening a series of a total of 33 works of video art over two days. The selection was made by Ana de Alvear, an independent curator and artist...More »
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Tomoko Yoneda "An End Is A Beginning"
Tomoko Yoneda is an internationally active photographer currently based in London. Last year, she participated in the 52nd Venice Biennale. In this exhibition, she presents her latest series of works to...More »
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mama! milk "Fragrance of Notes"
Mama!milk (http://www.mamamilk.net) is an acoustic-instrumental duo consisting of accordion player Yuko Ikoma and contrabass player Kosuke Shimizu. To celebrate the release of their new album 'Fragrance...More »
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"Osu! Handicraft Club Activities" Workshop
"Ossu! Shugeibu" (http://www.ultratama.com/syugeibu.html)is a group of seven good-looking guys who turn unique ideas into handcrafted goods. In this workshop, or extracurricular activity, you will turn...More »
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"Art Scope 2007/2008- Faces of Existence" Exhibition
Art Scope, a mécénat activity of Daimler Foundation in Japan, provides contemporary artists from Japan and Germany the chance to experience life in each other’s country. For the 2007/2008 year, Izumi Kato...More »
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"Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection" Exhibition
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present an exhibition of selections from its permanent collection of approximately 1,000 works. These will include artworks from the areas of painting,...More »
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Pipilotti Rist "Karakara"
This autumn the Hara Museum is pleased to present "Karakara," a solo exhibition by the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, a leading figure in Europe's contemporary art scene. This is surprisingly the artist's...More »
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"Meet the Artist: Eva Teppe Slide Lecture" Talk Event
Hara Museum presents a slide lecture by Eva Teppe, one of the artists to be featured in "Art Scope 2007/2008" in the summer of 2008. Since 2003, the Hara Museum has collaborated with Daimler Chrysler...More »
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Izumi Kon "A certain gardener - a moment of plentitude"
The Hara Museum is presenting a project by the artist Izumi Kon consisting of three parts: a garden (set within the Sculpture Garden), an installation of paintings (exhibited in the first-floor corridor) and...More »
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Flowers "Paradise" Dance Performance
Led by Yumi Yoshimoto, the troupe "flowers" has a cast that changes with each performance.Not confined to the conventional theater, the troupe turns any place of their liking into a stage. The keywords...More »
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"Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection" Exhibition
This is an exhibition that showcases about 50 works by artists from Japan and Asian countries.More »
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Henry Darger "A Story of Girls at War—Of Paradises Dreamed"
Orphaned at an early age and sent to an asylum after being diagnosed as mentally deficient, Darger (1892-1973) lived a solitary life from his youth until his death at 81. During this time, he wrote an...More »
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Adriana Varejão Exhibition
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is holding a solo exhibition by Adriana Varejão, a woman artist at the forefront of the contemporary art scene in Brazil. In her work, Varejão displays a sharp sensibility...More »
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VIVA Festival
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is holding a two-day video art project featuring short films by 31 artists such as Isaac Julien and Mariko Mori from 14 countries including Armenia, Brazil, Germany,...More »
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Jason Teraoka "Neighbors"
This exhibition showcases Teraoka’s latest work: a series of 88 paintings entitled "Neighbor". Born and presently based in Hawaii, since the mid-1990s, Teraoka has exhibited throughout Hawaii where he...More »
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"Art Scope 2005/2006" Exhibition
What does the experience of living in a foreign culture mean or what kind of stimuli does it provide to artists? Koji Mori and Kohei Nawa were recently dispatched to Berlin and Katja Strunz and Georg Winter...More »
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Tabaimo Exhibition "Yoroyoron"
Tabaimo has received a lot of attention for her video installations which use animation, and this exhibition consists mainly of her newest works from 2006. Some of the artist's latest activities will also...More »
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Deutsche Bank Collection meets Zaha Hadid "Tokyo blossoms"
Featuring about 150 works from the Deutsche Bank Collection, with the participation of the architect Zaha Hadid, who will be in charge of the installation design of the exhibition. More »
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Camille Henrot Film Viewing, the Hall
In her work, Camille Henrot depicts the love and hate, desire, and day-to-day work of human beings through images taken from pre-existing movies and movies made by herself which she manually modifies. The...More »
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Olafur Eliasson "Your Light Shadow"
This show marks Eliasson's first solo exhibition at a Japanese art museum, and precedes the installation of a permanent installation by the artist on the museum's rooftop next spring. In addition to his...More »
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Dining Event - Nanpushokudo and Miwa Yanagi
Nampushokudo will hold a special dining event on the theme of the exhibition Miwa Yanagi: The Incredible Tale of the Innocent Old Lady and the Heartless Young Girl. The artist Miwa Yanagi is also scheduled...More »
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Wisut Ponnimit’s Live by the garden
The artist Wisut Ponnimit, cartoonist, musician and popular Bangkok pop culture figure will come to the Hara Museum to give a special solo performance on an untuned piano. The music will be improvisational...More »
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Miwa Yanagi : The incredible Tale of the Innocent Old Lady and the Heartless Young Girl
The centerpiece of the exhibition at the Hara Museum will be the Fairy Tale series which the artist started in 2004, providing an indication of the artist’s most recent development. This series uses as...More »
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The I Within You: Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection
The Hara Museum was originally built as a private mansion during the early part of the Showa era, and even now retains a residential quality following its rebirth as an art museum. Its history and special...More »
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Antoni Tàpies - Titan of Spain: Defiant Paintings
Born in Barcelona in 1923, Antoni Tàpies is a prominent figure in Spanish contemporary art and a successor to the spirit of Picasso, Dalí and Miró and other geniuses of the twentieth century. His works,...More »
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Art Scope 2004: Cityscape into Art
Exhibition featuring young Japanese and German artists, Michiko Shoji and Johannes Wohnseifer, who were appointed to Artist-in-Residence program called Art scope by Daimler Chrysler Foundation in Japan....More »
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25 Years of Collecting at the Hara Museum
This winter, the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates its 25th anniversary since its foundation. During this time, it has expanded its holdings to some 850 works of contemporary art by artists...More »
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Yoshitomo Nara - From the Depth of My Drawer
This exhibition features drawings, paintings, photographs, three-dimensional works and installations by Yoshitomo Nara, ranging from small, early pieces made in the 1980s to his latest works. Planned by...More »