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AWT Focus "What Is Real?"
Okura Shukokan Museum of Fine Arts
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Tomomi Adachi, Bas Jan Ader, Toshiko Akamatsu, Genpei Akasegawa, Saori Akutagawa, Nevin Aladağ, Natsumi Aoyagi, Satoru Aoyama, Ross Birrell, Jayashree Chakravarty, Bontaro Dokuyama, Ei-Q, Hikaru Fujii, Ganesh Haloi, Minoru Hirata, Michio Horikawa, Yuki Iiyama, Shunsuke Imai, Miyako Ishiuchi, Tsutomu Iwasaki, Koji Kamoji, Shingo Kanagawa, Yuki Katsura, Kikuji Kawada
AWT Focus is Art Week Tokyo’s centerpiece special platform. The exhibition invites a guest curator to experiment with new narratives of modern and contemporary art through works drawn from Art Week Tokyo’s participating galleries.
This year’s edition of AWT Focus is curated by Adam Szymczyk, a curator, author, and editor based in Zurich who was previously the artistic director of documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel from 2014 to 2017 and the director and chief curator of Kunsthalle Basel from 2003 to 2014. “What Is Real?” brings together some 100 works by more than 50 artists representing diverse generations and geographies. Featuring paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, and more, the exhibition revisits the predigital imaging of the 20th and early 21st centuries to see how artists’ responses to the reality of human experience have shifted over time and to understand how we might collectively approach a coming epoch in which powerful new technologies have the capacity to reshape our perceptions of what is real and what is not.
AWT Focus is hosted by the Okura Museum of Art, which was founded in 1917 as Japan’s first private art museum. Szymczyk will incorporate the historic building into the display through an exhibition design conceived in collaboration with architect Hiroyuki Kimura.
This year’s edition of AWT Focus is curated by Adam Szymczyk, a curator, author, and editor based in Zurich who was previously the artistic director of documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel from 2014 to 2017 and the director and chief curator of Kunsthalle Basel from 2003 to 2014. “What Is Real?” brings together some 100 works by more than 50 artists representing diverse generations and geographies. Featuring paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, and more, the exhibition revisits the predigital imaging of the 20th and early 21st centuries to see how artists’ responses to the reality of human experience have shifted over time and to understand how we might collectively approach a coming epoch in which powerful new technologies have the capacity to reshape our perceptions of what is real and what is not.
AWT Focus is hosted by the Okura Museum of Art, which was founded in 1917 as Japan’s first private art museum. Szymczyk will incorporate the historic building into the display through an exhibition design conceived in collaboration with architect Hiroyuki Kimura.
Schedule | Nov 5 (Wed) 2025-Nov 9 (Sun) 2025 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults ¥1800, University Students and Under free. | ||
| Website | https://www.artweektokyo.com/en/focus-en/ | ||
| Venue | Okura Shukokan Museum of Fine Arts https://www.shukokan.org/language/ | ||
| Location | 2-10-3 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001 | ||
| Access | 8 minute walk from exit 4b at Kamiyacho Station on the Hibiya line, 7 minute walk from exit 3 at Roppongi-itchome Station on the Namboku line, 9 minute walk from exit 3 at Toranomon Station on the Ginza line. | ||
| Phone | 03-3583-0781 | ||
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