Tomie Ohtake Exhibition
Pace Tokyo
Until Feb 11
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Tomie Ohtake
Pace is pleased to present coinciding exhibitions of work by artists Marina Perez Simão and Tomie Ohtake in Tokyo this fall. On view November 4, 2025, through February 11, 2026, these presentations, installed across the first and second floors of Pace’s Azabudai Hills gallery, will situate new paintings by Simão in dialogue with works produced by Ohtake—a Japanese-Brazilian artist whose inventive abstractions charted new courses for Modernism in Brazil—between 1963 and 2013. Both exhibitions will be on view during Art Week Tokyo 2025, which runs from November 5 to 9.
Pace’s exhibition of painting and sculpture by Ohtake will offer a look at the late artist’s experimental and radical practice, which she developed during an especially rich and exciting period of Brazilian art history in the 20th century. Born in Kyoto in 1913, Ohtake immigrated to Brazil in 1936 and became one of the country’s most celebrated abstractionists. Working across many mediums, including painting, printmaking, and sculpture, the artist brought both formal rigor and an embrace of randomness and surprise to her art. She evoked geological and cosmological phenomena, as well as the vast natural landscapes and topographies of Brazil, through combinations of organic forms and structured geometries in her works. At once ambiguous and multivalent, her abstractions are marked by stately simplicity and freewheeling joy.
The gallery’s focused exhibition of Ohtake’s work will feature eight paintings and a freestanding, painted steel sculpture. The canvases in the show, which date between 1963 and 2004, chronicle the evolution of the artist’s investigations of color, texture, and form. Each composition is a glimpse into some other world—a window into another realm. The 2013 sculpture in the show, a tubular structure that seems to dance before the viewer’s eyes, reflects her uncanny ability to imbue simple forms with a sense of continuous, fluid movement. Installed near Pace Tokyo, at the base of the Ark Hills Sengokuyama Mori Tower, Ohtake’s monumental yellow ribbon-like outdoor sculpture Infinity is a testament to her enduring impact on public art and urban space.
Together, these exhibitions of work by Simão and Ohtake will present an intergenerational conversation between two artists linked by their heritage and their imaginative approaches to abstraction and landscape painting.
Pace’s exhibition of painting and sculpture by Ohtake will offer a look at the late artist’s experimental and radical practice, which she developed during an especially rich and exciting period of Brazilian art history in the 20th century. Born in Kyoto in 1913, Ohtake immigrated to Brazil in 1936 and became one of the country’s most celebrated abstractionists. Working across many mediums, including painting, printmaking, and sculpture, the artist brought both formal rigor and an embrace of randomness and surprise to her art. She evoked geological and cosmological phenomena, as well as the vast natural landscapes and topographies of Brazil, through combinations of organic forms and structured geometries in her works. At once ambiguous and multivalent, her abstractions are marked by stately simplicity and freewheeling joy.
The gallery’s focused exhibition of Ohtake’s work will feature eight paintings and a freestanding, painted steel sculpture. The canvases in the show, which date between 1963 and 2004, chronicle the evolution of the artist’s investigations of color, texture, and form. Each composition is a glimpse into some other world—a window into another realm. The 2013 sculpture in the show, a tubular structure that seems to dance before the viewer’s eyes, reflects her uncanny ability to imbue simple forms with a sense of continuous, fluid movement. Installed near Pace Tokyo, at the base of the Ark Hills Sengokuyama Mori Tower, Ohtake’s monumental yellow ribbon-like outdoor sculpture Infinity is a testament to her enduring impact on public art and urban space.
Together, these exhibitions of work by Simão and Ohtake will present an intergenerational conversation between two artists linked by their heritage and their imaginative approaches to abstraction and landscape painting.
Schedule Now in session | Nov 4 (Tue) 2025-Feb 11 (Wed) 2026 60 days left Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/tomie-ohtake-tokyo/ | ||||
| Venue | Pace Tokyo https://www.pacegallery.com/ | ||||
| Location | 1F, 2F Azabudai Hills Garden Plaza A, 5-8-1 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001 | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from exit 2 at Kamiyacho Station on the Hibiya line, 8 minute walk from exit 2 at Roppongi-itchome Station on the Namboku line. | ||||
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