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Current events
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Mami Kosemura + Saori Miyake “E-Motion Graphics”
Taking “painting” as its departure point, these photographs and videos reconsider each other’s mediums. More »
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Mitsuhiro Okamoto “Okinawan Steak”
This exhibition is curated by Takeshi Kudo. It focuses Okamoto’s career in Okinawa, where the artist lived and worked from 2004 until 2006. Because Okinawa became the battlefront in the Pacific War, the...More »
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Sasha Herman Exhibition
Sasha Herman’s works range from abstract forms to narrative and short poem pieces to installations. After receiving an education at Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, the artist developed an interest...More »
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Hiromi Miyakita “Unknown”
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Halfway Happy Vol. 2 Kosuke Nagata: Eat
Kosuke Nagata explores motifs of eating and mouths in this series.More »
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Fuyuhiko Takada “Love Phantom 2”
Fuyuhiko Takada creates pop culture-inspired, humorous video works that reference diverse themes and images, including religion, mythology, fairytales, sexuality, gender, narcissism, and trauma. Most of...More »
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Ishu Han Exhibition
Featuring the work of Nissan Art Award Grand Prix winner Ishu Han, whose sculptures and installations reflect his experiences of moving from Shanghai to Aomori and the physical and psychological sense...More »
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Oscar Oiwa “Quarantine Series”
Oscar Oiwa has depicted the city scape with his own critical eye. Living in New York, and now in the midst of the pandemic, he tries to witness and visualize what he sees in digital drawings.More »
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“Domani: The Art of Tomorrow” Exhibition 2021
This year’s exhibition—featuring seven promising newcomers with overseas study program experience over the past ten years, plus earlier program participants and now Japanese art scene frontrunners Kengo...More »
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Theater Commons ‘21
Theater Commons Tokyo is a project to create a collective space for society that harnesses the collective wisdom of theater. By using theater – that is, by applying theatrical ideas – in the context of...More »
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Flush
A group show considering the significance of water and its circulation. More »
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The Museum in the Multi-layered World
In recent years, we are hearing about concepts such as “mirror world,” “digital twins,” and “common ground” in various situations. These terms signify the fact that, against a backdrop of increasingly...More »
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Eiko Ishioka “Survive”
This exhibition focuses on Eiko Ishioka’s work in Japan, from her debut up to her move to New York in the 1980s. The first session of the exhibition will concentrate on her outstanding advertising campaigns...More »
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Shigeru Hasegawa, Luca Costa, and Naoya Hirata
Satoko Oe Contemporary presents works from Shigeru Hasegawa’s poodle series, new and previous works from last year’s NADA Miami/Tokyo show by Luca Costa, and reconstructed pieces intended to be shown at...More »
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1921-2021 Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys, a major 20th century artist known for his “social sculptures” and actions questioning social issues such as politics, the economy, and the environment, was born in May 1921. For the 100th...More »
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Listening: Resonant Worlds
Through art works, this exhibitions introduces the practice of engaging with the world through the act of listening. More »
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Stasis Field 2020→2021
ACT (Artists Contemporary TOKAS) is an exhibition series that focuses mainly on artists who have previously participated in a program hosted by Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS). With Tanaka Shusuke, Hirose...More »
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Prayer and Meditation
This strange time since the beginning of 2020 has been one for prayer and meditation. This show engages with 6 artists from various parts of the globe. Rocky Shore would like to give viewers the chance...More »
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Doug Aitken “New Ocean: Thaw”
Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo introduces an immersive installation by the American artist Doug Aitken. Part of the Hors-les-murs program exhibiting never-before-shown works from the Fondation Louis Vuitton...More »
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Rescheduled Screening of “Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films”
The“Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films”series that opened in January was cancelled partway through due to the coronavirus. It will resume from February 19 (Friday) with a program of 20 films....More »
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The Vision of Fantasy That We Have Never Seen is This Splendor
Yayoi Kusama began her creative career as an artist by depicting the hallucinations she experienced in her childhood, as a means to overcome her fears. Since then, Kusama has continued to produce works...More »
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Hiraki Sawa “/Home”
The title of this exhibition is derived from Sawa’s latest video work “/home,” which was shot in 2017, 15 years after his debut. It was filmed at his parents’ home after all the furniture had been removed...More »
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Nobuhiro Shimura “Throwing Shadows”
*The museum will not be open in the evenings for the forseeable future. The second exhibition in a creative series focused on “enjoyment through the five senses,” “encounters with materials,” and “the...More »
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Sunrise Hero Robot
Introducing 16 examples of robot animations from the Suginami Ward studio Sunrise Inc. More »
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Matthew Barney, Carolee Schneemann, Kazuo Shiraga, and Min Tanaka
Fergus McCaffrey is honored to present Matthew Barney, Carolee Schneemann, Kazuo Shiraga, and Min Tanaka, opening at the gallery’s Tokyo location on Thursday, October 15, 2020. Exhibiting together for...More »
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Bubbles / Debris: Art of the Heisei Period 1989–2019
Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art hosts this exhibition at Higashiyama Cube, looking back on the art of the Heisei period (1989–2019), with a focus on the collective activities of the artists concerned....More »
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Tam Ochiai “Tapetum Lucidum”
Paintings, sculpture, photography, and video by the New York-based artist Tam Ochiai.More »
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Visualize 60 Vol.2
This exhibition is volume 2 of the Visualize 60 exhibition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Polylogue, which “visualizes” the essence of design and reexamines the Nippon Design Center. More »
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Screening Event “New Challenges: Japanese Films in the 1980s”
As Japan became an economic powerhouse and consumerist society in the 1980s, its movies underwent changes as well. While the magnum opus phenomenon of the 1970s became more prevalent, at the same time...More »
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Artists and the Disaster: Imagining in the 10th Year
In response to the Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, which itself suffered damage from the disaster, organized an exhibition entitled...More »
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Views Toward Ainu Culture—Focusing on Photographs from the N.G. Munro Collection
Photographs of Ainu culture taken by the Scottish physician and archeologist N.G. Munro (1863–1942), who conducted research in Hokkaido from 1930. The film “The Kamui Iomande,” edited by Munro, is also...More »
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Architecture Which Sings
Inspired by poet and architect Michizo Tachihara this exhibition crosses the boundaries between architecture and literature, featuring 20 study models, sketches, blueprints, and video along with the words...More »
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Ken + Julia Yonetani “That’s Why I Want To Be Saved”
*Reservations required. *Open 10:00-20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays. Blending science and myth, contemporary artists Ken + Julia Yonetani contemplate environmental collapse, climate change, the pandemic,...More »
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Joban Line Exhibition
- at Railway History Exhibition Hall, former Shimbashi car park
- in the Ginza, Marunouchi area
- Ends in 122 days
This exhibition commemorates the one-year anniversary of the complete resumption of operations by the Joban Line, which was heavily impacted by the Great East Japan Earthquake. Look back on the rail’s...More »
Permanent events
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Nihon Eiga: The History of Japanese Film – From the NFAJ Non-film Collection
*The National Film Archive of Japan has been closed to the public since March due to the renovation of its Kyobashi Main Building, which was later suspended. The work has now been resumed, though, and...More »
Upcoming events
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Sebastian Masuda “Fantastic Voyage”
Inspired by T.S. Elliot, this installation inside an isolation capsule portrays the artist’s private memories and images. *Please make a reservation through the gallery’s websiteMore »
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Luna Crescente
A group exhibition of mid-career artistsMore »
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Screening Event “Kihachiro Kawamoto and Tadanari Okamoto, Puppet Animation Filmmakers”
Introducing the works of two leading puppet animators in Japanese filmmaking: Kihachiro Kawamoto and Tadanari Okamoto. A selection of nine works by Kawamoto and eight by Okamoto will be screened. Please...More »
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Artists’ Fair Kyoto 2021
The Artists’ Fair Kyoto was born in 2018 in Kyoto as a new kind of art fair where the artists themselves would plan, manage, and make selections for their exhibition. This event, set up in the hall of...More »