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DESIGNART TOKYO 2025

2025.3.1　

DESIGNART TOKYO, a well-established fall festival in Tokyo, celebrated its 9th anniversary will be held from October 31st to November 9th this year. The theme this year is “Brave – The Pursuit of Instinctive Beaut...

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HILMA AF KLINT: THE BEYOND

2025.2.12　

The first major retrospective in Asia of Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), a pioneer of abstract painting titled Hilma af Klint: The Beyond will be held from March 4th to June 15th 2015 at The National Museum of Modern ...

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SATO MASAHIKO EXHIBITION NEW × (WAY OF MAKING + WAY OF UNDERSTANDING)

2025.10.10　 Text: Alma Reyes

In 1999, the endearing song “Dango San Kyodai” (Three dumpling brothers) made its debut in the NHK TV program “Oka-san to Isho” (With Mother). The song gained popularity instantly nationwide due to its catchy lyrics, ...

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CHANEL PRESENTS “LA GALERIE DU 19M TOKYO”

2025.10.9　 Text: Sébastien Raineri

From September 30 to October 20, 2025, CHANEL’s le19M, the Parisian home of the Métiers d’art, travels to Tokyo for the first time with la Galerie du 19M Tokyo, a remarkable exhibition held on the 52nd floor of the Mo...

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ROPPONGI ART NIGHT 2025

2025.10.3　 Text: Sébastien Raineri

Tokyo’s Roppongi district dissolves once again the boundaries between everyday life and artistic imagination. From September 26th to 28th, 2025, Roppongi Art Night returns as one of the city’s most dynamic cultural ev...

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NATURE AND THE SOUL: THE JOURNEY OF TONEYAMA KOJIN – SEEING REVERENCE AND CREATIVITY IN OTHER CULTURES

2025.10.1　 Text: Alma Reyes

He has been widely known as the “Painter of the Sun.” His luminous and ardent colors project vibrant energy that instill new meanings in the diverse cultures he had experienced throughout his life. Kojin Toneyama (192...

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PRISM OF THE REAL: MAKING ART IN JAPAN 1989–2010

2025.9.16　 Text: Alma Reyes

The transition from the Shōwa (1926-1989) to the Heisei era (1989-2019) witnessed groundbreaking and tumultuous events in Japan and abroad. The spark of two world wars crippled civilizations, yet forged the paths to ...

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ECHIGO-TSUMARI ART TRIENNALE 2025

2025.8.7　 Text: Alma Reyes

“Yukiguni” or “Snow Country,” the celebrated novel by classic author and Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata, was written in Yuzawa, Niigata Prefecture, where the romantic setting of the story also took place. Bla...

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ED ATKINS EXHIBITION

2025.7.22　 Text: Victor Moreno

Ed Atkins has spent fifteen years asking one big question: where does our digital life end and real human feeling begin? The Oxford-born, Copenhagen-based artist uses his own face and voice as material, creating video...

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ART OSAKA 2025

2025.6.14　 Text: Sébastien Raineri

As Osaka welcomes the world for EXPO 2025, Art Osaka 2025 offers a compelling supplement to the city’s cultural moment. Held from June 5 to 9 across two vibrant districts, this 23rd edition of Japan’s longest-running ...

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LIVE EARTH JOURNEY: SHOJI KAWAMORI’S IMMERSIVE EXPLORATION OF LIFE AND TRANSFORMATION

2025.6.10　 Text: Sébastien Raineri

As the world gathers in Osaka for Expo 2025, a bewildering and magnificent experience amplifies the power of imagination. Within the “Grand Ring” stands the Signature Pavilion LIVE EARTH JOURNEY, a multisensory odysse...

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KENJIRO OKAZAKI: TIME UNFOLDING HERE

2025.6.2　 Text: Alma Reyes

Plastic arts (“zokei geijutsu”) in the Japanese context refers to visual arts that involve shaping and molding into different forms. Genres cover sculpture, ceramics, and painting wherein the paint’s material capabili...