NEWS
DESIGNART TOKYO 2025
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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PRISM OF THE REAL: MAKING ART IN JAPAN 1989–2010
- ECHIGO-TSUMARI ART TRIENNALE 2025
- ED ATKINS EXHIBITION
- SETOUCHI TRIENNALE 2025
- DONALD RODNEY: VISCERAL CANKER
- MACHINE LOVE: VIDEO GAME, AI AND CONTEMPORARY ART
- CHIHARU SHIOTA: THE UNSETTLED SOUL
- BECKY AND THE BIRDS
- DESIGNART TOKYO 2024
- ALEC SOTH: A ROOM OF ROOMS
- HAEGUE YANG: LEAP YEAR
- KEIICHI TANAAMI: ADVENTURES IN MEMORY
- ECHIGO-TSUMARI ART TRIENNALE 2025
NEWS
HILMA AF KLINT: THE BEYOND
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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ROPPONGI ART NIGHT 2025
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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...
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EXPO 2025 OSAKA, KANSAI, JAPAN
As a grand celebration of culture, innovation, and human potential, Expo 2025 in Osaka emerges not merely as a global showcase of technological advancement, but as a deeply reflective journey into the interconnectedne...
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TADANORI YOKOO: RIVER OF RENGA
Among the celebrated and internationally acclaimed Japanese contemporary artists living today, perhaps, Tadanori Yokoo stands the most mystifying and extraordinary, who continues to be guided spontaneously by his brus...
