All You Need Is LOVE: From Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku Mori Art Museum April 26 – September 1, 2013 For human beings, love is the most precious of things. To mark its 10th anniversary, the Mori Art Museum will take the theme of “love.” Via around 200 works ranging from celebrated contributions to […]
Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
February 1 – May 6, 2014
The exhibition and its Asian tour are organized by The AndyWarhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
The presentation of the exhibition in Tokyo is organized by The AndyWarhol Museum and Mori Art Museum.
Arab Express
Mori Art Museum
Saturday 16 June – Sunday 28 October, 2012
From lifestyles to identity, the rapidly transforming Arab world possesses a diversity of cultures that cannot be overstated. And the traditions, religion, customs and aesthetics that constitute that diversity are vividly reflected in the work of the region’s artists.
Aida Makoto
Mori Art Museum
17 November 2012 – 31 March 2013
For more than 20 years since his debut in the early 1990s, Aida Makoto has brought a critical perspective to such subjects as Japan, the United States, history, tradition, manga, war, salarymen, pretty young girls, art, and education system, touching upon contradictions in Japanese society, politics and economics during the period of modernization in the Meiji and subsequent periods followed by the rapid economic growth after the Second World War, as well as mass culture and the system surrounding visual art practice that emerged in the wake of these changes.
Lee Bul: From me, belongs to you only
Mori Art Museum
4 February – 27 May, 2012
Since the 1990s, Lee Bul has built an international career as one of the leading contemporary artists from Asia.
Metabolism, the City of the Future:Dreams and Visions of Reconstruction in Postwar and Present-Day Japan
Mori Art Museum
25 September – 3 January 2012
In the 1960s a group of Japanese architects dreamed of future cities and produced exciting new ideas.
FRENCH WINDOW: Looking at contemporary art through the Marcel Duchamp prize
Mori Art Museum
18 March – 3 July, 2011
For ten years, an elite association of contemporary art collectors known as ADIAF has hosted what has become one of France’s most prestigious art awards, the Marcel Duchamp Prize. To celebrate the award’s first decade, this exhibition presents the work of 28 artists, including all of the winners of the Grand Prix, selected finalists and also Duchamp himself.
Van Gogh: The Adventure of Becoming an Artist
National Art Center Tokyo
October 1 – December 20, 2010
This year marks the 120th anniversary of the death of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890),
and the works of this talented artist have been displayed in Japan countless times.
Odani Motohiko: Phantom Limb
Mori Art Museum
27 November, 2010 – 27 February, 2011
Since studying sculpture at Tokyo University of the Arts, Odani Motohiko has created a body of work using diverse techniques and materials that undermines the conventional notions of sculpture. His unique style of expression and aesthetic sense have won him acclaim both in Japan and abroad, and in 2003 he was selected as one of the artists to represent Japan at the Venice Biennale.
Nabeshima Ware-Designs that Inspire Pride
Suntory Museum of Art
11 August – 11 October 2010
The Nabeshima kiln, run by the Nabeshima family for Kyushu’s Saga Clan, was Japan’s preeminent kiln in the service of a feudal domain, producing ceramic work for more than 200 years during the Edo period. Its high quality tableware, which was presented as gifts to the Tokugawa Shogunate household and to feudal lords, consisted primarily of blue-on-white underglaze porcelains, stylish overglaze polychrome enamels, and Celadon ware; these still charm viewers today with their elegant, attractive designs.The pieces produced, whilst continually striving for novel designs, always retained the sense of nobility and clarity associated with Nabeshima.
Man Ray: Unconcerned But Not Indifferent
National Art Center Tokyo
July 14 – September 13, 2010
Unconcerned But Not Indifferent presents more than 400 works from the collection of the Man Ray Trust. Although individual items have occasionally been loaned for major exhibitions, the full scope of the Trust’s collection, in an exhibition that focuses on its rarities, has never before been publicly presented.
Sensing Nature: Yoshioka Tokujin, Shinoda Taro, Kuribayashi Takashi
Mori Art Museum
24 July – 7 November, 2010
The Mori Art Museum presents “Sensing Nature: Yoshioka Tokujin, Shinoda Taro, Kuribayashi Takashi” from Saturday, 24 July to Sunday, 7 November, 2010. Proposing a reconsideration of the Japanese sense of nature, the exhibition fits into the Mori Art Museum’s theme for 2010, which is “redefining Japan.”