Must-see exhibitions in Japan 2010

Listings based on information available as of January 2010. See the ART iT exhibition calender for updates.

February


Sawa Hiraki O 2009
Still from multi-channel video installation
Courtesy Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Reflection - alternative views through video camera
Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito

Technoclasm Cyber Arts Japan / Ars Electronica - 30 years for Art and Media Technology
2.2 - 3.22
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

AN10 - MOT Annual 2010
2.6 - 4.11
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Reflection - alternative views through video camera
2.6 - 5.9
Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito

Christo and Jeanne-Claude Life=Works=Projects
2.13 - 4.6
21_21 Design Sight

Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions: Searching Songs
2.19 - 28
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

March


Videostill from Aernout Mik Touch, rise and fall 2008

Two-screen video installation, Courtesy carlier | gebauer, Berlin
Artist File 2010: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art
The National Art Center, Tokyo

Artist File 2010: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art
3.3 - 5.5
The National Art Center, Tokyo


Morimura Yasumasa A Requiem: Remembrance Parade/1945, USA 2010

Morimura Yasumasa: A Requiem - Art on top of the battlefield
3.11 - 5.9
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

William Kentridge: What We See & What We Know
3.13 - 5.9
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?
MAM Project 011: Jules de Balincourt
3.20 - 7.4
Mori Art Museum

April


Hussein Chalayan Airborne AW 2007
Photo Luke Hayes

Hussein Chalayan
4.3 – 6.20
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Alternative Humanity: Jan Fabre and Funakoshi Katsura (provisional title)
4.29 - 8.31
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Where's the architecture? 7 installations (provisional title)
4.29 - 8.8
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

May


Furuya Seiichi Wien, 1983

Furuya Seiichi
5.15 - 7.19
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

Tsuzuki Kyoichi
5.22 - 7.19
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

June

William Eggleston
June - August　
Hara Museum

July

Trouble in Paradise: The Ethics of Survival (provisional title)
7.9 - 8.22
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

kyupi kyupi and Ishibashi Yoshimasa (provisional title)
7.18 - 11.3
Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art

Yoshioka Tokujin / Kuribayashi Takashi / Shinoda Taro Sensing Nature: Perceiving Nature in Japan
MAM PROJECT 012: Tromarama
7.24 - 11.7
Mori Art Museum

August

Massive Impact!! - from manga to reality
8.14 - 9.26
Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito

September

Jae Eun Choi
September - October
Hara Museum

Kimura Yuki
September – December
IZU PHOTO MUSEUM

October

Morimura Yasumasa: A Requiem (provisional title)
10.23 - 2011.1.10
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

November

Otomo Yoshihide: Mito ensembles
11.20 - 2011.1.16
Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito

Sugimoto Hiroshi: The origins of art - science (provisional title)
11.21 - 2011.2.20
Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art

Odani Motohiko
MAM PROJECT 013: Katerina Seda
10.27 - 2011.2.27
Mori Art Museum

2011

Sone Yutaka: World Sculpture (provisional title)
2011.1.15 - 3.27
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Simon Starling
2011.1.22 - 4.10
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Spring Flowers: A new generation of women artists (provisional title)
2011.2.5 - 5.8
Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito

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