The exhibition consists of two sections: “Collection Highlights,” and a special feature titled “An Inner Landscape I: Landscapes and Memories.” Selected from the over 1,600 items housed in the museum, “Collection Highlights” introduces important works that are representative ofView More >
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
30th Anniversary Exhibition: The Seven Lamps of The Art Museum
The Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art was opened in 1989 as the first public museum in Japan specializing in contemporary art. Commemorating the facility’s 30th anniversary, this exhibition focuses primarily on the trajectory of the museum’s activities and theView More >
TAIJI MATSUE gazetteer
Taiji Matsue (b. 1963) made his debut as a photographer after graduating from the geography department at the University of Tokyo. Strongly fixated on compositions without horizon lines and two-dimensionality, Matsue has captured images throughout the world with a consistentView More >
Collection Highlights & Special Feature: Like a Face
The exhibition is made up of two sections: “Collection Highlights,”and the special feature, “Like a Face.” In the first, we focus on artists who, as leaders in a number of important trends, are indispensable to any discussion of 20thView More >
Winner of the 11th Hiroshima Art Prize Decided Mr. Alfredo Jaar
Alfredo Jaar Winner of the 11th Hiroshima Art Prize Decided Mr. Alfredo Jaar The City of Hiroshima has selected the winner of the 11th Hiroshima Art Prize, Mr. Alfredo Jaar (Born 1956 in Chile.) About the Hiroshima Art PrizeView More >
Iri and Toshi Maruki: Understanding The Hiroshima Panels
Hiroshima-native Iri Maruki (1901-1995) and his Hokkaido-born wife Toshi (née Toshiko Akamatsu, 1912-2000) collaborated on art works that depicted human catastrophes such as war and pollution. Iri, who developed a unique style with ink painting, and Toshi, who studied oilView More >
Collection Highlights & Special Feature1: The Century with Mushroom Clouds/Special Feature2: Prayer
The exhibition is made up of three sections: “Collection Highlights,” and two special features, “The Century with Mushroom Clouds,” and “Prayer.” In the first, we focus on artists who, as leaders in a number of important trends, are indispensable toView More >
Modern Art Revisited: from the collection of Fukuoka Art Museum
Twentieth century art can be marked by the rise and fall of various art movements. The flow from Surrealism to abstract expressionism and Pop Art appeared after the Second World War are referred to as modern art. Opened in 1979,View More >
The Yuichiro Tamura X Hiroyuki Hattori talk & work screening
Yuichiro Tamura 2017 Week End / End Game: It is – based on the change after – (2011) about the thought of the production process of the exhibition and the background A video art program holding through the year invitesView More >
Nobuya Abe – insatiate border jumper
1949 Tomioka City art Museum, Ichiro Fukuzawa memory Museum storehouse Is アベノブヤ whom or …? Painter, Nobuya Abe (あべ, のぶや 1913-1971) who played an active part from the prewar days to the postwar period attracted attention in poetry collection ofView More >