The National Art Center, Tokyo "Distant Present: Universal / Remote"
The exhibition title Universal / Remote references prevailing conditions in the 21st century as capital and data flow freely on a global scale. Conveying comical aspects of the excesses of surveillance and high-tech networks, as well as the profound isolation of human beings, works in this exhibition seem to grapple head-on with the current era and with the post-COVID world. The exhibition presents the works of 8 artists and a group of 3 artists that address the state of society in the 21st century as shaped by the conditions described above, focusing on two concepts, “Constant Growth at a Pan-Global Scale” and “The Remote Individual.”

Period: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - Monday, June 3, 2024
Venue: Special Exhibition Room 1E, National Art Center, Tokyo
Closed: Every Tuesday * Except for Tuesday, April 30 Opening
hours: 10:00-18:00
* Until 20:00 every Friday and Saturday
* Last admission 30 minutes before closing
URL: https://tinyurl.com/d35tp43m

The National Art Center, Tokyo "Matisse: Free Forms"
he Henri Matisse – Free Forms exhibition reveals for the first time to the Japanese public the extraordinary collection of the Matisse Museum in Nice through the exceptional loan of more than 150 works and objects from its collections. Known to be one of the most important sets of works by the artist anywhere in the world, this collection was made up of successive donations by the artist and his heirs to the City of Nice. The collection covers all periods of the master’s creation, from his first paintings to his final projects. Coming from the artist’s studio, this collection also offers a unique insight into the intimacy of the creation of one of the greatest masters of colour from the 20th century.

Period: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - Monday, May 27, 2024
Venue: National Art Center, Tokyo Special Exhibition Room 2E (7-22-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8558)
Closed: Every Tuesday * However, the museum will be open on April 30th (Tuesday).
Opening hours: 10:00-18:00
* Open until 20:00 every Friday and Saturday * Admission until 30 minutes before closing
Sponsored by: Musée National des Beaux-Arts, Musée Matisse, Nice , Yomiuri Shimbun, Nippon Television Broadcasting Network
URL: https://tinyurl.com/2k624sew

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo “Does the Future Sleep Here?
――Revisiting the museum’s response to contemporary art after 65 years”
The National Museum of Western Art has collected and exhibited Western art works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. This exhibition is the first attempt since the museum
opened in 1959 to collaborate with contemporary artists on a large scale.
Kojiro Matsukata, who built the Matsukata Collection that became the basis of the National Museum of Western Art, collected a huge number of artworks in order to show real Western art to young Japanese painters. In the 65th year since the museum opened, the museum looked back on its origins and envisioned its future, and this question was born.
"Have the exhibition rooms of the National Museum of Western Art become a space where future artists can be born and raised?" This is a question that the National Museum of Western Art asks itself, and at the same time, a question that it asks the participating artists. And it is a question that we would like to consider together with all of you who visit the exhibition rooms.
Through works created by contemporary artists active in Japan and abroad inspired by works in the collection of the National Museum of Western Art, and works that question the significance of the place called a museum, you will be able to see how the artists look at the National Museum of Western Art and its collection, and what issues they are raising. In addition, about 70 works by artists who have made their mark in the history of Western art, such as Monet, Cezanne, and Pollock, are also on display. We will explore new possibilities for the museum through works created in the past and works created in the present. This is a must-see exhibition for learning about the contemporary and future art scene.

Period: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 to Sunday, May 12, 2024
Venue: Special Exhibition Room, National Museum of Western Art (7-7 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo)
Opening hours: 9:30-17:30 (9:30-20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays)
* Entry is until 30 minutes before closing
Inquiries: 050-5541-8600 (Hello Dial)

Image: Kanji Yumisashi "Ueno-san's Blue Sheet Shed" 2023, acrylic, pencil / wooden panel, newspaper, artist's collection
URL: https://tinyurl.com/yrev5tfv

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT Special Exhibition “Fragments of the Future: Laboratory of Science and Design”
21_21 DESIGN SIGHT Gallery 1 & 2 from Friday, March 29, 2024 to Monday, August 12, 2024 (National Holiday). The exhibition director will be Shunji Yamanaka, a design engineer who designs a wide range of industrial products and researches prototypes that embody cutting-edge technology. This exhibition will introduce prototypes and robots that Yamanaka has created in collaboration with various people in his university laboratory, as well as Yamanaka's sketches that are the origin of these prototypes and robots. It will also display a variety of works created by collaborations between eight groups of designers and creators with different specialties and scientists and engineers. We will introduce fragments of the future that have emerged from the encounter between pioneering eyes in cutting-edge technology and research and design.
In a venue where diverse perspectives intersect and imaginations are spun, it will be an opportunity to experience the countless possibilities that science and design can create, and the joy of designing for an unseen future world. We hope you enjoy it.

Period: Friday, March 29, 2024 to Monday, August 12, 2024 (National Holiday)
Venue: 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT Gallery 1 & 2
Closed: Tuesdays
Images: "Structural Tactile Sensation" Satoshi Tanigawa, Shunji Yamanaka + Toshiki Niino (top)
"CanguRo" Shunji Yamanaka + Chiba Institute of Technology fuRo (Photo by Yusuke Nishibe) (bottom)
URL: https://tinyurl.com/bdcpufap

The Dawn of Taiwanese Video Art in the 1980s-1990s
This exhibition focuses on the activities of Taiwanese pioneers who created works of art using the latest video technology in the 1980s and 1990s. MAM Screen 019: The Dawn of Taiwanese Video Art in the 1980s-1990s (Screening) and MAM Research 010: The Dawn of Taiwanese Video Art in the 1980s-1990s (Exhibition) bring together the essence of Rewind: Video Art in Taiwan 1983-1999, a large scale exhibition that featured Taiwanese video art pioneers and was held at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei in 2015.

Period: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - Sunday, September 1, 2024
Closed: Open every day during the
session Venue: Mori Art Museum
Image: Chen Jieren "Flash" circa 1983-1984 Video, black and white, silent 3 Minutes 30 seconds (loop)
URL: https://tinyurl.com/2rny4udx

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum " Remembrance beyond images"
What kind of “memories” have people strived to capture through photography and video? Asides from snapshots and documentaries　whose purpose are to record events and happenings onsite, attempts have also been made to convey unseen memories by stirring the emotions and sensations of viewers, and expanding their imagination beyond realms of both time and space. While employing the characteristic of photography/video as that which serve to connect the memories of others or images engraved in time with the viewer's own memories, artists each approach their work and practice in truly diverse ways.
Taking as its starting point SHINOYAMA Kishin’s propositions raised in Dueling Theories of Photography (1976) and leading up to themes such as aging society and artificial intelligence (AI), this exhibition introduces more than 70 new works by seven groups of eight high-profile artists from Japan, Vietnam, and Finland, including those never exhibited in Japan.

Period: March 1st (Friday) - June 9th (Sunday), 2024
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2nd floor exhibition room
Closed: Mondays (but open on April 29th (Monday) and May 6th (Monday)) (Closed on Tuesday, May 7)
Opening hours: (Not provided)
Image: Marja Pirilä
"Camera Obscura / Ruth" From "Inner Landscapes, Turku" 2011 Collection of the artist
URL: https://tinyurl.com/bdzd2vcv

"Remembering Tomioka Tessai: A Century After His Passing" at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
"Remembering Tomioka Tessai: A Century After His Passing" will grace the halls of the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, from Tuesday, April 2, 2024, to Sunday, May 26, 2024.Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924) is renowned as the "final literati painter." Born into a merchant family in Kyoto at the twilight of the Edo period, he delved into a diverse array of disciplines, encompassing Confucianism, Yangmingism, Japanese studies, Shintoism, and Buddhism. His focal point lay in Sekimon Shingaku, which advocated the ethical principles of urban merchants in the early modern era. Concurrently, he embarked on a self-taught journey in painting, immersing himself in various schools such as Nanshu and Yamato, thereby forging a prolific painting career rooted in profound scholarly knowledge.

Period: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 to Sunday, May 26, 2024
*Some exhibits will be changed during the period:
1st period: April 2 to April 14 / 2nd period: April 16 to April 29 3rd
period: May 1 to May 12 / 4th period: May 14 to May 26
Venue: The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto [Okazaki Park] (〒606-8344 Okazaki Enshoji-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto)
Closed: Mondays (except April 29 (Monday, national holiday) and May 6 (Monday, national holiday)), April 30, May 7
Opening hours: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, open until 8:00 pm on Fridays *Last entry 30 minutes before closing
Museum official URL: https://www.momak.go.jp/
* Details will be announced on the official website from time to time.

Osaka Nakanoshima Museum of Art "30th Anniversary After Death: Kasumiyo Kinoshita
Yoshimiyo Kinoshita (1939 – 1994) was a prominent postwar artist in Kobe, Japan, known for his exploration of existential questions. Starting with photography-based works, he gained acclaim both domestically and internationally, notably in Europe. Transitioning to abstract painting in the early 1980s, his artistic journey took a poignant turn when he was diagnosed with cancer in 1990. Despite his illness, Kinoshita remained dedicated to his craft until his passing in 1994. With over 1,200 works spanning three decades, primarily housed in Kansai region museums, his art received renewed attention after a 2015 overseas exhibition. His first solo exhibition in Japan, at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, showcases his early works, masterpieces, and the evolution of his artistry, reflecting on the fleeting nature of life.

Period: 76 days from Saturday, May 25, 2024 to Sunday, August 18, 2024
Closed on: Mondays *Open on July 15 (Monday, holiday) and August 12 (Monday, holiday) Opening
hours: 10:00 - 17:00 (Admission until 16:30)
Admission fee: General 1,600 yen (1,400 yen), High school and university students 1,000 yen ( 800 yen), Junior high school students and under free
* All prices include tax
* () Prices in parentheses are for groups of 20 or more. Group fee
Venue: Osaka Nakanoshima Museum of Art, 5th floor exhibition room (4-3-1 Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0005)
URL: https://tinyurl.com/4ud7w5v4

Trio: Modern Art Collections from Paris, Tokyo and Osaka
Exhibition organized with the collaboration of the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris Musées
Paris, Tokyo, and Osaka: collections from three museums in these cities, each of which has nurtured its own unique culture, will come together. The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris on the banks of the Seine River, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo near the Imperial Palace, and the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka in the center of Osaka City, have all built rich collections of modern art as museums in major cities. This exhibition is an unprecedented and unique experiment in which works from the collections of the three museums that have something in common are selected to form a number of trios. The commonalities among the works included in each of the freely conceived trios are various, including subject matters, motifs, colors and shapes, materials, and the context in which the works were created, regardless of the era, school, or Eastern/Western backgrounds. The exhibition consists of 34 trios of more than 150 works, including paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, designs, and videos by 110 artists, presented in seven chapters according to themes and concepts to propose a new way of viewing modern art from the early 20th century to the present day and to highlight its appeal.

Period: Tuesday, May 21, 2024 - Sunday August 25, 2024
Venue: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Opening hours: 10:00-17:00 *Open until 8:00 pm on Fridays and Saturdays *Admission is at the closing time Until 30 minutes in advance
Closed on Mondays *However, open on July 15th and August 12th, closed on the following Tuesday
Sponsored by: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, TV Tokyo, BS TV Tokyo
Special cooperation: Paris Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Paris Musée
URL: https://tinyurl.com/yf7bbww8

Saitama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art Special Exhibition "Absolute Chairs"
In art, chairs have been imbued with a variety of meanings and symbolism, as symbols of authority, objects that house memories, or extensions of our bodies. Artists have captured diverse meanings behind chairs, and through their works, have brought to light discord and contradictions within society, personal memories, and relationships with others. This exhibition focuses primarily on the various expressions of chairs in works of art ranging from the postwar period to the present day, examining society and the human condition through the familiar presence known as the chair.

Period: Saturday, February 17th - Sunday, May 12th, 2024
Venue
: The Museum of Modern Art, SaitamaClosed
: Mondays (open on April 29th and May 6th)
Opening hours: 10:00-17:30 (admission to the exhibition room until 17:00)
Admission fee: 1,300 yen (1,040 yen) for adults, 1,040 yen (830 yen) for university and high school students
* () indicates the price for groups of 20 or more
* Free for junior high school students and younger
* Free for those with a disability certificate (including one accompanying person)
* Those with a special exhibition ticket (excluding Gurutto Pass) can also visit the MOMAS Collection (1st floor exhibition room).

Miyanaga Aiko, "waiting for awakening -chair-",
2017 Photo: Kioku Keizo,
exhibition view of "Miyanaga Aiko: Rowing" (Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, 2019) ©️MIYANAGA Aiko Courtesy of Mizuma Art Gallery
URL: https://tinyurl.com/bde4kzy7

Art Gallery ARTDYNE Yoshiyuki Umehara Solo Exhibition "Mono-to Watashi"
Yoshiyuki Umehara, born in 1997, graduated from Tama Art University in 2020 with a major in oil painting, and is one of the hottest young artists based in Chiba Prefecture.
Umehara uses a painting knife to apply layers of paint to a primed canvas, creating a massive surface that makes the viewer aware of the painting’s existence as a material. The borders and layers, which are hardly smooth, convey the materiality of the paint even more directly, appealing to us with the allure of the raw mass of the painting. Umehara’s words, “I paint faces that emerge spontaneously from things and landscapes,” strongly suggest his deep attachment to the motifs and his warm eye, as well as the peculiar way he perceives “things”. In this exhibition, 11 of his latest works will be on display and for sale. We sincerely hope that you will take this opportunity to view and appreciate them.

Period: Saturday, April 20th to Sunday, May 12th, 2024
Venue: ARTDYNE
URL : https://www.art-dyne.com/en/

Kuma Foundation Gallery Ayaka Takahata Solo Exhibition “On the One Hand, On the Other Side”
Part of the "KUMA Selection2024" series, which provides 11 support students of the Kuma Foundation with the opportunity to freely use the Kuma Foundation Gallery and present their own creations. As the second installment, artist Ayaka Takahata's solo exhibition "On the One Hand, On the Other Side" will be held at the Kuma Foundation Gallery from Thursday, May 16, 2024 to Monday, May 20, 2024.

Period: Thursday, May 16, 2024 - Monday, May 20, 2024
Venue: Kuma Foundation Gallery
Time: 12:00-19:00 * Until 17:00 on the last day
Fee: Free
URL : https:// tinyurl.com/yhze6fef