Best Exhibitions Starting in March 2024
From left to right: Yves Netzhammer "Blätter sind Fragen der Luft" (Utsunomiya Museum of Art © Yves Netzhammer), Carl Andre "Between Sculpture and Poetry" (Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art © 2023 Carl Andre / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert), Constantin Brancusi "Carving the Essence" (Artizon Museum)
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Tokyo Art Beat presents a selection of the best exhibitions opening in March 2024. Bookmark the exhibitions on the TAB website or TAB app and never miss the openings and closings.
- 8th Yokohama Triennale "Wild Grass: Our Lives" (Yokohama Museum of Art)
- Constantin Brancusi "Carving the Essence" (Artizon Museum)
- Does the Future Sleep Here? – Revisiting the Museum’s Response to Contemporary Art After 65 Years (National Museum Of Western Art, Tokyo)
- Universal / Remote (The National Art Center, Tokyo)
- Remembrance Beyond Images (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum)
- Future Elements: Experimental Laboratory for Prototyping in Science and Design (21_21 Design Sight)
- The 100th Anniversary of "Manifeste du surréalisme" - Surrealism and Japan (Itabashi Art Museum)
- Carl Andre "Between Sculpture and Poetry" (Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art)
- Yves Netzhammer "Blätter sind Fragen der Luft" (Utsunomiya Museum of Art)
- Artists of Shunyo-kai - Celebrating Its 100th Anniversary (Nagano Prefectural Art Museum)
- The Cubist Revolution: An Exhibition from the Collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris (Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art)
- Heihachiro Fukuda "A Retrospective" (Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka)
- Pierre Soulages and Shiryu Morita Exhibition (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art)
8th Yokohama Triennale "Wild Grass: Our Lives" (Yokohama Museum of Art)
The theme for the 8th edition of Yokohama Triennale is Wild Grass: Living Here and Now. The Artistic Directors are Beijing-based Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu. The title comes from the poetry collection Wild Grass (published in 1927) by Lu Xun, a Chinese novelist with a deep connection to Japan. Exhibiting artists are Joar Nango, Pippa Garner, Lungiswa Gqunta, Open Group (Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Anton Varga), Side Core, and many others.
Venue: Yokohama Museum of Art
Schedule: March 15 - June 9
Constantin Brancusi "Carving the Essence" (Artizon Museum)
Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) was a pioneering Romanian artist who, through his exploration of pure form, carved out new territory in twentieth-century sculpture. Including over twenty sculptures from the Brancusi Estate in Paris, 90 works are displayed. This is the first exhibition at the museum in Japan to feature Brancusi comprehensively.
Venue: Artizon Museum
Schedule: March 30 - July 7
Does the Future Sleep Here? – Revisiting the Museum’s Response to Contemporary Art After 65 Years (National Museum Of Western Art, Tokyo)
This will be the first exhibition in the history of the National Museum of Western Art to be devoted entirely to contemporary art. Going back to its roots, when the museum was built in the hope of becoming a place that would stimulate the creation of future art, the National Museum of Western Art asks, "Has the museum become a chamber where the future sleeps?" Participating artists are Yuki Iiyama, Yoichi Umetsu, Mai Endo, Nodoka Odawara, Ryudai Takano, Koki Tanaka, Elena Tutatchikova, Rei Naito, Yurie Nagashima, Rintaro Fuse, Futoshi Miyagi, Yuasa Ebosi and others.
Venue: National Museum Of Western Art, Tokyo
Schedule: March 12 - May 12
Universal / Remote (The National Art Center, Tokyo)
From the two perspectives of worldwide scale (as the prefix “pan-,” which appears in many words including “pandemic”) and non-face-to-face isolation (as in “remote” work, school, etc.), this exhibition intends to reframe themes often explored in contemporary art, including global capitalism, and digital society. Exhibiting artists are Daisuke Ida, Xu Bing, Trevor Paglen, Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Hito Steyerl, Miloš Trakilović, Maiko Jinushi, Tina Enghoff, Jeamin Cha, Evan Roth, Natsuko Kiura.
Venue: The National Art Center, Tokyo
Schedule: March 6 - June 3
Remembrance Beyond Images (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum)
How have photography and film sought to capture various forms of "memory"? Starting from the insights of Nobuyoshi Araki in "Photo Duel Theory" (1976), this exhibition introduces over 70 works by seven pairs and eight individual artists from Japan, Vietnam, and Finland, spanning themes from an aging society to artificial intelligence.
Venue: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Schedule: March 1 - June 9
Future Elements: Experimental Laboratory for Prototyping in Science and Design (21_21 Design Sight)
The exhibition director, Shunji Yamanaka, is a design engineer working on a wide range of industrial products and studying prototypes crystallized from cutting-edge technologies. This exhibition centers on Yamanaka's prototypes and robots from initial sketches made in collaboration with fellow researchers at his university lab. In addition, collaborative works by seven teams of designer-creators and scientist-engineers from different fields will be on display.
Venue: 21_21 Design Sight
Schedule: March 29 - August 12
The 100th Anniversary of "Manifeste du surréalisme" - Surrealism and Japan (Itabashi Art Museum)
Surrealism, one of the largest art movements in the 20th century, profoundly influenced art, thought, and culture worldwide, captivating Japanese artists as well. This exhibition will commemorate the 100th anniversary of André Breton's "Surrealist Manifesto" and introduce a diverse range of images through works influenced by Surrealism, from Seijo Togo and Ichiro Fukuzawa to post-war painters such as Kikuo Yamashita. Simultaneously, the exhibition reflects on the era in which the artists lived.
Venue: Itabashi Art Museum
Schedule: March 2 - April 14
Carl Andre "Between Sculpture and Poetry" (Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art)
Carl Andre is a prominent sculptor and poet associated with the rise of Minimal Art, particularly in the United States during the 60s. This is the first solo exhibition of the artist in a Japanese museum. Presenting the process of confronting his sculptural works in the gallery space and unraveling the artist's thoughts through his poetry, the exhibition aims to provide an opportunity to engage with the depth of Andre's concise and systematic visual language.
Venue: Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art
Schedule: March 9 - June 30
*Discount with MuPon
Yves Netzhammer "Blätter sind Fragen der Luft" (Utsunomiya Museum of Art)
Representing Swiss contemporary art, Yves Netzhammer (1970-) combines digital animation, delicately portraying realms that continue to flicker on the edge of oblivion, revolving around questions of the world's origins and one's foundation. In his first solo exhibition in Japan, Netzhammer will introduce his representative video works to date, along with a large-scale new installation created locally in Utsunomiya.
Venue: Utsunomiya Museum of Art
Schedule: March 10 - May 12
Artists of Shunyo-kai - Celebrating Its 100th Anniversary (Nagano Prefectural Art Museum)
The Shunyo-kai (Spring Sun Society) was established in 1922 by members including Hoan Kosugi, Kanae Yamamoto, Morita Tsunetomo, and members led by Ryusei Kishida of the Sodokai. Under the free and open atmosphere that respected the individuality of each artist, not only oil paintings but also prints, ink paintings, sketches, and newspaper illustrations were exhibited without distinction of genre. The exhibition will feature approximately 200 works created by renowned artists essential to the history of modern Japanese art.
Venue: Nagano Prefectural Art Museum
Schedule: March 16 - May 12
The Cubist Revolution: An Exhibition from the Collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris (Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art)
Pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, Cubism was a highly influential modern art movement that emerged in the early 20th century. This exhibition will feature approximately 140 works (50 of which will be exhibited in Japan for the first time), including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, videos, and documents from the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Venue: Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art
Schedule: March 20 - July 7
Heihachiro Fukuda "A Retrospective" (Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka)
Heihachiro Fukuda (1892–1974) is a painter born in Oita City. After moving to Kyoto at 18 to study painting, he gained recognition for his realistic works and meticulous observation of nature. This exhibition, the first in Osaka and the first retrospective in Kansai in 17 years will showcase approximately 120 masterpieces from the early period to the late works, including Clouds, publicly displayed outside its home museum for the first time and sketches showing the artist's vibrant emotions and unique perspectives.
Venue: Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
Schedule: March 9 - May 6
Pierre Soulages and Shiryu Morita Exhibition (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art)
The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art will hold a two-person exhibition of painter Pierre Soulages (1919-2022) and calligrapher Shiryu Morita (1912-1998) to commemorate more than 20 years of friendship between Aveyron, France and Hyogo Prefecture. Using their works as a starting point, the exhibition will focus on the encounter between the arts of East and West.
Venue: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Schedule: March 16 - May 19
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