Exhibitions Open Over the New Year Holidays (2021-2022)

Many venues will be closed for Japan’s New Year holidays (December 29–January 3), but here are a few exhibitions around the Tokyo area keeping their doors open.

Open on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day

Another Energy: Power to Continue Challenging - 16 Women Artists from around the World
Where: Mori Art Museum
Dates: April 22, 2021–January 16, 2022
Tickets: Please make reservations

Roni Horn “When You See Your Reflection in Water, Do You Recognize the Water in You?”
Where: Pola Museum of Art
Dates: September 18, 2021–March 30, 2022
Tickets: Please make reservations

Closed on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day Only

The Genealogy of Light: Impressionist Masterworks from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Where: Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum
Dates: October 15, 2021-January 16, 2022
Closed: December 31, 2021–January 1, 2022
Tickets: Please make reservations

Finnish Design for Everyday Life – Patterns and Forms Inspired by Nature
Where: Bunkamura Museum of Art
Dates: December 7, 2021-January 30, 2022
Closed: January 1, 2022
Tickets: Please make reservations

A Nexus of Rainbows: Works from the Hara Museum and the Hara Rokuro Collections Part II
Where: Hara Museum ARC
Dates: September 11, 2021-January 10, 2022
Closed: January 1, 2022

Riusuke Fukahori “Your world, My world.”
Where: Ueno Royal Museum
Dates: December 2, 2021-January 31, 2022
Closed: December 31, 2021–January 1, 2022
Tickets: Please make reservations

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Christian Marclay Translating
Where: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Dates: November 20, 2021-February 23, 2022
Closed: December 28, 2021–January 1, 2022
Tickets: Please make reservations

Viva Video! The Art and Life of Shigeko Kubota
Where: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Dates: November 13, 2021-February 23, 2022
Closed: December 28, 2021–January 1, 2022
Tickets: Please make reservations

Memories Penetrate the Ground and Permeate the Wind
Where: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Dates: November 6, 2021-January 23, 2022
Closed: December 28, 2021–January 1, 2022
Tickets: Please make reservations

The Year 2121: Futures In-Sight
Where:21_21 Design Sight
Dates: November 21, 2021-May 8, 2022
Closed: December 28, 2021–January 4, 2022

Yoichi Umetsu “Pollinator”
Where: Watari-um, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art
Dates: September 16, 2021-January 16, 2022
Closed: December 31, 2021–January 3, 2022

Japanese Culture

100 Years of Mingei: The Folk Crafts Movement
Where: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Dates: October 26, 2021-February 13, 2022
Closed: December 28, 2021–January 1, 2022
Tickets: Please make reservations

Special Exhibition Prince Shotoku
Where: Suntory Museum of Art
Dates: November 17, 2021-January 10, 2022
Closed: December 28, 2021–January 3, 2022
Tickets: Please make reservations

The Art of Okumura Togyū ―A Master of Nihonga Whom Yamazaki Taneji Loved, Part 2
Where: Yamatane Museum of Art
Dates: November 13, 2021-January 23, 2022
Closed: December 29, 2021–January 2, 2022
Tickets: Please make reservations

Galleries

Gilbert and George “Class War, Militant, Gateway”
Where: Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo
Dates: October 14, 2021-March 6, 2022
Closed: January 1, 2022 (tbd)

“Formes du transfert” 10 years of Artists’ Residencies
Where: Maison Hermès
Dates: November 17, 2021-April 3, 2022
Closed: December 31, 2021–January 2, 2022 (tbd)

Coin Parking Delivery “Dimension Media”
Where: Diesel Art Gallery
Dates: September 11, 2021-January 13, 2022
Closed: January 1, 2022

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