Exhibitions in Tokyo

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

The 19th edition of the museum's annual international festival of images and art, across its third, second and basement floors, with new work by four finalists.

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT

An exhibition treating the gallery as "one large clock," scattering time-related devices and design objects to examine how time structures daily life. Directed by graphic designer Tomohiro Okazaki.

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

The first large-scale retrospective in Asia of Hans Haacke, covering works and projects on environmental issues and critiques of political and corporate power.

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

International exhibition co-organized with the Sunpride Foundation, drawing on works from the foundation's collection, loans from artists and newly commissioned pieces.

Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo

The Montmartre art scene of the late 19th and early 20th century, through works by Toulouse-Lautrec, Suzanne Valadon and lesser-known painters of their circle. Title is tentative.

Tokyo Station Gallery

First retrospective in 40 years of dyeing and weaving artist Yamaga Seika (1885-1981), inventor of "hand-woven brocade," spanning traditional motifs to unconventional subjects like rockets.

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

The 21st MOT Annual, bringing together emerging artists from contemporary art, performing arts and experimental music, with an emphasis on performances engaging personal and social memory.

Artizon Museum

A showing of the museum's recent acquisitions, from first-ever public displays of ukiyo-e prints and Noh costumes to Western and Japanese modern art, contemporary and Aboriginal art, and design.

Suntory Museum of Art

Lavishly decorated sutras, Buddhist statues and paintings inspired by the Lotus Sutra, tracing how devotion to the text shaped Japanese art from antiquity to today.

The National Art Center, Tokyo

A retrospective on three pioneering shojo-manga artists, tracing their careers from the late 1960s to today through original drawings and archival material.

SOMPO Museum of Art

About 100 paintings by Togo Seiji, from early avant-garde works to late large oils, with around 100 pieces of his commercial design for the museum's 50th year.

National Museum of Nature and Science

The museum's first special exhibition on sex as a theme, covering the diversity of sex in animals and plants through form, behaviour, sex determination and parenting.

National Museum of Western Art

A special exhibition placing J.M.W. Turner's work in dialogue with contemporary art, exploring the sublime in landscape and light.

National Museum of Nature and Science

A commemorative exhibition marking 150 years since the birth of bacteriologist Noguchi Hideyo, tracing his life's work and humanity's ongoing fight against infectious disease.

Sumida Hokusai Museum

10th-anniversary show of Hokusai's Sumida views and the works born of his exchanges with Ota Nanpo and other writers, plus Hokusai prints that inspired later authors such as Masaoka Shiki.

Japan Folk Crafts Museum

90th-anniversary show on how museum founder Yanagi Soetsu collected the folk crafts that make up the Mingeikan.

Tokyo National Museum

Paintings and crafts depicting scenes from The Tale of Genji, with manuscripts, commentaries and its spread into performing arts and popular culture, organised with Kyoto National Museum.

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Sugawara Kaho's paintings, drawings, blueprints and field journals recording wild birds and their plumage, in the 4th-floor corridor.

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Postwar Japanese artists and how they treated material, from prewar abstraction pioneers to Gutai and Mono-ha, drawn from the gallery's Terada Collection.

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

About 250 works by Finnish designer Kaj Franck (1911-1989), in glass, porcelain and fabric, with sketches and film, drawn mainly from the Design Museum Helsinki collection.

Mori Art Museum

Japan's first major Mariko Mori retrospective since 2002, spanning three decades from her 1990s Cyborg series to recent installations shaped by Buddhist philosophy and science.

Nezu Museum

Museum collection exhibition presenting an overview of the Nezu's Buddhist sculpture holdings, among the finest of any private art museum in Japan.

Ōta Memorial Museum of Art

Exhibition tracing how ukiyo-e artists depicted Edo's licensed pleasure quarters over the centuries.

Mori Art Museum

Showcase for Katayama Mari, first Grand Prize winner of the Mori Art Award, whose analogue photography, embroidery and needlework extend the boundaries of her own body.

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

Traditional Lithuanian handicrafts displayed across the museum's main building and annex.

Mori Art Museum

New ceramic sculptures by Santa Fe-based Brie Ruais, made after a residency at Shigaraki and research into Japanese clay and ceramic history, shaped through full-body movement.

Mori Art Museum

Three films by Thai artist Jakrawal Nilthamrong, centred on Rhizome (2022), where a man drifts on a raft above a flooded world. Screened 18:00-22:00, about 39 minutes in total.

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Around 110 works from the Musée d'Orsay spanning painting, sculpture, decorative arts and photography, including Monet, Van Gogh and Renoir.

Tokyo National Museum

A 40th-anniversary showcase in the Hyokeikan tracing the FINAL FANTASY series through art and music, staged alongside the museum's historical Japanese collection.

Ghibli Museum, Mitaka

Recreation of illustrator Yuriko Yamawaki's studio, exploring her picture-book collaborations with Rieko Nakagawa and her influence on Hayao Miyazaki.