As Tokyo’s most ambitious contemporary art project covering the entire city, Tokyo Art Week will be held from November 2 to 5! During the four-day event of Tokyo Art Week, art buses are specially planned to connect 50 exhibition institutions in Tokyo with 7 routes, allowing you to enjoy the must-visit art highlights in the city! It is also connected through activities such as “Tokyo Art Week Focus” (AWT Focus), “Tokyo Art Week Bar” (AWT Bar), “Tokyo Art Week Lectures” (AWT Talks) and “Tokyo Art Week Video” (AWT Video) Throughout Art Week, the artistic energy that energizes the entire city of Tokyo is an annual event that art lovers cannot miss.
2023 Tokyo Art Week flagship exhibition lineup
This year’s Tokyo Art Week has 50 exhibitors, including 11 institutions and 39 art galleries. Participating institutions span all levels, from national-level modern and contemporary art flagship institutions such as the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art and other municipal museums, to the flagship private institution Mori Art Museum in Roppongi, a gathering place for emerging art galleries.
The 39 participating galleries this year will bring diverse art experiences. The lineup is led by a number of heavyweight galleries. Their exhibitions reflect important developments in the history of Japanese contemporary art, including Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Koyanagi Gallery, Taka Ishii Gallery, Ota Xiuze Gallery and SCAI The Bathhouse. This year, two powerful art galleries—Tomio Koyama Gallery and ShugoArts—have joined the show. Among the recognized third-generation galleries, exhibitions by Takashi Murakami’s Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Misako & Rosen, Mujin-to Production, Nanzuka Underground, Take Ninagawa and Waitingroom will showcase the nuanced and sensitive nature of Japanese contemporary art from the past decade.
Must-visit highlights of Tokyo Art Week 2023 #1! Tokyo Art Week Video
The lineup of exhibitors showcases the rich heritage of the Tokyo art scene, with highlighted artists including Okinawa photographer Shino Ishikawa, Belgian conceptual artist Marcel Broodthaers, and Kyoto-based media artist Saori Miyake. In the “Tokyo Art Week Video” project, the works of 14 Japanese and international artists were selected by Chus Martínez, dean of the School of Art at the FHNW University of Art and Design in Basel, with the theme “Women are originally the sun”. miss. The theme of the exhibition is inspired by the autobiography of Hiratsuka Thunderbird, a Japanese social activist and feminist pioneer, whose outstanding life spanned most of the 20th century.
Must-visit highlights of Tokyo Art Week 2023 #2! Tokyo Art Week Highlights
The new curation and sales platform “Tokyo Art Week Focus” is coordinated by Kenjiro Hosaka, Director of the Shiga Museum of Modern Art, Otsu, and re-examines the works from a critical but easy-to-understand perspective through selected works from participating galleries. Japanese art classics, and all works can be purchased directly from the gallery. A unique exhibition venue is the historic Okura Collection Museum, which was founded in 1917 by the pioneering industrialist Kihachiro Okura and is one of the first generation of private art museums in Japan.
Atsuko Ninagawa, co-founder and director of Tokyo Art Week and owner and director of Take Ninagawa, said: “The original intention of establishing Tokyo Art Week was to build a community-based art project that connects the entire city and optimize Tokyo’s art ecology in an all-round way. . This year ushering in the second full version of the project, we are pleased to launch the curation and sales platform “Tokyo Art Week Focus” to give the broad audience more opportunities to understand art history. Combining the in-depth narrative techniques of museum exhibitions and the market model The flexible, new form of platform allows new collectors to understand that they can also exert an influence on the historical process, first by establishing personal goals, and then by continuing to sponsor and donate art.”
“Tokyo Art Week Focus” is committed to establishing new connections between classic works and contemporary contexts, hoping to enable a new generation of collectors and art lovers to understand the beauty and importance of appreciating art from a historical perspective.
Must-visit highlights of Tokyo Art Week 2023 #3! Tokyo Art Week Bar
The pop-up project of Tokyo Art Week Bar will once again provide a refreshing social gathering place during Tokyo Art Week. Yamada Suzuko, the 36th Yoshioka Prize winner and emerging architect, was commissioned to design the interior space of the bar, and Shinsuke Ishii, owner and chef of the Michelin-starred restaurant Sincere, worked together to present a multi-sensory art experience. The design of the entire Tokyo Art Week bar is elegant and elegant, with slim metal rods suspended in mid-air outlining the typical bar style. The event will also further deepen synergies between Tokyo Art Week and other creative fields, as well as Tokyo’s world-renowned hospitality culture.
