EXHIBITION
Exhibition2023
-
- Upcoming
Collection Exhibition 2 Remix Sound (tentative)
2023.11.18(Sat.) - 2024.5.12(Sun.)
Today, we live with all kinds of sounds, from natural environmental sounds to man made electronic ones. The medium of sound has the power to reconfigure us and the world through our physical perception, not only through hearing and listening. Now is the time for sound to reconnect us with the world and reorganize our relationship with it, which has been fragmented by information overload. This exhibition will explore the possibilities of sound that go beyond “air tremors perceived by the sense of hearing,” starting with Carsten NICOLAI’s realistic, which records and accumulates all kinds of sounds, including noise, to show the complexity of the world and its connections.
… -
- Upcoming
DXP (Digital Transformation Planet): Towards the Next Interface (tentative)
2023.10.7(Sat.) - 2024.3.17(Sun.)
In the year 2023, a completely different planet is about to emerge, in response to this question that has been asked repeatedly since the 20th century: how will digital technology change the planet Earth and the way of life and sensibilities of those of us who live on it? On this planet called the Anthropocene, immersed in an invisible network and controlled by AI, the relationship between technology and life is being generated anew every day. DXP is also an exhibition / interface that brings together artists, architects, scientists, programmers, and others to capture this transformation across disciplines, to understand what is happening, and to propose it as something that can be felt. DXP explores the possibility of a comprehensive way of life, including food, clothing, and shelter, as a vision of the contemporary real and the future that will follow it, through AI, the metaverse, and biotech, technologies that have been the focus of much attention.
… -
- Upcoming
Alex Da Corte Fresh Hell
2023.4.29(Sat.) - 2023.9.18(Mon.)
Alex Da Corte (b. 1980, Camden, NJ; lives and works in Philadelphia, PA, USA) is an artist who explores how images are made and perceived, and, by extension, the way memories are formed. What is it that we see through screens and monitors, and how do we understand it? Da Corte also delves into the relationship between desire, memory, and perception that has come to define the consumer culture of contemporary society, and confronts us with a question: what are the consequences of these images that saturate our lives? This exhibition, his first solo show in Japan, will focus on his video works, suffused with a mysterious kind of charm that exists between playful pop, virtual images adorned with familiar characters and icons, and the gloom and desolation of reality.
… -
- Upcoming
Collection Exhibition 1 It knows : When Forms Become Mind
2023.4.8(Sat.) - 2023.11.5(Sun.)
The relationship between form and mind is a universal question that has been explored through works of art since ancient times. Whether visible or invisible, the patterns of various forms can be found everywhere in our world, in nature, society, language, and dreams. Every day, we feel the mind as a system larger than the individual soul, which naturally arises from the relationships among shapes and the connections among patterns. This exhibition will explore the processes of the mind that are known to the relationships between various forms through a diverse range of works from the museum collection, including paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, and installations from the 1960s as well as more recent works.
… -
- Past
Collection Exhibition 2 Sea Lane – Connecting to the Islands
2022.11.3(Thu.) - 2023.3.19(Sun.)
In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Okinawa’s reversion from the U.S. to Japan, it is with great pleasure that we present Sea Lane - Connecting to the Islands, an exhibition focusing on the characteristically insular nature of the Okinawa region in which we examine contemporary art of the Ryukyu Islands as well as the works of artists from Southeast Asia and Oceania – areas that have historically interacted with Okinawa via the sea. Since ancient times, the sea has been a “wall” that separated one island and the next while also being a “road” between them. At one time, the Ryukyu Kingdom engaged in trade with regions such as present-day Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, making it a waypoint for the flow of civilization and a meeting place for a variety of people and goods. In tracing the marine history of Okinawa and surrounding countries, we find that the islands engaged in abundant exchanges with these regions while on occasion coming up against harsh conditions. The more people moved around, the more apparent the linguistic, ethnic, ancestral, cultural, sexual, and philosophical differences between them became. Under these circumstances, artists took a hard look at the realities they saw and responded accordingly. In this exhibition, we present works by seven artists from the museum collection and three others who were invited to participate in this project. These contemporary expressions are rooted both in the unique culture of Okinawa, Southeast Asia, and Oceania, and the irrefutable history of the region. Moreover, the works urge us to consider the diversity that has emerged from the islands, the influence of other regions based on the historical context of the sea, and the relationship between the islands, separated as they are by water, and the people who inhabit them.
… -
- Past
The Timeless Imagination of Yves Klein: Uncertainty and the Immateriality
2022.10.1(Sat.) - 2023.3.5(Sun.)
Yves Klein is known as the artist of the blue, well known for his deep and vivid renderings of this color that seem to pull the viewer into it: International Klein Blue (IKB). He emerged from the tabula rasa [blank slate] of the devastated postwar period as an artist in search of a new humanity like some sort of comet. When Klein was 20 years old, he spent time on the beach in Nice with the poet Claude Pascal and the sculptor Arman, and the three of them came up with the idea of “dividing the world.” Klein wanted the blue sky, and the episode where he was said to have claimed the sky and its infinite expanse as a work of art by signing his name across it demonstrates his interest in immateriality, the freedom of the spirit, leaping into space, and a cosmic imagination. Through his actions and performances, Klein used colors such as blue, which he considered to be the most immaterial and spiritual, fire, water, and air, so that art could be experienced through sensibility, rather than being perceived just as a material object. As a young man, Klein came to Japan and earned a black belt in judo, and is known for his exploration of the relationship between the spirit and the body. During the same period, the Italian Spatialism movement, Zero from Germany, and Gutai in Japan gained momentum with their experimental attempts at art that rose from the ruins, reexamining the relationship between the human body, material, and space from scratch. This exhibition, centered on Yves Klein while also including artists from these movements that were active around the same period as well as contemporary artists, will highlight the theme of immateriality that is common to their art. Amid the current confusion caused by a myriad of unseen things, such as climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the information environment of the internet, we find ourselves in a state of uncertainty where the substance of things remains opaque to us. As such, Klein’s explorations of a sensibility and spirituality produced by immateriality inspires the creation of contemporary artists, including those of the post-internet generation. This exhibition promises to give us a sense of joy and the strength to feel and imagine that which is not here and now, and to overcome the uncertain present.
… -
- Upcoming
Shell of Phantom Light
2023.4.8(Sat.) - 2023.9.18(Mon.)
Having honed his lacquer craft skills at Kanazawa College of Art and Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo, Terumasa Ikeda uses vessel forms found in traditional crafts to create works that embody a futuristic view of the world. Inspired by the manga, animation, and video games he has been familiar with since childhood, his works, which make use of the structural colors of mother-of-pearl, have a three-dimensional hologram-like feel to them, and a sense of electric signals moving at high speed. The light and shadow in the title of this exhibition is a style that comes from the contrast between the bewitching radiance brought about by shells living in the natural world and black lacquer, which Ikeda sees as extensible to the imagery of bioengineering and design work.
… -
- Upcoming
Aperto 18 GU Kenryou Intervals of the afterimage
2023.4.8(Sat.) - 2023.9.18(Mon.)
GU Kenryou was born in Kyoto in 1994 and grew up in Shanghai. Through his unique technique of “digital weaving” that joins multiple photographs together, he creates photographic works that resemble textiles, revealing the various spaces, times, and latent contexts within the images. In this exhibition, he presents a new series of large photographs taken with a high-resolution camera in the forests of Fujian in China and among other regions that have been untouched by industrialization. GU’s works, with their density of images that cannot be easily processed by the human eye or brain, capture the multitemporal, multilingual, and multilocational essence of nature. They are capable of altering the sensibilities of viewers who have been numbed by contemporary life’s deluge of visual information, which has only grown more overwhelming .
… -
- Past
lab.5 ROUTINE RECORDS
2022.10.1(Sat.) - 2023.3.21(Tue.)
This exhibition, the fifth in the lab. (short for “laboratory”) series, which was launched in 2017, not only makes use of the museum’s Design Gallery as a display venue, but it also focuses on the production process by turning the space into a site for investigative research and experimentation. In this edition, we introduce a new project called ROUTINE RECORDS by the spirited experimental welfare unit HERALBONY, which in recent years has explored the potential for welfare and art across a host of disciplines. In this project, the unit carefully developed sounds that were derived from the habitually repeated, everyday actions (routines) of people with intellectual disabilities, who attend special needs schools and welfare facilities in Kanazawa or other areas, and turned them into music. The venue a corner where visitors can listen to individual sounds, experimental compositions made by professional musicians out of routine sounds, and a DJ booth, where visitors can remix the sounds made by these routines and use them to create new music. This allows them to experience the creative process of turning the sounds they hear into music from a variety of different angles. The exhibition provides participants with the opportunity to develop a deeper awareness and sensitivity toward people from a wide range of backgrounds.
… -
- Past
APERTO 17
SCAN THE WORLD [NEW GAME]
2022.10.1(Sat.) - 2023.3.19(Sun.)
SCAN THE WORLD (STW) is a project to scan the city with portable handy-scanners, led by artists ISHIGE Kenta (born in Tokyo, 1994) and BIEN (born in Tokyo, 1993). STW is at once an ongoing street practice and a new form of play, in which anyone can participate. In [NEW GAME], the long-term project room at the museum will be transformed into a meeting place for people to participate in STW. An enormous stone tablet floats in the gallery inscribed with the rules for the project, like an artifact unearthed from an ancient site. Appearing as if providing an analysis and research on this tablet, the exhibition presents STW’s activities up until now, as well as its plans for the future with prospective participants. STW will provide a unique website as an integral part of the exhibition, a platform to connect the different practice of play through past and future. Here, anyone can upload and view the visual data of textures collected in various cities. Places and people from all over the world will be connected through images and the act of playing. Throughout the six-month exhibition, ISHIGE Kenta and BIEN will stay in Kanazawa, inviting people to participate. STW will be open to the city with the museum as the starting point, and it will continue to evolve as an ongoing form of play on the street with expanding players. scan-the-world.net 2022- In Cooperation with: Konel inc. Design: NUMATA Sou
…