Tokyo Contemporary

Author: kwhittle

  • Alfredo Jaar: You and Me and the Others

    Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery 2026.12.3 [Thurs] – 29.3, 2026 [Sun] The Burden of Moral Gravity: Alfredo Jaar’s Didactic Politics in You and Me and the Others In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, artistic practice has become increasingly entangled with forms of cultural activism confronting capitalism, political authoritarianism, colonial legacies, gentrification, and the precarious…

  • Roppongi Crossing 2025: What Passes Is Time. We Are Eternal

    Mori Art Museum 2025.12.3 [Wed] – 2026.3.29 [Sun] After the New: Institutional Ritual in Roppongi Crossing 2025 I have often felt that Roppongi Crossing, staged approximately every three years—though not always explicitly positioned as a triennial—occupies an awkward middle ground: too expansive for a coherent curatorial thesis to hold, yet too limited to offer any…

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  • Jonathan Watkins

    Jonathan Watkins

    Curator and Writer and Former Director of Ikon Gallery

  • Kyunchome

    Kyunchome

    Artist duo based in Japan and Southeast Asia, formed by Eri Homma and Nabuchi

  • Yoshiko Shimada

    Yoshiko Shimada

    Yoshiko Shimada is a contemporary Japanese artist known for her provocative work.

  • Amélie Ravalec

    Amélie Ravalec

    Film director and producer, photographer, editor and colourist

  • Junya Yamaide

    Junya Yamaide

    Junya Yamaide is the founder and former CEO of BEPPU PROJECT

  • Mami Kataoka

    Mami Kataoka

    Director of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

  • Fram Kitagawa

    Fram Kitagawa

    Representative of Art Front Gallery, general director of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennal

  • Yuko Hasegawa

    Yuko Hasegawa

    Director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

  • Meruro Washida

    Meruro Washida

    Director, Towada Art Center and Associate Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts

  • Shingo Yamano

    Shingo Yamano

    Director of Koganecho Bazaar

  • Mari Katayama

    Mari Katayama

    Mari Katayama is a Japanese multimedia artist known for her sculpture and photography work.

  • Masato Nakamura

    Masato Nakamura

    Founder and Director of 3331 Arts Chiyoda and General Producer of the Tokyo Biennale      

  • Eriko Kimura

    Eriko Kimura

    Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art

  • Shimurabros

    Shimurabros

    Artist duo based in Berlin, formed by Yuka Shimura and Kentaro Shimura

  • Tomoharu Mastuda & Yoshie Ota

    Tomoharu Mastuda & Yoshie Ota

    Chief Curator and curator Spiral / Wacoal Art Center (Wacoal Art Centre), curator and co‑curator for Dōgo Onsenart 2014

  • Takeshi Serizawa

    Takeshi Serizawa

    Founder, CEO at P3 art and environment

  • Fumio Nanjo

    Fumio Nanjo

    Curator and former Director of the Mori Art Museum