11 December, 2009 – 3 March, 2010
It has been a whirlwind decade for the artist Tabaimo. Since bursting onto the scene as the youngest participant in the 2001 Yokohama Triennale, where she stunned viewers with her slightly ominous hand-drawn animation installation titled Japanese Commuter Train, Tabaimo has been shown at the 2002 Bienal de São [...]
Category: What's On | Posted: January 22nd, 2010 | Author: Edan Corkill
Permalink: http://jasm.australia.or.jp/2010/01/22/tabaimo-danmen/
30-31 January, 2010
Directed by private art collector Toshiko Ferrier, this brand new art fair is aimed at putting a little exclusivity back into the contemporary art world. Participation is limited to just 15 galleries – only the biggest names in the contemporary art world, such as Tomio Koyama Gallery, Gallery Koyanagi and SCAI The Bathhouse. [...]
Category: What's On | Posted: January 22nd, 2010 | Author: Edan Corkill
Permalink: http://jasm.australia.or.jp/2010/01/22/g-tokyo-2010/
16 January – 4 April, 2010
An ambitious attempt to catalog movements in Japanese painting over the last decade and a half – with particular focus on the rise of what is becoming known as “new figurative painting,” although it could equally be considered “painting under the influence of manga.” Featured are Takanobu Kobayashi, Yoshitomo Nara [...]
Category: What's On | Posted: January 22nd, 2010 | Author: Edan Corkill
Permalink: http://jasm.australia.or.jp/2010/01/22/garden-of-paintings-japanese-art-of-the-00s/
31 October – 29 November, 2009
A new festival for motion pictures organized by the City of Yokohama and Yokohama Arts Foundation. For the inaugural event, director Fumihiko Sumitomo, who is also a senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, has created a program of contemporary art, media art, animation, film and photography from [...]
Category: What's On | Posted: November 13th, 2009 | Author: Edan Corkill
Permalink: http://jasm.australia.or.jp/2009/11/13/yokohama-international-video-festival-2009-cream-creativity-for-arts-and-media/
21 – 23 November, 2009
First held in 2007, this event is growing in leaps and bounds. While its 67 galleries this year is a big jump from last year’s 40, it is still a long way behind Art Fair Tokyo, which will have 140 galleries when it is next held in March, 2010. Still, Tokyo [...]
Category: What's On | Posted: November 13th, 2009 | Author: Edan Corkill
Permalink: http://jasm.australia.or.jp/2009/11/13/tokyo-contemporary-art-fair/
31 October, 2009 – 24 January, 2010
An exhibition that explores Joseph Beuys’ trip to Japan in 1984 – just months before his death – for an exhibition, lectures and a performance with Nam June Paik. Several of Japan’s best known contemporary curators and artists, who were in the audience 25 years ago, are only now [...]
Category: What's On | Posted: November 13th, 2009 | Author: Edan Corkill
Permalink: http://jasm.australia.or.jp/2009/11/13/8-days-beuys-in-japan/
18 July 2009 – 27 December, 2009
A new art festival celebrating the “water and land” around Niigata city, a northern port city where two large rivers flow into the Japan Sea. The event, which features 64 artists and artist groups, is sponsored primarily by the Niigata city government and directed by Fram Kitagawa (who is [...]
Category: What's On | Posted: September 16th, 2009 | Author: Edan Corkill
Permalink: http://jasm.australia.or.jp/2009/09/16/niigata-water-and-land-art-festival-2009/
Part 1: 6 October – 3 November, 2009
Part 2: 12 November – 29 November, 2009
It is highly likely that when The Art Newspaper publishes its list of the most popular exhibitions for 2009, this show will claim the top spot. Annual exhibitions of treasures from the Shosoin Repository in Kyoto routinely top Japan’s exhibition attendance [...]
Category: What's On | Posted: September 16th, 2009 | Author: Edan Corkill
Permalink: http://jasm.australia.or.jp/2009/09/16/treasures-of-the-imperial-collections-splendor-of-japanese-art/
5 September – 23 November, 2009
Around 500 people gathered at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum on 4 September to celebrate the opening of the “The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2009.” The event features 43 artists and artist units from 21 countries throughout Asia. In addition to well known artists such as India’s Subodh Gupta, [...]
Category: What's On | Posted: September 16th, 2009 | Author: Edan Corkill
Permalink: http://jasm.australia.or.jp/2009/09/16/the-4th-fukuoka-asian-art-triennale-2009/
20 March – 27 May, 2009
An artist for his generation? Teppei Kaneuji, who was born in 1978, has a repertoire that includes three-dimensional objects resembling plastic figurines who suffered a beating from the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition at a museum.
Yokohama Museum of Art
Category: What's On | Posted: June 16th, 2009 | Author: Edan Corkill
Permalink: http://jasm.australia.or.jp/2009/06/16/teppei-kaneuji-melting-city-empty-forest/
4 April – 5 July, 2009
Many Japanese still have doubts about installation art. This may be the exhibition to bring them around: The Kaleidoscopic Eye. Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21), a Vienna-based foundation, has made a point of commissioning and collecting large-scale, mind-bending installation pieces by contemporary artists. This show is a selection of [...]
Category: What's On | Posted: June 15th, 2009 | Author: Edan Corkill
Permalink: http://jasm.australia.or.jp/2009/06/15/the-kaleidoscopic-eye-thyssen-bornemisza-art-contemporary-collection/
