Thirty Exhibitions to Look Forward to in 2025
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- Le Corbusier: Synthesis of the Arts 1930-1965 (Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art)
- Kei Imazu: Tanah Air (Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery)
- Ayako Miyawaki Retrospective: I Saw, I Cut, I Applied (Tokyo Station Gallery)
- Unraveling the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt from Brooklyn Museum (Mori Arts Center Gallery)
- Curation⇄Fair Tokyo (Kudan House)
- Machine Love: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art (Mori Art Museum)
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Jean Arp (Artizon Museum)
- Joan Miró (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)
- Osamu Tezuka's Hinotori Exhibition (Roppongi Hills Tokyo City View)
- Hilma af Klint: The Beyond (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
- Tomokazu Matsuyama "First Last" (Azabudai Hills Gallery)
- Emulation and Admiration: Two Stories of Collecting European Art (National Museum Of Western Art, Tokyo)
- Living Modernity: Experiments in the Exceptional and Everyday 1920s–1970s (The National Art Center, Tokyo)
- Tsutaya Juzaburo: Creative Visionary of Edo (Tokyo National Museum)
- Kenjiro Okazaki (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)
- Van Gogh Impact (TBC) (Pola Museum of Art)
- Echoes Unveiled: Art by First Nations Women from Australia (Artizon Museum)
- Tsuguharu Foujita Paintings and Photographs (Tokyo Station Gallery)
- Renaissance to Baroque: Master Drawings from the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (National Museum Of Western Art, Tokyo)
- Picturesque Pottery: Ceramics Enjoying Art from Mingei to the Present (Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art)
- Sou Fujimoto Exhibition (Mori Art Museum)
- Ooku: Women of Power in Edo Castle (Tokyo National Museum)
- Japanese Contemporary Art and the World 1989-2010 (TBC) (The National Art Center, Tokyo)
- Expressing Prayer, Capturing Form: Buddhist Sculptures by Unkei (Tokyo National Museum)
- Van Gogh’s Home: the Van Gogh Museum. The Painter’s Legacy, the Family Collection, the Ongoing Story (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)
- Commemorating the Restoration of the Important Cultural Property "The Black Cat" (TBC) (Eisei-Bunko Museum)
- Vienna Styleー Biedermeier and End of the Century: Design as a Lifestyle (Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art)
- Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × Chikako Yamashiro × Lieko Shiga In the midst of (Artizon Museum)
- Impressionist Interiors: Intimacy, Decoration, Modernity (National Museum Of Western Art, Tokyo)
- Roppongi Crossing 2025 (Mori Art Museum)
Le Corbusier: Synthesis of the Arts 1930-1965 (Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art)
While globally renowned as an architect, Le Corbusier was also a profound innovator across all visual arts. Curated by German art historian Robert Woitschützke, this exhibition spotlights Le Corbusier's paintings, sculptures, drawings, and tapestries from the 1930s onward and his artistic use of emerging technologies.
Venue: Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art
Schedule: January 11 - March 23
Kei Imazu: Tanah Air (Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery)
Kei Imazu creates paintings by digitally composing images sourced from diverse media, which she then translates into oil on canvas. Since relocating to Indonesia in 2017, her work has incorporated Indonesian history and mythology motifs. This exhibition spans her entire career, featuring a new series inspired by the Hainuwele myth. Marking her first large-scale solo exhibition, it highlights the achievements of an artist garnering significant international acclaim.
Venue: Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Schedule: January 11 - March 23
Ayako Miyawaki Retrospective: I Saw, I Cut, I Applied (Tokyo Station Gallery)
Ayako Miyawaki (1905–1995) crafted charming and accessible works on fabric and paper, drawing inspiration from everyday objects. This exhibition highlights her excellence as a figurative artist, presenting approximately 150 works and related materials. These are thoughtfully categorized into eight chapters, each reflecting distinct figurative characteristics of her artistry.
Venue: Tokyo Station Gallery
Schedule: January 25 - March 16
Unraveling the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt from Brooklyn Museum (Mori Arts Center Gallery)
Featuring approximately 150 artifacts from the Brooklyn Museum's renowned ancient Egyptian collection—including sculptures, coffins, jewelry, ceramics, papyrus, and human and animal mummies—this exhibition delves into the lives of the people who built this advanced civilization. Complementing the artifacts are video and audio presentations, exploring topics ranging from lesser-known facts often overlooked in previous exhibitions to groundbreaking research on the pyramids conducted with the latest technology.
Venue: Mori Arts Center Gallery
Schedule: January 25 - April 6
Curation⇄Fair Tokyo (Kudan House)
Curation⇄Fair is a new art initiative with a two-part format: an exhibition curated by cutting-edge curators and an art fair with a carefully selected group of galleries and art dealers. This innovative program aims to convey the value of artworks from various perspectives. In addition, it addresses the common concern of visitors who may feel uncertain about choosing art, providing insights into the social significance of the works through the exhibition while creating opportunities for dialogue through programs such as talk sessions.
Venue: Kudan House
Schedule: February 25 - February 24
Machine Love: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art (Mori Art Museum)
With the explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and the integration of virtual and real worlds, the latest cutting-edge technologies have quickly penetrated our daily lives. Machine Love introduces contemporary art that employs game engines, AI, virtual reality (VR), and works that utilize generative AI—a technology that can surpass human creativity.
Venue: Mori Art Museum
Schedule: February 25 - February 24
Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Jean Arp (Artizon Museum)
Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889–1943) began her career as a textile designer, then pursued compositions of intricate geometric forms in the territory of paintings and interiors. Her husband Jean Arp (1886–1966) was both a poet and an artist who created collages, reliefs, and sculptures based on forms discovered by chance. This exhibition presents an outstanding artist couple, introducing their individual works and drawing attention to their influences on each other and to works on which they collaborated, to reassess the creative potential of a partnership of couple.
Venue: Artizon Museum
Schedule: March 1 - June 1
Joan Miró (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)
Along with Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is considered one of the leading masters of the 20th century. His unique and poetic style, in which he transformed natural forms such as the sun, stars, and moon into symbolic symbols, has made him very popular in Japan. This exhibition comprehensively introduces Miro's art, including the paintings, ceramics, and sculptures from his early years to his later years, as he challenged new forms of expression until the age of 90.
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Schedule: March 1 - July 6
Osamu Tezuka's Hinotori Exhibition (Roppongi Hills Tokyo City View)
The creator of numerous masterpieces, Osamu Tezuka, declared Phoenix (Hinotori) to be his life's workーa masterpiece, depicting the struggle of people in pursuit of the legendary “firebird,” whose blood is said to give eternal life to those who drink it. This exhibition will offer a glimpse into the epic story written over a period of more than 30 years.
Venue: Roppongi Hills Tokyo City View
Schedule: March 7 - May 25
Hilma af Klint: The Beyond (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
The first major retrospective in Asia of Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), a pioneer of abstract painting. In addition to The Ten Largest (1907), a set of ten paintings over three meters high, all 140 works in this exhibition will travel to Japan for the first time. Centering on her representative accomplishment, The Paintings for the Temple (1906–1915), the exhibition will provide an overview of af Klint’s caree, while introducing materials left by the artist and diverse sources of her inspiration, including the spiritualism and the women’s movements of her time.
Venue: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Schedule: March 4 - June 15
Tomokazu Matsuyama "First Last" (Azabudai Hills Gallery)
The first large-scale solo exhibition in Tokyo by Tomokazu Matsuyama, a globally acclaimed artist based in New York. On view are approximately 40 works, including those exhibited for the first time in Japan. In addition, a new series "First Last" will be presented on this occasion.
Venue: Azabudai Hills Gallery
Schedule: March 8 - May 11
Emulation and Admiration: Two Stories of Collecting European Art (National Museum Of Western Art, Tokyo)
This exhibition brings together approximately 90 works from the collections of the San Diego Museum of Art and the National Museum of Western Art, tracing the 600-year history of Western art from the Renaissance to 19th-century Impressionism.
Venue: National Museum Of Western Art, Tokyo
Schedule: March 11 - June 8
Living Modernity: Experiments in the Exceptional and Everyday 1920s–1970s (The National Art Center, Tokyo)
Beginning in the 1920s, many architects, including Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, have explored new residential designs with functionality and comfort in mind. Their experimental visions and innovative ideas eventually wove into everyday life, significantly reshaping people’s lifestyles. This exhibition focuses on the seven characteristics of modern houses: hygiene, materials, windows, kitchen, furnishings, media, and landscape. Approximately 15 worldwide masterworks of residential architecture will be analyzed in-depth through photographs, drawings, sketches, models, furniture, textiles, tableware, magazines, graphics, and films.
Venue: The National Art Center, Tokyo
Schedule: March 19 - June 30
Tsutaya Juzaburo: Creative Visionary of Edo (Tokyo National Museum)
Tsutaya Juzaburo (1750-1797) was an accomplished publisher of the Edo period, known for introducing Ukiyo-e artists such as Utamaro Kitagawa and Sharaku Toshusai. This exhibition introduces the diverse culture of Edo while taking a close look at Tsutaya's activities.
Venue: Tokyo National Museum
Schedule: April 22 - June 15
Kenjiro Okazaki (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)
This is the first major exhibition in Tokyo to explore the creative core of Kenjiro Okazaki (1955-), a celebrated artist and critic who has worked in various fields, including painting, sculpture, performance, architecture, landscape design, robotics, and other media. The exhibition features new works from 2021 onward, as well as representative works from the past.
Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Schedule: April 29 - July 21
Van Gogh Impact (TBC) (Pola Museum of Art)
The Pola Museum of Art is home to three works by Vincent van Gogh, including The Gleize Bridge over the Vigueirat Canal (1888) and Flower Vase with Thistles (1890), created in his final years. This exhibition, the first Van Gogh-themed exhibition since the museum opening, will examine the impact of Van Gogh's works and presence on various periods and regions and consider their new value in the modern age.
Venue: Pola Museum of Art
Schedule: May 31 - November 30
Echoes Unveiled: Art by First Nations Women from Australia (Artizon Museum)
Art by First Nations people from Australia is given more importance and exposure than before as part of the recent international trend in contemporary art to reconsider works created in deeply rooted regional contexts. Moreover, within the Australian contemporary art world, many women artists with First Nations backgrounds are becoming renowned and have established international acclaim. In 2006, the Ishibashi Foundation held an exhibition of contemporary Australian art, and it has continued to collect in that field ever since. Through the work of seven artists and one collective, this exhibition will introduce the diversity of contemporary artistic expressions and seek a deeper understanding and awareness of First Nations art from Australia.
Venue: Artizon Museum
Schedule: June 24 - September 21
Tsuguharu Foujita Paintings and Photographs (Tokyo Station Gallery)
This exhibition explores the paintings of Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968) through the medium of photography. Foujita traveled around the world and left thousands of photographs throughout his life. This exhibition will explore fragments of photographs that appear in Foujita's paintings and examine the process of his use of photography, as well as introduce many of his existing photographs in Japan and France, revealing Fujita's unknown appeal.
Venue: Tokyo Station Gallery
Schedule: July 5 - August 31
Renaissance to Baroque: Master Drawings from the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (National Museum Of Western Art, Tokyo)
This exhibition focuses on the collection of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and presents a selection of approximately 80 masterpieces from the Renaissance to the Baroque periods. This will be the first time that the Nationalmuseum's collection of drawings will come to Japan in such large numbers.
Venue: National Museum Of Western Art, Tokyo
Schedule: July 1 - September 28
Picturesque Pottery: Ceramics Enjoying Art from Mingei to the Present (Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art)
The exhibition will introduce a cross-section of Japanese ceramics from the 20th to the 21st century, including works with pictorial expressions and ceramics influenced by paintings, regarded as “picturesque pottery”. Approximately 80 works, including folk art, vessels, traditional crafts, avant-garde ceramics, and contemporary ceramics, will be on display.
Venue: Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art
Schedule: July 1 - September 28
Sou Fujimoto Exhibition (Mori Art Museum)
With offices in Tokyo, Paris, and Shenzhen, architect Sou Fujimoto has developed projects worldwide, ranging from private residences to universities, commercial facilities, hotels, and complexes. This is Fujimoto's first major retrospective exhibition, introducing a number of his major works from the early days of his career to ongoing projects around the world and providing an overview of his progress as an architect.
Venue: Mori Art Museum
Schedule: July 2 - November 9
Ooku: Women of Power in Edo Castle (Tokyo National Museum)
When one hears the word “Ooku,” one probably thinks of a group of women living in elegance dressed in luxurious costumes. However, life in the Ooku was not as glamorous and beautiful as one might imagine under the strict system and customs and under the pressure of producing and raising the shogun's heirs. This exhibition will provide a glimpse into the history and culture of the Ooku and the hidden history of the Edo period.
Venue: Tokyo National Museum
Schedule: July 19 - September 21
Japanese Contemporary Art and the World 1989-2010 (TBC) (The National Art Center, Tokyo)
Co-curated with M+, this exhibition will examine the ways in which contemporary art in Japan has tackled subjects such as historical heritage and identity diversity, explore the possibilities of new communities, and how Japanese art and visual culture have influenced the world.
Venue: The National Art Center, Tokyo
Schedule: September 3 - December 8
Expressing Prayer, Capturing Form: Buddhist Sculptures by Unkei (Tokyo National Museum)
The Hokuen-do hall of Kofuku-ji Buddhist Temple in Nara is home to the Buddhist statues created by Unkei, a representative Buddhist master of the Kamakura period (1185-1333). This exhibition will display seven national treasures in an attempt to recreate the interior of the hall as it was during the Kamakura period.
Venue: Tokyo National Museum
Schedule: September 9 - November 30
Van Gogh’s Home: the Van Gogh Museum. The Painter’s Legacy, the Family Collection, the Ongoing Story (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam houses approximately 200 oil paintings and 500 drawings by the artist, as well as letters, related works, and Ukiyo-e prints. This exhibition will feature over 30 works and four of Van Gogh's letters on display in Japan for the first time, introducing the collection that has been preserved and passed down by his family.
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Schedule: September 12 - December 21
Commemorating the Restoration of the Important Cultural Property "The Black Cat" (TBC) (Eisei-Bunko Museum)
The Important Cultural Property Black Cat is one of the representative works left behind by the painter Shunso Hishida, who passed away at the age of 36. This exhibition will commemorate the completion of the restoration and feature all four of Shunso's works in the museum's collection.
Venue: Eisei-Bunko Museum
Schedule: October 4 - November 30
Vienna Styleー Biedermeier and End of the Century: Design as a Lifestyle (Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art)
This exhibition will focus on modern furniture and craft works from the late 19th and early 20th century Vienna, and craft works from the Biedermeier period. Through the crafts and designs produced during these two periods, including silverware, ceramics, glass, jewelry, costumes, and interior design, this exhibition will reveal the spirit of "art" in Vienna.
Venue: Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art
Schedule: October 4 - December 17
Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × Chikako Yamashiro × Lieko Shiga In the midst of (Artizon Museum)
Since our opening, the Artizon Museum has held jam sessions and collaborations between works from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection and contemporary artists. The sixth Jam Session exhibition features Chikako Yamashiro and Lieko Shiga. Through new works by both artists, the exhibition will introduce the profound approach with which they address complex and troubling preexisting realities and the nature of their creativity and artistic techniques, which resonate with works from the collection.
Venue: Artizon Museum
Schedule: October 11 - January 12, 2026
Impressionist Interiors: Intimacy, Decoration, Modernity (National Museum Of Western Art, Tokyo)
For the first time in 10 years, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris brings an extensive collection to Japan. With approximately 100 works, including 68 masterpieces and significant works from Japan, the exhibition will trace the concerns and expressive challenges of the Impressionist painters.
Venue: National Museum Of Western Art, Tokyo
Schedule: October 25 - February 15, 2026
Roppongi Crossing 2025 (Mori Art Museum)
Roppongi Crossing is a series of exhibitions held every three years since 2004 at the Mori Art Museum to provide a comprehensive overview of the Japanese art scene. The eighth edition will re-examine the current state of Japanese art and its significance within the larger context.
Venue: Mori Art Museum
Schedule: December 3 - April 5, 2026
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