Curator：Yuko Hasegawa

This exhibition renews the majority of the collection on display. Rooted in "contemporaneity," previous exhibitions have brought works into dialogue through paired forces — the heat of the city and the gravity of matter, or color and narrative. This time, the exhibition reimagines the visitor's physical ascent from the basement to the top floor as a narrative of transformation in the act of seeing itself. Beginning with the emotionally charged scenes of large-scale paintings, the exhibition moves through the pop, glitch-inflected energy of the city, the forms of the world that emerge through the human figure, and finally arrives at abstract light itself, detached from image. With each floor climbed, the image gradually lets go of its own outline.

B1: Dissolution and Landscape 1F: City and Trace 2F: Repetition and Image 3F: Portrait and Concealment 4F: Fragment and City 5F: Light and Shadow — Toward a Place Where the Image Is Let Go

This exhibition is not simply a display of diverse works, but an attempt to present the very process by which an image is born, wavers, and is finally released as a bodily experience of climbing through floors. The journey begins in the basement with Raqib Shaw's depiction of a landscape of ending, then moves through fragments of the city and recurring images, past concealed faces, and arrives at last at Olafur Eliasson's sculpture of light and shadow. Through this passage, we hope that visitors will reconsider the very outline of the act of “seeing”.

Ai Weiwei, Chiho Aoshima, AKI INOMATA, Atsushi Kaga, Anicka Yi, Aboudia, Alicja Kwade, Alexis Rockman, Andy Warhol, Ryoji Ikeda, Gentaro Ishizuka, Aya Ito, Naoya Inose, Kei Imazu, Virgil Abloh, Kazuki Umezawa, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Edgar Plans, Everyday Holiday Squad, Erik Parker, Olafur Eliasson, Tomoko Kashiki, Teppei Kaneuji, Kinjo, Yayoi Kusama, Takuro Kuwata, Gerhard Richter, Toshiyuki Konishi, The Black Monks of Mississippi, Theaster Gates, Chiharu Shiota, Ushio Shinohara, JR, James Turrell, Julian Opie, George Condo, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Skoloct, Risaku Suzuki, Mika Tajima, Tara Donovan, Daniel Arsham, Dan Flavin, teamLab, Thomas Struth, Kotao Tomozawa, Dawn Ng, Nigel Cooke, Yoshitomo Nara, Kohei Nawa, Negyem Adonoo, Minoru Nomata, Yuichi Hirako, Pierre Huyghe, Pipilotti Rist, Yusuke Fukui, Shingo Francis, Vojtěch Kovařík, Matthew Day Jackson, Marc Chagall, Mika Rottenberg, Toshihiko Mitsuya, Nanae Mitobe, Miya Ando, Takashi Murakami, Osamu Mori, Keita Morimoto, Masaomi Yasunaga, Ryan Gander, Raqib Shaw, Latifa Echakhch, Laurence Weiner, Reijiro Wada

※Please note that participating artists and exhibited works are subject to change without notice.

Founder of "UESHIMA MUSEUM COLLECTION", born in Chiba prefecture, Japan in 1979. Ueshima graduated from Shibuya Kyoiku Gakuen Makuhari Senior High School in 1998, then enrolled in the Natural Sciences I at the University of Tokyo. While attending the Faculty of Engineering, he started his own business and has since developed a diversified business as an entrepreneur and investor. Aside from managing his own businesses, Ueshima reaches out to domestic and international auction houses and galleries and continues to collect a wide range of art from leading domestic and international artists to young Japanese artists. He was selected as one of ARTnews’s “Top 200 Collectors” in 2024 and 2025.

Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kyoto University / Program Director, Department of Art and Design, International House of Japan / Former Director, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (April 2021 - March 2025) / Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University of the Arts / Visiting Professor of Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Yuko Hasegawa is a curator and art critic, having graduated from Kyoto University with a BA in Law and from the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music with an MFA in Art History. She has served as a curator at Art Tower Mito, visiting curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, curator at the Setagaya Art Museum, chief curator and Artistic Director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, and Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. She is also Artistic Director of the Inujima "Art House Project". Hasegawa has been honored with the Japan Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Award, the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan (2020), the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France (2015), and the Ordem de Rio Branco, Brazil (2017). She has curated numerous international exhibitions, including biennales in Istanbul (2001), Shanghai (2002), São Paulo (2010), Sharjah (2013), Moscow (2017), and Thailand (2021). Major international projects include "Japanorama: New Vision on Art Since 1970" and “Japonismes 2018: les ames en resonance” (“Souls in resonance”) in France, which introduced Japanese culture. In Japan, her notable exhibitions include solo exhibitions of Dumb Type, Olafur Eliasson, and Rhizomatiks at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, as well as co-curation of the "Tokyo Art Meeting" series with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mansai Nomura, and Taku Satoh.

She was the Artistic Director of "Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama" (Date: September 28 – November 24, 2024). Major publications include "Curation: The power to shake knowledge and sensitivity", "Contemporary Art that Begins with 'Why?'", "Destroy, They Say: Women Artists Subtly Traversing Boundaries", "Japanorama: New Vision on Art Since 1970", and "Art and the New Ecology: the Anthropocene as a 'dithering time'".