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A NEW PERSPECTIVE
CONNECTING THE
FUTURE THROUGH
CONTEMPORARY ART

UESHIMA MUSEUM
we will be holding a new collection exhibition, "Thematic Exhibitions for Creative Encounters."
~James Turrell Permanent Exhibit Begins~.

We are pleased to announce that UESHIMA MUSEUM will hold a new collection exhibition, “Thematic Exhibition for Creative Encounters,” starting from June 21, 2025 (Sat).

Since its opening in June 2024, the UESHIMA MUSEUM COLLECTION has been presenting a wide range of artworks selected from more than 700 works of contemporary art by a wide range of artists from Japan and abroad under the theme of “contemporaneity” and in accordance with various themes, Since its opening in June 2024, the UESHIMA MUSEUM COLLECTION has been introduced by many domestic and international media and social networking services, and has attracted much attention.
This exhibition, which will be the second collection exhibition, will be curated by globally active Yuko Hasegawa, who will serve as director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa until March 2025, and will revamp the content of the exhibition. In addition, James Turrell's installation work will be newly exhibited as a permanent exhibit.
We look forward to your visit.

Dates

June 21, 2025 (Sat)

Opening Hours (Date and Time Web Ticket System)

11:00 ~ 17:00 (Last entry at 16:00)

Address

Ueshima Tower, Shibuya Kyoiku Gakuen 1-21-18 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Curator

Yuko Hasegawa

Admission fee(tax incl.)

General : USD20

High School & Junior High School Students : USD5

Elementary School Students & Younger : Free (Non-Resident)

Closed Days

Monday (If Monday is holiday, closed on the following weekday)

About UESHIMA MUSEUM

UESHIMA MUSEUM is located on the grounds of Shibuya Kyoiku Gakuen, the alma mater of UESHIMA COLLECTION owner Kankuro Ueshima. It is highly regarded for its emphasis on international perspective and high ethical standards in education under the fundamental goal of "Seek and Think for Oneself." (“Jicho-Jiko”) The museum’s building, named “Ueshima Tower, Shibuya Kyoiku Gakuen”, was renovated from the former British School in Tokyo, which was established in 1988 and held its opening ceremony in September of the following year in the presence of the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The British School in Tokyo was utilized until August 2023 and was reopened after renovation.

Address

Ueshima Tower, Shibuya Kyoiku Gakuen 1-21-18 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Museum Director

Kankuro Ueshima

Thematic Exhibits for Creative Encounters

For this exhibition, most of the collection exhibits will be renewed, except for the long-term installation on the second floor. In the first exhibition, with this collection centered on ""contemporaneity,"" passionate abstract expression brought to light the emotions of modern people and the fundamental nature of humanity, and concrete narrative and conceptual works were displayed in response to this.

In order to encourage unique encounters between viewers and more diverse contemporary art expressions, this exhibition has set a different theme for each floor. The composition is such that the resonance between the works and the flow of the space will free the viewer's senses and imagination, giving rise to free interpretations.

B1F

Space and Gravity

Amid the rise of ecological sensibility, we are once again being drawn to the fundamental force of gravity, with our gaze on Gaia, the Earth, and our yearning for a universe beyond human understanding.

In the basement exhibition room, a grand view of the universe unfolds, with works by Bosco Sodi, who uses earth and raw materials to describe the moment when matter is transformed into a sacred being as "Galaxy," and Robert Longo's "Planet Series," which embodies tremendous time and space through portraits of planets.

This space invites you to experience the duality of being drawn by gravity, yet having your consciousness released into the distance.

Marc Quinn"Solar Eclipse Northern Hemisphere August 11th 1999",2017

Robert Longo"untitled (small Venus)",2005

Bosco Sodi"untitled (Urushi Series)",2015

Theater Gates"reamy Rich Sky, Asphalt Horizon Roll",2014

Universe and Gravity

1: Keisuke Tada "trace/wood #80", 2020

2: Bosco Sodi "untitled", 2015

3: Michael Kagan "Those Who Came Before Us", 2022

4: Robert Longo "untitled (small Venus)", 2005

5: Gerhard Richter "4. 3. 89", 1989

6: Theaster Gates "Creamy Rich Sky, Asphalt Horizon Roll", 2014

7: Marc Quinn "Solar Eclipse Northern Hemisphere August 11th 1999", 2017

8: Marc Quinn "Ankor Sunburst", 2009

9: Bosco Sodi "untitled (Urushi Series)", 2015

10: Ryan Sullivan "April 5. 2011", 2011

11: Ryan Sullivan "untitled", 2022

1F

City and Pop

The dynamism of the city of Shibuya flows in through the newly opened windows as if breathing.

In order to resonate with the reality of the city, the exhibition on the first floor is centered on pop art.

Starting from Andy Warhol's cool and sharp gaze on everyday objects, Nara Yoshitomo, who could be said to have a uniquely Japanese "neoteny pop," will have a rendezvous-like encounter with Hokusai's ukiyo-e.

Furthermore, various phases of city and pop will intersect, including Banksy, who appears as a poetic rebellion from the street.

BANKSY"Bomb Love",2003

KUSAMA Yayoi"今こそわが芸術のおとづれをまっているワタシ ハナバナしいわが心のナグサメのおとづれをまっている いつ年月をえてしらぬまにわたしは 今日のわたしはさみしかったので空の白いクモみつめたのだ / I who await the arrival, any moment now, of my art Awaiting the arrival of my heart's glorious consolation Years passed before I knew it Because I felt lonely today I watched a white cloud in the sky",2021

NARA Yoshitomo"No Nukes",2022

Andy Warhol"Campbell’s Soup I: Tomato",1968

City and Pop

4: BANKSY "Jack & Jill (Police Kids)", 2005

5: BANKSY "Napalm", 2004

6: Hiroshi Sugimoto "La Boite en Bois (The Wooden Box)", 2004

7: Andy Warhol "Campbell's Soup I : Tomato", 1968

8: Thomas Struth "City tracks (Omron) Tokyo, Shibuya-Ku", 1991

9: Yoshitomo Nara "In the Floating World", 1999

10: Yoshitomo Nara "No Nukes", 2022

11: KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI "The Arched Bridge at Kameido Tenjin Shrine (from the series Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces)", 1834

12: BANKSY "Bomb Love", 2003

13: Aya Takano "Fireworks Flashed in the Darkness", 2003

14: Takashi Murakami "untitled", 2016

15: Mark Ryden "Yakalina (Bistre)", 2021

16: Mark Ryden "Yakalina Array", 2021

17: Yayoi Kusama "Going to the Field With Shoes On", 1979

18: Yayoi Deki "Untitled", 2019

19: Yayoi Deki "Untitled", 2019

20: Yayoi Kusama "I who await the arrival, any moment now, of my Art Awaiting the arrival of my heart's glorious consolation Years passed before I knew it Because I feel lonely today I watched a white cloud in the sky", 2021

21: YAYOI KUSAMA "Waves Washing Ashore", 1978

22: Damien Hirst "Untitled (Butterfly Spin Painting)", 2009

23: Megumi Yamaguchi "TELEXISTENCE", 2011

24: Damien Hirst "Untitled (Skull Spin Painting)", 2009

Permanent Exhibition

1: Kohei Nawa "PixCell - Deer #40", 2015

2: Ryan Gander "Sowing confusion amongst the titles, or The squatters (Tiger meet Hiller's Lucidity & Intuition: Homage to Gertrude Stein (2011)", 2020

3: Mika Tajima "You Be My Body For Me (Unit 3)", 2020

25: Hiroshi Sugimoto "Colors of Shadow C1017", 2006

2F

Gerhard Richter and James Turrell

In the central space on the second floor, a space composed of Gerhard Richter's works quietly illuminates the fluctuation between materiality and image.

In addition, a new permanent exhibition room by James Turrell will be added from this time.

The space, which captures the interaction between light and perception as an experience, returns to the roots of the act of "seeing" and blurs the boundaries between vision and mind.

Light is no longer an object, but a medium for thought itself.

Gerhard Richter"Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]",1971

Gerhard Richter"21. Feb. 01",2001

Gerhard Richter"Abstrakte Skizze (Abstract Sketch)",1991

Gerhard Richter"Abstraktes Bild (P1)",2014

Gerhard Richter and James Turrell

6: Gerhard Richter "Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]", 1971

7: Gerhard Richter "Abstraktes Bild (P1)", 1990 / 2014

8: Gerhard Richter "21. Feb. 01", 2001

9: Gerhard Richter "Abstrakte Skizze (Abstract Sketch)", 1991

10: Gerhard Richter "untitled (3.11.89)", 1989

11: Gerhard Richter "Cage 1 (P19-1)", 2006 / 2020

26: James Turrell "Boris", 2002

Permanent Exhibition

1: Ryan Gander "By physical or cognitive means (Broken Window Theory 13 May)", 2019 - 2020

2: Ryan Gander "On Slow Obliteration, or How are you still hungry", 2019

3: Pierre Huyghe "Idiom", 2024

4: Olafur Eliasson "Eye See you", 2006

5: Ryoji Ikeda "data.scan [n°1b-9b]", 2011 / 2022

12: teamLab "Matter is Void - Fire", 2022

13: Kohei Nawa "PixCell-Sharpe's grysbok", 2023

14: Chiharu Shiota "State of Being (Skull)", 2015

15: Chiharu Shiota "State of Being (Two Chairs)", 2012

16: Chiharu Shiota "Quarantine in Shanghai", 2021

17: Chiharu Shiota "Quarantine in Shanghai", 2021

18: Chiharu Shiota "Quarantine in Shanghai", 2018

19: Chiharu Shiota "Cell", 2021

20: Takashi Murakami x Virgil Abloh "Bernini DOB: Carmine Pink and Black", 2018

21: Takashi Murakami x Virgil Abloh "Our Spot 1", 2018

22: Louise Bourgeois x Tracey Emin "Just Hanging (No.11 of 16, from the Series, Do Not Abandon Me)", 2009 - 2010

23: Tracey Emin "It’s what I’d like to be", 1999

24: Louise Bourgeois "untitled", 1968

25: Dan Flavin "untitled(for Ad Reinhardt)1b", 1990

27: Theaster Gates "Slaves, Ex Slaves", 2021

28: Theaster Gates "Walking on Afroturf", 2012

29: Theaster Gates "Night Stand for Soul Sister", 2013

S1: Theaster Gates & The Black Monks of Mississippi "Opus for Flute",

30: Hiroshi Sugimoto "Prospect Park Theater", 1977

3F

Compositions of Geometry and Introspection - Room Temperature Abstraction

In today's rapidly changing and stimulating society, we often yearn for "tranquility" and "neutral temperature."

The exhibition on the third floor features geometric abstract paintings that are relaxing and tense at the same time. These works calm the emotional excitement and lead the viewer to introspective contemplation.

What we see here is the beauty of "room temperature," which is felt by submerging one's emotions rather than expressing them out loud.

Agnes Martin"untitled",1995

YAMADA Masaaki"Work E. 369",1988-89

Anselm Reyle"untitled",2005

Sputniko!"Drone in Search for a Four - Leaf Clover",2023

Compositions of Geometry and Introspection - Abstract at Room Temperature

1: Harold Ancart "Untitled", 2012

2: Kapwani Kiwanga "Estuary", 2023

3: Agnes Martin "Untitled", 1995

4: Anselm Reyle "Untitled", 2005

5: Pius Fox "Schlosswand", 2019

6: Pius Fox "DasIächelnde Zeichenspiel", 2022

7: Masaaki Yamada "Work E. 369", 1988-89

8: Kohei Yamada "Untitled", 2023

9: Kohei Yamada "Untitled", 2023

10: Sputniko! "Search for a Four - Leaf Clover", 2023

11: Torkwase Dyson "Edge, Encounter #4 (Liquid a Place)", 2022

12: Torkwase Dyson "Am Everything That Will Save Me - Hand to Hand, Heart to Heart 2 (Bird and Lava)", 2024

13: Cerith Wyn Evans "SILENCE", 2005

14: Takesada Matsutani "Gravity 2023-6-2", 2023

Permanent Exhibition

15: Hiroshi Sugimoto "Manatee", 1994

4F

Narrative and aura of color

On this floor, artists of various nationalities, including African artists, powerfully present their individual life and history narratives.

By inserting abstract works by Bernard Frize and others that capture the aura of color itself between figurative works composed of vivid colors and bold compositions, the boundary between image and abstraction is constantly blurred, simultaneously evoking narrative and poetry in the viewer.

Umar Rashid"Payback is a motherfucker. The final death of Harlem Carl. Or, in another time, he would have outlived us all.",2022

YUNO Aiko"CAMELLIA (Narrative)",2022

Wahab Saheed"untitled",2022

KATO Izumi"untitled",2020

Aura of Narrative and Color

1: Roberto Pare "Madonna of Chancellor Rolin", 2022

2: Aiko Yuno "CAMELLIA (Narrative)", 2022

3: Moses Zibor "Fountain of Brotherhood (1)", 2021

4: Bernard Frize "Kova", 2022

5: Wahab Saheed "Untitled", 2022

6: Bernard Frize "Untitled", 1984

7: Umar Rashid "Payback is a motherfucker. The final death of Harlem Carl. Or, in another time, he would have outlived us all.", 2022

8: John Madu "Red Veil(Not a Time to Dance)", 2020

9: Izumi Kato "Untitled", 2020

10: Izumi Kato "Untitled", 2014/2019

11: Izumi Kato "Untitled", 2012

12: Gideon Appah "Bathers in a warm afternoon", 2020

Permanent Exhibition

13: Hiroshi Sugimoto "Einstein Tower", 2000

5F

Entanglement of matter and emotion

Love and desire, libido and memory ー the complex emotions surrounding these are expressed as an entanglement of matter and images in the space on the fifth floor.

While the theme of "love" is the sensual glow of Jean-Michel Othoniel's red glass work and the portrait of love between Yoko and Lennon by Nanae Mitobe, each work does not portray it in a single, straightforward way.

These expressions, which are imbued with modern sensibilities such as glitch, noise, and hybridity, delicately and provocatively reflect our complex and slightly distorted desires and human relationships in the modern age.

Bernard Frize"Bitje",2019

Jean-Michel Othoniel"pink Lotus",2015

Marc Quinn"The Moon of Jupiter",2010

MITOBE Nanae"remember love",2022

Towards an exhibition space as a margin

This exhibition weaves the emotions and questions we have as modern people between the works and between the floors. The exhibition space is not simply a place where works are placed, but exists as a "space" where thoughts can breathe and relationships can emerge. We hope that by encouraging visitors to pause in this space and re-encounter the works with their own senses, a creative journey will begin that unearths the layers of our current times.

List of artists to be exhibited

Agnes Martin, Alexis Rockman, Anselm Reyle, Andy Warhol, IKEDA Ryoji, Virgil Abloh, Umar Rashid, Olafur Eliasson, KATO Izumi, KATSUSHIKA Hokusai, Kapwani Kiwanga, Gideon Appah, KUSAMA Yayoi, Cerith Wyn Evans, Gerhard Richter, The Black Monks of Mississippi, Theater Gates, James Turrell, SHIOTA Chiharu, Jean-Michel Othoniel, John Madu, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sputniko!, TAKANO Aya, Mika Tajima, TADA Keisuke, Damien Hirst, Dan Flavin, teamLab, Dekiyayoi, Thomas Struth, Torkwase Dyson, Tracey Emin, NARA Yoshitomo, NAWA Kohei, Nicolas Buffe, Harold Ancart, BANKSY, Pius Fox, Pierre Huyghe, Bernard Frize, Bosco Sodi, Marc Quinn, Mark Ryden, Michael Kagan, MATSUTANI Takesada, MITOBE Nanae, MURAKAMI Takashi, Moses Zibor, Meguru Yamaguchi, YAMADA Kohei, YAMADA Masaaki, YUNO Aiko, Ryan Gander, Ryan Sullivan, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Longo, Roberto Pare, Wahab Saheed

*Please note that the exhibited works may be subject to change without notice.

Kankuro Ueshima Profile

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.
Selected to be "Top 200 Collectors 2024" by ARTnews in US

Yuko Hasegawa Profile

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, Institute for Integrated Global Environmental Studies
She has served as a curator at Art Tower Mito (1989–93), visiting curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1992–93), curator at the Setagaya Art Museum (1993–99) and Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo(2016-March 2021). She is also Artistic Director of the Inujima Art House Project(2011- present). She completed a BA in Law at Kyoto University, and an MFA in Art History at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music. She has been honored with the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France (2015), the Ordem de Rio Branco, Brazil (2017), and Japan Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Award, the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan (2020).