We are open on Monday 28.02. from 12 to 6 PM. Come visit us!

The curators, Roger M. Buergel, Miwa Negoro, and Mariko Mikami, will be present at the museum between 14:00 and 18:00. Feel free to come to chat with the curators!

As a novelist, manga artist, and visual artist, Erika Kobayashi explores invisible entities, in particular, radiation and nuclear energy. Her installation “She Waited” (2019/21) interweaves the history of nuclear weapons and the geopolitics of the Olympic torch relay that started at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In this artist talk, Kobayashi will talk with the curators about the background and making process of the work.

The event will take place online. Please access here to attend the talk on Zoom.

In her ongoing series “Renovated”, Kei Takemura wraps broken everyday objects with synthetic fabrics and stitches the damaged parts together with fluorescent silk threads. In this talk, Takemura in conversation with the curators will talk about her new works created for the exhibition in the context of Omoshirogara kimonos portraying the historical entanglement of the former Axis powers. 

The event will take place online. Please access here to attend the talk on Zoom.

Artist Yuichiro Tamura will talk with the curators of the exhibition about the background of his installation “The Ring” (2021), which consists of 17 bomber jackets from his collection, as well as art practices at the intersection of popular culture and global geopolitical tension.

Due to the current pandemic situation, the event will take place online only. Please access here to attend the talk on Zoom.

Due to the current pandemic situation, this event is canceled.

Due to the current pandemic situation, this event is canceled.

Artist Yu Araki will talk with the curators of the exhibition about the historical background and making process of his video work “The Last Ball” presented in OMOSHIROGARA and the question of cultural translation. 

Due to the current pandemic situation, the event will take place online only. Please access here to attend the talk on Zoom.

Artist Jong Ok Ri will talk with the curators of the exhibition about her war painting series as well as her recent works that re-read cultural symbols.

Ri will join the event virtually. Please join the curators at the museum or attend the talk online.

The talk is ​​in Japanese with English translation.