Mori Art Museum
Contemporary art museum in Tokyo, Japan.
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The Mori Art Museum ( 森美術館 , Mori Bijutsukan ) is a contemporary art museum founded by the real estate developer Minoru Mori (1934–2012) in the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in the Roppongi Hills complex both of which he built in Tokyo , Japan .
The exterior architect of the museum's galleries on the 35th floor of the 45 -story tower in which the museum is housed is Richard Gluckman of Gluckman Mayner Architects . The museum does not exhibit a permanent collection but rather temporary exhibitions of works by contemporary artists.
Artists whose work has been exhibited at the museum include Ai Weiwei , Gohar Dashti , Tokujin Yoshioka and Bill Viola . [1]
The museum's founder Minoru Mori died in March 2012. The museum focuses on contemporary art and exhibits large-scale solo shows as well as curated themed exhibitions. It also features the MAM project which exhibits solo shows on a smaller scale in the museum space.
In 2015 the museum exhibited Dinh Q. Lê 's solo exhibition. [2]
Museum directors
The first director of Mori Art Museum was David Elliott (2003-2006), followed by Fumio Nanjo (2006-2019). At the end of 2019, chief curator Mami Kataoka was announced as the successor to Fumio Nanjo. [3]
Collection
The Mori Art Museum has a collection which includes artworks by Ai Weiwei , Makoto Aida , Jananne Al-Ani , Tarek Al-Ghoussein , Halim Al-Karim , Poklong Anading , Satoru Aoyama, Bae Young Whan, Cao Fei , Chen Chieh-Jen, Chen Wenbo, Chiba Masaya, Chim↑Pom , Gohar Dashti , Romain Erkiletlian, Etsuko Fukaya , Shilpa Gupta , Laurent Grasso , Ham Jin, Handiwirman Saputra, Maiko Haruki , Naoya Hatakeyama, Satoshi Hirose, Hoang Duong Cam, Ho Tzu Nyen , Mako Idemitsu , Manabu Ikeda, Takashi Ishida, Takahiro Iwasaki , Jakarta Wasted Artists, Teppei Kaneuji, Mari Katayama , Mika Kato, Tsubasa Kato , Sachiko Kazama , Kensaku Yuree, Tomoko Kikuchi , Takehito Koganezawa, Akino Kondoh, Tomoko Konoike, Sutee Kunavichayanontv, Yayoi Kusama , Jompet Kuswidananto, Dinh Q. Lê , Lee Bul , Lee Wen , Lim Sokchanlina, Fuyuko Matsui , Tomona Matsukawa, Prabhavathi Meppayil , Futoshi Miyagi , Ryuji Miyamoto , Mariko Mori , Ruriko Murayama , Mwkaiyama Kisho, Nobuhiro Nakanishi, Kohei Nawa, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba , Yoshinori Niwa , Hitoshi Nomura, Motohiko Odani, Yuki Okumura, Yoko Ono , Oiwa Oscar, Tatsumi Orimoto, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Jagannath Panda, Pangrok Sulap, Po Po , Chatchai Puipia, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook , Navin Rawanchaikul, RongRong & inri, Hrair Sarkissian, Momoko Seto , Hiraki Sawa, Shao Yinong / Mu Chen, Taro Shinoda, Motoyuki Shitamichi, Song Hyun-Sook, Suh Do Ho, Yukihiro Taguchi, Koki Tanaka , Nobuyuki Tanaka, Rodel Tapaya , Tateishi Tiger, Teruya Yuken, Tromarama , Tsai Charwei , Tsang Kin-Wah, UJINO, Kazuki Umezawa, Vandy Rattana , Wang Qingsong , Entang Wiharso, Weng Fen, Won Seoung Won, John Wood and Paul Harrison, Aki Yahata, Akira Yamaguchi, Takayuki Yamamoto, Chikako Yamashiro , Miwa Yanagi , Haegue Yang , Yee I-Lann , Yin Xiuzhen , Shizuka Yokomizo , Yuichi Yokoyama, Tomoko Yoneda , Ken + Julia Yonetani , Yoo Seungho, Yuan Goang-Ming, Zhang O , Zhou Tiehai [4]
References
- ↑ Donald Eubank, The nature of design: The Mori Art Museum brings the outside inside Archived 1 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine , CNNGo , 30 July 2010.
- ↑ Tran, John L. (4 August 2015). "Dinh Q. Le's art of nuanced criticism" . The Japan Times . Retrieved 22 June 2020 .
- ↑ "ArtAsiaPacific: Mami Kataoka To Succeed Fumio Nanjo As Director Of Mori Art Museum" . artasiapacific.com . Retrieved 22 June 2020 .
- ↑ "View All Artists" . www.mori.art.museum . Retrieved 22 June 2020 .
External links
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- Mori Art Museum website (in English)
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