The Contemporary 1 In Our Time: Art in Post-industrial Japan 2015.4.25(Sat.) - 2015.8.30(Sun.) Past In any era, the definition of "contemporary" changes as time goes by. Already, 10 years have passed … ... More
Special Exhibition 【cancelled】Ryoji Ikeda 2023.11.18(Sat.) - 2024.5.12(Sun.) Past Paid The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa will present a special exhibition of Ryoji Ike… ... More
【cancelled】DXP (Digital Transformation Planet): Towards the Next Interface 2023.10.7(Sat.) - 2024.3.17(Sun.) Past Paid Eating the digital!? Technology that integrates with the body How will digital … ... More
Collection Exhibition 1 It knows : When Forms Become Mind 2023.4.8(Sat.) - 2023.11.5(Sun.) Past Paid As a universal theme relating to our ability to perceive and interpret the world, the relationship b… ... More
Collection Special Exhibition + Communication Program NARA Yoshitomo ―Dog-o-rama 2023.4.29(Sat.) - 2023.9.18(Mon.) Past Free This exhibition presents Yoshitomo Nara’s Dog-o-rama, Lonely Moon/Voyage of the Moon, and a g… ... More
MICHAËL BORREMANS MARK MANDERS: Double Silence 2020.9.19(Sat.) - 2021.2.28(Sun.) Past Paid Both Michaël Borremans and Mark Manders are known to the world for unique and unconventional express… ... More
Collection 1 Where you meet with narratives 2015.5.26(Tue.) - 2015.11.15(Sun.) Past Looking at the world scene “today (now),” Collection 1 endeavors to reinterpret the collection compi… ... More
Collection Exhibition I TRANSPARENCY | REFLECTION 2014.4.12(Sat.) - 2014.9.21(Sun.) Past "Collection Exhibition I TRANSPARENCY | REFLECTION" looks at the properties of "transparency and ref… ... More
Collection Exhibition II EXPOSURE | FIXING 2014.9.13(Sat.) - 2014.10.13(Mon.) Past The Museum, to mark its 10th anniversary and give visitors opportunity to rediscover its contemporar… ... More
Pop-up Art 2024.4.6 (Sat.) - 2024.7.15 (Mon.)10:00-18:00 Past Free 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa opened in October 2004 and is celebrating its 20th… ... More
Rhizomatiks Kanazawa Radiance View 2023.10.14(Sat.) - 2023.11.26(Sun.) Past Free How will society, our lives, and the future develop as a result of DX technology? Digital images tha… ... More
That Which Bears the Supreme Name of Chocolate 2023.10.28(Sat.) - 2023.11.3(Fri.) Past Free Event Overview Although Kanazawans are often thought to have a fondness for tea ceremo… ... More
SUPERFLEX One Year Project ― THE LIQUID STATE 2016.4.29(Fri.) - 2017.3.12(Sun.) Past SUPERFLEX is an artists’ group based in Copenhagen, Denmark composed of Rasmus Nielsen, Jakob Fenger… ... More
SATOSHI MURAKAMI Living Migration 2020.10.17(Sat.) - 2021.3.7(Sun.) Past Free Satoshi Murakami (b. 1988) graduated with a degree in architecture from the Musashino Art University… ... More
D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT Only honest design can be recyclable. 2010.10.9(Sat.) - 2011.1.30(Sun.) Past New designs are being generated continuously as the time change. Not only the products but also the … ... More
Kodomochounaikai: playing, learning, connecting through design 2021.4.3(Sat.) - 2022.3.21(Mon.) Past Free Kodomochounaikai Jimukyoku, established in 2014 by architect Shikichi Kaori, is an organization that… ... More
【cancelled】Collection Exhibition 2:Electricity-Sound 2023.11.18(Sat.) - 2024.5.12(Sun.) Past Paid Today, we live with all kinds of sounds, from natural environmental sounds to man-made electronic on… ... More
Alex Da Corte Fresh Hell 2023.4.29(Sat.) - 2023.9.18(Mon.) Past Paid Today, life’s every nook and cranny is saturated with visually appealing images. Creators and invent… ... More
Aperto 18 GU Kenryou Intervals of the afterimage 2023.4.8(Sat.) - 2023.9.18(Mon.) Past Free GU Kenryou employs an original technique known as “digital weaving,” in which multiple photographs a… ... More
Shell of Phantom Light 2023.4.8(Sat.) - 2023.9.18(Mon.) Past Free Using the raden (mother-of-pearl inlay) technique, the craft artist IKEDA Terumasa (1987-) d… ... More
lab.5 ROUTINE RECORDS 2022.10.1(Sat.) - 2023.3.21(Tue.) Past Free This exhibition, the fifth in the lab. (short for “laboratory”) series, which was launched in 2017, … ... More
Collection Exhibition 2 Sea Lane – Connecting to the Islands 2022.11.3(Thu.) - 2023.3.19(Sun.) Past Paid In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Okinawa’s reversion from the U.S. to Japan, it is with g… ... More
APERTO 17 SCAN THE WORLD [NEW GAME] 2022.10.1(Sat.) - 2023.3.19(Sun.) Past Free SCAN THE WORLD (STW) is a project to scan the city with portable handy-scanners, led by artists ISHI… ... More
The Timeless Imagination of Yves Klein: Uncertainty and the Immateriality 2022.10.1(Sat.) - 2023.3.5(Sun.) Past Paid Yves Klein is known as the artist of the blue, well known for his deep and vivid renderings of this … ... More
Collection Exhibition 1 Vessels 2022.5.21(Sat.) - 2022.10.16(Sun.) Past Paid This exhibition will focus on the theme of utsuwa (vessels) in contemporary art, drawing main… ... More
A collaborative exhibition of works from the collection of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and National Crafts Museum Forms of Hitogata 2022.7.23(Sat.) - 2022.9.11(Sun.) Past Paid Imagine a work with a human form, measuring some 40 centimeters in height, right there in front of y… ... More
APERTO 16 AKI INOMATA Acting Shells 2022.4.9(Sat.) - 2022.9.11(Sun.) Past Free The practice of AKI INOMATA (b. 1983) sheds light on the relationships between humans and other spec… ... More
Special Exhibition : Matthew Barney 2022.5.21(Sat.) - 2022.9.11(Sun.) Past Paid Matthew Barney is one of the world’s leading artists, embodying the 21st century with his endeavors … ... More
Jeff Koons×BERNARDAUD 2022.4.9(Sat.) - 2022.9.11(Sun.) Past Free Jeff Koons (b. 1955, York, PA; lives and works in New York) continues to captivate the world with hi… ... More
Special Exhibition : Olafur Eliasson 2022.7.23(Sat.) - 2022.9.11(Sun.) Past Paid Since the early 1990s, Olafur Eliasson has pursued a diverse practice that includes photography, scu… ... More
MOON Kyungwon and JEON Joonho: News from Nowhere 2022.5.3(Tue.) - 2022.9.4(Sun.) Past Paid Since leading contemporary Korean artist unit Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho was formed in 2009, they… ... More
Kacchu Anatomy: The aesthetics of design and engineering 2022.5.3(Tue.) - 2022.7.10(Sun.) Past Paid From the Sengoku through Edo periods, Japanese armor “Kacchu” developed and evolved as a symbol of a… ... More
Collection Exhibition 2: BLUE 2021.11.20(Sat.) - 2022.5.8(Sun.) Past Paid in the visible light spectrum, while long red light waves advance in a straight line, shorter blue o… ... More
Aperto 15 TOMIYASU Yuma The Pale Horse 2021.10.30(Sat.) - 2022.3.21(Mon.) Past Free TOMIYASU Yuma (b. 1983) has presented many installations featuring spatial effects that blur distinc… ... More
FEMINISMS 2021.10.16 (Sat.) - 2022.3.13 (Sun.) *Title and contents of the exhibition are subject to change. Past Paid Feminism in Japan from the 1990s onward was linked to popular culture, focused on girls and young wo… ... More
Countermeasures Against Awkward Discourses : From the Perspective of Third Wave Feminism 2021.10.16 (Sat.) - 2022.3.13 (Sun.) *Title and contents of the exhibition are subject to change. Past Paid In this exhibition our guest curator, the artist NAGASHIMA Yurie, looks at works (including her own)… ... More
Doug Aitken: i am in you 2021.4.29(Thu.) - 2021.11.23(Tue.) Past Free This exhibition showcases Doug Aitken's i am in you, presented at the 21st Century Museum of … ... More
Collection Exhibition 1: Inner Cosmology 2021.6.15(Tue.) - 2021.11.3(Wed.) Past Paid In our day-to-day lives there are a great many things over which we have no power. In the face of th… ... More
Aperto 14 HARADA Yuki: Waiting for 2021.6.15(Tue.) - 2021.10.17(Sun.) Past Free Throughout his career Harada Yuki (b. 1989) has dealt in artists and art forms such as Christian Rie… ... More
Somewhere Between the Odd and the Ordinary 2021.4.29(Thu.) - 2021.9.26(Sun.) Past Paid Today, more than a year after the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic, which began in early 2… ... More
Collection Exhibition: Scales 2020.10.17(Sat.) - 2021.5.9(Sun.) Past Paid When viewing an object or space, we often sense it to be smaller or larger than we thought. This occ… ... More
Aperto 13 TAKAHASHI Haruki Landscaping 10:00-18:00(until 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays) Past Free What do people think as they walk around a garden? Whether lingering in solitude, or enjoying the su… ... More
Museum of the people, by the people, for the people 2020.7.18(Sat.) - 2021.3.21(Sun.) Past Free In October 2019, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa celebrated its fifteenth annivers… ... More
Aperto 12 ANZAI Tsuyoshi Poly- 2020.6.27(Sat.) - 2020.11.23(Mon.) Past Free ANZAI Tsuyoshi (born in 1987) uses everyday objects as his primary medium, above all cheap plastic p… ... More
de-sport: The Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Sports through Art 2020.6.27(Sat.) - 2020.9.27(Sun.) Past Paid In anticipation of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games next year, this exhibition sets out to ree… ... More
Rei Naito: Mirror Creation 2020.6.27(Sat.) - 2020.8.23(Sun.) Past Paid Stretches of earth extend in places where tiny people stand and water falls, swaying threads and rib… ... More
Lab.4 Space Syntax *Suspended 2019.10.12(Sat.) - 2020.6.14(Sun.) Past Free “Spaces” are where we live. We perceive spaces, by various means, and if a space changes, so does ou… ... More
15th Anniversary Exhibition Where We Now Stand—In Order to Map the Future[2] 2020.2.4(Tue.) - 2020.4.12(Sun.) Past Paid Now in our 15th anniversary year, the museum’s collection stands at 3,880 artworks—an achievement of… ... More
chelfitsch & Teppei Kaneuji Eraser Forest 2020.2.7(Fri.) - 2020.2.16(Sun.) Past Paid Hot on the heels of “Eraser Mountain” for the theater now comes “Eraser Forest” for the museum! More
15th Anniversary Exhibition Where We Now Stand—In Order to Map the Future[2] 1 Past Paid Now in our 15th anniversary year, the museum’s collection stands at 3,880 artworks—an achievement of… ... More
15th Anniversary Exhibition Where We Now Stand—In Order to Map the Future[1] 2019.9.14(Sat.) - 2019.12.19(Thu.) Past Paid Now in our 15th anniversary year, the museum’s collection stands at 3,880 artworks—an achievement of… ... More
Koichi Sato: Third Landscape 2019.4.6(Sat.) - 2019.9.23(Mon.) Past Free At a time when artworks centered on the visual sense still predominate, 21st Century Museum of Conte… ... More
AWAZU Kiyoshi: What Can Design Do 2019.5.18(Sat.) - 2019.9.23(Mon.) Past Paid Since 2006, 2939 works and materials in the artist’s collection have been gifted to this museum and … ... More
Aperto 11 KUNO Ayako Metamorphoses of the City 2019.7.6(Sat.) - 2019.9.23(Mon.) Past Free KUNO Ayako (b. 1983, Tokyo) employs lost-wax casting in her work. Lost-wax is a technique in which i… ... More
Oscar Oiwa Journey to the Light 2019.4.27(Sat.) - 2019.8.25(Sun.) Past Paid With brilliant, light-filled colors and dynamic spatial structures, Oscar OIWA creates vivid depicti… ... More
Special Exhibition NAWA Kohei "Foam" 2019.4.27(Sat.) - 2019.8.25(Sun.) Past Free NAWA Kohei will display Foam, an installation employing foam and light. Foam—tiny bubb… ... More
Aperto 10 YOKOYAMA Nami Memories of Love and Me 2019.4.6(Sat.) - 2019.6.30(Sun.) Past YOKOYAMA Nami (1986-) produces paintings depicting motifs of objects that are consumed or discarded … ... More
Collection Asian Landscapes / AWAZU Kiyoshi: Makurihirogeru 5 (EXPOSE)" −Book Illustrations 2018.11.3(Sat.) - 2019.5.6(Mon.) Past The many art styles coming out of Asia, while attuned to their particular vernacular history and cul… ... More
Aperto 09 Nishimura Yu paragraph 2018.10.6(Sat.) - 2019.3.24(Sun.) Past NISHIMURA Yu (1982- ) complexly overlays commonplace scenes and actions, and fragments of “fulfillme… ... More
lab.3 DeathLAB: Democratizing Death 2018.7.7(Sat.) - 2019.3.24(Sun.) Past DeathLAB, founded by Karla Rothstein at Columbia University in 2013, is an interdisciplinary initiat… ... More
CULTURE CITY OF EAST ASIA 2018 KANAZAWA Cooperative Projects Qiu Zhijie Living Writing 2018.9.8(Sat.) - 2019.3.3(Sun.) Past Living Writing Through writing, primarily using the Chinese traditional calligraphy h… ... More
Culture City of East Asia 2018 Kanazawa Altering Home 2018.9.15(Sat.) - 2018.11.4(Sun.) Past 22 exhibiting artists decided ! Neighborhood encounters East Asian art