UESHIMA MUSEUM June 1, 2024 Open to the public
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Press release: May 10, 2024
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UESHIMA MUSEUM June 1, 2024 Open to the public
*~A new perspective that connects to the future through contemporary art~* UESHIMA MUSEUM will be open to the public from June 1, 2024.
This museum has a collection of contemporary art works by a wide range of domestic and international artists, with the theme of
“contemporaneity.”
You can view works selected from over 650 works in COLLECTION based on various themes.
Reservations are required to visit the museum, so please make a reservation in advance from the URL below.
URL: https://ueshima-museum.com/
Admission fee (tax included): General 1,500 yen, Junior and senior high school students 1,000 yen, Elementary school students and under free
Event date and time: June 1, 2024 to the end of December 2024 11:00-17:00 (Last entry 16:00. 4F and 5F are open only on Saturdays)
Closed: Mondays, Sundays, and holidays
***About UESHIMA MUSEUM* **
UESHIMA MUSEUM is UESHIMA
Shibuya Kyoiku Gakuen is also the alma mater of Mikikuro Ueshima, the owner of COLLECTION, and is highly acclaimed for providing education that emphasizes an international perspective and high ethical standards, with the basic goal of “self-control and self-reflection.” Located on the premises. In addition, the building of this museum is the British School in Tokyo, which was established in 1988 and whose opening ceremony was held in September of the following year in the presence of the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The building that was in use until August was renamed “Shibuya Educational Academy”.
The building will be renovated and opened as “Ueshima Tower.”
Address: 1-21-18 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Shibuya Educational Academy Ueshima Tower Director: Mikikuro Ueshima
Advisor: Yukie Kamiya, Junya Yamamine
***Opening exhibition* **
In order to introduce the diversity of the collection, this exhibition is structured from a different perspective on each floor. We hope that you will be able to imagine the diverse expressions of artists across countries, regions, and eras, and the stories behind each of them.
–B1F– Abstraction in painting – its pioneering spirit
This floor is themed around the exploration of abstraction and expression in painting, and although artists from different
generations are mixed together, you can see the pioneering spirit of artists across generations.
In the 1970s, when painting was becoming outdated, he studied under Bernard Friz, who said that painting could present a new world even within the strict limitations of flat surfaces and square canvases, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, which led the avant-garde. Katharina Grosse, who has repeatedly attempted to overturn the concept of the world, and Reiko Ikemura, who left Japan and moved to Spain and Germany, traversing the different
spiritualities of the East and West, and continued to express herself through painting and sculpture. On the other hand, there are artists such as Oscar Murillo, born in 1986 and winner of the Turner Prize, as well as Jadé Fadojetimi, Mishek Mazambu and Lauren Quinn. Please take a look at how the expressions of different generations resonate across time.
* 1: Gerhard Richter “Abstrakte Skizze (Abstract Sketch)” 1991* * 2: Jade Fadojutimi “(title undecided)” 2024*
* 3: Jadeh Fadojutimi “A Patchwork Trail” 2022*
* 4: Katharina Grosse “Untitled” 2022*
* 5: Katharina Grosse “o.T.” 2013*
* 6: Mishek Mazemve “The Power of Running Away” 2022*
* 7: Oscar Murillo “Manifestation” 2020-2022*
* 8: Lauren Quinn “Hammerhead” 2023*
* 9: Lauren Quinn “Third Belly” 2021-2022*
* 10: Reiko Ikemura “Lightscape” 2022*
* 11: Bernard Friz “Coam” 2002*
* 12: Annie Morris “Stack 7, Ultramarine Blue” 2018*
–1F/2F– Contemporary expression, individual expression world Beyond the symbolic works of Kohei Nawa, there are works by Hiroshi Sugimoto that lead up to the stairs from the 1st floor, which was divided by artist, such as Tajima Mika and Kenjiro Okazaki. Beyond that, on the second floor, there are rooms where international artists’ respective worldviews are spread out.
Ryan Gander, who rereads the everyday world from an ironic
perspective; Tracey Emin and Louis Bourgeois, who embody the suppleness of women living in modern society; Theaster Gates, who has created works by confronting issues faced by minorities and
communities; In addition to Dan Flavin, who represents minimal art, artists such as Ryoji Ikeda, Olafur Eliasson, Chiharu Shioda, Mika Tajima, teamLab, and Takashi Murakami are on display. In the central room, Andreas Gursky and Thomas Ruff, two representatives of contemporary German photography, are displayed in contrast. Please enjoy contemporary expressions that intersect, transcending media, expression methods, countries and regions.
*1F*
* 1: Kohei Nawa “PixCell- Deer #40” 2015*
* 2: Nicholas Partey “Almond Pattern Table” 2013*
* 3: Mika Tajima “You Be My Body For Me (Unit 3)” 2020*
* 4: Mika Tajima “Art d’Ameublement (Rutschey Yogansena)” 2022* * 5: Mika Tajima “Negative Entropy (Stripe International Inc., Legal Department, Black and White, Hex)” 2021*
* 6: Kenjiro Okazaki “Encontro das aguas / Scooping water from a stream” 2020* * 7: Kenjiro Okazaki “Ipomoed alba / No idea why I was going there / Or the sky’s sky” *
* “The depths of the blue sky (le bleu du ciel) / Seen with an ideal, Out the window /
A fish that melts inside you”*
* 2022*
* 8: Kenjiro Okazaki “wšnt Im’š’Im bbty šnt km h kkb m ‘I” 2024* *9:
Kenjiro Okazaki: “New moss and vines cover the tabernacle. The roots of an ancient dance hall. The deep blue that surrounds the fishing village. The fragrant soup of the Gu, Qi, and Qin dynasties. Toys of fish, dragons, and horses. The dazzling light is now gone, and the sound is loud. 2024*
* 10: Hiroshi Sugimoto “Colors of Shadow C1017” 2006*
*2F*
* 1: Ryan Gander “By physical or cognitive means (Broken Window Theory 13) 2019-2020*
* 2: Ryan Gander “On slow Obliteration, or How are you still hungry” 2019* * 3: Olafur Eliasson “Eye see you” 2006*
* 4: Ryoji Ikeda “data.scan [n°1b-9b]” 2011 / 2022*
* 5: Gerhard Richter “4. 3. 89” 1989 *
* 6: Gerhard Richter “21. Feb. 01” 2001*
* 7: Andreas Gursky “Bangkok IX” 2011*
* 8: Gerhard Richter “untitled (3.11.89)” 1989*
* 9: Thomas Ruff “Substrat 7 III” 2002*
* 10: Thomas Ruff “neg◊bal_01” 2014*
* 11: teamLab “Matter is Void – Fire” 2022*
* 12: Kohei Nawa “PixCell-Sharpe’s grysbok” 2023*
* 13: Chiharu Shiota “State of Being (Skull)” 2015*
* 14: Chiharu Shiota “State of Being (Two Chairs)” 2012*
* 15: Chiharu Shiota “Isolation in Shanghai” 2021*
* 16: Chiharu Shiota “Isolation in Shanghai” 2021*
* 17: Chiharu Shiota “Isolation in Shanghai” 2021*
* 18: Chiharu Shiota “Cel” 2021*
* 19: Takashi Murakami “Untitled” 2016*
* 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*
* 26: Mika Tajima “Anima 47” 2023*
* 27: Theaster Gates “Slaves, Ex Slaves” 2021*
* 28: Theaster Gates “Walking on Afroturf” 2012*
* 29: Theaster Gates “Night Stand for Soul Sister” 2013*
* 30: Hiroshi Sugimoto “Prospect Park Theater” 1977*
–3F– Gaze of a female painter
Even if people live in close places or in the same era, the scenery they see and the mental image they draw from it are different. On this floor, paintings by Japanese female artists who are close to my generation are displayed. The period from the Showa era to the Heisei era can be said to be a period of instability, confusion and fluctuations within a certain kind of mature society. During this time, each artist captured each moment with a different perspective. Miyuki Tsugami combines the events and experiences of the places she visits, Kei Imazu, where the artist’s daily life intersects with modern society surrounded by digital environments, and Aki Kondo, who reminds us of the energy that flows within people and the happiness of each person. , Makiko Kudo’s work evokes an original landscape created by overlapping everyday memories. The distance between a work and an individual varies greatly from artist to artist, but it emerges through a mixture of the artist’s daily life, surrounding environment, and the original landscape of his childhood. And beyond the
brushstrokes that remain in the painting, we can see the image of the artist who has continued to create his works.
* 1: Kei Imazu “Drowsiness” 2022*
* 2: Kei Imazu “Mermaid of Banda Sea” 2024*
* 3: Rei Imai “KOALA 6” 2020*
* 4: Rei Imai “Gathering” 2017*
* 5: Aki Kondo “Itai no Itai no Tondeike” 2022*
* 6: Miyuki Tsugami “View, Flowing, Evening, 8 Feb 2019/2022” 2022* * 7: Makiko Kudo “At that time it was fun to be alone” 2022*
–4F– Things that change, things that disappear
Hiraki Sawa’s 《home/home》 reminds us of the planes flying around the room, the longing gaze of the small room thinking about the expanse of the world, and the ephemerality of that dream.
This room, which begins with (Absence), focuses on change,
fluctuation, and the beauty of things that disappear over time. Aiko Miyanaga’s works made of naphthalene change shape through chemical changes, gradually evaporating from figurative motifs and transforming into crystals.
On the other hand, Ritsue Mishima’s glass works capture and fix the amorphous form of glass that has become a fluid at high temperatures, and seem to preserve the time of the glass itself by using it as a preservation device. . In addition, in Tatsuo Miyajima’s work, which uses LED counters that repeatedly flicker while changing the count one after another, only the 0 (zero) is blacked out, evoking endings and beginnings and the reincarnation of the soul. Here you can get a glimpse of the world of expression born from the relationship between light, form, and its materials.
* 1: Hiraki Sawa “/home, /home (absence)” 2021*
* 2: Aiko Miyanaga “Sora Sleeping in the Hollow – Sleeping Tiger” 2022* * 3: Ritsue Mishima “VENERE” 2023*
* 4: Ritsue Mishima “FENICE” 2023*
* 5: Tatsuo Miyajima “Counter Fragile No.4” 2004*
* 6: Tatsuo Miyajima “Vertical in Green” 2021*
–5F– Paintings by Yoko Matsumoto
This floor displays large-scale works by Yoko Matsumoto, who explored paintings using acrylic paints during the era of Japanese abstract expression centered on oil paintings. Influenced by abstract expressionism and ink painting techniques such as ink painting that he encountered in New York in the 1960s, Matsumoto has focused on how color guides form, rather than color following form. Ta. Paintings created with intense energy and free physicality carefully layer light, shadow, and hue to create multilayered spaces that are both opaque and transparent.
Avoiding pre-calculations and sketches, he has released freedom and intuition, creating various contours and tones from movements guided by the experience accumulated within his body. In recent years, his work has been gaining worldwide recognition thanks to an exhibition in London. This is a sign that not only Matsumoto but also Japanese female writers are being praised around the world.
* 1: Yoko Matsumoto “Vibrating Landscape Screen” 2017*
* 2: Yoko Matsumoto “Tropical” 2021*
* 3: Yoko Matsumoto “Generation and Disassembly” 1995*
* 4: Yoko Matsumoto “Light shines in the darkness” 1992*
* 5: Yoko Matsumoto “The Day I Saw the Evening Star” 2023*
***About UESHIMA COLLECTION* **
UESHIMA
COLLECTION was established in February 2022 as a contemporary art collection by Mikikuro Ueshima, who has various faces as a businessman and investor, and has begun full-scale collecting activities. The process of always reacting quickly to “contemporaneity”, quickly giving concrete shape to the slightly future future, and actively giving back to a better society is said to be universal in both business and art. Based on this idea, our collection focuses mainly on artists who have a strong sense of “contemporaryness” and young artists who engage in cutting-edge creative activities.
*** About Mikikuro Ueshima * **
UESHIMA
Founder of COLLECTION. Born in Chiba Prefecture in 1979. Graduated from Shibuya Kyoiku Gakuen Makuhari High School in 1998 and entered the University of Tokyo, Department of Science. While studying at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, he founded Dream Career Co., Ltd., and currently operates a multifaceted business as an entrepreneur and investor, as well as working at auction houses and galleries in Japan and abroad. We continue to collect a wide range of contemporary art works, from top domestic and international artists to young domestic artists.
***Contact information* **
UESHIMA MUSEUM Secretariat info@ueshima-museum.com
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