Art Week Tokyo 2023

For four days in November, Art Week Tokyo makes space for platforms that present a critical re-examination of Japan's art history and a showcase of emerging and renowned artists.

- TOH EE MING

This November, Art Week Tokyo 2023 returns for a four-day event with a strong line-up featuring 11 institutions and 39 galleries.

Tokyo’s largest citywide initiative for contemporary art, the upcoming edition’s public days will run November 3 to 5, with VIP events starting on October 31.

The participating museums include the country’s flagship institution for modern and contemporary art, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, to municipal museums, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, as well as the private Mori Art Museum, which anchors the burgeoning gallery district of Roppongi.

The galleries feature programs that have shaped the history of contemporary art in Japan, including Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Gallery Koyanagi, Taka Ishii Gallery, Ota Fine Arts, and SCAI The Bathhouse. These galleries are joined this year by two additional stalwarts, Tomio Koyama and ShugoArts.

Known as the third-generation galleries, Takashi Murakami’s Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Misako & Rosen, Mujinto Production, Nanzuka Underground, Take 3 Ninagawa, and Waitingroom will also stage exhibitions that reflect the sensibility of Japanese contemporary art over the past decade or so.

Art Week Tokyo is also renewing its collaboration with Art Basel for the third consecutive year.

AN EXCITING ARTIST LINE-UP

Atsuko Ninagawa, director and cofounder of Art Week Tokyo, shared some of the key highlights to The Peak.