Mika Ninagawa is renowned for her unique style as one of contemporary Japan’s preeminent photographers and film directors. Ninagawa has consistently focused her gaze on the flickering and transient quality of life. In this exhibition, the artist, involved in a diverse range of expressions, presents her latest plant photographs and videos, were shot in 2021 and 2022 throughout Japan in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. When juxtaposed with the museum’s architecture, with its Art Deco ornamentation, Ninagawa’s works promise to create a place in which various times intersect. While fluttering like a butterfly from one plant to the next, viewers can enjoy this special opportunity to experience Ninagawa’s gaze for themselves.
Not long before this event, Mika Ninagawa – Into Fiction/Reality, an exhibition that began in 2000 and traveled to ten venues around the country, offered a comprehensive view of the artist’s career up to and including the coronavirus era. Here, the artist, whose future activities are always keenly anticipated, presents her most recent works in an alluring collaboration with the museum’s unparalleled architectural spaces. With photographs capturing a moment of reality that is filled with light and easily be mistaken for evanescence, and dynamic video installations, the exhibition will shed light on Ninagawa’s current and future direction.
Exhibition:
Mika Ninagawa: A Garden of Flickering Lights
Dates:
Saturday, 25 June - Sunday 4 September, 2022
Closed every Mondays (except July 18), and July 19
Venue:
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
5-21-9, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Tel 050-5541-8600
Hours:
10:00 - 18:00 (Last admission at 17:30)
Admission:
Online reservation is recommended for the exhibition.
Reserve Ticket for Your Visit here.
General | Group | |
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Adults | General¥1,400 | Advance/Group¥1,120 |
University students | General¥1,120 | Advance/Group¥890 |
Middle & high school students | General¥700 | Advance/Group¥560 |
Senior (65 and over) | General¥700 | Advance/Group¥560 |
・A ticket for admission to the Museum also admits you to the garden.
・Figures in parentheses are group admission fees (for groups of 20 or more).
・Admission is free for elementary and younger students and for middle school students residing in or attending school in Tokyo.
・Admission is free for visitors (and two accompanying persons) with a Physical Disability Certificate, Intellectual Disability Certificate, Rehabilitation Certificate, Mental Disability Certificate, or Atomic Bomb Survivor’s Certificate.
・Admission is free for teacher-led educational visits by Tokyo primary, junior high, and high school students.
・Admission is free for seniors (65 and above) on the third Wednesday of each month.
Suspended until further notice
Organized by
Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture,
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
Cooperated by
Lucky Star Co.,Ltd, Tomio Koyama Gallery
With the co-sponsorship of
With the annual co-sponsorship of
Toda Corporation,
Bloomberg L.P.