Saturday, June 25 - Sunday, September 4, 2022
10AM 〜 6PM
（Last admission at 17:30）| Adults | Group | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults | ¥1,400 | ¥1,120 |
| University students（Vocational students） | ¥1,120 | ¥890 |
| Middle & high school students | ¥700 | ¥560 |
| 65 and above | ¥700 | ¥560 |
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.
01． A Host of Works Receiving Their First Public Showing
The exhibition features Ninagawa’s latest plant photographs and video works, which she began shooting in 2021. The works were specially selected from an enormous number of photographs that the artist shot all over Japan in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Viewers can also enjoy a number of pictures that were taken in the museum garden. After experiencing Ninagawa’s gaze through her photographs of flowers and plants, viewers may find that the appearance of the fauna outside the museum takes on a new look as they stroll through the garden.
02． A Collaboration between Ninagawa’s Worldview and Art Deco Architecture
Although Ninagawa’s works are known for the artist’s singular sense of color, her most recent efforts brim wth light and soft hues. This collaboration between the artist’s hope-inspiring works and the art-deco ornamentation of the museum (a designated Important Cultural Property that was once the residence of Prince Asaka) is not to be missed. We invite viewers to savor this unique encounter between the museum’s unrivaled architectural spaces and Ninagawa’s works.
03． A Concentration of Ground-Breaking Works
At first sight, Ninagawa’s latest works, which were shot at various gardens throughout Japan, have the appearance of scenes from a dream, conveying beauty, transience, and grandeur. Moreover, the artist’s dynamic video installations provide viewers with a physical experience by immersing them in the realm of the works. This exhibition is particularly exciting as it will contain Ninagawa’s artistic forays into new territory.
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Main Building & Annex
5-21-9, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Tel 050-5541-8600
A ticket for admission to the Museum also admits you to the garden.
