Exhibition Lineup for FY2024
| Title | Commemorating the Museum’s 40th Anniversary The A to Z Guide to the Former Residence of Prince Asaka |
| Dates | Now on view – Sunday, May 12, 2024 |
| Overview | In this exhibition, keywords, from A to Z, related to the former Residence of Prince Asaka have been chosen to interpret this building’s highlights and endless fascination. To facilitate productive conversations between visitors and the building and its interior spaces, we are daring to present the former Prince Asaka residence in its original state. For this exhibition, the museum also welcomes Kosho Ito (b. 1932) and Yoshiro Suda (b. 1969) as guest artists. Their installations guide visitors to a deeper interpretation of the former Prince Asaka residence and its garden. |
| Title | Takehisa Yumeji: Taisho Romanticism and the New World |
| Dates | Saturday, June 1 – Sunday, August 25, 2024 |
| Overview | This exhibition introduces Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934), an artist who exemplifies Taisho Romanticism. A pioneer in grasping the mood of his time, Yumeji was a leader active not only in painting but also in poetry and music. In this exhibition, we present rediscovered oil paintings and never before displayed sketches, primarily from the Yumeji Art Museum collection. Through those works, we look back on the life of Yumeji, spent in Europe and America as well as in Japan, from new perspectives. |
| Title | Looking at Architecture 2024 |
| Dates | Saturday, September 15 – Sunday, November 10 |
| Overview | The annual Looking at Architecture exhibition introduces the charm of the former Residence of Prince Asaka, which was completed in 1922 and is now the Main Building of the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum. Our focus this year is on the fascinating variety of lighting fixtures in the residence, exploring their highlights and the sources of their designs were used. The Annex’s galleries present a group of lighting fixtures that make us think back on the Main Building’s design and decor, including lamps designed from the Art Nouveau to the Art Deco period, and recreates the scenes in which those lighting fixtures, plus furniture and other articles, were used. |
| Title | Noe Aoki and Ritsue Mishima |
| Dates | Saturday, November 30, 2024 – Sunday, February 16, 2025 |
| Overview | This exhibition introduces two women who are leading contemporary artists: Noe Aoki (b. 1958), who is known for her work in iron, and Ritsue Mishima (b. 1962), who uses glass. Through iron and glass, two materials used to decorate the former Residence of Prince Asaka, this exhibition introduces a contemporary artistic worldview that calls to mind the glowing warmth of life itself. Each artist has analyzed distinctive points in the decorative style in the Former Residence of Prince Asaka to present new installations that have breathed in the uniqueness and fascination of its spaces. |
| Title | Back to Modern – Graphic Design from West-Germany |
| Dates | Saturday, March 8 – Sunday, May 18, 2025 |
| Overview | Jens Muller, a graphic designer based in Germany, has built a valuable collection of materials related to graphic design. This exhibition presents that collection in Japan for the first time. In Germany, divided into East and West during the Cold War, superb educational institutions such as the Ulm School of Design carried on the Bauhaus tradition and were the center of a search for styles for a new age. This exhibition explores the fascination of the innovative and intellectual designs created in both halves of Germany. |
