October 4, 2008- December 7, 2008 Kanazawa Art Platform 2008 - To Create Our Own Place by Ourselves - This is the exhibition by artists and people interweaving the new artwork. Situated around the center of the city of Kanazawa, 19 artists will explore their places of work at a park, shopping malls, vacant houses, shrine, and etc. The theme is how and what kind of bridges we can create between us and others. August 2, 2008-November 3, 2008 MAKOTO SAITO: SCENE [0] The first large-scale solo exhibition in Japan devoted to Makoto Saito (1952- ), a creator internationally renowned in the graphic design field. In this much-anticipated exhibition of new works he launched into the twenty-first century, Saito presents some 50 of the paintings he has been incubating for years. The exhibition provides a glimpse into Saito's present creative.The human figures we encounter in these paintings are veiled in a frosty cold atmosphere from which we sense no warmth. From a temperatureless zero point - SCENE [0] - disquieting world slowly emerges. Saito's pictorial space, constructed using his own unique motifs and textures, captures the feel of our times and portrays us, the people of contemporary society, with merciless objectivity. May 31, 2008-October 19, 2008 Katsuhiko HIBINO Art Project "HOME AND AWAY" meets NODA [But-a-I] April 26, 2008-August 31, 2008 Ron Mueck This is a solo exhibition of Ron Mueck (1958 - ), whose works attract a great deal of attention, to be held for the first time in Japan. Mueck who has a career of making models for movies and TV programs makes full use of materials such as silicon and fiberglass to express a human body in precise sculpture by means of a classic casting technique. To complete his work, Mueck devotes himself completely to communicate with materials and the motif in the long thorough process of production. In the world of his work, realism showing in detail even hair and blood vessels under the skin is interwoven with the unreality of sizes that are gigantic or minimum. You might say that the world of his works is criticizing the nature of human existence in the contemporary society. The world of MueckÅfs works, which cross the body and the spirit, and the ordinary and the unordinary, confronts us vividly with the essential issue in art, that is, the relation between "creation" and "the nature of human existence." February 29, 2008 - March 20, 2008 THE EYES OF ATAKA EIICHI, SEEKERS OF TRUE ART - Selected Chinese and Korean Ceramics from the Ataka Collection November 23, 2007 - March 20, 2008 Graphism in Wilderness : KIYOSHI AWAZU Since the post-war years, AWAZU Kiyoshi has played an active part at the forefront of the graphic design as a pioneer. "Everything was in wilderness," he remarks, describing how he was in the beginning. Including Graphism, his important work exhibited in the Sao Paulo Biennale 1977, he has created a great deal of works crossing over different media, from painting, drawing, experimental film, architecture, stage art, sculpture, to book design. This large-scale solo exhibition, which gives a view over his entire activities of creation organically linked to each other, introduces the whole picture of artist Awazu Kiyoshi. August 1, 2007 - November 11, 2007 Passion Complex: Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery This exhibition introduces 15 artists who have radical points of view, whose works mirror the intricacies of human inner worlds and the incredible ranges of passion in our contemporary life. These artists gain insights into mundane landscape of our daily life and complexities of human relationships. For some, their expressions take as motifs the familiar in our ordinary, such as a plastic bag and a fluorescent light, and, by simple transformation of size or color, generate something unknown, or extraordinary. Concealed with their apparent familiarity and surface beauty, the works that reflect the absurdity, ennui, or anxiety of everyday life using inescapable memory drag us to the realm of passion that has been buried deeply inside today's world. April 28, 2007 to August 31, 2007 My Civilisation: Grayson Perry In this first solo exhibition of the work of Grayson Perry ever mounted in Japan, an attempt has been made to introduced the full scope of the artist's oeuvre, from early works to his most recent. Perry, the Turner Prize winner of 2003, is one of the most acclaimed contemporary artists in the U.K., known primarily for his provocative ceramic works. April 2007 to March 20, 2008 Katsuhiko HIBINO Art Project " HOME AND AWAY" SYSTEM Katsuhiko HIBINO Art Project " HOME AND AWAY" SYSTEM is almost a-year on-going project. Its educational part is modeld on "Zon Moderna" in Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. A part of this Art Project, "Asatte Asagao Project 21" starts from April and continues until November 2007. The exhibition of Katsuhiko HIBINO is on view from September 29, 2007. April 1, 2007 to September 17, 2007 Atelier Bow-Wow, Iki-Iki Project in Kanazawa November 23, 2006 to March 21, 2007 Real Utopia - Stories of the Unlimited "Real Utopia - Stories of the Unlimited" is an exhibition which perceive patterns of human's perception of the world and the world itself as mixture of axis of multiple times and spaces, and it explores such images through artworks by Lee Bul, Yayoi Kusama, Sayako Kishimoto, and Taiyo Kimura. Lee's cyborg or monster images revolve around human's relation to the nature and the boarder of the reality and human's creations over times. Live and death, self and the world, Kusama explores such relations through endless creation of artworks. Kishimoto, through her performance and painting, pursued the significance of the individual existence and art expression in society by her own theory of social criticism. Artworks of Kimura's, which delineate unique humors and sarcasm, show particular ways of perception of the reality. These artworks show diversity of human's perception of the reality and its complicate relations to the collective and society, and indicate landscapes of human's quest for the existence in their own roots, their utopian places, living at the present moment. These pursuit, in other words, are to consider how they place themselves at the present, traveling around various time-space. September 30, 2006 to March 21, 2007 Yoshitomo Nara: Moonlight Serenade "Yoshitomo Nara: Moonlight Serenade" is an exhibition of 6-month on-going project, in which Yoshitomo Nara, one of the most internationally acclaimed artists, stays in Kanazawa to create works in collaboration with participants. Through his relationships with people and his on-site production, this exhibition overviews the whole process of Nara's perception of the world and creativity, bringing the artistic activities such as music and performances along with exhibiting new sculptures and paintings. September 16, 2006 to November 12, 2006 artificial heart: Kazuo Kawasaki September 1, 2006 - April 12, 2007 Collection II Artworks from the Museum collection are introduced. Particularly, works thatrespond to the change or conversion in the social value system elaboratingvarious perspectives are exhibited. This examines intricate relationshipsbetween human expressions and the society. April 29, 2006 to August 31, 2006 We Humans are Free: From the Collection of S.M.A.K., Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the sister-city relationship between the cities of Kanazawa and Ghent, we introduce about 70 works by 11 artists selected from the collection of S.M.A.K., Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent. Up to the present day from the beginning of the 20th century, the theme “art & life” has always been important in art. It will be safe to say that since the foundation in 1975, S.M.A.K. has been one of the museums playing an active part in pursuing this theme most earnestly. Three artists, Beuys, Broodthaers, and Panamarenko, who the Museum itself calls “Big Triangle”, approved all human potentialities, criticized the “art” system with narrow views, and tried to broaden the concept of “art” to the extent of “life.” This attitude has been passed on through the artists’ activities and works which characterize today’s S.M.A.K.-Barrio, Weinberger, and others. Sharing the attitude of S.M.A.K., we at this museum in Kanazawa are pleased to introduce their activities in this exhibition. S.M.A.K. web site http://www.smak.be November 5, 2005 to March 5, 2006 Alternative Paradise This exhibition features new expressions emerging in the unique dialogues between the artists and their materials, and seeks 'alternative values' which have been difficult to come out in the art ruled by the Modernism of the 20th Century. The exhibition includes the works and installations by eleven artists, and the "T-room" project, a contemporary reinterpretation of tearoom, directed by the architect Kengo Kuma, in collaboration with several renowned designers. September 3, 2005 to October 26, 2005 Gerhard Richter: Painting as Mirror Gerhard Richter is one of the most important artists of our time. This solo-exhibition will show Richter's works from the past forty years of his artistic career, since the 1960s. This is the first time in Japan to have an exhibition showing more than fifty major works of Richter, including the ones loaned by the artist himself. July 2, 2005 to August 25, 2005 MATTHEW BARNEY: DRAWING RESTRAINT The exhibition is constructed with DRAWING RESTRAINT 1 to 8, comprised of video, photographs, and sculpture; and the new DRAWING RESTRAINT 9, consisting of sculpture, photographs, video, and films. Using the differently proportioned gallery spaces of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Barney designed a bold exhibiting construction connecting between galleries. His other work, the Path, representing three elements of condition, situation, and production, which is the origin of the DRAWING RESTRAINT series, will be also exhibited. April 29, 2005 to May 22, 2005 Museums for a New Millennium: Concepts Projects Building Many of museums constructed in recent years are materialized in shape with a pure vision of the architect, and can perceive the reduced drawing of a present age architectural culture by taking a general view of them. The reflection of the flow of a cultural frame over the museum of today, a city planning idea, and the society can be clearly read there. This project be to apply the focus to the museum construction at the 20th end of the century, and to try to offer the view concerning the museum construction and the museum activity that do the bird's-eyeview, and the world is excellent, and to search by a new museum image of the 21st century as for the trend of today's architectural field. KAZUYO SEJIMA + RYUE NISHIZAWA / SANAA In this exhibition of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, the architects of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, we will exhibit their realized architectures and unrealized ideas, so that we can show the concept of their architectures, including our museum. Also, we will show their attitude to the architectures and cities today, which we can see in their plans of architecture and cities. Through this, we can reconsider the situation of architecture and city today. October 9, 2004 to March 21, 2005 OPENING EXHIBITION The Encounters in the 21st Century : Polyphony -Emerging Resonances This exhibition, which will mark the opening of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, encompasses 40 artists from 17 countries, and includes 80 works from the Museum's collection. 20 of the 40 artists represented will be creating new works specifically designed for the Museum space. This exhibition represents works that are fragile and delicate, and also, those that are open and resonant with the world while emanating their very own "sound." The works spill out from one exhibition space to another and scatter, expanding out into the encompassing circular space; a current reminiscent of a neural network. Within this circuit, the spatial orientation such as front and back, above and below, and linear progression of time, and even, gravity are all lost. Instead, an unknown sensibility will be extracted. The design of this museum itself reprograms individual experiences into something unique. March, 2005 CONCERT SERIES: PLAYING RE-BORN BÖSENDORFER Bösendorfer, used in Kanazawa Kanko Hall,made in 1960s, has been reconditioned for the 21st Century Museum. While there are more demands on Steinway & Sons for domestic music halls, with its organ-like peal appears to many performers. The series is a program of showing such ring of piano in the new hall. October 9-11, 16-17, 23-24, 2004 Kaekko Bazaar The artist,Hiroshi Fuji, together with area's active adults creates a Kids' space in the museum. Children will bring in their used toys to exchange with "Frog-Points" which act as currency, in the Bazaar of toys. This program was also performed as a Pre-opening event of the Museum in March 2002. THE SOUND LAB This project will be held as a part of the opening programs, planned to explore the possibilities of the new theater and its facilities. We invite Graeme Leak, who is renowned for his unique music activities and educational experiments. He will be performing at Theater21 and giving workshops for children. October 9, 2004 to March 21, 2005 WORKSHOP: SOUND MAKING It offers an opportunity for musicians and educators to participate in a series of workshops with Graeme Leak. Participants in this series can gain insight and understanding in to ways of generating musical performance by a process of group devising called "performance making". October 10,11,16,17,2004 SOUND MAGICIAN -GRAEME LEAK SOLO CONCERT- Rhythm, sound comedy and musicianship collide when Graeme Leak performs SOUND MAGIC. Leak uses everyday objects such as kitchen appliances and cactus to invent a new style of music performances. The concert includes "The Briefcase" for amplified office worker, piece for voice and string can, improvisations on a musical cactus and some premiered pieces for Theater 21. Theater will become a place of magical experiences. Fee: 2,000 yen in advance, 2,500 yen at the door December 4, 5, 2004 DANCE PERFORMANCE PROGRAM: GOING ON DANCING! Vol. 5 The 5th season of the traveling-dance project organized by the Japan Contemporary Dance Network (JCDN) introduces the cutting-edge dancers'works to the local community and creates network for dancers all over the nation. January 29 - February 20, 2005 Araki Nobuyoshi -"THE FACES OF ISHIKAWA" Exhibition- Araki Nobuyoshi has a "THE FACES OF JAPAN" project to visit all of Japan's 47 prefectures and take exhaustive portraits of the people of Japan. Photographing the faces of people living the local customs and history produces a record of Japan as a whole. In a sense, this act is a life's work for Araki, for whom the "face is the ultimate nude". Selecting Ishikawa as the fourth location for this project - after Osaka, Fukuoka, and Kagoshima - Araki started with a photography session in Korinbo Harbor in May 2004. In a total of three sessions, he photographed 406 groups of about 700 people in all. In addition to putting the "THE FACES OF ISHIKAWA" on full display, this exhibition also presents documentary video showing how Araki works, conversing in complete concentration with people who live for the moment, and capturing those living expressions on film. February 24 - March 2, 2005 Kanazawa College of Art -Undergraduate Works Exhibition- March 3 - 5, 2005 Kanazawa College of Art -Postgraduate Works Exhibition- March 8 - 21,2005 Kanazawa Eye vol. 1 - Looking at People This is the first in the series of special exhibitions created from a fresh and individual viewpoint by members of Kanazawa College of Art's screening team. "Looking at People" consists of works by 11 vigorously active graduates, aged from those in their 20s to those in their 40s.