21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

The Contemporary 1

In Our Time: Art in Post-industrial Japan

2015.4.25(Sat.) - 2015.8.30(Sun.)

In any era, the definition of "contemporary" changes as time goes by. Already, 10 years have passed … ...

Layers of Accumulated Time: Depicting the world we live in

2025.4.29 (Tue./holiday) - 2025.9.28 (Sun.)

Humanity faces many serious problems today, including environmental issues, conflicts and wars, pove… ...

SIDE CORE: Living road, Living space

2025.10.18(Sat.) - 2026.3.15(Sun.)

The art collective SIDE CORE has been developing projects across Japan while maintaining its base of… ...

ROJŌ [shared ground] ― am i in your way?

2026.4.25 (Sat.) - 2026.9.6 (Sun.)

Freedom and obstruction coexist on the street.

There was once, in Japan, a type of au… ...

Collection Exhibition 1: Material Fever

2025.5.24(Sat.) - 2025.9.15(Mon./holiday)

This exhibition showcases works from the museum collection that take their starting point from an in… ...

Collection Exhibition 2: The Possibilities of the Written Word

2025.9.27 (Sat.) - 2026.1.18 (Sun.)

This exhibition presents works from the museum’s collection with the theme of the written word in co… ...

Collection Exhibition 3: Déjà vu

2026.1.31 (Sat.) - 2026.5.10 (Sun.)

A sensation of familiarity in the face of a new experience, as if it had already been lived through.… ...

Janet CARDIFF　The Forty Part Motet

2025.5.24(Sat.) - 2025.9.15(Mon./holiday)

“The Forty Part Motet” is a traveling exhibition that is touring Japan by Janet CARDIFF, an artist w… ...

Otobong Nkanga - Shaped by Many

2025.9.27(Sat.) - 2025.11.24(Mon./holiday)

Born in Nigeria and currently based in Belgium, Otobong Nkanga is known for her practice that focuse… ...

ALTEMY
PARK IN PROGRESS

2025.5.20(Tue.) - 2025.10.5(Sun.)

Architectural design studio ALTEMY has been using the magic of architectural form to bring a rich va… ...

Kongkee: Electronic Heart Beat

2025.10.18(Sat.) - 2026.3.22(Sun.)

Based between Hong Kong and London, artist Kongkee (Kong Khong-chang) has developed a creative pract… ...

Aperto 19: Keita Morimoto what has escaped us

2025.5.20(Tue.) - 2025.10.5(Sun.)

Keita Morimoto (1990-) immigrated to Canada at the age of 16, and has exhibited his works mostly in … ...

Aperto 20 TSUNO Seiran “The Unreconciled Body”

2025.10.18(Sat.) - 2026.4.12(Sun.)

After graduating from nursing college, TSUNO Seiran worked at a psychiatric hospital while studying … ...

Collection Exhibition I TRANSPARENCY | REFLECTION

2014.4.12(Sat.) - 2014.9.21(Sun.)

"Collection Exhibition I TRANSPARENCY | REFLECTION" looks at the properties of "transparency and ref… ...

Collection 1　Where you meet with narratives

2015.5.26(Tue.) - 2015.11.15(Sun.)

Looking at the world scene “today (now),” Collection 1 endeavors to reinterpret the collection compi… ...

MICHAËL BORREMANS MARK MANDERS: Double Silence

2020.9.19(Sat.) - 2021.2.28(Sun.)

Both Michaël Borremans and Mark Manders are known to the world for unique and unconventional express… ...

Collection Exhibition 1 It knows : When Forms Become Mind

2023.4.8(Sat.) - 2023.11.5(Sun.)

As a universal theme relating to our ability to perceive and interpret the world, the relationship b… ...

Collection Special Exhibition + Communication Program

NARA Yoshitomo ―Dog-o-rama

2023.4.29(Sat.) - 2023.9.18(Mon.)

This exhibition presents Yoshitomo Nara’s Dog-o-rama, Lonely Moon/Voyage of the Moon, and a g… ...

DXP (Digital Transformation Planet): Towards the Next Interface【Cancelled due to the Noto Peninsula Earthquake】

2023.10.7(Sat.) - 2024.3.17(Sun.)

Eating the digital!?
Technology that integrates with the body
How will digital … ...

Special Exhibition

Ryoji Ikeda【Cancelled due to the Noto Peninsula Earthquake】

2023.11.18(Sat.) - 2024.5.12(Sun.)

The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa will present a special exhibition of Ryoji Ike… ...

DXP2 (Digital Transformation Planet2)

2024.3.2(Sat.) - 2024.3.24(Sun.)

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Lines —Aligning your consciousness with the flow

2024.6.22(Sat.) - 2024.10.14(Mon.)

In the quest for a more harmonious and balanced relationship between humans and nature, art, with it… ...

DANCING WITH ALL: The Ecology of Empathy

2024.11.2(Sat.) - 2025.3.16(Sun.)

A hand timidly extended to a stranger.
May I have the pleasure of your hand in this dance?

Collection Exhibition 3

2025.2.1(Sat.) - 2025.5.11(Sun.)

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the museum’s opening, large-scale collection exhibitions … ...

Collection Exhibition II EXPOSURE | FIXING

2014.9.13(Sat.) - 2014.10.13(Mon.)

The Museum, to mark its 10th anniversary and give visitors opportunity to rediscover its contemporar… ...

Collection Exhibition 1

2024.6.22 (Sat.) - 9.29 (Sun.)

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the museum’s opening, a large-scale collection exhibition… ...

SUPERFLEX One Year Project ― THE LIQUID STATE

2016.4.29(Fri.) - 2017.3.12(Sun.)

SUPERFLEX is an artists’ group based in Copenhagen, Denmark composed of Rasmus Nielsen, Jakob Fenger… ...

Rhizomatiks Kanazawa Radiance View

2023.10.14(Sat.) - 2023.11.26(Sun.)

How will society, our lives, and the future develop as a result of DX technology? Digital images tha… ...

That Which Bears the Supreme Name of Chocolate

2023.10.28(Sat.) - 2023.11.3(Fri.)

Event Overview
Although Kanazawans are often thought to have a fondness for tea ceremo… ...

Pop-up Art

2024.4.6 (Sat.) -
2024.7.15 (Mon.)10:00-18:00

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa opened in October 2004 and is celebrating its 20th… ...

Reconstruction Special Exhibition for the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake and Torrential Rains

Bringing Us Together: Art for the Noto Peninsula

2025.12.13(Sat.) - 2026.3.1(Sun.)

The Art for the Noto Peninsula exhibition is an initiative born from a desire to stand alongside and… ...

APERTO 21 NOMURA Yuka “Golden River”

2026.4.4 (Sat.) - 8.23 (Sun.)

Everyday situations that seem to be changing rapidly may actually be shifting so slowly that we rema… ...

Collection Exhibition: Walking, Staying

2026.5.23(Sat.) - 2026.10.18(Sun.)

For many artists, the creative process begins with the act of observing the outside world. Works tha… ...

Rebirth, alongside Noto (tentative)

2026.9.8(Tue.) - 2027.4.18(Sun.)

Two years after the Noto Peninsula earthquake that occurred near Kanazawa, the affected areas are st… ...

NEUTRAL COLORS

2026.9.15(Tue.) - 2027.4.18(Sun.)

NEUTRAL COLORS is an independent publisher, it is also the name of the magazine it publishes, as wel… ...

From Today to Tomorrow: On the Stewardship of a Work (tentative)

2026.10.31(Sat.) - 2027.4.18(Sun.)

This exhibition seeks to reexamine the museum's current position as it prepares for an extended clos… ...

Collection Exhibition 2: Drifting in the City

2024.10.12 (Sat.) - 2025.1.19 (Sun.)

The museum’s collecting activities began in 2000, before the opening of the museum, and have continu… ...

D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT

Only honest design can be recyclable.

2010.10.9(Sat.) - 2011.1.30(Sun.)

New designs are being generated continuously as the time change. Not only the products but also the … ...

SATOSHI MURAKAMI　Living Migration

2020.10.17(Sat.) - 2021.3.7(Sun.)

Satoshi Murakami (b. 1988) graduated with a degree in architecture from the Musashino Art University… ...

Kodomochounaikai: playing, learning, connecting through design

2021.4.3(Sat.) - 2022.3.21(Mon.)

Kodomochounaikai Jimukyoku, established in 2014 by architect Shikichi Kaori, is an organization that… ...

OPENING EXHIBITION The Encounters in the 21st Century :

Polyphony -Emerging Resonances

2004.10.9(Sat.) - 2005.3.21(Mon.)

This exhibition, which will mark the opening of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazaw… ...

Museums for a New Millennium: Concepts Projects Building

2005.4.29(Fri.) - 2005.5.22(Sun.)

Many of museums constructed in recent years are materialized in shape with a pure vision of the arch… ...

KAZUYO SEJIMA + RYUE NISHIZAWA / SANAA

2005.4.29(Fri.) - 2005.5.22(Sun.)

In this exhibition of SEJIMA Kazuyo and NISHIZAWA Ryue, the architects of 21st Century Museum of Con… ...

MATTHEW BARNEY: DRAWING RESTRAINT

2005.7.2(Sat.) - 2005.8.25(Thu.)

The exhibition is constructed with DRAWING RESTRAINT 1 to 8, comprised of video, photo… ...

Gerhard Richter: Painting as Mirror

2005.9.3(Sat.) - 2005.10.26(Wed.)

Gerhard Richter is one of the most important artists of our time. This solo-exhibition will show Ric… ...

Alternative Paradise

2005.11.5(Sat.) - 2006.3.5(Sun.)

Alternative Paradise is a thematic exhibition featuring new expressions, in an attempt to redefine a… ...

Collection I

2006.3.21(Tue.) - 2006.8.20(Sun.)

Artworks from the Museum collection are introduced. Particularly, works that respond to the change o… ...

From the Collection of S.M.A.K., Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent

We Humans are Free:

2006.4.29(Sat.) - 2006.8.31(Thu.)

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the sister-city relationship between the cities of Kanazawa and… ...

Collection II

2006.9.1(Fri.) - 2007.4.12(Thu.)

Artworks from the Museum collection are introduced. Particularly, works that respond to the change o… ...

artificial heart: Kazuo Kawasaki

2006.9.16(Sat.) - 2006.11.12(Sun.)

From scrub brushes, eyeglasses, interior design, wheelchairs, computers, and robots to a household n… ...

Yoshitomo Nara: Moonlight Serenade

2006.9.30(Sat.) - 2007.3.21(Wed.)

Yoshitomo Nara: Moonlight Serenade overviews the whole process of Nara's creativity and perception o… ...

Real Utopia - Stories of the Unlimited

2006.11.23(Thu.) - 2007.3.21(Wed.)

"Real Utopia - Stories of the Unlimited" is an exhibition which perceive patterns of human's percept… ...

Atelier Bow-Wow “IKI-IKI Machiya Project”

2007.4.1(Sun.) - 2007.9.17(Mon.)

Atelier Bow-Wow, an architectural team formed of TSUKAMOTO Yoshiharu and KAIJIMA Momoyo, investigate… ...

Katsuhiko HIBINO Art Project " HOME AND AWAY" SYSTEM

2007.4.1(Sun.) - 2008.3.20(Thu.)

Katsuhiko HIBINO Art Project " HOME AND AWAY" SYSTEM is almost a-year on-going project. Its educatio… ...

Collection I

2007.4.28(Sat.) - 2007.7.16(Mon.)

Artworks from the Museum collection are introduced. Particularly, works that respond to the change o… ...

My Civilisation: Grayson Perry

2007.4.28(Sat.) - 2007.8.31(Fri.)

In this first solo exhibition of the work of Grayson Perry ever mounted in Japan, an attempt has bee… ...

Passion Complex: Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

2007.8.1(Wed.) - 2007.11.11(Sun.)

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery has developed its marvelous collection, focusing on artists whose work… ...

Collection II

2007.9.15(Sat.) - 2008.4.13(Sun.)

Artworks from the Museum collection are introduced. Particularly, works that respond to the change o… ...

Graphism in Wilderness : KIYOSHI AWAZU

2007.11.23(Fri.) - 2008.3.20(Thu.)

"Graphism in the Wilderness: Kiyoshi Awazu" presents the full scope of Kiyoshi Awazu's oeuvre and co… ...

Selected Chinese and Korean Ceramics from the Ataka Collection

THE EYES OF ATAKA EIICHI, SEEKERS OF TRUE ART

2008.2.9(Sat.) - 2008.3.20(Thu.)

The Ataka Collection is a compilation of approximately 1,000 pieces of Oriental ceramics collected a… ...

Ron Mueck

2008.4.26(Sat.) - 2008.8.31(Sun.)

This is a solo exhibition of Ron Mueck (1958 - ), whose works attract a great deal of attention, to … ...

Collection I

2008.5.27(Tue.) - 2008.7.21(Mon.)

Drawing from the Museum’s Collection, the “Collection Exhibition” presents a complex blend of viewpo… ...

Katsuhiko HIBINO Art Project

‘HOME→AND←AWAY’ SYSTEM meets NODA [But-a-I]

2008.5.31(Sat.) - 2008.10.19(Sun.)

The second phase of “HOME→AND←AWAY” SYSTEM, launched in 2007, is entitled “Katsuhiko HIBINO Art Proj… ...

MAKOTO SAITO: SCENE [0]

2008.8.2(Sat.) - 2008.11.3(Mon.)

The first large-scale solo exhibition in Japan devoted to Makoto Saito, a creator internationally re… ...

「shell - shelter」

Collection II

2008.9.13(Sat.) - 2009.4.12(Sun.)

Collection II
「shell - shelter」

There will be no safety zone.
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