MOT Collection 30th Anniversary Exhibit Nine Profiles: 1935→2025 April 29-July 21, 2025

This year marks 30 years of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. The museum’s initial displays from the permanent collection, taken from a total of around 3500 items including works originally from the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, aimed primarily to present currents of contemporary art accessibly and from an international perspective, through carefully-curated selections of representative works with a particular focus on post-war Japanese avant-garde art. Subsequent ongoing acquisitions then brought new, additional viewpoints, these currents branching off in various directions, and undergoing change. Since 2005, under the MOT Collection banner, permanent collection shows have taken a multifaceted approach to presenting the museum’s holdings, perhaps by focusing on an individual artist, or by comparing works in different media and from different eras, but with a single overarching theme.　To mark this milestone 30th anniversary, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo presents “Nine Profiles: 1935→2025,” a survey of 90 years of art exhibited over nine rooms, each dedicated to a different ten-year period. Despite covering so many decades—just as the museum’s exhibitions did when it first opened—each room succeeds in revisiting the collection from multiple different perspectives. 1935 was chosen as the starting point due to the acquisition over time of a considerable number of works from the prewar and wartime periods, allowing links with postwar art to be identified; while the explicit naming of the year 2025 as the end point indicates that this is a view of the collection as it is right here, right now.　The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo collection currently stands at around 6,000 items, and is also far more diverse than it was 30 years ago. Constantly being updated, it will duly pass to the next generation incomplete, but various profiles emerge depending on where we focus, and how those features are presented. We hope “Nine Profiles: 1935→2025” will encourage visitors to take a fresh look at the art of our era, and ponder how the past has brought us to where we are now.

Exhibition period：April 29-July 21, 2025
Exhibition Information

MOT Collection 30th Anniversary Exhibit Nine Profiles: 1935→2025 April 29-July 21, 2025

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HORIKAWA Michio, 1970-05, The 10th International Art Exhibition of Japan (Tokyo Biennale), Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Carl ANDRE, 1970-05, The 10th International Art Exhibition of Japan (Tokyo Biennale), Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

CHRISTO, 1970-05, The 10th International Art Exhibition of Japan (Tokyo Biennale), Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Daniel BUREN, 1970-05, The 10th International Art Exhibition of Japan (Tokyo Biennale), Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Daniel BUREN, 1970-05, The 10th International Art Exhibition of Japan (Tokyo Biennale), Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Richard SERRA, 1970-05, The 10th International Art Exhibition of Japan (Tokyo Biennale), Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Richard SERRA, 1970-05, The 10th International Art Exhibition of Japan (Tokyo Biennale), Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

TAKAMATSU Jiro, 1970-05, The 10th International Art Exhibition of Japan (Tokyo Biennale), Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Carl ANDRE, 1970-05, The 10th International Art Exhibition of Japan (Tokyo Biennale), Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

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News From Nowhere (Rihanna)

News From Nowhere (Taylor)

Voice

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Mother and Child

Self-Portrait

Sea Meadow Ⅲ

A Stain No.4

A Stain No.3

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Fabulous Beasts (Controlled Silver Seal)

Rehearsal for a Reunion (With the Father of Pottery)

Pavilion for a Mask

Nothing to Do, and We Turn into Queen's Pink Balloons

Wings

Bed

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Ghost Brought Back to Life

Sumidagawa River

Movie Theater

Circus

Floor Event No.1

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AKIYAMA Yutokutaishi, "Pop Happening"

Kurohata, "Memorial Parade for Yui Chunoshin"

Zero Dimention performing in "Muse Week"

Zero Dimention (NAGATA Satoshi) performing in "Muse Week"

Hi-Red Center, "Great Panoramic Exhibition"

Hi-Red Center, "Dropping Event"

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Hi-Red Center, "Champaign to Promote Cleanliness and Order in the Metropolitan Area"

AKASEGAWA Genpei, "Wrapped Objects"

AKASEGAWA Genpei, "1,000-Yen Note Painting"

TAKAMATSU Jiro, "String Objects"

Jasper JHONS, opening the door at Hi-Red Center's "Great Panoramic Exhibition"

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Hi-Red Center, "Champaign to Promote Cleanliness and Order in the Metropolitan Area"

NAKANISHI Natsuyuki, "Clothepins"

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KALPA - '69

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T-4

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Under Martial Law (L'Etat de Siège) I

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[ Under Martial Law Series: City of Unease V］

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