Art Crafting towards the Future
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Saturday, April 28 – Friday, August 31, 2012
“Art Crafting towards the Future” inquires into the contemporary validity of kôgei (Japanese artisan craft) and universalness of its appeal.”

Aida Makoto
Mori Art Museum
17 November 2012 – 31 March 2013
For more than 20 years since his debut in the early 1990s, Aida Makoto has brought a critical perspective to such subjects as Japan, the United States, history, tradition, manga, war, salarymen, pretty young girls, art, and education system, touching upon contradictions in Japanese society, politics and economics during the period of modernization in the Meiji and subsequent periods followed by the rapid economic growth after the Second World War, as well as mass culture and the system surrounding visual art practice that emerged in the wake of these changes.

Lee Bul: From me, belongs to you only
Mori Art Museum
4 February – 27 May, 2012
Since the 1990s, Lee Bul has built an international career as one of the leading contemporary artists from Asia.

Silent Echoes: Collection Exhibition II
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
September 17, 2011 – April 8, 2012
How did it come? For a minute the opening balanced from one side to the other. Like a walk or march. Like God strutting in the night. The outside of her was suddenly froze and only that first part of the music was hot inside her heart.

Jiga Daizessan – My Artwork Amazes Me
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
November 23, 2011 – March 20, 2012
In today’s society, with its passion for efficiency and ease of understanding, are we not inclined to seek guidelines—even in our creative activities, which by nature should be spontaneous and free? Are we not inclined to seek reasons and standards of evaluation for what to make and how to make it?