[予告]3月20日〜21日 シンポジウム「アジアが日本をキュレーションするとき：2025年を越えて（仮称）」

No registration required. Open to everyone. Simultaneous interpretation in Japanese and English will be provided.

In 2025, marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, a number of exhibitions were organized that suggest shifts in the understanding of modern and contemporary Japanese art, including its relationships with Asia. Among them, the exhibition planners of “Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989–2010” at the National Art Center, Tokyo, and “Art Between Japan and Korea since 1945” at the Yokohama Museum of Art broadened the scope of narratives about modern and contemporary East Asian art history. Their perspectives—shaped in part by viewpoints different from those of “Japanese” or Japanese-language speakers—helped expand these narratives. Meanwhile, the exhibition “Opening Documents, Weaving Memories” at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo drew on works from the museum’s own collection, reflecting its long-standing engagement with Asia-related exhibitions and implicitly raising questions about the connections between the modern and the contemporary.

In Japan, exhibitions dealing with modern and contemporary art history—especially in museums—have historically approached the issues of the “prewar and wartime periods” and “Asia” with great caution. However, when looking across the exhibitions of 2025, it seems that this somewhat closed situation is gradually beginning to change. The growing diversity among exhibition planners, along with the sustained efforts of curators and museums that have gradually expanded possibilities through the accumulation of exhibitions, now reveals new potential for rethinking these narratives. With an eye toward further development, we hope to create opportunities for dialogue through the format of a symposium.

For this two-day symposium, we have invited the organizers of the exhibitions mentioned above to participate and reflect on their projects. We will also introduce perspectives emerging from research taking place outside museums, including viewpoints that are expected of museums from those fields. Building on these discussions, we hope to explore what kinds of spaces museums can create going forward, and to support these developments from the standpoint of Global Art Practice at an art university.

Panelist

Guest Panelists (in speaking order)

• Aomi Okabe — Curator, Research of Art Museum Studies
• Ji-Young Kim — Research Professor at the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies,
  Sungkyunkwan University、 South Korea.
• Jihye Yun — Curator at the National Art Center, Tokyo
• Katsuo Suzuki — Chief Curator, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
• Miyon Hibino — Curator, Yokohama Museum of Art
• Lisa Horikawa — Director (Curatorial & Collections) / Senior Curator, National Gallery Singapore

Department of Global Art Practice

• Mina Lee — Professor, Global Art Practice, Tokyo University of the Arts
• Chiaki Soma — Associate Professor, Global Art Practice, Tokyo University of the Arts
• Chiaki Haibara — Lecturer, Global Art Practice, Tokyo University of the Arts

Simultaneous Translation

• Art Translators Collective
  

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Dates and Time

March 20 (Fri) – March 21 (Sat), 2026
10:00–17:00 (scheduled)

Venue

Lecture Room 1, Central Building
Faculty of Fine Arts, Ueno Campus
Tokyo University of the Arts

(Location No. 7 on the campus map)
https://www.geidai.ac.jp/access/ueno

Language

Japanese (simultaneous Japanese–English interpretation provided)

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Organizer

Graduate School of Fine Arts, Global Art Practice Program, Tokyo University of the Arts

Support

Japanese Association of Museums

Contact

Global Art Practice, Tokyo University of the Arts

Mina Lee
lee.mina@fa.geidai.ac.jp

gapstaffs@ml.geidai.ac.jp