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Collection Exhibition | Modern and Contemporary Art

Collection Highlights2025
Collection Exhibition | Modern and Contemporary Art

Collection Highlights

Duration Thu. Jun. 12th, 2025 - Thu. Apr. 30th, 2026
Hours 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. *Last admission at 5:00 p.m.
*Fri. and Sat. from Jul. to Oct. 9:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. (last admission at 7:30 p.m.)
Closed Mondays (or the following weekday if Monday falls on a national holiday)
Dec. 28–Jan. 4
Venue Modern and Contemporary Art A・C
List of exhibits list_collection_highlight_2025_v2_e.pdf (680 KB)

This exhibition displays artworks by leading modern artists such as Miro and Dali as well as pieces by modern Western-style painters associated with Kyushu and also works by contemporary artists from Japan and abroad. Through a variety of works from the museum’s collection, this is an opportunity to discover the expansion of themes and means of expression in art since the 20th century.

 

Image:Anish KAPOOR, Mother as a Void, 1989-90
© Anish Kapoor. All rights reserved, DACS & JASPAR 2025 G3823

 

Gaze toward the North
Collection Exhibition | Modern and Contemporary Art

Gaze toward the North

Duration Tue. Sep. 2nd, 2025 - Sun. Dec. 21st, 2025
Hours 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. *Last admission at 5:00 p.m.
*Fri. and Sat. from Jul. to Oct. 9:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. (last admission at 7:30 p.m.)

Closed Mondays (or the following weekday if Monday falls on a national holiday)


Venue Modern and Contemporary Art A
List of exhibits list_gaze_toward_the_north_e-1.pdf (291 KB)

This exhibition displays landscapes and genre paintings of the Korean Peninsula and mainland China depicted by artists after the Meiji period. In association with the special exhibition featuring “the south,” this show focuses on “the north.” Let’s also visit the exhibition Eyes on Foreign Lands in the Matsunaga Memorial Tea Ceremony Collection gallery.

 

Image: TOMITA Keisen, Balmy Breeze, the 1910s

 

Kikuhata Mokuma  修正版
Collection Exhibition | Modern and Contemporary Art

Kikuhata Mokuma

Duration Tue. Sep. 2nd, 2025 - Mon. Nov. 3rd, 2025
Hours 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. *Last admission at 5:00 p.m.
*Fri. and Sat. from Jul. to Oct. 9:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. (last admission at 7:30 p.m.)
Closed Mondays (or the following weekday if Monday falls on a national holiday)

Venue Modern and Contemporary Art B
Cooperation: General Incorporated Association Mokuma Kikuhata Blue Home Art
Association, Mr. Takuma Kikuhata
List of exhibits list_kikuhata_mokuma_e.pdf (278 KB)

Kikuhata Mokuma (1935-2020), one of the leading artists in Kyushu, presented the series Ptolemaic Theory in the 1970s after remaining silent, following his withdrawal from the Group Kyushu-ha. This exhibition features his paintings, including prints that led to Ptolemaic Theory. Additionally, Roulette (Target) from the Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art’s collection is on display along with Roulette No.1 and Roulette from the Fukuoka Art Museum’s collection. This is a rare opportunity to see that some works from the Roulette series are brought together.

 

 

Image (above): KIKUHATA Mokuma, Roulette (Target), 1964, Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
Image (below): KIKUHATA Mokuma, Ptolemaic Theory Ⅴ, 1983

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菊畑茂久馬《天動説 五》1983年

Narahara Ikko: Where Time Has Vanished
Collection Exhibition | Modern and Contemporary Art

Narahara Ikko: Where Time Has Vanished

Duration Wed. Nov. 5th, 2025 - Sun. Dec. 21st, 2025
Hours 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. *Last admission at 5:00 p.m.

Closed Mondays (or the following weekday if Monday falls on a national holiday)
Venue Modern and Contemporary Art B

This exhibition introduces about forty-five photographs from the series Where Time Has Vanished by Narahara Ikko (1931-2020), one of the leading photographers in postwar Japan.

 

 

Image: NARAHARA Ikko, Two garbage cans-New Mexico, 1972 from Where Time Has Vanished, 1972 (printed 1975)
© Narahara Ikko Archives

Hanami at the Museum!
Collection Exhibition | Modern and Contemporary Art

Hanami at the Museum!

Duration Tue. Dec. 23rd, 2025 - Sun. Mar. 22nd, 2026
Hours 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. *Last admission at 5:00 p.m.

Closed Mondays (or the following weekday if Monday falls on a national holiday)



Venue Modern and Contemporary Art A

This exhibition introduces brilliant pieces featuring not only cherry blossoms but also various flowers and plants of the four seasons. This offers an opportunity to enjoy hanami at the museum before spring comes!

 

Image: FUKUDA Heihachiro, Ume Tree with Bird, date unknown

Tanaka Chisato: Living Mural
Collection Exhibition | Modern and Contemporary Art

Tanaka Chisato: Living Mural

Duration Thu. Jan. 5th, 2023 - Sat. Dec. 27th, 2025
Hours 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. last admission at 5:00 p.m.
Closed Mondays (or the following weekday if Monday falls on a national holiday)
Dec. 28–Jan. 4
Venue The Mural

This mural was painted by Fukuoka-based artist Tanaka Chisato as part of the special exhibition Tanaka Chisato: Horizon and Road (5 January – 21 March 2023). The artist painted the first phase of the mural at the end of January 2023, the second phase in January 2024, and finally the third phase in January 2025. The mural painting is now completed and will be on display until the end of December 2025.

 

About the artist
Tanaka Chisato (born in 1980)
After graduating from the Oil Painting Course at the Tama Art University, Tokyo in 2005, Tanaka started her career as an artist in Fukuoka the following year. She has established her own style using acrylic paints to create smooth black backgrounds in which subjects in front are brilliantly painted with oil paints. Tanaka’s paintings give viewers a vivid impression and stimulate their imagination through combining contrasting elements, such as figures who look smiling and angry at the same time, or glittering landscapes in the pitch-black darkness. Nowadays, she has become one of the leading artists in Fukuoka through a wide range of creative activities, including many solo and group exhibitions, book-cover design, and a large-scale mural on the new building of SHOGAKUKAN Inc., a publishing company.

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