55th FUKUOKA CITY ART COMPETITION
Tue. Mar. 26th, 2024 - Sun. Mar. 31st, 2024
Special Exhibition Gallery, Gallery A-F
Duration | Thu. Jun. 22nd, 2023 - Tue. Apr. 30th, 2024 |
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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 | Modern and Contemporary Art A・C |
Modern and Contemporary Art A
Collection Highlights 1: The Jewels of the Fukuoka Art Museum
The Fukuoka Art Museum has collected outstanding works that illustrate various art movements of the 20th century. Among them, a selection of artwork, the so-called highlights from the museum’s collection, is displayed in this gallery.
Modern and Contemporary Art C
Collection Highlights 2: Let’s Take a Stroll through the World of Art
In this gallery, works from the Fukuoka Art Museum’s modern and contemporary art collection are exhibited by theme in four sections, which are designed to represent different places.
The four sections consist of: 1. The Forest of Reality and Fantasy, 2. The Sea of Materials and Sensitivity, 3. The Universe of Color and Shape, and 4. The City of History and Memory – Toward the Future. In these sections, the artworks are arranged roughly chronologically, allowing viewers to trace the history of art since the 20th century.
Why don’t you take a look around these various places with a light heart, as if taking a stroll, and find your favorite work of art?
Image: Joan MIRO, Dancer Hearing an Organ in a Gothic Cathedral, 1945
©Successió Miró /ADAGP, Paris & JASPER, Tokyo, 2023 G3105
Duration | Thu. Mar. 28th, 2024 - Sun. Jun. 2nd, 2024 |
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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 | Modern and Contemporary Art A・B |
The Fukuoka Art Award was established to reward artists who have made remarkable achievements in Fukuoka City and are expected to make further strides in the future, and the award-winners’ works are purchased as the museum’s acquisitions. This exhibition displays the winning artworks of the second Fukuoka Art Award competition.
Image: Soh Souen, Bellybutton and Breathing, 2022
Duration | Thu. Mar. 28th, 2024 - Sun. Jun. 2nd, 2024 |
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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 | Modern and Contemporary Art B |
Among modern and contemporary artworks newly acquired in fiscal year 2023, this exhibition introduces eighteen gifted pieces, including works by Takasu Noriko, Fujino Kazutomo, Yoshida Hiroshi, and Yamamoto Sakubei.
Image: TAKASU Noriko, Under the Sun, 1996
Duration | Thu. Jun. 13th, 2024 - Wed. Apr. 30th, 2025 |
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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 |
This exhibition features artworks by leading modern and contemporary artists from Japan and abroad, including Chagall, Dali, Warhol, and Kusama Yayoi. Through a variety of works from the museum’s collection, this offers an opportunity to discover the expansion of themes and means of expression in visual art after the 20th century.
Image: SHIOTA Chiharu, The Ship of Memories, 2023
©JASPAR, Tokyo, 2024 and Chiharu Shiota
Duration | Thu. Jun. 13th, 2024 - Sun. Sep. 1st, 2024 |
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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 |
Roads that stretch to faraway landscapes, ordinary roads that we take every day, or roads that lead to the past, the future, or someone’s heart. This exhibition focuses on “roads,” a motif that connotes a range of extensions and developments. Workshops are also to be held during the course of the exhibition.
Image: YOKOO Tadanori, Anya Kouro: Traveler’s Night, 2001
Duration | Thu. Jun. 13th, 2024 - Sun. Sep. 1st, 2024 |
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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 B |
Painter Nomiyama Gyoji, who passed away in June 2023, was based in Tokyo and Fukuoka and faced expressions and paintings throughout 102 years of his life. To introduce his legacy, this exhibition displays thirty-four works from the museum’s collection and long-term loans.
Image: NOMIYAMA Gyoji, Figure, 1961
Duration | Sat. Sep. 14th, 2024 - Sun. Dec. 8th, 2024 |
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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 |
Watercolor may be familiar to many Japanese people as it is often introduced in elementary school arts and crafts classes. Watercolor paints are in fact made by mixing a pigment, which imparts a color, with a binder such as gum arabic. This exhibition draws attention to watercolor techniques in particular.
Image: OURA Kokoro, Expanding Body 14, 2002
Duration | Tue. Dec. 10th, 2024 - Sun. Mar. 23rd, 2025 |
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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 | Modern and Contemporary Art A |
It is not often that landscapes are covered with snow in the mild climate of Kyushu. This exhibition brings together Japanese paintings, oil paintings, prints, and other works on winter subjects such as snow-covered worlds and people walking in the snow, offering an opportunity to enjoy the beauty of snow and winter.
Image: YOSHIDA Hiroshi, Twelve Scenes of Tokyo: Snow in Nakazato, 1928
Duration | Wed. Dec. 18th, 2024 - Sun. Mar. 23rd, 2025 |
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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 | Modern and Contemporary Art B |
Narahahara Ikko (1931-2020) was born in Fukuoka Prefecture and became one of the leading photographers in postwar Japan. The museum has introduced his works by series for the past few years, and the third exhibition is dedicated to Venice-Nightscapes and Japanesque.
Image: NARAHARA Ikko, Sunset (1) from Venice-Nightscapes, 1964-85 (printed 1983)
© Narahara Ikko Archives
Duration | Thu. Jan. 5th, 2023 - Sat. Dec. 27th, 2025 |
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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 first phase of this mural painting was completed at the end of January 2023. Subsequently, the artist will retouch it in January 2024 and January 2025, making alterations to the painting each time. Thereafter, the mural will be on view 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.
Collection Exhibition & Special Exhibition at Collection Gallery
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