Collection Highlights

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

The 2nd Fukuoka Art Award Exhibition

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

Exhibition of New Collections

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

Tanaka Chisato: Living 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.