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ReOPEN

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) will celebrate its Grand Reopening on March 29th 2019,
almost three years after closing to upgrade its equipment and improve its utility as a museum
building.
To mark the Grand Reopening, MOT will hold two concurrent exhibitions−one in its special exhibition
galleries and one in its collection galleries −to throughly introduce its collection on a large scale in
the entire space of the museum. Free admission is granted on March 29th on the first day ofreopening, with museum opening hours extended until 8pm. A series of commemorative events arealso scheduled for during the exhibition period.
The renovation includes the upgrading of aged equipment and facilities, installation of new signage
for visitors to enjoy a more cohesive museum experience, improvements to the public space withconnections to the neighboring Kiba Park, and refurbishment of the Art Library. In addition, a newrestaurant, café and lounge will open, along with the reopening of our museum shop.
At MOT we look forward to welcoming many visitors, and continue to promote a wide variety ofprograms in our aim as a museum where people can directly experience and engage with theconstantly changing world of contemporary art.
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To mark the Grand Reopening, MOT will hold two concurrent exhibitions—one in its special exhibition galleries andone in its collection galleries—to thoroughly display its collection on a large scale in the entire space of the museum.

Special Exhibition

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Weavers of Worlds- A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art -Period

Friday, 29 March - Sunday, 16 June 2019

Closed days

Mondays (except 29 Apr., 6 May.), 7 May.

Opening Hours

10:00 - 18:00 [ 3.29 (Fri) Open until 20:00] ＊Tickets available until 30 minutes before closing.

Admission

Adults: ¥1,300(¥1,040) / University & College Students, Over 65: ¥900(¥720) /High School & Junior High School Students: ¥600(¥480) / Elementary School & Under: Free＊( ) Price for a group, over 20 people＊3.29 (Fri) Free exhibition admissions＊Free entry to MOT collection ticket holders

Venue

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Exhibition Gallery 3F, 1F, B2F

Organized byTokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

MOT CollectionPleased to meet you. New Acquisitions in recent years

PeriodFriday, 29 March - Sunday, 16 June 2019

Closed days

Mondays (except 29 Apr., 6 May.), 7 May.

Opening Hours

10:00 - 18:00 [ 3.29 (Fri) Open until 20:00] ＊Tickets available until 30 minutes before closing.

Admission

Adults: ¥500(¥400) / University & College Students: ¥400(¥320) /sheet 2High School Students & Over 65: ¥250(¥200) / Junior High School & Under: Free＊( ) Price for a group, over 20 people＊3.29 (Fri) Free exhibition admissions

Venue

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Collection Gallery 1F, 3F

Organized byTokyo Metropolitan Government,
Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

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On 3/29 (Fri)—Free Admission and Extended Museum Hours!
On 3/29 (Fri), the first day of the Grand Reopening, exhibition admissions will be free.
Museum hours will also be extended until 20:00 in the evening.

Live Performance of Wadaiko (Traditional Japanese Drums)
A live performance of Wadaiko by the Motokaga Elementary School Japanese Drum Club that has engagedin activities for over 30 years in the museum's neighboring community.
F r i d a y, 29 March 10 : 00 Sunday, 3 1 March 1 1 : 30 -Venue: Entrance Hall

(Performance Time: 10 minutes approx.)

Venue: Courtyard(Performance Time: 30 minutes approx.)＊See the museum web site for the most recent information postings. (www.mot-art-museum.jp)
2About the Renovation of Facilities
Art Library
The Art Library has been renovated with a new furniture design and layout
for a new atmosphere. The wooden furniture and fixtures partly use
Tokyo's Tama Area Timber. Besides “Multi-media Booth” for viewing video
materials, “Art Library for Children” filled with fun art books has also been
newly established.
Hours: 10:00 – 18:00＊ 3.29 (Fri) Open until 20:00
Closed: On days the museum is closed

Museum Shop “NADiﬀ contemporary”
Museum Shop NADiﬀ contemporary oﬀers a broad selection of uniqueartist-designed goods as well as exhibition catalogues, originally-designed
MOT items, and books on contemporary art. Visitors will enjoy browsing
the shop for “sold only here” art gifts that let them take home the spirit ofcontemporary art.
Opening Hours: 10:00 – 18:00＊ 3.29 (Fri) Open until 20:00
Closed: On days the museum is closed

Restaurant “100 Spoons”
100 Spoons—a fun-filled restaurant for families, oﬀering delicious newtaste experiences of familiar menu items. While enjoying their meal,customers can have contact with art, create their own artworks—even
become an artwork themselves. A fun new museum experience for peopleof all ages, children and adults alike.
Opening Hours: 11:00 – 18:00 (L.O.17:00)＊ 3.29 (Fri) Open until 20:00(L.O.19:00)
Closed: On days the museum is closed
https://100spoons.com/motCafé & Lounge “SANDWICH UPSTAIRS”
How nice to sit alone, cup of coﬀee in hand, basking in the afterglow of
one's art encounters. How nice to analyze the exhibition's aims with afriend, while munching a sandwich. And how nice to share your impressionsof the artworks in a group, over dessert. Your choice of a menu sandwich
or sandwich of the day plus an original beverage, for enjoying inside orout in the court.
Opening Hours: 10:00 – 18:00 (L.O.17:30)＊ 3.29 (Fri) Open until 20:00(L.O.19:30)
Closed: On days the museum is closed
http://www.smiles.co.jp/upstairs

3Commemorative Grand Reopening Logo
We asked NAKAJO Masayoshi, designer of MOT's bold familiar
logo, to create a Commemorative Grand Reopening Logo to be
utilized for a period of one year.

The MOT logo, while accenting the initial “M” for museum, portrays the “ T ” for Tokyo
as a plus ( “ + ” ) sign to evoke a positive, enthusiastic image. The plus ( “ + ” ) also
reinforces the nuance of “motto motto” ( “more and more ” ) implied by the Japanese
pronunciation of the acronym MOT: “ Motto.”

About the Renovation of Facilities and EquipmentResponse to Time-related Deterioration & New and Improved Functions
Air conditioning and other building equipment has been upgraded, as have interior floors, walls, and ceilings.
The environmental load has been reduced with energy-efficient lighting systems, etc.

Improvement of User Services
Additional elevators up to galleries are installed, and barrier-free access improved. And child care support
facilities expanded. The museum's circulation path is redesigned and improved.

New Museum Signage
MOT strives to be an art museum that is open to the town and community.
Based on a concept of opening the museum to everyday life, like anextension of the neighboring Kiba Park, new signage is installed forconvenient barrier-free access to all the museum's facilities, including
the Café & Lounge.
Signage Equipment Design: NAGASAKA Jo(Architect, Schemata Architects)

Signage Planning: IROBE Yoshiaki(Art Director, Irobe Design Institute, Nippon Design Center Inc.)

Introducing the New MOT PASSPORT
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo will issue an MOT PASSPORT that allows
visitors to enjoy special discounts on admission to our 2019 exhibitions.
Main Privileges: Free admission up to 4 times to special exhibitions,and annual free admission to MOT collection exhibitions.
＊ Details regarding other privileges and discounts will be announced
accordingly on the MOT website. (www.mot-art-museum.jp)
We have PR images for the members of the press for the sole purpose of creatingor supporting timely news stories related to the exhibition.
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Public Relations Mihoko Nakajima / Chiako Kudo
TEL +81-3-5245-113 4
E-MAIL mot-pr@mot-art.jp
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Special Exhibition

Weavers of Worlds- A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art Outline
This exhibition will survey the Japanese art of the past 100 years, from the 1910s to 2010s, through works
mainly in the museum's collection. Its aim−to show how the artists, by taking a discerning critical perspective,
have selected strands of already established and radically new styles and techniques, and woven their own
distinctive worlds. From the 1920s era of KISHIDA Ryusei to the present day, artists in each generation havestudied the issues specific to their time and created works that critically examine the "circumstances ofJapanese art."
In its narrative on modern and contemporary Japanese art, the exhibition will not situate the artists in the context
of a static view of history; instead it will look at the particular practice of the artist who, by selectively adopting
elements, was able to arouse his subject. It will furthermore display artworks whose subject matter relates tothe Kiba district where the museum is located, a community that has witnessed dramatic change these 100 years.
By surveying the artistically important works that punctuate Japanese modern / contemporary art history,
in galleries on all three of the museum's floors, the exhibition will profile the history of one hundred years.

Highlights
For the first time, the entire special exhibition galleries on three floors will be devoted to displaying thepowerfully experimental works of this museum, dating from 1910 to the present, from the perspective of
their connection with the art of today.
Japanese modern / contemporary art will be examined from the perspective of artists who selectedamong diverse art styles and techniques, old and new, to form a creative, critical relationship with society.
From this, the path-breaking character of their artistic endeavor, taking as its subject their own predicamentof creating art in Japan−a nation with a hybrid culture−will grow clear.
Besides selected artworks, valuable archive materials from the pre-war era will also be presented fromthe museum's collection, which has evolved with changing landscape of contemporary art. They will
include magazines of the Sosaku-hanga ("creative prints") art movement and special collections fromthe Art Library.

Artists (tentative)
Ay-O, AIDA Makoto, Ai-Mitsu, AKIYAMA Yutokutaishi, ASAKURA Setsu, ABE Nobuya, ARISHIMA Ikuma, IKEDA Tatsuo, ISHII Hakutei,ISHIDA Takashi, IZUMI Taro, ISOBE Yukihisa, ITO Zon, UMEZAWA Kazuki, UMETSU Yoichi, UMEHARA Ryuzaburo, URUSHIBARA Hideko,Ei-Q, OIWA Oscar, OHTAKE Shinro, OHNO Hidetaka, OKAZAKI Kenjiro, OKAMOTO Taro, OGURA Yuki, OZAWA Tsuyoshi, OCHIAI Tamu,ONO Yoko, ONOSATO Toshinobu, ONCHI Koshiro, KAZAMA Sachiko, KASHIHARA Etsutomu, KATSURA Yuki, KATO Izumi, KATO Taro,KANAYAMA Akira, KANEUJI Teppei, KANOKOGI Takeshiro, KAWAMATA Tadashi, KAWARA On, KANBARA Tai, KISHIDA Ryusei,
KITAGAWA Tamiji, KITADAI Shozo, KIMURA Shohachi, KUDO Tetsumi, KUNIYOSHI Yasuo, KOIZUMI Meiro, KONO Michisei,KOBAYASHI Masato, KOMAI Tetsuro, SAITO Yoshishige, SAITO Yori, SHINOHARA Ushio, SHIMIZU Toshi, SHIRAGA Kazuo,SHIRAKAWA Yoshio, SUENAGA Fuminao, SUGA Kishio, SUGITO Hiroshi, SUGIMATA Tadashi, SUGIMOTO Hiroshi, SUMIYA Iwane,SUWA Naoki, SEIMIYA Hitoshi, TAKAYANAGI Eri, TADA Minami, TATSUNO Toeko, TANAKA Atsuko, TANAKA Koki, TANAKA Chizuko,CHIBA Masaya, TSUBAKI Sadao, TSURUOKA Masao, TEZUKA Aiko, TERADA Masaaki, TERUYA Yuken, TOGO Seiji, DOMOTO Hisao,TOMII Motohiro, TOYOSHIMA Yasuko, NAKAZAWA Hiromitsu, NAKANISHI Natsuyuki, NAKANO Jun, NAKAHASHI Katsushige,
NAKAHARA Minoru, NAKAMURA Kazumi, NAKAMURA Hiroshi, NARA Yoshitomo, NAWA Kohei, NODA Tetsuya, HAMADA Chimei,
FUKAZAWA Sakuichi, FUKUZAWA Ichiro, FUKUSHIMA Hideko, FUKUDA Miran, FUJITA Tsuguharu, FUJIMAKI Yoshio, FUNAKOSHI Katsura,HOMMA Takashi, MAEDA Toshiro, MAKINO Torao, MATSUE Taiji, MATSUMOTO Shunsuke, MARUYAMA Naofumi, MIKI Tomio,MISHIMA Kimiyo, MINAMIKAWA Shimon, MURAKAMI Takashi, MURAYAMA Tomoyoshi, MOHRI Yuko, MOTONAGA Sadamasa, MORI Chihiro,MORIMURA Yasumasa, YAGI Lyota, YANAGI Yukinori, YANASE Masamu, YANOBE Kenji, YABE Tomoe, YAMAGUCHI Katsuhiro,Finger Pointing Worker, YOKOO Tadanori, YOKOBORI Kakujiro, YOSHIDA Hiroshi, YOSHIHARA Jiro, Chim↑Pom, O JUN and more5

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MOT Collection

Pleased to meet you. New Acquisitions in recent years
OutlineCurrently, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo holds some 5,200 pieces in its collection, which spans themodern and contemporary periods with a focus on art of the postwar years. MOT regularly features the works
in "MOT Collection" exhibitions, choosing a diﬀerent theme each term to show the diverse appeal ofcontemporary art, and contriving to enable viewing the same artwork from diﬀerent perspectives.
Having newly acquired some 300 works during its three-year closure, the museum will focus on these newacquisitions in its "MOT Collection" exhibitions this fiscal year, to mark its Grand Reopening. In term one,the exhibition will spotlight works produced in the 2010s and also unveil earlier collected works that haveundergone restoration. In MOT's newly renovated galleries, thus, people familiar with MOT's collection andthose viewing it for the first time will be able to enjoy fresh encounters with each of the works.

Highlights
Many “Pleased to Meet You” Artworks
Collecting artworks in real time, as they are created, is fundamental to MOT as a contemporary art museum.
Featured this time are works produced primarily in the 2010s, selected from among pieces newly acquired
during the museum's closure. Created by some 20 artists, the works will be displayed in a solo exhibitiontype format. Visitors will enjoy seeing new works of the past decade by artists of diﬀerent regions andgenerations.
And Nostalgic “Nice to See You Again” Artworks and Spaces
Displayed this time, along with newly restored works by MIYAJIMA Tatsuo, will be works already familiar
to visitors, including Roy LICHTENSTEIN's Girl with Hair Ribbon and Arnaldo POMODORO's Gyroscopeof the Sun. Together with new acquisitions, many nostalgic works also await you in the museum's relaxed,open spaces. Enjoy seeing them at your own pace.
Outdoor Sculptures—Both “Please to meet yous” and “Nice to see you agains”
Outdoor sculptures by artists such as Anthony CARO and Richard DEACON are back in place after thoroughrestoration. Newly joining them are outdoor sculptures by ONO Yoko, SUZUKI Akio, and TAKADA Masako &Seiko. Encounter both new and already familiar facets of the collection while touring the entire museum
building—including the redesigned courtyard.

Artists (tentative)
IMAI Shunsuke, OGINO Ryosuke, OKUMURA Yuki, ONO Yoko, SAKAGISHI Yoshiou, SUENAGA Fuminao, SUZUKI Akio,
SEKINE Naoko, SOUTOME Teppei, TAKADA Akiko & Masako, TANADA Koji, TEZUKA Aiko, TERAUCHI Yoko, NAKAZONO Koji,Nadegata Instant Party (NAKAZAKI Tohru＋YAMASHIRO Daisuke＋NODA Tomoko), BUNYA Yukari, MINAMIKAWA Shimon,MIYAJIMA Tatsuo, Anthony CARO, Richard DEACON, Simon FUJIWARA, Saleh HUSEIN, JUNG Yeondoo, Roy LICHTENSTEIN,Mark MANDERS, Marta PAN, Sopheap PICH, Arnaldo POMODORO and more

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