page_title: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
section_title: Collection
hierarchical_section_title: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa / Collection
caption_attribution_description: English: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
context_page_description: The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa is a museum of contemporary art located in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan.
  The museum was designed by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the architectural office SANAA in 2004. In October 2005, one year after its opening, the Museum marked 1,570,000 visitors.
context_section_description: The collection of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa is focused on works produced since 1980 that "propose new values".
  Artists in the collection are encouraged to produce site-specific installations that become "closely associated with the Kanazawa area".
  Artists in the permanent collection include; Francis Alys, Matthew Barney, Tony Cragg, Olafur Eliasson, Leandro Erlich, Isa Genzken, Kojima Hisaya, Gordon Matta Clark, Peter Newman, Carsten Nicolai, Giuseppe Penone, Gerhard Richter, Murayama Ruriko, Hiraki Sawa, Atsuko Tanaka, James Turrell, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Anne Wilson and Suda Yoshihiro.
  Among the large scale works on permanent display are Leandro Ehrlich's Swimming Pool and Color Activity House by Olaflur Eliasson.
caption: Installations, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art.
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