Hara Museum of Contemporary Art

[Art] [Contemporary Art] [Museum] [Architecture]

[Overall] Sightseeing
★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ (6.0/10.0)

Features
○ Enjoyable
○ Beautiful
△ Relaxing
◎ Unique
△ Japanese

TRY JAPAN recommends ...

1: to see exhibitions of contemporary art
2: to experience the atmosphere of the architecture building in early Showa period designed by Jin Watanabe

Contemporary art museum in calm residential area

If you visit Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, you can see contemporary art works.

It is an art museum of contemporary art.

The private house designed by Jin Watanabe (1887-1973) in 1938 in Showa Period (1926-1989) is now used as an art museum. Art works of regular exhibition are dotted. It is impressive to see art works of regular exhibition such as "Time Link" by Toshio Miyajima (1957-Present) in the museum building and "Incomplete Cube" by Sol Lewitt (1928-2007) in the garden.

"The Dream of Polifilo" (from April 19, 2014 (Saturday) to June 29, 2014 (Sunday)) showed the art works by Mr. Nicolas Buffe (1978-Present) that reflected the influence of European art and American and Japanese animation. It was impressive that story started when entering this museum and developed as visitors went forward. It was wonderful that art works and museum were well harmonized. It provided visitors with interesting experiences with augmented reality.

It opened in 1979. It is a middle-sized private art museum at residential area in Kita-Shinagawa, Shinagawa City, Tokyo. Its nearest station is Shinagawa station.

For information, as an annex, Hara Museum Arc designed by Mr. Arata Isozaki (1931-Present) is located in Ikaho Onsen, Gunma Prefecture.

Event Information

"My Favorites: Toshio Hara Selects from the Permanent Collection"
from January 6, 2018 (Saturday) to June 3, 2018 (Sunday)

"Mami Kosemura: Phantasies Over Time"
from June 16, 2018 (Saturday) to September 2, 2018 (Sunday)

Finished Event Information

"Mika Ninagawa: Self-image"
from January 24, 2015 (Saturday) to May 10, 2015 (Sunday)

"Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper"
from May 23, 2015 (Saturday) to August 30, 2015 (Sunday)

"Time Present -Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection"
from September 12, 2015 (Saturday) to January 11, 2016 (Monday, National Holiday)

"Hara Documents 10 Masaharu Sato: Tokyo Trace"
from January 23, 2016 (Saturday) to May 8, 2016 (Sunday)
*During this exhibition, "Sections from the Hara Museum Collection: Trace" is also held at Galleries Ⅲ, Ⅳ, Ⅴ.

"IT'S OUR PERMANENT COLLECTION!"
from May 28, 2016 (Saturday) to August 21, 2016 (Sunday)

"Kishin Shinoyama -La Maison de rendez-vous-"
from September 3, 2016 (Saturday) to January 9, 2017 (Monday, National Holiday)

"Elizabeth Peyton: Still life"
from January 21, 2017 (Saturday) to May 7, 2017 (Sunday)

"Mika Ninagawa: The days were beautiful"
from May 10, 2017 (Wednesday) to May 19, 2017 (Friday)

"Mercedes-Benz Art Scope 2015-2017: Wondering to Wonder -Taro Izumi | Menja Stevenson | Tokihiro Sato-"
from May 27, 2017 (Saturday) to August 27, 2017 (Sunday)

"Keiichi Tahara: Photosynthesis with Min Tanaka"
from September 9, 2017 (Saturday) to December 24, 2017 (Sunday)