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Mori Art Museum FY2025 Exhibition Schedule Announced!

2024.7.31 [Wed]

For the upcoming fiscal year, the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, is organizing two solo exhibitions, Sou Fujimoto and Roppongi Crossing 2025.

Sou Fujimoto
Period: Wednesday, July 2 - Sunday, November 9, 2025

With offices in Tokyo, Paris, and Shenzhen, Sou Fujimoto (born 1971 in Hokkaido, Japan) has engaged in projects all over the world ranging from private homes to universities, retail premises, hotels, and multi-purpose complexes. Since working on the Musashino Art University Museum & Library (2010, Tokyo) he has completed a series of celebrated projects, including the recent L’Arbre Blanc (The White Tree) housing complex in Montpellier, France, in 2019, and 2021’s House of Music, Hungary (Budapest). Currently design producer for Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, Fujimoto is one of Japan’s most notable architects.
This will be the first major retrospective of Fujimoto’s work. Introducing many of his main works, from early-career to projects currently in progress, the exhibition will offer an overview of his architectural journey over the past quarter-century, the features of his architecture, and the philosophy behind it. Scale models, plans and documentary photographs will be joined by full-size models and installations in an architectural exhibition promising a first-hand visual and spatial experience of the essence of Fujimoto’s oeuvre, delivered in a manner unique to the contemporary art museum setting.

Roppongi Crossing 2025
Period: Wednesday, December 3, 2025 - Sunday, April 5, 2026

Organized by the Mori Art Museum every three years since 2004, the Roppongi Crossing exhibitions provide a snapshot of the Japanese art scene at that particular moment in time. Mori Art Museum curators join with guest curators to plan each exhibition, and this intersection of multiple viewpoints leads to a diverse lineup of Japanese artists from seasoned international veterans to promising young newcomers. Another distinguishing feature of the series is the Mori Art Museum’s commitment to presenting a “crossing” of creative endeavor by showcasing not only contemporary art but work by creators in other genres including architecture, fashion, and design.
For this eighth Roppongi Crossing, the Mori Art Museum will collaborate with Asia-based, globally-active curators to survey the current state of contemporary Japanese art from an international perspective. In today’s world, the conflict and division confronting us in so many quarters, despite multicultural progress, impacts the activities of artists too: changing what they do and generating new types of expression. Roppongi Crossing 2025 will once again examine art in Japan as it is right now, and its significance within a broader context.