Japan

We spoke with the artists representing Japan and South Korea about their Venice exhibitions and the obsolescence of national divisions

An exhibition in Toyko sees the artist engage one of the earliest forms of photography to capture quiet, almost apparitional, landscapes

From Nerhol’s impressionistic abstractions to Cai Guo-Qiang’s AI generated firework explosions

The poet and artist creates works that occupy a transitional state between life and death

At Komaba Museum, Tokyo, a retrospective showcases the late postwar artist and theorist’s dedication to transforming polarized media representations

Informed by his Manchurian identity, the artist sets out by motorcycle for the Chinese Eastern Railway to explore the Northeast province's fading heritage

For the inaugural exhibition at I.L.A. Gallery, the artist used the Japanese paper-making technique of washi to connect with rural histories

After years of controversy around Zaha Hadid’s doomed proposal, Kuma’s sober design arrived on time and within budget – only for the games to be postponed 

‘Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk’ is a mesmerizing display of silk brocades and detailed craft, but glances over history’s muddier moments

Tanaka’s retrospective at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, reveals humour and radicality in everyday things

 

An Instagram user documented the artwork being whisked away as Typhoon Krosa approached Japan’s Naoshima island

At the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the past year has seen the most extensive survey of contemporary Japanese art outside of the country in 17 years 

Japan’s growing number of art festivals tread a precarious path between state-sponsored leisure-culture and soft-power machinery

A recent show traces the creative legacies of an artist and an architect who helped shape Japan’s futurist aspirations

An image of the sole survivor tree after the 2011 tsunami in Japan 

Various venues, Seto Inland Sea, Japan

London, UK

The anarchic 1920s Tokyo art movement Mavo and the internationalism of the Japanese Avant-garde

After the tsunami: the role of disaster in Japan’s artistic psyche

Various Venues, Yokohama, Japan