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NOVEMBER
5-9,
2025
Art Week Tokyo is an annual showcase of the creativity and diversity of contemporary art in Tokyo. The citywide initiative activates more than 50 of the Japanese capital’s leading art institutions and galleries through five days of coordinated programming and special platforms. The free AWT Bus service links all venues, making one of the world’s most dynamic art scenes more accessible than ever before.
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AWT
FOCUS
Curator
Art Week Tokyo's centerpiece exhibition platform returns once again to the Okura Museum of Art. This year’s third edition is curated by Adam Szymczyk, who will bring together both historical and 21st-century artworks in response to the theme "What Is Real?"
ADAM
SZYMCZYK
is a curator, author, and editor based in Zurich. He is currently a curator at the Büro für geistige Mitarbeit at Kunsthaus Zürich. From 2014 to 2017 he was Artistic Director of documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, and from 2003 to 2014 he was Director and Chief Curator of Kunsthalle Basel. In 2022 he founded Verein by Association, a nonprofit association for contemporary art and culture in Zurich.
AWT
VIDEO
Curator
AWT Video invites a guest curator to select a screening program of moving-image works by artists represented by Art Week Tokyo’s participating galleries. Keiko Okamura of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo takes the lead this year.
KEIKO
OKAMURA
is a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. From 2007 to 2021 she was a curator at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, where she oversaw the inaugural edition of the annual Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions in 2009 and contributed as either the director or curator to every subsequent edition through 2021.
AWT
BAR
Architecture Advisor
AWT Bar offers visitors a multisensory art experience during Art Week Tokyo. The pop-up bar serves edible food creations and artist-conceived cocktails in a space designed by an emerging architect. This year renowned architect Kazuyo Sejima joins the project as the architecture advisor.
KAZUYO
SEJIMA
established Kazuyo Sejima & Associates in 1987 before founding SANAA in 1995 together with Ryue Nishizawa. Sejima’s accolades for her work as both an individual architect and with SANAA include the Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Praemium Imperiale, and the Pritzker Architecture Prize. She is also Director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum.
INSTITUTIONS +
GALLERIES
- ARTIZON MUSEUM
- CHANEL NEXUS HALL
- ESPACE LOUIS VUITTON TOKYO
- GINZA MAISON HERMÈS LE FORUM
- MORI ART MUSEUM
- MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO
- NATIONAL ART CENTER, TOKYO
- NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, TOKYO
- SHISEIDO GALLERY
- TOKYO METROPOLITAN TEIEN ART MUSEUM
- TOKYO OPERA CITY ART GALLERY
- TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHIC ART MUSEUM
- WATARI-UM
- GALLERY 38
- ANOMALY
- BLUM
- YUMIKO CHIBA ASSOCIATES
- FIG.
- HAGIWARA PROJECTS
- TAKA ISHII GALLERY
- KAIKAI KIKI GALLERY
- KOSAKU KANECHIKA
- KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY
- KAYOKOYUKI
- YUTAKA KIKUTAKE GALLERY
- TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY
- GALLERY KOYANAGI
- LEESAYA
- FERGUS MCCAFFREY
- MEM
- MISAKO & ROSEN
- MIZUMA ART GALLERY
- MUJIN-TO PRODUCTION
- KEN NAKAHASHI
- NANZUKA UNDERGROUND
- TARO NASU
- NCA | NICHIDO CONTEMPORARY ART
- KOTARO NUKAGA
- PACE GALLERY
- PERROTIN
- PGI
- POETIC SCAPE
- SCAI THE BATHHOUSE
- MISA SHIN GALLERY
- SHUGOARTS
- SNOW CONTEMPORARY
- SPACE UN
- TAKURO SOMEYA CONTEMPORARY ART
- TAKE NINAGAWA
- TOKYO GALLERY + BTAP
- WAITINGROOM
- XYZ COLLECTIVE
PRESS
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April 23, 2025
ART WEEK TOKYO ANNOUNCES AMBITIOUS PLANS FOR 2025
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ART WEEK
TOKYO
Art Week Tokyo is organized by Japan Contemporary Art Platform in collaboration with Art Basel, with support from Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs. Art Week Tokyo’s infrastructural development initiative, the Art Week Tokyo Mobile Project, is co-organized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Art Week Tokyo Mobile Project Organizing Committee.