2023.10.30
[This Week's Pick] Highlights of the Tokyo Biennale 2023 Final Week!
*This map is in Japanese.
A large illustration map of the Tokyo Biennale 2023, which appeared in the morning edition of the Yomiuri Shimbun in Tokyo on 6 October, is now also available on this website. Please use Google Maps to find your way around.
Information center locations and various schedules. It is also updated from time to time.
Installation view of Tokyo Biennale 2023 Rikuzen Takata 2011-2023 Photo by Naoya Hatakeyama
On October 30 (Mon) at 18:00, a symposium will be held to consider disasters and art on the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake entitled "Making is Living: 2023: 100 Years after the Earthquake, Art at that Time". The symposium will feature speakers including photographer Naoya Hatake, sociologist Shunya Yoshimi, urban disaster prevention and reconstruction researcher Osamu Murao, and social and art historian Toshiharu Omuka. From Tokyo Biennale, General Director Masato Nakamura and Project Director Kazuko Kohike participated. The speakers, who have experienced the disaster and live in the present, will discuss the attitude and actions of art toward human beings and social anxiety caused by disasters that may occur in the future. The venue is Etoile Kaito Living Building, where you can see many works including Hatakeyama's must-see exhibition "Rikuzentakata 2011-2023". The symposium will be held after the exhibition hours at the same venue, so we recommend that you arrive early to enjoy the symposium.
A scene of “Nanda Kanda,” the street of Kanda Nishiki-cho, Tokyo, March-April, 2023
On November 3, which is a national holiday (Culture Day), we will hold a cultural event "Nanda Kanda 2," using the streets of Kanda as a venue for gathering. The Kanda Port Building and the surrounding streets will be covered with tatami mats, and for this day only, a "new ennichi (festival)" will be held in a relaxing space with a photo studio, dance, yoga, calligraphy classes, tea ceremony classes, yo-yo fishing, DJ, sauna, and more, a combination that can only be found here. Food and beverages will be served, including natural wine, craft beer, herbal tea, pizza, and cobbler's bread sandwiches, all of which were realized through various "connections. We look forward to seeing you there.
The Tokyo Biennale 2023 will finally end on November 5 (Sun). We hope you will visit the venues you have not yet seen and experience the exhibitions that connect you to each place and time. The "Slow Art Collective Tokyo" exhibition at the Yurakucho venue (Slit Park Yurakucho) has been extended and will be open until the Festival's closing date like the others. We hope you will enjoy both venues as well as the Otemachi venue (Tokyo Sankei Building, Otemachi Naka-dori side). Please check the opening hours and closing days of each venue before visiting.
*Searchable by category, area and date.
In the final week of the festival, there will be a number of noteworthy events at various locations. At TOKYO ART FARM, contemporary gastronomist Rua Souda and Stage director Hiroshi Koike will show their performances. The finale of "Songs of Tokyo," which brought the voices of local songs to various locations in Tokyo, is finally underway. Central East Tokyo 2023/OPEN START," an exhibit by Ujino Muneteru and others appearing in various parts of the city, will be followed by a boatload of events, live performances, talks by founding members, and much more. At Tokyo Dome City, the "Art Experience Workshop for Families with Tokyo University of the Arts" is also recommended for a time of making things together with children. In addition, a "look-alike contest" of the city's famous signboards will be held at the "Kao no Y-shirt (face brand shirt)." At Kan'ei-ji Temple, Zen meditation experience event in the Konpon Chudo Hall, a registered tangible cultural property, and take a valuable tour guided by Ryogaku Ishikawa, steward of the temple, and Masato Nakamura, general director of the Tokyo Biennale 2023.
Application procedures and fees differ for each event, so please confirm the details before attending.
Many of the programs at Tokyo Biennale 2023 can be experienced free of charge, but some programs, such as the special viewing venues, require a fee due to their location and content. This guidebook comes with a special passport (special edition only) or a choice of tickets (standard edition only) for admission to these fee-paying venues, and also includes discount coupons for fee-paying events and merchandise purchases. The guidebook is also packed full of useful information, from information on the main programs with maps of all areas to recommended routes. We hope you enjoy the Festival with it.
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