Special exhibition
Ninagawa Mika (provisional title)
2025/1/11-2025/3/30
Venue [ Higashiyama Cube ]
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©mika ninagawa
Courtesy of Tomio Koyama GalleryThis is the first major solo exhibition by photographer and film director Ninagawa Mika at a museum in the Kansai region. The works embodying Ninagawa’s creative approach, which sublimates the ephemeral beauty of everyday life into an eternal existence, will be presented in a space co-created by talents from different fields, including researchers, architects, and musicians.
Incorporating various techniques such as large-scale video installations, the presented works form reciprocal connections, quietly stirring the viewer’s emotions through myriad expressions that range from darkness to vivid colors. Likened to walking through an artificial paradise, the viewer is invited on an introspective journey into the artist’s creative world, reliving her story of gracefully finding light in modern society.
©mika ninagawa
Courtesy of Tomio Koyama GalleryInformation
- Period
- January 11 (Sat.) － March 30 (Sun.), 2025
- Time
- 10:00−18:00 (last admission 17:30)
- Venue
- Higashiyama Cube
- Closed on
- Mondays (except public holidays)
Ninagawa Mika 蜷川実花
Photographer and film director. Focusing primarily on photography, Ninagawa also works in film, video, and spatial installations. She is also a member of the creative team EiM: Eternity in a Moment.
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Kimura Ihei Award for Photography. In 2010, Rizzoli New York published her first international monograph, MIKA NINAGAWA. She has directed five feature films including Helter Skelter (2012) and Diner (2019), as well as the Netflix original drama FOLLOWERS. Recent publications include Flowers, Shimmering Light (2022).
Major exhibitions include Eternity in a Moment (Tokyo Node, 2023-24), Mika Ninagawa: A Garden of Flickering Lights (Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 2022), MIKA NINAGAWA: Into Fiction/Reality (Beijing Times Art Museum, 2022), MIKA NINAGAWA Into Fiction/Reality (toured various art museums throughout Japan, 2018-2021), and Mika Ninagawa (Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, 2016) among others. Ninagawa Mika with EiM: Where Humanity Meets Nature is scheduled to be held at Hirosaki Museum of Art from April 2024.
https://mikaninagawa.com
- Organized by City of Kyoto
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©mika ninagawa
Courtesy of Tomio Koyama Gallery
©mika ninagawa
Courtesy of Tomio Koyama Gallery
©mika ninagawa
Courtesy of Tomio Koyama Gallery
