Sep 3–Dec 8
Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989–2010
The National Art Center, Tokyo

“Prism of the Real,” the first collaboration between The National Art Center, Tokyo and Hong Kong’s M+, gathers works by over 50 artists from Japan and across the globe. Featuring archival materials alongside contemporary projects by Tsubaki Noboru, Ozawa Tsuyoshi, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Joan Jonas, and more, the exhibition explores homegrown Japanese art from 1989 to 2010 and its cultural impact on artists abroad. By focusing on this two-decade period, the show examines how artists instigated new critical dialogue and forms of expression in an era defined by the end of the Cold War, accelerating globalization, and the lingering shadows of Japanese colonialism.