TOPIC OF THE WEEK NOVEMBER 08. 2024~

ART WEEK TOKYO

Art Week Tokyo is an annual showcase of the creativity and diversity of contemporary art in Tokyo. Seeking to stimulate the growth of Tokyo’s art ecosystem, the event connects over 50 of the city’s leading museums, galleries, and art spaces through four days of coordinated programming. The free AWT Bus service links all venues and makes it easier than ever to explore one of the world’s most dynamic art scenes along with all the culture that Tokyo has to offer.
Special platforms open up the event to broad audiences. The curated sales platform AWT Focus, held at the Okura Museum of Art, invites a guest curator to experiment with new narratives of modern and contemporary art through works drawn from Art Week Tokyo’s participating galleries. AWT Video presents a free program of moving image works screened in a special pavilion. For the AWT Bar, Art Week Tokyo commissions an emerging architect, a rising chef, and selected artists to produce a multisensory art experience in a pop-up bar space in the heart of the trendy Minami-Aoyama neighborhood. The final platform, AWT Talks, encompasses a headlining symposium, a closed-door curators’ roundtable, and a popular series of talks hosted online. Additionally, Art Week Tokyo’s VIP program offers art patrons unprecedented access to the best of Tokyo’s art scene through exclusive tours, private views, collection visits, and other events.
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. Art Week Tokyo held a soft-launch edition in November 2021 under pandemic conditions and its first full-scaled edition the following November. The 2023 edition featured 51 participating institutions, galleries, and art spaces and attracted more than 43,000 visitors.
Art Week Tokyo is a citywide initiative for contemporary art. Participating venues and special platforms are dispersed across the city. There is no single entry point, and many of the venues are free to enter. The free, hop-on, hop-off AWT Bus service links all venues across multiple routes and can be boarded at any stop. This year’s edition of Art Week Tokyo features 53 of the city’s leading museums, galleries, and art spaces, with exhibitions covering everything from historic figures to contemporary stars and emerging talents.

ART WEEK TOKYO

November 7th − 10th, 2024
@ 53 of the city’s leading museums, galleries, and art spaces

https://www.artweektokyo.com/en/