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Synchronic Star Cluster — Stars That Shared Time The Gaze of Border-Crossing Art

Synchronic Constellations――Stars Who Shared Time Together
A Transborder Gaze in Art

The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is hosting an exhibition, “Synchronic Constellations――Stars Who Shared Time Together A Transborder Gaze in Art,” which reexamines modern art in Taiwan and Japan from multiple perspectives.
Taking as its starting point the film 『日曜日の散歩者』 (2015; released in Japan in 2017), which depicts the modernist poetry group 「風車詩社」 formed in Taiwan in the 1930s, the exhibition introduces exchanges and points of contact in the cultural arts of modern Taiwan and Japan. With the film’s director, 黄亜歴(ホアン・ヤーリー), as guest curator, it presents works and materials across genres—including painting, sculpture, printmaking, and photography, as well as literature, film, music, theater, and dance.

Exhibition Highlights

A large-scale presentation of modern Taiwanese art

Drawing from more than 15 museums in Taiwan and from private collections, the exhibition presents around 200 works of modern Taiwanese art, along with approximately 500 materials such as books, magazines, letters, notes, and albums. About 100 works from Japan are also included, offering an opportunity to consider how the arts and cultures of Taiwan and Japan have intertwined.

An exhibition space informed by film-editing methods

The display is structured in six chapters, combining visual art, literature, film, music, theater, and dance in a montage-like manner. In the space designed by the Taiwan-based architectural unit “UxU Studio,” reflective materials and maze-like circulation create an experience that not only invites viewing the works but also immerses visitors in multiple interrelationships.

Reexamining the past from a contemporary perspective

The exhibition approaches the diverse artists and cultural practices that existed in modern Taiwan and Japan not as a single linear history, but as relationships linked like constellations. Through encounters with works and documents, visitors can feel past events as part of their present experience and reflect on their own gaze and ways of seeing history.

Recommended for

This exhibition is recommended for those interested in the modern art of Taiwan and Japan, and for anyone who wants to enjoy a wide range of arts—not only painting but also literature, film, and music.
While in Tokyo, as you engage with Taiwanese culture and the arts, why not experience a world of expression that connects across time and national borders?

  • ※Various related programs are planned. For information on how to participate and the schedule, please check the official website of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. How about that?
Period 2026.09.05–12.13
Time 10:00–18:00 (Last admission to the exhibition rooms is 30 minutes before closing)
*Every Friday in November open until 20:00

Closed days
Mondays (open on November 23), November 24
Location Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Special Exhibition Gallery 1F/3F
Address 〒135-0022 東京都江東区三好4-1-1(木場公園内)
Participation Fee General ¥2,000/University and vocational students, and those aged 65 and over ¥1,400/Junior high and high school students ¥800/Elementary school students and under Free
Contact 03-5245-4111 (Main line)
Related Website https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/exhibitions/Constellation/

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