Curatorial Tour – War (EN)
With Anaël Daoud, assistant curator
| When |
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| What | General public Tours |
| Where | Galleries |
| Related exhibition | Kaihō: Japanese Women Artists after 1945 |
| Access | Free |
| Max. attendance | 20 |
| Booking required | Link available soon! |
Organised into thematic sections, Kaihō: Japanese Women Artists after 1945 provides an insight into dynamic cultural exchanges and the forgotten margins of modernism. Drawing from the artists’ personal lives, creative resilience and transnational activism, the exhibition brings together works by Atsuko Tanaka, Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono, Fujiko Nakaya, Tomie Ohtake, Taeko Tomiyama and Yoshiko Shimada, among many others – some of which have rarely, if ever, been shown outside of Japan. From Gutai to experiments in video art, Kaihō explores the radical yet often overlooked contributions of women artists from Japan to global postwar art movements.
For this special tour, the curatorial team invites the audience to discover the exhibition not through its main narrative, but a thematic perspective. War underlies many of the artworks on display, and tracing its recurrence reveals a range of experiences and timelines: childhood displacement in Japan, concentration camps in the US, imperialist violence in Korea, Indigenous resistance in Okinawa. Together, these works trace how war has left its mark on several artists of the exhibition.
Discover the exhibition through the lens of assistant curator Anaël Daoud.
