‘We Can Make Another Future’
Sep 2014 -
Sep 2015
‘We Can Make Another Future: Japanese Art After 1989’ surveys the art of Heisei, the current era in the Japanese imperial calendar, through 100 works by over 40 contemporary Japanese artists.
Increasingly cosmopolitan in character and operating with an unprecedented level of international mobility, the art of this period offers a sophisticated reflection on the social conditions behind art’s production in Japan.
Beginning in 1989, Heisei has seen significant challenges for Japan, but it has also been the period of ‘Cool Japan’, with widespread international interest in Japan’s contemporary cultural production. As well as 25 years of Heisei, this also marks 25 years of the Gallery’s public engagement with the contemporary art of Japan.
‘We Can Make Another Future’ profiles several overlapping themes for this fascinating period in Japanese art. The exhibition explores the emergence of the digital sublime; responses to the rich field of consumer culture and new technologies of representation and communication; and critiques of national and sexual identity through figuration and performance.
‘We Can Make Another Future: Japanese Art After 1989’ was on display in GOMA’s Gallery 3.1 and 3.2 from 6 September 2014 to 20 September 2015. The exhibition catalogue is available at the QAGOMA Store.
Feature image: Works by (l–r) Yasumasa Morimura, Masami Teraoka (© The artists) and Takashi Murakami (© Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki) installed for ‘We Can Make Another Future’, GOMA, December 2014 / Collection: QAGOMA / Photograph: M Sherwood, QAGOMA
Collection artworks featured in ‘We Can Make Another Future’
69YK 2009
- ARAKI, Nobuyoshi - Creator
Passage (series) 2011
- ASAKAI, Yoko - Creator
30 no news 1994
- AY-O - Creator
KI-AI 100 2011
- Chim↑Pom - Creator
Untitled - (In)different 1994
- KASAHARA, Emiko - Creator
Eating grass 2011
- KASHIKI, Tomoko - Creator
I am a rock 2012
- KASHIKI, Tomoko - Creator
Nonhuman crossing 2013
- KAZAMA, Sachiko - Creator
Self portrait #3 1989
- KON, Michiko - Creator
Pumpkin 1992
- KUSAMA, Yayoi - Creator
Infinity nets 2000
- KUSAMA, Yayoi - Creator
Soul under the moon 2002
- KUSAMA, Yayoi - Creator
With Winds 1990
- LEE Ufan - Creator
Kikochi (A port of call) no. 4 1991
- LEE Ufan - Creator
In Milano 1 1992
- LEE Ufan - Creator
In Milano 2 1992
- LEE Ufan - Creator
In Milano 3 1992
- LEE Ufan - Creator
In Milano 4 1992
- LEE Ufan - Creator
In Milano 5 1992
- LEE Ufan - Creator
Correspondance 2001
- LEE Ufan - Creator
Stopped on the way #2 2001
- LEE Ufan - Creator
Relatum 2002
- LEE Ufan - Creator
Time landscape 1993
- MIYAJIMA, Tatsuo - Creator
Doublonnage (Marcel) 1988
- MORIMURA, Yasumasa - Creator
Blinded by the light 1991
- MORIMURA, Yasumasa - Creator
Shinjuku 2004, printed 2014
- MORIYAMA, Daido - Creator
DOB Wall Painting Plan 1996
- MURAKAMI, Takashi - Creator
Project KO2 1998
- MURAKAMI, Takashi - Creator
S.M.PKO2 [Second Mission Project KO2] 1999
- MURAKAMI, Takashi - Artist
- AOSHIMA, Chiho - Collaborating artist
namenlos/Licht 1998
- NAITO, Rei - Creator
pillow for the dead 1998
- NAITO, Rei - Creator
Girl on a boat 1996
- NARA, Yoshitomo - Creator
PixCell-Double Deer#4 2010
- NAWA, Kohei - Creator
O 2009
- SAWA, Hiraki - Creator
Onogami village, Gunma 1994
- SHIBATA, Toshio - Creator
Fluxus balance (portfolio) 1993
- SHIOMI, Mieko - Creator
Notice - Forest 2006
- TERUYA, Yuken - Creator
Woods III 1991-92
- TOYA, Shigeo - Creator
Landscape in silence 1996
- TSUCHIYA, Kimio - Creator
Moon 1996
- TSUCHIYA, Kimio - Creator
Protoplasm #0926 1992
- YANAI, Tsuguo - Creator
Protoplasm #0935 1993
- YANAI, Tsuguo - Creator
Y.N.G.M.S. (Y.N.G.'s Mobile Studio) 2009
- YNG (Yoshitomo Nara and graf) - Collaborative group
- NARA, Yoshitomo - Artist
- graf - Design firm
1-5 1988
- YOSHIZAWA, Mika - Creator
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