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From Saturday, April 26, 2025 to Sunday, June 29, 2025, the "Godzilla 70th Anniversary Godzilla The Art Exhibition" (ゴジラ生誕70周年記念 ゴジラ・THE・アート展, Gojira Seitan 70 Sshūnenkinen Gojira THE Āto-ten) will be held at the Mori Arts Center Gallery (52nd floor, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower) (organized by The Asahi Shimbun Company, PARCO, and Toho).
Godzilla celebrated his 70th anniversary in 2024. A global icon since his first theatrical release in 1954, Godzilla has shown the world various, ever-changing expressions over the past 7 decades with a total of 38 films produced and released, including 30 domestic films, 3 animated films, and 5 Hollywood versions.
This exhibition is a large-scale exhibition of Godzilla and contemporary art, bringing together new works created by artists from Japan and abroad who are active in a variety of genres and who have faced Godzilla, thought about it, and created it. It is part of the project "GODZILLA THE ART," a series of events that kicked off in April 2023. In addition to presenting how artists interpret Godzilla, there will be an exclusive diorama that fuses Godzilla and art, and a special video created especially for this exhibition.
Photo courtesy of Godzilla The Art Exhibition Public Relations Office. © TOHO CO., LTD.■ Highlights of this Exhibition
● Highlight 1
A collection of new works in a variety of genres including painting, sculpture, photography, and performance by leading artists from Japan and abroad.
● Highlight 2
Exclusive to the exhibition! A diorama by Toho Visual Arts, a fusion of Godzilla and art, and a special video created especially for this exhibition.
● Highlight 3
Experience the presence of Godzilla not only from the artworks but also from the entire venue in the exhibition space destroyed by Godzilla.
■ Participating Artists
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● Miran Fukuda
Born in Tokyo in 1963, Fukuda graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1987, and received the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Art Encouragement Prize in 2013. Major solo exhibitions include “Miran Fukuda Exhibition” (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 2013), “Special Exhibition: Miran Fukuda - What is Art?" (Nagoya City Art Museum, 2023). Her works offer an insightful look at art in today's world of various media and reproduction techniques.
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● O JUN
Born in Tokyo, 1956, O Jun graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, majoring in oil painting.
He creates an unfamiliar world with his unique drawing style, using various painting materials such as oil, pencil, crayon, pigment, and watercolor, with common motifs such as people, objects, and landscapes.
Recent major exhibitions include “Roppongi Crossing 2022: Come and Go!" (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2022) and “Private View of Japanese Contemporary Art: The Ryutaro Takahashi Collection” (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2024).
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● Sachiko Kazama
Born in Tokyo in 1972, Kazama completed the printmaking course at Musashino Art Academy in 1996. She lives and works in Tokyo.
She explores the “past” for the roots of social phenomena occurring in the “present” and produces mainly nonsense black-and-white woodblock prints that foreshadow the dark clouds hanging over the “future."
Recent major exhibitions include “The 24th Biennale of Sydney” (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2024) and “TCAA 2019-2021 Award Commemorative Exhibition” (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2021).
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● TokyoBuild
Born 1979 in Stockholm, Sweden, he studied product design at Carl Malmsten University and received his Bachelor's degree. He studied Fine Arts at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, where he received his BA and MA degrees. He embodies the vibrant spirit of Tokyo through his elaborate miniatures. With a foundation in fine art and product design, he explores urban landscapes inspired by a unique blend of tradition and modernity.
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● Motohiko Odani
Motohiko Kotani was born in 1972 in Kyoto, Japan. He sees lost perception and transformation as illusions, and explores the ambivalent middle ground between awakening and hypnosis, magic and salvation, reality and unreality, rational and irrational, human and non-human, etc. He also conducts research and practice toward a new deconstruction of the history of modern and contemporary Japanese sculpture.
Recent exhibitions include the solo show “invasion” (anomaly, 2023), “Reborn Art Festival 2021-2022: Altruism and Fluidity,” “Setouchi International Art Festival 2022” (Megijima), and “100 Years Later Art Festival” (Kisarazu, 2024).
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● Natsumi Aoyagi
Natsumi Aoyagi was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1990. As a contemporaneous artist, she explores the potential of time-based media in describing experiences. In 2016, she graduated from the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts.
She is the president of “kohon-ya honkbooks,” a practitioner-collective. Her main exhibitions include “Exiled Ship Chronicles” (solo exhibition, Towada Museum of Contemporary Art, Towada, Japan) and “The 10th Ebisu Film Festival” (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2018). She received the 28th Nakahara Nakaya Prize for her second poetry collection, “Sodatsu wo Nerunowa” (Stop Letting Go).
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● Tomoko Sato
Born in 1990 in Nagano, Japan, Tomoko Sato graduated from the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2018. She constructs narratives based on extensive research and engages in artistic practice of “storytelling” mainly in the form of lectures.
Recent exhibitions include the 14th Yebisu Film Festival “After the Spectacle” (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2022) and “Open Production vol.2 Tomoko Sato: Fox, Crane, Horse” (Nagano Prefectural Museum of Art, 2022).
Additional participating artists will be announced soon.
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● Curator: Qiuyu Jin
Qiuyu Jin graduated from the Graduate School of International Art Creation, Tokyo University of the Arts. She is the president of “non-syntax,” an experimental video platform.
Her major curatorial projects include “Not in this Image” (Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei), EXiS 2023 (Experimental Film and Video Festival) Asia forum, “Sense Island 2022/2024” (Yokosuka, Japan), and “Competitive Meditation. 2024” (Yokosuka, Japan), ‘Competitive Meditation’ (PARCEL, Tokyo), and ‘New Anxieties’ (N/A, Seoul, Korea).
■ "Godzilla The Art Exhibition Commemorating Godzilla's 70th Anniversary" Outline
Dates: Saturday, April 26 - Sunday, June 29, 2025
Venue: Mori Arts Center Gallery (52F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, Minato City, Tokyo, Japan)
Curator: Qiuyu Jin
Organizers: The Asahi Shimbun Company, PARCO, Toho
Cooperation: DNP Dai Nippon Printing, Kajima Corporation
General Producer: Yoro Mengji
Event Site: https://godzillatheart.com/exhibition
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