Tokyo, one of the world's leading art cities, is packed with exciting exhibitions in 2017! There are plenty of places to experience cutting-edge artworks, including Ginza Maison Hermès Forum, run by the Hermès Foundation, the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, and the Taro Okamoto Museum of Art. Other fascinating exhibitions are also taking place in Yokohama, Kanazawa, and Aomori. Refresh your mind and body with art!

■Objects and the Body: "Ambiguous Relationships" Exhibition at Ginza Maison Hermès Forum
The "Ambiguous Relationships" exhibition explores the relationship between artwork and the human body through works by three artists of different generations, nationalities, and artistic styles. Don't miss these exquisite works by these cutting-edge contemporary artists.


■A photo exhibition capturing the city of "Tokyo" from various perspectives by Moriyama Daido, Homma Takashi, Hatakeyama Naoya and others
The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum will be holding a collection exhibition "TOP Collection Tokyo" until January 29th, which is made up of works from the museum's collection themed around "Tokyo." Based on one of its collection policies of "collecting photographs from Japan and abroad that express and record Tokyo," the museum will be exhibiting works by Araki Nobuyoshi, Moriyama Daido and others.


■Exhibition of Turner Prize-winning 15-person architect collective Assemble kicks off in Omotesando
The exhibition "Assemble - The Illusion and Future of Community," showcasing Assemble, a group of architects who won the Turner Prize, said to be one of the most important awards in the contemporary art world, is running until February 12th at EYE OF GYRE in Omotesando, Tokyo. Come experience the work of these artists, whose activities go beyond architecture.


■Noritaka Tatehana takes over the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum! "Noritaka Tatehana: The Aesthetics of Magical Power" Exhibition Opens
Noritaka Tatehana, whose graduation project from Tokyo University of the Arts, "Heelless Shoes," caught the eye of Lady Gaga and catapulted him into the art scene, is currently running his exhibition "Noritaka Tatehana: The Aesthetics of Magical Power" at the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo, until March 5th. This is the largest exhibition to ever take over the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum.


■"Kishin Shinoyama Exhibition: The Power of Photography" Opens at the Yokohama Museum of Art, Showcasing Approximately 120 Works, Including New Works by Yuzu and Mitsuko Kusabue
"Kishin Shinoyama Exhibition: The Power of Photography: THE PEOPLE by KISHIN," which has toured 25 venues across the country and attracted over 750,000 visitors, will be held at the Yokohama Museum of Art until February 28th. In addition to photographs of famous people such as John Lennon, Yukio Mishima, and Shintaro Katsu, works depicting the Great East Japan Earthquake will also be on display.


■An exhibition exploring "Is there a boundary between crafts and design?" is being held at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. Supervised by Naoto Fukasawa
The exhibition "The Border between Crafts and Design," which focuses on the ambiguity between "crafts" and "design," will be held at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa until March 20th. Supervised by product designer Naoto Fukasawa, the exhibition will shed light on the boundary between crafts and design through themes such as "process and material" and "hand and machine."


■Photographer Thomas Ruff will be coming to Kanazawa after Tokyo. Approximately 160 works, including new and previously unreleased works, will be on display at the Tokyo exhibition.
Following its Tokyo run, the first retrospective in Japan of photographer Thomas Ruff, a leader in contemporary photographic expression, the "Thomas Ruff Exhibition" will be held at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture from December 10th to March 12th, 2017. This large-scale exhibition will include works from his early works to his masterpiece, "Portrats."


■The final message left by Jurgen Lehl. Approximately 140 pieces, including light objects made from beach trash, on display at Towada Art Center
Jurgen Lehl is known as a designer of all aspects of lifestyle, including clothing, interior items, furniture, and kitchenware. His first posthumous retrospective, "On the Beach: Jurgen Lehl - Message from the Sea," will be held at the Towada Art Center in Aomori until February 5th.