Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi Hills will be holding "Out of Doubt: For the Landscape to Come (Roppongi Crossing 2013)" from September 21 to January 13, 2014. "Roppongi Crossing" is a series of exhibitions launched by the Mori Art Museum in 2004 as a fixed-point observational survey of the Japanese art scene, held every three years. This fourth installment marks a first for the series, featuring two young international curators, Reuben Keehan and Gabriel Ritter, in collaboration with Mori Art Museum Chief Curator Kataoka Mami. The title "Out of Doubt" embodies the question of how productive discussion can be generated from doubts about accepted norms and systems in Japan, where social awareness and consciousness have risen since the Great East Japan Earthquake. The exhibition will feature approximately 30 participating artists, primarily those born between 1970 and 1980. It will examine Japanese contemporary art from multiple angles by showcasing works by artists such as Yukinori Yanagi and Meiro Koizumi, who examine the relationship between art and society from historical and political perspectives, and Genpei Akasegawa, who challenges the transformation of existing values, alongside works by leading Japanese artists of prewar Japan, and by reconsidering Japan's traditional view of nature and animistic beliefs. It will also explore Japan's position in the global art world by introducing Japanese artists born or residing overseas.


【Exhibition Information】
Out of Doubt – For the Landscape to Come (Roppongi Crossing 2013)
Venue: Mori Art Museum
Address: 53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Opening Hours: 10:00 to 22:00 (10:00 to 17:00 on Tuesdays)
Admission Fee: Adults 1,500 yen, Students (high school and university students) 1,000 yen, Children (ages 4 to junior high school students) 500 yen
Participating artists: Genpei Akasegawa, Akira Akira, Taku Arai, Ei Arakawa + Shimon Minamikawa, Yoko Asami, Masaya Chiba, Ichiro Endo, Simon Fujiwara, Sohei Iwata x Professional Minority, Taro Izumi, Teppei Kaneuji, Sachiko Kazama, Fumiko Kobayashi, Akio Koizumi, Haruho Mitsuda, Chihiro Mori, Takuma Nakahira, Hiroshi Nakamura, Yuta Nakamura, Yoshinori Niwa, Yuki Okumura, Koji Nagai, Akira Sasamoto, Motoyuki Shitamichi, Kishio Suga, Mika Tajima, Masato Kosaka, Yukinori Yanagi