In 2025, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in Kiyosumi Shirakawa, Tokyo, will celebrate its 30th anniversary. The museum is holding its 30th Anniversary Exhibition, "MOT's 30th Anniversary Exhibition: Choreographies of the Everyday," from August 23rd to November 24th (some days may be closed).

Venue entrance/photo by ©FASHION HEADLINE
This exhibition reinterprets everyday actions and gestures as "choreography," showcasing the practices of artists who defy convention to create new works. The exhibition features approximately 30 artists and groups from a wide range of generations, active both in Japan and abroad, creating a space for us to reexamine our "everyday lives" through a variety of media, including video, installation, painting, and performance.

Sam Metz, "Stepping on Wood," 2025 / photo by ©FASHION HEADLINE
The exhibition features artists who shed a sharp light on the culture and social contexts rooted in everyday life. For example, Rice Brewing Sisters Club, which approaches sustainable local practices through rice-based brewing and food culture, has created works that explore the medium of food and circulation. Jonathas de Andrade uses video to project the physical rhythms of community and labor, elevating the voiceless voices of people living within society.

Rice Brewing Sisters Club "Sea, Hands, and Female Divers" 2025 / photo by ©FASHION HEADLINE
Also, Kaede Yamato's installation reexamines the relationship between the individual and society through the "forms" inscribed on the body. By combining drawings with devices that trace the postures and repetitions of protest movements, the installation highlights the reality of the body, which has been caught up in historical and political contexts, confronting the viewer with ongoing events. Furthermore, there are also planned workshops during the exhibition where visitors can experience the installations, designed to directly affect the viewer's physical senses.

Yamato Kaede "Carrying on Back" 2025 / photo by ©FASHION HEADLINE
As you walk through the exhibition space, the small movements and habits hidden in our individual lives emerge once again as a "choreography," resonating with the viewer's own physical senses and memories. Rather than simply looking back on the past 30 years, the exhibition is structured to strongly encourage a focus on the future, asking, "What can we present in the next 30 years?" The "30th Anniversary Exhibition: Choreography of Everyday Life" is a mirror that reflects the daily lives of each of us living in the modern world, and at the same time, it is also an experimental space for thinking about the future.


Exterior / Photo by ©FASHION HEADLINE