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Collection Exhibition 2025-Ⅲ
Highlights＋Relations [Guest Artist: Hirano Kaoru]

2026.2.14(Sat) — 6.7(Sun)

Marcel Duchamp, Fresh Widow, 1920/1964

This exhibition aims to familiarize visitors with the qualities of the museum's collection and introduce them to related themes.
In Galleries 1 through 3, under the theme “Highlights,” we will showcase outstanding works that exemplify the characteristics of our collection, as well as pieces that hold an important place in the development of contemporary art.
Gallery 4, titled “Relations,” extends beyond the collection itself to feature projects that reflect our acquisition policy, collected works, or initiatives positioned as an extension of our collection displays. For this edition, we welcome guest artist Hirano Kaoru, who offers a fresh approach to the regional context of Hiroshima.

List of Works

Highlights

◯Destruction of Art

The power to question and shatter existing values and forms of expression—this destructive impulse—is a fundamental drive of art and the very starting point of creation. Marcel Duchamp’s “readymades,” introduced in the early 20th century, overturned the very definition of art at its core and profoundly influenced subsequent generations of artists. That lineage was carried forward by Robert Rauschenberg, a leading figure of Neo-Dada, as well as artists of Nouveau Réalisme and Conceptual Art. In Japan, too, figures of the “Anti-Art” movement, including Tetsumi Kudō and Genpei Akasegawa, produced works that subverted conventions and norms. Such practices of destruction shake our perception and thought, becoming a catalyst for opening new perspectives.

Artist *In order of appearance in the gallery
Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, Marcel Broodthaers, Joseph Beuys, Christo, Yves Klein, Arman, Kudo Tetsumi, Takamatsu Jiro, Akasegawa Genpei, Nakanishi Natsuyuki, Kusama Yayoi
　
　
◯Plasticity of Art

Beyond destruction lies the process of transformation. Here, we emphasize the plasticity of art—its inherent flexibility and capacity to reconstruct itself within environments and relationships. A work of art does not carry a fixed meaning; instead, it continually shifts and comes into being through its interaction with circumstances and audiences. Donald Judd’s structures generate meaning through their dialogue with space, while Robert Rauschenberg unsettles the boundary between painting and object, prompting the transformation of material. Yasumasa Morimura and Yukinori Yanagi likewise interrogate symbolic frameworks such as identity, history, and nationhood, turning the very process of transformation into their art. Reconstruction, then, is a creative response that follows destruction, and it embodies another fundamental plasticity inherent in art.

Artist *In order of appearance in the gallery
Arakawa Shusaku, Isobe Yukihisa, Nakanishi Natsuyuki, Donald Judd, Kuwayama Tadaaki, Robert Rauschenberg, Claude Viallat, Yanagi Yukinori, Usami Keiji, Morimura Yasumasa, Sugimoto Hiroshi
　
　
◯Being and Memory

Here we introduce artists who confront fundamental questions of human existence, death, time, memory, and identity. Christian Boltanski probes the conditions of life and death through traces of absence and anonymous memory. Mona Hatoum makes visible the structures of violence and oppression through the tension between body and space. Alberto Giacometti’s extremely thin and elongated sculptures symbolize the fragility of human existence and its solitude. These works resonate with the historical memory inscribed in katakana as “Hiroshima,” offering us a profound opportunity to reflect on human dignity and the memory of violence.
　
　
Artist *In order of appearance in the gallery
Mona Hatoum, Nagasawa Hidetoshi, Christian Jaccard, Christian Boltanski, Alberto Giacometti, Günther Uecker, Hishikari Shunsaku, Yoneda Tomoko, Greg Young, Nancy Spero

Relations

Guest Artist: Hirano Kaoru

Loomed Loom
Hirano Kaoru, featured as the guest artist for this section, is an artist who focuses on the aura inherent in objects. She creates delicate installations by disassembling vintage clothing down to each individual thread and then reconstructing them. From April to September 2022, at Ebiden Gallery along Peace Boulevard, the exhibition “Kaoru Hirano: Umbrella” (organized by Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art) presented installation works using umbrellas collected from various locations throughout Hiroshima Prefecture. This exhibition, “Loomed Loom,” features a collection of umbrella works, including new pieces and live creations, alongside works based on a loom left in the artist’s family home and a commemorative photograph taken by her family.
Related works are also displayed in the museum’s entrance hall and the former telephone booth.

Marcel Duchamp, Fresh Widow, 1920/1964

Yanagi Yukinori, The World Flag Ant Farm 1991- Asia, 1991

Morimura Yasumasa, Angels Descending a Staircase, 1991

Mona Hatoum, So much I want to say, 1983　© Mona Hatoum. Courtesy the artist

Alberto Giacometti, Buste d'Homme, 1950

Installation view of Kaoru Hirano “Umbrella”, 2022

Information

Exhibition Period
2026.2.14(Sat) — 6.7(Sun)
Opening Hours
10:00–17:00

*Admission until 30 minutes before closing

Venue
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Gallery A
Access
Closed
Mondays (except Feburary 23 and May 4), Feburary 24 and May 7
Admission
Adult 350 (250) yen, University Student 250 (150) yen, High School Student & Senior (65 and over) 150 (100) yen

*Price in parentheses is that of a group of 30 or more
*Free for children under Junior High School Age
*Free admission for holders of an atomic bomb survivor's certificate, physical disability certificate, etc., and for their caregivers (one person per certificate holder) For more information
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[Hello! Collection Day]
The Collection Exhibition is free on the 3rd Sunday of the month.

Guest Artist Profile

Hirano Kaoru

Born in Nagasaki Prefecture in 1975. In 2003, Hirano received Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Arts, Hiroshima City University. Major solo exhibitions include “From the Palm of the Hand to the Universe” (Arts Maebashi [Gunma], 2023), “BINDING THREADS / EXPANDING THREADS” (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2017), and “Remembering Textiles” (tim | Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum Augsburg [Augsburg, Germany], 2016). Awards include shiseido Art Egg Award (2007), 12th Shiseido ADSP Selection (2006), and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art “New Art Competition” Selection (2005).

https://hiranokaoru.org/

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