Upcoming

Open Program: mocaken Exhibition
Touch, Untangle, Tones!

2025.9.27(Sat) — 2026.1.12(Mon)

We each perceive the world in our own way, shaped by our different bodies and lived experiences. Presented in conjunction with the “mocaken” program, this exhibition features four artists—Osaki Haruchi, MAGNET, Fukuda Megumi and Zhdanova Alina—whose works highlight the richness and diversity found in every person’s unique perspective. We hope this will be an opportunity to explore possibilities of communication that go beyond words, such as sharing space and time with others, encountering memories, and connecting through touch.

mocaken... A program to study and experiment in order for the museum to make more changes. Workshops and study sessions organized with the aim of making the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art a place where everyone can feel safe and comfortable engaging with artistic expression.
 
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Artists

Osaki Haruchi, MAGNET, Fukuda Megumi, Zhdanova Alina

Osaki Haruchi, air tunnel, 2013 ©Osaki Haruchi

Osaki Haruchi

In 2014, Osaki completed his PhD in Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts. D. in Fine Arts. Interested in the world of experience of people with disabilities, he has worked with people in rehabilitation and psychiatric clinical settings to create works that work with cognition, perception, and movement. In 2024, he launched Barrier House Project YAZU, a workers' cooperative, with an architect to address various issues in the local community by connecting art and welfare.
http://haruchiosaki.com/

air tunnel, 2013
This work is experienced with the entire body as it passes through the gaps between the layers of fabric. The tunnel becomes a place to meet others, share space, and create space together.

MAGNET, LINKAGE ©MAGNET

MAGNET

A design collective that creates new ways to play. They specialize in finding the seeds of communication that bring people together. They create games and games that trigger people to meet and be together, starting from the act of touching and the relationship between things and people.
https://magnet.team/

LINKAGE
A cooperative balancing game in which players connect sticks with their fingers. Players experience communication by touching each other. In the exhibition, we will present YUBIBO, a remake of LINKAGE by JELLY JELLY GAMES.
With the cooperation of JELLY JELLY GAMES.

Fukuda Megumi, Tea Bowl for Klingon Tea Ceremony, 2019 ©Fukuda Megumi

Fukuda Megumi

After completing the Graduate School of Art at Hiroshima City University in 2001, she moved to Germany. Currently based in her hometown of Hiroshima, she is engaged in art production and education. Based on her interest in themes such as the relationship between nature and artifice, memory of place, the individual and society, and life and death, she works in a variety of expressive media. She also presides over Yellow River College, a collective that investigates and experiments with lifestyles born from a relationship with nature, using his grandparents' abandoned house as a stage for thought experiments.
http://www.megumifukuda.com/

Tea Bowl for Klingon Tea Ceremony, 2019
Inspired by the tea parties between Klingons and Earthlings in “Star Trek,” the theme of the work is to explore ways for people of different backgrounds to spend time together despite their difficulties.

Zhdanova Alina, Shore of Memory, 2022 ©Zhdanova Alina

Zhdanova Alina

Completed graduate studies at Kyoto City University of Arts in 2025. D. (Fine Arts). Born in Russia and raised in Japan, her video works are based on her own experiences of forgetting and reconstructing memory. The artist's own memories and the ambiguity of memories that disappear and change over time overlap with the fluid nature of identity. In addition to Japan, the artist travels to Finland, Germany, France, Russia, and other countries to collect various private memories.
https://www.zhdalina.com/

Shore of Memory, 2022
This animation is a collection of the artist's own memories and the private narratives of others overheard in various places. To touch and imagine memories may be to encounter others across time and space.

Osaki Haruchi, air tunnel2013 ©Osaki Haruchi

MAGNET, LINKAGE ©MAGNET

YUBIBO ©JELLY JELLY GAMES

Fukuda Megumi, Tea Bowl for Klingon Tea Ceremony, 2019 ©Fukuda Megumi

Zhdanova Alina, Shore of Memory, 2022 ©Zhdanova Alina

Information

Exhibition Period
2025.9.27(Sat) — 2026.1.12(Mon)
Opening Hours
10:00–17:00

*Admission until 30 minutes before closing

Venue
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, GalleryB-1
Access
Closed
Mondays (except October 13, November 3, November 24, January 12), October 14, November 4, November 25, December 27- January 1
Admission
Free
Organized by
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

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