AVANT-GARDE CHINA: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art
April 3-May 24,2009

Starting with the brilliant group activities collectively called the " '85 New Wave Movement" of the mid 1980s, and through the "Political Pop" and "Cynical Realism" movements formed during the 1990s after the Tiananmen Incident up until now, the exhibition presents a 20 year trajectory of Chinese Contemporary Art through roughly 50 artworks by 13 individuals and 3 groups of artists.

Life and Art: Arts & Crafts from Morris to Mingei
June 12-August 16,2009

The Arts and Crafts Movement is a design movement that flourished in England. The exhibition presents the intimate relationship between life and art through various artworks from England and Europe with a focus on William Morris, as well as, from Japan, where the Mingei Movement flourished.

Aichi Triennale Pre-event
It the Little Playground
Hitsuda Nobuya and his surrouding students
August 28-October 25,2009

This exhibition is composed of paintings by Hitsuda Nobuya (b. 1941, Tokyo), who taught at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, and by his 19 students. His former students include internationally active artists such as Nara Yoshitomo and Sugito Hiroshi who have created significant waves within contemporary art. Reflecting on the time and location where Hitsuda's vision met and crossed paths with these young talents, the exhibition also introduces the current activities of each artist.

Japan: a self-portrait, photographs 1945-1964
November 6-December 13,2009

After 1945, Japanese documentary photographers experimented with various expressions searching for new possibilities. This exhibition presents how photographers of Japan such as Kimura Ihei, Domon Ken and Tomatsu Shomei, captured and expressed postwar Japan.