Roppongi Art Night 2023 part of the early viewing exhibition program @The National Art Center, Tokyo

Tomoko Konoike
Tomoko Konoike continues to question the fundamentals of art through a variety of media such as painting, sculpture, and performance, as well as site specific expressions realized through travel.
At the The National Art Center, Tokyo, her works with animal motifs such as Wolf Bench will be exhibited along with Black Kite.
Details: Website: Roppongi Art Night 2023

Exhibition Period: May 10 (Wed) - 29 (Mon)
*Part of the early viewing exhibition program
*Open from 10:00 - 20:00 on Fridays, Saturdays *Closed on Tuesdays
May 27 (Sat), 10:00 - 22:00, May 28 (Sun), 10:00 - 18:00

Musashino BLACK KITE, 2021 Approx. W24 x H10m, Water - based paint, Crayon on Cowskin Collection of Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation © 2021 Tomoko Konoikecourtesy of KadokawaCulture Museum

Storytelling Table Runner, ongoing since 2014 30 x 45 cm each, fabric, embroidery thread, cotton, mixed media

Wolf Bench, 2022 W 1.9 x D 0.8 x H 1.1m, FRP, water - based paint

Nohara Tsukiji
Born in 1994 in Kanagawa Prefecture. After graduating with a major in animation from Tokyo Zokei University, Tsukiji completed a post-graduate course at the Graduate School of Film and New Media at Tokyo University of the Arts. 
Tsukiji explores a variety of humorous expressions through animation (primarily mouse characters) based on a fusion of two and three dimensions. Her work Mukaunezumi was awarded the Japan Grand Prix at the 6th New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival and the New Face Award in the animation division at the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival. In 2021, Tsukiji held her first solo exhibition Nohara no harappa at Machida Pario.

Nezumikke
The National Art Center, Tokyo presents Nezumikke , the second exhibition in the NACT View series
utilizing public spaces, featuring projection mapping and AR animation by Tsukiji Nohara , an animation artist who creates works with a new approach based on the theme of a fusion of two and three dimensions. During Roppongi Art Night, a special version of the animation will be exhibited.
NACT View 02: Nohara Tsukiji, Nezumikke

Date: May 10 (Wed) - 29 (Mon)
*Open from 10:00 - 20:00 on Fridays, Saturdays *Closed on Tuesdays
May 27 (Sat), 10:00 - 22:00, May 28 (Sun), 10:00 - 18:00
Location: The National Art Center, Tokyo, 1st Floor Entrance Lobby and various sites

NACT View 02 Tsukiji Nohara Nezumikke
Flyer Design © Nohara Tsukiji

Ayaka Ura
Born in Kanagawa prefecture in 1992. Graduated from the Department of Painting at Musashino Art University in 2015. Ura’s aim is to create artwork that serves as a device for inverting or blending disparate things. She has created a number of participatory performance pieces that were achieved in collaboration with her audience. Ura is also involved in exhibitions and event planning as one of the vehicles for her work.

Gestures of Trying to Engage with Bees （proper relationships have been destroyed...)
A series of photographs documenting the dance like gestures of a human attempting to interact with bees will be exhibited outdoors in the form of billboard advertisements. As the bodies of the human and the bees draw close together, they dodge each other out of dislike, sometimes moving in the same direction as a result of dodging, and sometimes losing their balance. Between the two buildings that symbolize the past and present of the National Art Center, Tokyo, the exhibition will inquire into the relationship that emerges when we try to maintain an appropriate distance from others and end up influencing one another.

Date: May 10 (Wed) - 29 (Mon)
*Open from 10:00 - 20:00 on Fridays, Saturdays *Closed on Tuesdays
May 27 (Sat), 10:00 - 28 (Sun), 18:00
Location: The National Art Center, Tokyo, Annex Wall

On Desire (Speculations on Living: The Case of A Dog in Hoi An, Vietnam)
This work takes you walking through the streets of Hoi An, Vietnam, pulled along by a stray dog (actually Ayaka Ura). The video installation uses two monitors to visualize a chain of desire systems of “moving = living,” driven by encounters with different things.

Date: May 10 (Wed) - 29 (Mon)
*Open from 10:00 - 20:00 on Fridays, Saturdays *Closed on Tuesdays
May 27 (Sat), 10:00 - 22:00, May 28 (Sun), 10:00 - 18:00
Location: The National Art Center, Tokyo, B1 floor

　Ayaka Ura Gestures of Trying to Engage with Bees （proper relationships have been destroyed...)

Ayaka Ura On Desire (Speculations on Living: The Case of A Dog in Hoi An, Vietnam)
photo: Tomohiro Kubota

Midzuki Shibata
Born in 1987 in Tokyo, Shibata uses materials with immediacy, such as soil from places she visits and waste products from her daily life, to create vessel-like sculptures that remind us to “imagine and visualize what lies behind and within the object,” and to express through simple performance the notion of “change that can only be seen through repeated process.” She has exhibited in Japan and abroad.

Make As Like A Pot
Amidst the growing interest in the relationship between humans and nature in recent years, Midzuki Shibata has consistently sought to capture the great flow of nature in her work. For this exhibition, Shibata will create an installation using soil and water collected from the grounds of the National Art Center, Tokyo, in collaboration with a bamboo grove growing on the rooftop garden of the museum. In this process, Shibata builds a relationship with the materials and the surrounding environment, attempting to present through a work of art the challenge of finding a connection with nature in the midst of the urban environment of Roppongi.

Date: May 10 (Wed) - 29 (Mon)
*Open from 10:00 - 20:00 on Fridays, Saturdays *Closed on Tuesdays
May 27 (Sat), 10:00 - 22:00, May 28 (Sun), 10:00 - 18:00
Location: The National Art Center, Tokyo, 3rd Floor Rooftop Garden (next to Art Library)

Performance schedule
Process performances will be held during the exhibition period, including during Roppongi Art Night.

May 10 (Wed)- 12 (Fri) 13:00-17:00
May 17 (Wed)- 19 (Fri) 13:00-17:00
May 24 (Wed)- 26 (Fri) 13:00-17:00
May 27 (Sat) 10:00-12:00 / 14:00-17:00 / 19:00-22:00 * Roppongi Art Night
May 28 (Sun) 13:00-17:00 * Roppongi Art Night
May 29 (Mon) 10:00-14:00  ➡10:00-12:00 (the schedule has changed owing to the weather.)

*The artist may take a short break during the performance time.
*Details will be also posted on social media channels of NACT.
*This schedule is subject to change

Midzuki Shibata, Make As Like A Pot, 2023
©Takeshi Eiyama

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