Current Special Exhibition

Time to Spend in an Art Museum 2025

Part 1: March 6 (Thu) — June 7 (Sat), 2025

Spring Exhibition of Japanese-Style Painting Masterpieces
Trajectory of the Contemporary KOGEI Exhibition 1975-1995 -Part.1-

“Time to Spend at the Museum” began in 2020 as an exhibition of works selected from among the Shiseido Art House’s extensive collection.

The Art House is widely known as a space where visitors can enjoy superb works of art and traditional crafts from daily life in a relaxing atmosphere. The works on display range from paintings, including Japanese and Western-style oil paintings, to Japan’s broad range of traditional crafts, as well as selections from Shiseido’s extensive collection of vintage perfume bottles, with the theme of each exhibition set from the Art House collection.

This year, the exhibition will be divided into two segments, each featuring traditional crafts, Japanese paintings, and oil paintings. The year 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the start of Shiseido’s Exhibition of Contemporary Crafts (1975 – 1995), which eventually became a series of craft art group exhibitions hosted by Shiseido, not to mention the 30th anniversary of this series coming to an end, therefore our intent is to be tracing the history of this exhibition.

The first half of the exhibition will feature a selection of Japanese-style masterpieces created between 1975 and 1984, while the second half will feature oil painting masterpieces created between 1985 and 1995, with a total of about 120 pieces on display at the two exhibitions.

Both parts of the exhibition will assemble works by famous painters who were leaders of Japan’s postwar art world. The first exhibition will feature works by such Japanese-style painters as OKUMURA Togyū, TAKAYAMA Tatsuo and UEMURA Shōkō, and the second half will present such Western-style painters as OKA Shikanosuke, WAKITA Kazu, USHIJIMA Noriyuki and other artists. These artists were all iconic figures in the Art House collection, and were important members of the Third-Phase Tsubaki-kai, a group exhibition also hosted by Shiseido.

This two-part exhibition presents a rare opportunity to enjoy both the graceful beauty of craft arts and a sterling selection of paintings in the refined space of the Art House. We look forward to your visit.

■Exhibition Information

• Entry Fee:
• None

• Hours:
• 10AM-4:30PM (last entry at 4PM)

• Holidays:
• Closed Sunday to Wednesday

■Selected Works for Reference