is a museum of

contemporary art Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic co ...

located in

Sapporo ( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous cit ...

, Japan, that was established in April 2006 and is now closed.

Presentation

The Miyanomori Art Museum is the main contemporary art museum in

Hokkaido is Japan's second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by the undersea railway Seikan Tunnel. The lar ...

. It presents works from the contemporary international and Japanese art scene.

Collection

The collection features works of Japanese modern and contemporary art from the 1950s to the 1970s. From the Museum own estimation, it also has the largest collection of works by

Christo and Jeanne-Claude Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009), known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, were artists noted for their large-scale, site-specific environmental installations, often large landmarks and ...

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and

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. The museum collection also includes about 3000 photographs from the artist Daidō Moriyama, which were taken since the 1950s, as well as works by such artists as Lucio Fontana,

Frank Stella Frank Philip Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. Stella lives and works in New York City. Biography Frank Stella was born in Ma ...

Jasper Johns Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art. He is well known for his depictions of the American flag and other US-related top ...

, Yoshishige Saitō,

Lee Ufan Lee Ufan (Korean: 이우환, Hanja: 李禹煥, born 1936 in Haman County, in South Kyongsang province in Korea) is a Korean minimalist painter and sculptor artist and academic, honored by the government of Japan for having "contributed to the ...

Guillaume Bottazzi Guillaume Bottazzi (born in 1971) is a French visual artist. Biography Guillaume Bottazzi is a French visual artist, born in 1971. At the age of 17, he decided to become an artist as a single activity. He began to study painting in Italy. Bac ...

, Sadamasa Motonaga, Takeo Yamaguchi, and Kumi Sugai.

Exhibitions

— 2006–2007 — Retrospective. *

Kenji Yanobe Kenji Yanobe (ヤノベケンジ ''Yanobe Kenji'') is a Japanese contemporary artist known for his upbeat yet dystopian artwork. His sculpture simulates consumer products designed for survival after a nuclear holocaust. He is a professor at Ky ...

— 2007 — Exhibition * :ja:榎忠 Chu Enoki — 2008 — Exhibition. * Daido Moriyama — 2009 — Exhibition *

— 2011 — Exhibition and permanent site-specific art work, 900 m² on the museum.

Editions

* ''MORIYAMA Daido NORTHERN''. Production: Miyanomori Art Museum. Editor: Akio Nagasawa Publishing. 2009, single print, 24 pages, limited edition (2,000 exemplary). Size: In-folio (54.5 × 40.5 cm). * ''CHRISTO / JEANNE-CLAUDE. Works and Projects 1958–2006''. Production: Miyanomori Art Museum, 2006. Editor: SAPA. 52 pages. Size : (21 × 30 × 0.5 cm). * ''MORIYAMA Daido NORTHERN2''. Production: Miyanomori Art Museum. Editor: Akio Nagasawa Publishing. 192 pages, Size: A4. 2010. * ''MORIYAMA Daido NORTHERN3''. Production: Miyanomori Art Museum. Editor: Akio Nagasawa Publishing. 2011.

References

External links

Miyanomori Art Museum website
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