Roppongi Crossing 2025:
What Passes Is Time. We Are Eternal.

Japan through the Lens of Contemporary Art

Roppongi Crossing is a series of co-curated exhibitions staged every three years at the Mori Art Museum. The series was first launched in 2004 to provide a snapshot of Japan’s contemporary art scene at a particular moment in time. For this eighth edition, curators from the Mori Art Museum will be joined by two internationally active Asian guest curators to present total of twenty-one artists/artist groups under the theme of “time” - including those active in Japan regardless of nationality, as well as those based overseas with Japanese roots.

The exhibited works encompass not only painting, sculpture, and video, but also crafts, handicrafts, zines, and even community projects. A.A.Murakami’s immersive installations that transcend the domains of architecture and design, have won international acclaim. Kuwata Takuro’s colorful, large-scale ceramic works that exude an overwhelming beauty of form have also garnered much attention through his collaborations with overseas maisons. Hosoi Miyu, who has been creating works using her own voice and environmental sounds while also making theater works, will present a new sound piece. Oki Junko’s embroidery works resembling abstract paintings created through delicate handiwork have received recognition both domestically and internationally in recent years. These diverse and varied expressions, in total more than 100 pieces, come together in one space.

The exhibition’s subtitle What Passes Is Time. We Are Eternal. indicates the preciousness and transience of time. Through the convergence of the unique, temporal experiences each work offers, this exhibition seeks to reexamine Japanese art from multiple perspectives.

Roppongi Crossing 2025: What Passes Is Time. We Are Eternal.

Organizer	Mori Art Museum
Grants from	Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Mondriaan Fund OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport
Corporate Sponsors	Anthropic OBAYASHI CORPORATION Sanyo Trading Co., Ltd. Contemporary Art Foundation
Production Support	SCAI THE BATHHOUSE Lisson Gallery MISAKO & ROSEN
Curated by	Leonhard Bartolomeus (Curator, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]) Kim Haeju (Senior Curator, Singapore Art Museum) Tokuyama Hirokazu (Senior Curator, Mori Art Museum) Yahagi Manabu (Associate Curator, Mori Art Museum) * In alphabetical order of the surnames