Ron Mueck Poetry Reading “An Evening of Poetry and Ron Mueck”
Ron Mueck Related Program
Conducted in Japanese
For the Ron Mueck exhibition, we created Poetry and Coloring Notebook as a guide for children, offering an experience that encourages them to engage with the artworks through imagination—from a perspective distinct from standard exhibition commentary.
To build on this, we are hosting a special poetry reading program. Four people active in the fields of poetry and art—Koiso Hiromitsu (who wrote the poems for the Poetry and Coloring Notebook), Aoyagi Natsumi, Kojima Hiyori, and Nomoto Shuhei—will, standing next to the works in the gallery, conduct readings of both of their existing poems and newly-written poems inspired by Mueck’s creations.
Please join us for this unique, one-night-only event where the words of poets resonate with the art of Ron Mueck in the special atmosphere of the gallery after closing time.
- Appearing
- Aoyagi Natsumi (Artist)
Koiso Hiromitsu (Translator, Poet)
Kojima Hiyori (Poet)
Nomoto Shuhei (Poet, Manga Artist, Illustrator) - Date & Time
- 19:30-, Tuesday, September 15, 2026 (Registration: 18:15)
- Schedule
- 18:15
- Doors open
* Ron Mueck can be viewed until 19:30. - 19:30
- Start
- 20:30
- End (TBD)
* The exhibition can be viewed until 21:00 after the program ends (last admission: 20:30).
* MORI ART MUSEUM SHOP 53 (within Mori Art Museum) closes at 17:00 (and not open during/after the program).
- Fee
- 3,000 yen (included an exhibition ticket of Ron Mueck)
- For
- General
* Preschool children not eligible.
Bio
Aoyagi Natsumi
Born 1990 in Tokyo, Aoyagi Natsumi is a contemporary artist whose practice centers on time-based media, developing project-based works through fieldwork and research. Recent works include the solo exhibition Logbook of a Sea Goddess (Towada Museum of Contemporary Art, 2022) and the poetry collection Done Being Nurtured (thoasa, 2022), which received the 28th Nakahara Chuya Prize. She has been selected for the JUMP: Global Collaboration Program for Emerging Artists and Curators from Japan, with a new work to be presented in Portugal in 2026. She is the founder of honkbooks.
http://datsuo.com/
Koiso Hiromitsu
Born 1979 in Tokyo, Koiso Hiromitsu is a Japanese literary translator and poet. He has completed an MA in Literary Translation and an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry), both at the University of East Anglia in the UK. Writing in both English and Japanese, his poems have been published in journals such as Gendaishi Techo (Japan) and POETRY (US). He has translated works by Anne Carson, Teju Cole, Grayson Perry, Ocean Vuong, and Bryan Washington into Japanese. He was commissioned by the UK’s Poetry Society to write a poem for the Japan Institute of Portland Japanese Garden’s International Peace Symposia.
https://www.hiromitsukoiso.com/
Kojima Hiyori
Born 1997 in Tokyo, and raised in Fukuoka. She holds an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology and a B.A. in Contemporary Literature and Criticism from Waseda University. In 2021, she received the 26th Nakahara Chuya Prize for the poetry collection Mizugiwa (Shichigatsudo, 2020). She has published poems and essays on literature in journals such as Gendaishi Techo, Mita Bungaku, Bungakukai, etc. In 2024, she participated in the exhibition Poems for Miyazawa Kenji at the Museum of Contemporary Japanese Poetry and appeared at the reading and talk event. In 2023 and 2025, she appeared at Japanese UK Poetry Exchange as well as poetry readings. Through retelling the stories of family and the local places, she considers the “I” who am writing here and now.
Nomoto Shuhei
Born 1999 in Kochi, Nomoto Shuhei works across writing, illustration, manga, and publishing. His publications include A Premonition That Something is About to Start Everywhere, All at Once (self-published), Living in a Seaside Town (Manazuru Publishing), A Delicious Break for Ghosts (KADOKAWA), and The Small Things We Forget (Daiwa Shobo), among others. His first poetry collection, Notification Center (Shichosha), was shortlisted for the 30th Nakahara Chuya Prize. He completed graduate studies at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2026.
- Organizer
- Mori Art Museum
- Planning
- Koiso Hiromitsu
Notes on Bookings
- Please note that speakers are subject to change without prior notice.
- Please note that the museum might take photos/movies for purpose of publicity and documentation during the program.
- All prices include tax.
